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Swedish -signed Emilia's singleBig Big World (Universal) winsthis week's Road Runneraward for the biggest inc-rease in points on the M&MBorder Breakers chart.
we talk to radioM&M chart toppers this week Unveiled: the `UniGram' masterplan
by Emmanuel Legrand
LONDON - PolyGram is dead. Longlive the Universal Music Group.
On December 10, Seagram's acqui-sition of PolyGram was completed,and the new worldwide structure ofthe Universal Music Group (UMG)was revealed by Doug Morris, chair-man and chief executive officer of thenew company.
UMG, which incorporates bothUniversal and PolyGram's music divi-sions, becomes the biggest record com-pany in the world, with a leadingmarket share in the U.S., Europe,
Latin America, and Asia/Pacific(excluding Japan).
The new company will be managedfrom Los Angeles byMorris, with its interna-tional division based inLondon and run by Uni-versal Music Interna-tional chairman/CEOJorgen Larsen. Follow-ing the departure of PolyGram's pres-ident continental Europe Rick Dobbis,all the presidents of UMG Europeanaffiliates will report to Larsen.
"In the foreseeable future, I'll dothe European job myself because I
think it makes a lot more sense in thisquite difficult integration period,"Larsen tells M&M. "I've got to know
all the people quite well,and I'll do that for conti-nuity rather than gettinganother executive to dothe job. I'll see how muchwork is involved, and if Ican handle it. I might
then look at other possibilities such assub -region managers."
Former PolyGram executives willmanage most of the new Universalcompanies in Europe. That's the case
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Music & Media's review of the year
1998 has been a truly "Titanic" year for Celine Dion inEurope-the Canadian superstar tops both the 1998Eurochart Hot 100 singles chart and the European Top 100Albums listing, which both form part of Music & Media'sextensive year-end review package (pages 7-17). You can alsoread more about Dion's incredible dominance in 1998-and herplans for 1999-on page 29.
In fact, it's been a good year for female vocal talent in gener-al. Our 1998 European Radio Top 50 airplay chart (page 10)highlights the continuing influence of "girl power" on musicradio, where Des'ree, Madonna, the Spice Girls and NatalieImbruglia all found favour with Europeanprogrammers.
No more "novelty" hits-the 1998 BorderBreakers Top 50 shows that continentalEuropean acts have come of age (page 11),
with quality singer -songwriters such as Eagle -Eye Cherry,Espen Lind and Eros Ramazzotti making their mark along-side credible dance acts like Stardust, Air and Sash!
Elsewhere, chart shares by company and bylabel-for both singles and albums-are presentedand analysed on page 9, and a full round -up of theyear's news stories appears on pages 12-13. Onpages 14-15 you'll find summaries of the major trendsin jazz, classical and dance; and the key areas oftalent, the music business and radio.
Finally, M&M staffers reveal their personalfavourites this year in the M&M Jukebox onpages 16-17.
German radio facing amillennium revolution?by Gesa Birnkraut by Scott Roxborough
HAMBURG - It is understood thatGermany's new Social Democrat -lead government is preparing tostart consultations with the coun-try's federal states on a number ofmedia regulation matters, includingthe possibility of allowing nationalradio for the first time since the sec-ond World War.
The proposal to permit nationalcommercial radio in Germany wasfirst floated by the SPD while it wasstill in opposition earlier this year, inits submissions to the Bundestag'sparliamentary media committee.
Siegmar Mosdorf, head of thatcommittee and an SPD member ofparliament, suggested that theresponsibility for regulating broad-casting in Germany should bepassed from the 16 federal states (orLander) to a new national regulator.With this move, argued Mosdorf,
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COLOGNE - Faced with fallingsales and a radio industry notori-ously slow to break new acts, Ger-many's major record labels areconsidering taking drastic actionby starting up their own chain ofradio stations.
Thomas Stein, president of BMGAriola G/S/A and eastern Europeand chairman of the German Asso-ciation of the Phonographic indus-try, made the radical suggestion inan interview with the nationaldaily newspaper Sueddeutsche."[German radio stations] only playhits," Stein told the paper. "Theyneglect new talent."
"This is an option which, in arather abstract fashion, has beenon the agenda at our board meet-ings for quite some time," revealsPeter Zombik, managing directorof German industry body Bun -
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Upfrontby Emmanuel Legrand, Music & Media editor -in -chief
Phew, what a year!UniGram, Titanic, e -commerce, Platinum Europe
awards, Virgin Radio, EMI, German elections, digitalradio, CDNow...
The list of personalities, events and companies whichprovided front page news material in 1998 is staggering.But this year's calendar ends with the biggest story ofthem all-the acquisition of PolyGram by Seagram.
For many, this will be bitter news. Hundreds ofemployees will lose their jobs in the process, from topexecutives to back -office staffers, and artists face someuncertainty about their contractual situation. Eventually,UniGram might end up bigger than the sum of its parts,but this will take time to fix, and will undoubtly leavesome wounds that will need time to heal.
Incidentally, with Philips bailing out from the "software"industry, what becomes apparent is that the strategy to
combine software and hardware (prevalent in the '80s) hasreached its limits. Philips used PolyGram extensively topromote the CD, but what do they do as soon as they get ridof PolyGram? Launch on a large scale the recordable CD! Ifthere was ever confirmation needed that hardware manu-facturers don't give a damn about content...
For the industry as a whole, there will be a "before andafter" UniGram. This eventwill redefine the frontiers ofthe music industry as weknow it. As in the oil or chem-ical industries, consolidationand concentration are nowthe dominant words.
To survive, you'll eitherhave to be bigger, or smallerin order to move quicker. Andwith the giants wanting tobecome even bigger, the wordis that we ain't seen nothingyet, and that 1999 promisesto be as dramatic a yearas 1998.
Local Viva for Swiss, Polesby Scott Roxborough
COLOGNE - German music TVchannel Viva is set to begin foreignlanguage programming for its broad-casts to Poland and Switzerland.
Viva shareholders were scheduledto meet on December 9 to give theirofficial seal of approval to the interna-tional expansionplan, which willsee Viva providingfour to five hoursof "opted out"regional program-ming per day inPoland and Switzerland-territorieswhich currently receive a straightrelay of Viva's domestic German -lan-guage service.
"The [local programming] windowswill focus on local acts, on the localmusic scene and will be hosted bylocal VJs," explains Viva managingdirector Dieter Gorny. "If Viva wantsto keep on expanding, we have to payattention to new markets."
Viva's domestic German -languagetransmissions already reach some 2.8million Swiss homes. Before the endof this year, Viva will apply to theSwiss broadcasting authorities for anew licence (which the new Swiss pro-
gramming elements will necessitate).Sources close to the broadcaster saystart-up for local programming isplanned for the second half of 1999.
Developments in Poland shouldmove faster, with Viva planning tostart Polish -language programmingnext spring. The channel there isavailable only via satellite, through
which Viva esti-mates it reachesone million Polishhomes. Initially,programming andplanning will bedone out of
Cologne, with VJs and a skeleton tech-nical crew sent on -location to Poland.
The estimated cost of both projectsis thought to be around DM 4-5 mil-lion ($2.4-3 million). If the Polish andSwiss ventures are successful, Gornysays he also has plans for similar pro-jects in Hungary, Spain and Italy."There's no country where Viva does-n't have a real chance to establishitself," says the Viva MD. "We're evenlooking at the U.K. and outside ofEurope."
The Viva group, which is co -ownedby Sony, Warner Music, EMI andPolyGram, made profits of DM10 mil-lion ($ 5.56 million) in 1997.
Sony Music U.K. vice presidentof communications Gary Farrow(left) recently presented EltonJohn with a gold disc markingU.K. sales of more than 100,000units (in its first week of release)of the South Park album ChefAid (Columbia). John, alongwith other artists such as IsaacHayes, contributed to the album,which is based around the char-acters from the animated U.S.TV series.
Dobbis takes new Sony International roleby Christian Lorenz
LONDON - Rick Dobbis, formerPolyGram president continentalEurope, will leave the company onDecember 18 to take up a new role asexecutive VP at Sony MusicInternational (SMI) in New York,effective January 1.
Dobbis will report to SMI presi-dent Bob Bowlin, assisting Bowlin inmanaging Sony's global network ofsubsidiaries, joint venture partnersand licensees. He will work alongsideSony executives such as Paul Russell(Europe), Richard Denekamp (Asia)and Frank Welzer (Latin America).SMI's operations, administration,
business development andmarketing and creativeoperations departmentswill report directly toDobbis.
"It is too early to com-ment on my new role,"says Dobbis. But on thechallenges he expects toface, he remarks: "1998has been a Year of transi-tion and preparation. As aresult of the mergerbetween Universal and PolyGram, theintroduction of European MonetaryUnion on January 1 next year and theevolution of new media, we will see alot of changes in the industry next
year. All the big stuff is aboutto happen in 1999, andnobody can afford to closetheir eyes to this."
The move to Sony's NewYork headquarters will alsosee Dobbis resume a profes-sional relationship withSony Music Entertainmentpresident/CEO Thomas D.Mottola. The two executivesworked together previouslywhen Dobbis served as exec-
utive VP/GM of RCA in New Yorkbetween 1987-91, and Mottola headedthe management company ChampionEntertainment, which looked aftertop RCA act Hall & Oates.
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Secrets of Sweden's successby Charles Ferro
COPENHAGEN -Why are theSwedes better at exporting musicthan the Danes?
That was the question put toThe Cardigans' manager PetriLundell to kick off his December7 presentation to a group of aspir-ing musicians at the Danishmusician's union DMF.
Lund& provided a simpleanswer-the Swedes simply havemuch more experience of success-fully developing and exportingbrand names such as Volvo, Saaband Hasselblad for many moreyears than the Danes.
Lund& also outlined theimportance of networking inbreaking new acts, which hewarned "won't get done by the[record company] suits-it does-n't work." In this context, he told
the audience never to be afraid toask questions that may appearobvious. "Nobody asks 'stupid'questions in an internationalenvironment," he noted. "Peopleare intimidated, so they walkaway knowing nothing, becausethey didn't ask the obvious ques-tion and get a valuable answer."
The first network to establishis always the local one, saidLundell. ABBA used local pro-duction, so did The Cardigansand this equals control, heargued. "All the hyping of theproduct is bullshit if you don'tknow where the artist wants togo. You have to know [what liesat] the artist's core."
Something else the Swedishmusic industry does well,according to Lundell, is tomake use of its politicians."Remember, the current politi-cians are from the rock 'n' rollgeneration. Some of them loveto be seen with the stars."Lundell noted that Swedishmusic export falls under theauspices of the foreign min-istry, which is willing to doexport promotion work on themusic industry's behalf.
More music services from RFI?by Rerni Bouton
PARIS - Re-elected by Frenchbroadcasting authority theCSA this month for a secondthree-year term as president ofRadio France International,Jean -Paul Cluzel is set toannounce the development ofat least three new music ser-vices for foreign radio stationsat next year's Midem trade fairin Cannes.
The international publicbroadcaster is understood to bemaking plans to launch music -based sustaining servicesdesigned specifically for radiostations in central Europe,English-speaking easternAfrica and, in project withRMC Middle East, in Arabiccountries. The services will beoffered free of charge to localstations which require off-peaksustaining services, or who areinterested in running specialistmusic programming.
The new sustaining serviceswill follow those introduced byCluzel two years ago, whichsaw the creation of a dedicatedFrench music service (RFI3Music), a news channel (RFI1)and a international languagestation (RFI2). They will giveRFI the ability to provide sta-tions in different countries withmore appropriate music pro-gramming. "Obviously themusic we currently play forFrench-speaking African terri-tories doesn't exactly fit withthe English speaking Africanterritories or with the centraland oriental European audi-ences," says Cluzel. "We have totarget our public more andmore."
Meanwhile, RFI's web sitespecialising in French music
launched last year has been agreat success, according toCluzel, with around 60,000"hits" every day.
But RFI says the develop-ment of its on-line services isbeing slowed down by Frenchauthors' societies. "It's clear thatin France authors' rights arestrong and that's a good thing,but it can cause us problemswith regard to our internationalcompetitors," says Cluzel. "Iunderstand the [position of]rights owners, but I want to tellthem that what is good in Franceis not necessarily the best inter-nationally. If collecting societiessoftened their attitudes towardsthe Internet, they would gainmore in promotion for theirartists than they would lose."
A further objective ofCluzel's second term of office is
for RFI to improve relation-ships with domestic publicbroadcaster Radio France. "Iknow [new Radio France presi-dent] Jean-Marie Cavada well,and we will meet soon toimprove those synergies, and tohelp [programming] content tocirculate on both broadcasters.But there is no question ofmerger or creating commonframework."
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01\1 T/ 1 B1 ATOPLESCH IN DEUTSCHE TELEKOM DEALHAMBURG - Former MTV Cen-tral managing director MichaelOplesch, who left the music TVoutlet at the beginning of theyear, has signed a major dealwith Germany's largest cableprovider Deutsche Telekom.Oplesch's production company@TV will provide programmingfor an as -yet unspecified num-ber of digital lifestyle, entertainment and news chan-nels which will be marketed and distributed byDeutsche Telekom. Based in Hamburg, @TV also plansto open additional facilities in Munich, Frankfurt,Berlin and an unnamed city in Northrhine Westfalia toproduce local programming for the channels, which arescheduled to be launched during the second quarterof 1999.
Kiss BOSS ON THE MOVELONDON - Mike Soutar, managing director of Londondance station Kiss 100 FM, has been appointed to thenew role of creative director for the Emap Radio group.Soutar-who previously worked for Emap's magazinedivisions-will develop new programming ideas forEmap's Kiss and Magic brands, in addition to its localstations. He will also explore the development of linksbetween Email's radio and magazine brands. As a resultof the move, Emap Radio managing director Dee Fordadds to her responsibilities by taking the helm of Kiss100 FM.
SONY TO DISTRIBUTE CAM SOUNDTRACKSMILAN - Rome -based film soundtrack specialist CAMis to be distributed in its domestic market by SonyMusic Italy, with an agreement for other territoriesunder negotiation. Gabriele Paoli, special marketingdirector of Sony Music Italy's strategic marketing divi-sion, says: "CAM owns many unreleased masters, andwe will be looking into releasing these and creating newspecial series and theme compilations from the cata-logue, such as westerns and Italian comedy." CAM'scatalogue includes major works by Ennio Morricone,Nino Rota (for the films of Federico Fellini) and LuisBacalov (I1 Postino).
WOODSTOCK COMES TO EUROPEVIENNA - Leon Ramakers, director of leading Dutchconcert promoter Mojo, has been appointed head ofartist liaison for a special European concert beingstaged to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Woodstocknext year. The European edition of Woodstock '99 (asimilar celebratory concert will also take place in theU.S.) will be held at Wiener Neustadt near Vienna fromJuly 16-18. No artists were confirmed for the line-up atpress time, but Ramakers says the organisers are "look-ing at the biggeststars in all themajor Europeancountries." Headds that "Wood-stock '99 will be setup as a modernrock festival likeLowlands in Hol-land or Roskilde inDenmark."
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COUNTRY FM EXPANDS INTO AMSTERDAMHILVERSUM - Country music in the Netherlands is toreceive a further boost with the news that Rotterdam -based Country FM is to be allowed onto the GreaterAmsterdam cable network from January next year. Thestation already broadcasts on cable to over 800,000households in Greater Rotterdam area, where it cur-rently has a 0.7 percent market share. "Our format hasless than three percent overlap with any other [radio]format, which was an important factor in the decision,"
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Germany's Booya launches U.K. affiliateby Dominic Prideinternational music editor, Billboard
HAMBURG- German R&B/ crossoverlabel Booya is to open up a U.K officein partnership with music and enter-tainment company M21.
Booya's roster includes Nana,Pappa Bear, Alex Prince, CraigSmart and Jonestown, and its forayinto the British market marks theimprint's first steps into the interna-tional marketplace outside Germany.
Earlier this year, Booya struck athree-year licensing deal with Uni-versal Music Germany, bringing thelabel's roster into Universal's domes-tic marketing operations.
Booya U.K will be headed by M21
A&R manager David Lawrence, whohas worked in A&R at the Hamburghead offices of Booya for two years.The deal with M21, effective January1, is initially for one year, saysLawrence, who adds that the Britishoffice will work first on "raising theprofile of Booya's German -signedartists."
Booya Music Group managingdirector Berndt Schmidt says: "Ourfirst step will be to get a feeling forthe British market, and to let peo-ple get to know the [Booya] nameand what we're about." Schmidtsays the aim is also "to get a handleon the names that could co -produceour product." Plans are afoot forremixes for Booya acts, with pro-
ducers such as RayHayden, WayneLawes and MarkLewis lined up.
Schmidt acknowl-edges that the U.Kmarket is not an easyplace for indies to dobusiness. "TheBritish market is difficult. The chartis fast, and radio is limited to a veryfew important stations." However,with the right attitude, he believesthat acts such as Jonestown can bebroken in the U.K
Booya is also planning to openan office in the U.S., revealsSchmidt, and is talking to severalproduction companies there about
representation.Universal retains the
rights to the Booya catalogueworldwide. Sales in Britainwill be handled by UniversalU.K, with distribution thr-ough Universal's U.K distrib-utor BMG.
Schmidt says that Booya'sdecision to open its own offices out-side Germany stems from his timeas deputy managing director withFrankfurt -based Logic Records,which also opened up London andNew York offices despite havinglabel representation through BMGcompanies there. "If you're not inthe market you don't have achance," he asserts.
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Listener's demotape fairytaleby Marc Maes
BRUSSELS - A "hardcore gabber"version of a traditional nurseryrhyme, originally put together athome by a listener to FlemishCHR network Top Radio, is set tobecome an unlikely Christmas hitin Belgium.
The old chil-dren's song AlleEendjes Zwem-men In Het Waterwas given thegabber treat-ment by a listen-er to Peter Hoog-land's daily TopRadio show. Thelistener sent thetape to Hoog-land, who subsequently played iton air. "It all started as a joke,"says the presenter, "but suddenlypeople were phoning in and ask-ing for the track, which, at thatstage, was nothing more than ademo tape-we get sent severallike it every week."
The tape was then picked up byByte Records, who took it to aprofessional studio and re-record-ed the track as Kwakhak byMichael's Beatbox. "When theaudience found out that Michael'sBeatbox was signed to Byte,retailers were besieged by youngfans who wanted to buy therecord," claims Byte Records pro-motions manager Hansbert Van -hove.
Sony Music Belgium, whichdistributes Byte's product, saysinitial shipments of Kwakhak(released on December 2) are setto exceed the 3,000 units mark."Things like this only happen oncea year," comments Sony MusicBelgium trade and marketingmanager Michel Vermeersch. "Somany people have spontaneouslyasked for the record. I expect tosell at least 15,000 units in theweeks to come."
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bEuropean artists find their touchLONDON - After three dire yearsfor continental European artists inthe higher echelons of the albumcharts, they are back on trackagain. In 1998, there are five conti-nental signings among the Top 20albums compared to two in 1995,two in 1996 and three in 1997. Thehigh achievers are Italy's ErosRamazzotti at 4; Danish pop quar-tet Aqua at 5; Germany's re -unitedModern Talking at 7; French multi -instrumentalist Eric Levi, a.k.a.Era, at 11; Dutch -signed U.S. actBackstreet Boys at 15 and Italiantenor Andrea Bocelli at 16.
However, it's Celine Dion whotops both singles and album chartsin a year which has seen a surge ofcontinental European talent and adearth of charting dance albums.
Believe it or not, it's the firsttime Dion has topped M&M'sannual charts. She has never had asingle in the year-end Top 20 beforeand her previous album, FallingInto You (Epic/Columbia), stayedon the European album charts fortwo consecutive years in 1996 and1997, but was still beaten into sec-ond place in 1996 by fellowCanadian Alanis Morissette's
debut Jagged Little Pill(Maverick/Sire).
Dion's 1998 studio album Let'sTalk About Love (Epic/Columbia)finally brings her to the top, pro-pelled by her number one singleMy Heart Will Go On, the themetune from this year's blockbustermovie Titanic. Dion can thank herlucky iceberg, since her highestcharting singles over the past twoyears have only reached number 39(Because You Loved Me) in 1996and number 57 (Tell Him, withBarbara Streisand) in 1997.
Another North American divawho had a good year in Europe wasMadonna. Her new album, Ray OfLight (Maverick/Warner), finishesat number three. The soundtrackEvita reached number six last yearand Madonna's last studio album,Something To Remember, onlymade it to 14th place in 1996.
Dance fails to capitaliseBack to European artists, the suc-cess of Era is remarkable. Eventhough the album Era (Mercury)was never released in the U.K. itclocked up sales of 3.5 millionacross Europe. The only other "newage" -influenced act ever to reachthe Top 20 were Germany's
Enigma, who finished at number 6in 1994 with their album The CrossOf Changes (Virgin).
If there is a worrying trend inthe year-end album charts, it mustbe the absence of albums buildingon the singles success of Europeandance ects. Only UK big beat actthe Propellerheads manages a Top100 entry -at number 99 withDecksandrumsandrockandroll(Wall Of Sounci/Parlophone).
Of the dance acts in the year-end Hot 100 singles charts,Faithless, Sash! and Dario G allhad albums out for a good part ofthe year and all failed to chart.
Faithless' anthemic God Is A DJ(Cheeky), number 33 in the year-end Hot 100, might express thefeelings of Europe's youth betterthan any other track on the chartsthis year, but one big record is notenough to sell a dance album.
Neither, it seems, are two.German DJ trio Sash! and theU.K.'s Dario G can point at two Hot100 hits each -La Primavera (X -it)at 41 and Mysterious Times (X -it)at 54 for Sash, and Carneval DeParis (Eternal/WEA) at 67 andSunchyme (Eternal/WEA) at 97.The old chestnut that you need atleast three massive hits to sell a
dance album seems to prove itselfonce again.
Are the Propellerheads a flukethen? Maybe not. More than anyother dance act they straddle thedivide between the club scene andmainstream culture, through theirwork with '60s icon Shirley Basseyon History Repeating and On HerMajesty's Service. And again it's themovies which help artists sellrecords -even if he's not a guaran-tee for blockbusting box office anymore, the name James Bond stillrings a bell.
Top Ten singles artists1. Celine Dion, The Reason, My Heart Will Go On, Zora Sourit,
S'Il Suffisait D'Aimer (Epic/Columbia)2. Aqua, Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones, Turn Back Time, My Oh My,
Lollipop (Universal)3. Madonna, Frozen, Ray Of Light, Drowned World/Substitute For
Love, The Power Of Goodbye (Maverick/Warner Bros.)4. Janet Jackson, Together Again, Got Til It's Gone, I Get
Lonely, Go Deep (Virgin)5. Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins, It's Like That, It's Tricky (Profile)6. Spice Girls, Too Much, Spice Up Your Life, Stop, Viva Forever (Virgin)7. Aerosmith, Pink, I Don't Want To Miss A Thing (Columbia)8. Natalie Imbrugliaf7brn, Big Mistake, Wishing I Was There, Smoke (RCA)9. Boyzone, Baby Can I Hold You /Shooting Star, Picture Of You,
Baby Can I Hold You, All That I Need, No Matter What, I LoveThe Way You Love Me (Polydor)
10. All Saints, Never Ever, I Know Where It's At, Under TheBridge/Lady Marmalade, Bootie Call, War Of Nerves (London)
Top three female artists (albums)1. Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love, S'll Suffisait D'Aimer,
These Are Special Times (Epic/Columbia)2. Madonna, Ray Of Light (Maverick/Warner Bros.)3. Natalie Imbruglia, Left Of The Middle (RCA)
Top three female artists (singles)1. Celine Dion, The Reason, My Heart Will Go On, Zora Sourit,
S'll Suffisait DAimer (Epic/Columbia)2. Madonna, Frozen, Ray Of Light, Drowned World/Substitute For
Love, The Power Of Goodbye (Maverick/Warner Bros.)3. Janet Jackson, Together Again, Got Ti It's Gone, I Get Lonely,
Go Deep (Virgin)Top three male artists (albums)
1. Andrea Bocelli, Romanza, Viaggio Italiano, Bocelli, Aria -The Opera Album (Sugar/Polydor)
2. Era, Era (Mercury)3. Robbie Williams, Life Thru A Lens, I've Been Expecting You
(Chrysalis)Top three male artists (singles)
1. Ricky Martin, Te Extrano, Te Olvido, Te Amo, La Copa De LaVida, La Bomba (Tristar/Columbia)
2. Robbie Williams, Angels, Let Me Entertain You, Millennium(Chrysalis)
3. Pras Michel feat. ODB & Mya, Ghetto Supastar (Interscope)
1.
2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.
Top 10 album artistsCeline Dion, Let's Talk About Love,These Are Special TimesSoundtrack - Titanic, TitanicMadonna, Ray Of LightEros Ramazzotti, Eros, Eros LiveAqua, Aquarium, Mania Mix Vol. 1The Verve, Urban HymnsSpice Girls, Spiceworld, SpiceModern Talking, Back For GoodThe Corrs, Talk On Corners
S'Il Suffisait D'Aimer,(Epic/Columbia)(Sony Classical)
(Maverick/Warner Bros.)(DDD)
(Universal)(Hut/Virgin)
(Virgin)(Hansa)
(143/Lava/Atlantic)10. Andrea Bocelli, Romanza, Viaggio Italiano, Bocelli, Aria -
The Opera Album (Sugar/Polydor)
Top three groups (albums)1. Aqua, Aquarium, Mania Mix Vol. 12. The Verve, Urban Hymns3. Spice Girls, Spiceworld, Spice
1.
2.3.
(Universal)(Hut/Virgin)
(Virgin)
Top three groups (singles)Aqua, Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones, Turn Back Time, My Oh My,LollipopRun DMC Vs. Jason Nevins, It's Like That, It's TrickySpice Girls, Too Much, Spice Up Your Life, Stop, Viva Forever
Top 3 Continental Albums1. Eros Ramazzotti, Eros2. Aqua, Aquarium3. Modern Talking, Back For Good
Top 3 Continental Singles1. Aqua, Barbie Girl2. Wes, Alane3. Manau, La Tribu De Dana
Top 3 Debut Albums1. Aqua, Aquarium2. Natalie Imbruglia, Left Of The Middle3. Savage Garden, Savage Garden
Charts compiled from weeks 1-50, 1998
(DDD)(Universal)
(Hansa)
(Universal)(Saint George/Sony)
(Polydor)
(Universal)(RCA)
(Columbia)
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TEAR II\ FENEurochart Hot 100 Singles 1998 European Top 100 Albums 1998
Artist/7We (Label) Artistaitle (Label)
1 Celine Dion/My Heart Will Go On Epic/Columbia 1 Celine Dion/Let's Talk About Love Epic/Columbia
2 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins/It's Like That Profile 2 Soundtrack/Titanic Sony Classical
3 Aerosmith/I Don't Want To Miss A Thing Columbia 3 Madonna/Ray Of Light. Maverick/Warner Bros.
4 Janet JacksonITogether Again Virgin 4 Eros Ramazzotti/Eros DDD
5 Madonna/Frozen Maverick/Warner Bros. 5 Aqua/Aquarium Universal
6 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn RCA 6 The Verve/Urban Hymns Hut/Virgin
7 Pres Michel feat. ODB & Mya/Ghetto Supastar Interscope 7 Modern Talking/Back For Good Hansa
8 Des'ree/Life Sony S2 8 Spice GirlsISpiceworld Virgin
9 Brandy & Monica/The Boy Is Mine Atlantic 9 The CorrsITalk On Corners 143/Lava/Atlantic
10 Boyzone/No Matter What Polydor 10 Natalie Imbruglia/Left Of The Middle RCA
11 Ricky Martin/La Copa De La Vida Tristar/Columbia 11 Era/Era Mercury
12 Savage Garden/Truly Madly Deeply Columbia 12 Lighthouse Family/Postcards From Heaven Wildcard/Polydor
13 All Saints/Never Ever London 13 Savage Garden/Savage Garden Columbia
14 Cher/Believe WEA 14 All Saints/All Saints London
15 Aqua/Barbie Girl Universal 15 Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back Jive
16 Wes/Alane Saint George/Sony 16 Andrea Bocelli/Romanza Sugar/Polydor
17 Puff Daddy feat. Jimmy Page/Come With Me Epic 17 Phil Collins/Hits Virgin/WEA
18 Manau/La Tribu De Dana Polydor 18 Simply Red/Blue East West
19 4 The Cause/Stand By Me RCA 19 Janet Jackson/The Velvet Rope Virgin
20 Aqua/Doctor Jones Universal 20 Eric Clapton/Pilgrim Reprise
21 Spice Girls/Viva Forever Virgin 21 Ricky Martin/Vuelve Tristar/Columbia
22 Lighthouse Family/High Polydor/Wildcard 22 Massive Attack/Mezzanine Circa/Virgin
23 The Tamperer Feat. Maya/Feel It Jive/Time 23 U2/The Best Of 1980 - 1990 I B Sides Island
24 Robbie Williams/Angels Chrysalis 24 EnyalPaint The Sky With Stars WEA
25 Daniel Lavoie/Belle Pomme/Sony/Universal 25 Boyzone/Where We Belong Polydor
26 Andrea Bocelli & Helene Segara/Vivo Per Lei Polydor 26 Robbie Williams/Life Thru A Lens Chrysalis
27 Celine Dion feat. The Bee Gees/Immortality Epic/Columbia 27 Smashing Pumpkins/Adore Hut/Virgin
28 Modern Talking/You're My Heart, You're My Soul Hansa 28 Lenny Kravitz/5 Virgin
29 SweetboxlEverything's Gonna Be Alright RCA 29 Alanis Morissette/Supposed FormerInfatuation Junkie Maverick/Warner Bros.
30 Stardust/Music Sounds Better With You RouleiVirgin 30 Louise Attaque/Louise Attaque Atmospheriques/Trema
31 Elton John/Something About. /Candle In The Wind 1997 Rocket 31 Depeche Mode/Singles '86 - '98 Mute
32 Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner/Cose Della Vita DDD 32 Garbage/Version 2.0 Mushroom
33 Faithless/God Is A DJ Cheeky 33 Bee Gees/Live: One Night Only Polydor
34 Die Arzte/Ein Schwein Namens Maenner Hot Action/Motor 34 Beastie Boys/Hello Nasty Grand Royal/Capitol
35 Oli P.IF7ugzeuge Im Bauch Hansa 35 Celine Dion/S'Il Suffisait D'Aimer Epic/Columbia
36 K-Ci & Jojo/All My Life MCA 36 R.E.M./Up Warner Bros.
37 Jennifer Paige/Crush /Edel 37 Florent Pagny/Savoir Aimer Mercury
38 Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With It Columbia 38 George Michael/Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of George Michael Epic
39 The Rapsody feat. Warren G. & SisseUPrince Igor Def Jam/Mercury 39 Original Cast/Notre Dame De Paris Pomme/Sony/Universal
40 Eagle -Eye Cherry/Save Tonight Superstudio/Polydor 40 Pearl Jam/Yield Epic
41 SashIlLa Primavera X -IT 41 Eagle -Eye Cherry/Desireless Superstudio/Polydor
42 Loona/Bailando Motor 42 Falco/Out Of The Dark (Into The Light) EMI
43 Aqua/My Oh My Universal 43 Dire Straits/Sultans Of Swing - The Very Best Of Vertigo
44 Spice Girls/Too Much Virgin 44 Herbert Gronemeyer/Bleibt Alles Anders Electrola
45 B*witched/C'Est La Vie Glow Worm/Epic 45 Lara Fabian/Pure Polydor
46 Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand/7b// Him Columbia 46 Bryan Adams/Unplugged A&M
47 U2/Sweetest Thing Island 47 Lauryn Hill/The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Ruffhouse/Columbia
48 Falco/Out Of The Dark (Into The Light) EMI 48 Pur/M-chtig Viet Theater Intercord
49 Robbie WilliamelMillennium Chrysalis 49 Will Smith/Big Willie Style Columbia
50 Midge Ure/Breathe Arista 50 Die Arzte/13 Hot Action/Motor
51 Backstreet Boys/All I Have To Give Jive 51 Metallica/Re-Load Vertigo
52 S.O.A.R1This Is How We Party S.O.A.PJSony 52 Catatonia/International Velvet Blanco Y Negro
53 Ultimate Kaos/Casanova Wild Card/Mercury 53 Soundtrack/City Of Angels Reprise
54 Sash! feat. Tina Cousins/Mysterious Times X -IT 54 Anouk/Together Alone Dino/BMG
55 Nomads/Yakalelo Une Musique 55 Manic Street Preachers/This Is My Truth MB Me Yours Epic
56 George Michael/Outside Epic 56 Soundtrack/Back 7b Manic Sony Classical
57 Mousse T. Vs. Hot'N'Juicy/Horny '98 Peppermint Jam/Edel 57 Mina & Adrian Celentano/Mina & Adrian Celentano RTI
58 Los Umbrellos/No Tengo Dinero Flex/EMI-Medley/Virgin 58 Westernhagen/Radio Maria WEA
59 Spice Girls/Stop Virgin 59 Frank Sinatra/My Way - The Best Of Vol 1 Reprise
60 Various Artists/Perfect Day Chrysalis 60 Five/Five RCA
61 Hanson/I Will Come 7b You Mercury 61 Alejandro Sanz/Mas WEA
62 Modern Talking/Brother Louie '98 Hansa 62 Andrea Bocelli/Aria - The Opera Album Sugar/Philips
63 NeklLaura Non C'E' WEA 63 Soundtrack/Grease Polydor
64 Menelik/Bye Bye SMALL. 64 Aaron Carter/Aaron Carter Edel
65 Vengaboys/We Like To Party Violent/Jive 65 Texas/White On Blonde Mercury
66 Florent Pagny/Savoir Aimer Mercury 66 EternaUGreatest Hits 1st Avenue/EMI
67 Dario G/Carnaval De Paris EternaVWEA 67 Vonda Shepard/Songs From Ally McBeat Epic
68 Lutricia McNeaUStranded Siljemark/CNR 68 Radiohead/OK Computer Parlophone
69 Espen Lind/When Susannah Cries Universal 69 Brandy/Never Say Never Atlantic
70 Usher/You Make Me Wanna... Laface 70 Vasco Rossi/Canzoni Per Me EMI
71 Jamiroquai/Deeper Underground Sony S2 71 Sheryl Crow/The Globe Sessions A&M
72 LeAnn Rimes/How Do I Live Curb/Hit Label/London 72 Soundtrack/Armageddon Columbia
73 Stomy Bugsy/Mon Papa A Moi Est Un Gangster Columbia 73 Renato Zero/Amore Dopo Amore Fonopoli/Epic
74 Coumba Gawlo/Pata Pata RCA 74 Robbie Williams/I've Been Expecting You Chrysalis
75 Tarkan/Simarik Podis 75 Des'reelSupernatural Sony S2
76 Mariah Carey/My All Columbia 76 John Lennon/Lennon Legend Parlophone
77 All Saints/Under The Bridge/Lady Marmalade London 77 The Rolling Stones/Bridges To Babylon Virgin
78 Backstreet Boys/As Long As You Love Me Jive 78 Guano Apes/Proud Like A God Ariola
79 Pappa Bear/Cherish Universal 79 Sting & The Police/The Best Of Sting & The Police A&M
80 Anouk/Nobody's Wife Dino 80 Manau/Panique Celtique Polydor
81 Busta Rhymes/Turn It Up (Remit) /Fire It Up BMP/Elektra 81 C.Dion/G.Estefan/A.Franklin/S.Twain/M.Carey/VH-1 Divas Live Epic
82 Nathalie Cardone/Hasta Siempre Columbia 82 Emma Shapplin/Carmine Meo EMI
83 Hermes House Band/I Will Survive Xplo 83 Wolfgang Petry/Alles Hansa
84 Lauryn Hill/Doo Wop (That Thing) Rufflmuse/Columbia 84 Ace Of Base/Flowers Mega/Polydor
85 Scooter/How Much Is The Fish? Club Tools 85 Wham UThe Best Of Wham! Epic
86 Da HooVMeet Her At The Love Parade Kosmo/Dance Pool 86 Nek/In Due WEA
87 Laam/Chanter Pour Ceux Qui Sont Loin De Chez Eux DLA/EMI 87 The Mavericks/71-ampoline MCA
88 Ace Of Base/Life Is A Flower Mega/Polydor 88 Marilyn Manson/Mechanical Animals Nothing/Interscope
89 DJ Visage/Formula Dancelab/EMI 89 Julio Iglesias/My Life /Greatest Hits Columbia
90 Gala/Come Into My Life Nite Life 90 Peter Maffay/Begegnungen Ariola
91 Bell, Book & Candle/Rescue Me Ariola 91 Beautiful South/Quench Go!Discs/Mercury
92 Young Deenay/Walk On By WEA 92 Xarier Naidoo/Nicht Von Dieser Welt 3P/Epic
93 Madonna/Ray Of Light Maverick/Warner Bros. 93 Soundtrack/The Full Monty .RCA Victor
94 Vengaboys/Up And Down Violent/Jive 94 Pino Daniele/Yes! I Know My Way CGD
95 WittlHeppnerlDie Flat Epic 95 Gloria Estefan/Gloria! Epic
96 Steps/Last Thing On My Mind Jive 96 Wes/Welenga Saint George/Sony
97 Dario G/Sunchyme WEA 97 Chris Rea/The Blue Cafe East West
98 BamboolBamboogie VC Recordings 98 Shania Twain/Come On Over Mercury
99 6661Alarma! Dance Street 99 Propellerheads/Decksandrumsandrockandroll Wall Of Sound
100 B.witehedIRollercoaster Glow Worm/Epic 100 883/Gli Anni RTI
The Hot 100 and the Top 100 are compliled from the period weeks 1-50, 1998
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YEAR FOCUS
Sony and Celine grab the lion's shareAnalysis by Emmanuel Legrand
1998 was a banner year for Sony Music,which scooped all the top year-end positionsin M&M's annual analysis of the Europeancharts. Sony takes the leading company titlein both singles and albums charts, andColumbia is the top label in both categories.
here's Life in the Titanicafter all, as the bandkeeps playing CelineDion's songs. That's howthe year could be sum-
marised for Sony Music, whichdominates M&M's 1998 year-endcharts as no company has ever donebefore in the history of these charts.
The Japanese major emerges asthe top company and top label(Columbia), both in albums andsingles, while Celine Dion domi-nates the top singles and topalbums sections by a wide margin,with Titanic's anthem My HeartWill Go On and Let's Talk AboutLove, respectively. Dion is also thetop overall artist in both cate-gories, as well being top femaleartist for both singles and albums.
Two Sony acts come first in othercategories: Des'ree stands atop theairplay charts with Life; and RickyMartin is top male artist in the sin-gles category, thanks to the soccerWorld Cup official song La Copa DeLa Vida and two other singles. Sonyalso benefits from album sales ofthe Titanic soundtrack.
Other Sony best-selling albumsare Savage Garden's eponymous setand George Michael's Ladies AndGentlemen, The Best Of..., and highranking singles include Aerosmith'sI Don't Want To Miss A Thing,Savage Garden's Truly MadlyDeeply, Wes' Alane and PuffDaddy/Jimmy Page's Come With Me.
Sony has stormed from 1997'sthird position in the albums cate-gory, and fourth in singles, to takethe lead in both in 1998. Last year,
EMI led the albums category andPolyGram was top singles compa-ny. Sony has gained 7.4 percent inone year to secure an overall 23percent in the albums charts, and10.5 percent in the singles chartsto lift its score to 24.7 percent.
Sony's gains in the albums catego-ry are pretty much reflected acrossall European territories. In somecountries, such as France and theNetherlands, Sony affiliates haveincreased their chart share by some10 percent, compared to 1997 figures.
Despite the turmoil linked to the"UniGram" merger, PolyGramstands firm in second position bothin singles and albums. The companysuffered from a weak release sched-ule during the first half of 1998, butmade some significant gains duringthe second half with album releasesfrom U2, Boyzone, Dire Straits,Metallica, Sheryl Crow and the BeeGees. In singles, PolyGram dropsone position but manages toincrease its chart share slightly,despite the absence of a hit singleanything like the magnitude ofElton John's Candle In The Wind.
EMI, which had a headliningyear in 1997 thanks to Virgin andthe Spice Girls, now ranks third inboth albums and singles, comparedto first and second respectively in1997. Virgin comes out as the num-ber 2 label for singles and number3 for albums, thanks to new releas-es from Janet Jackson, MassiveAttack, the Smashing Pumpkins,Lenny Kravitz and the ongoingsuccess of 1997's Urban Hymns byThe Verve. Chrysalis' British artist
Titanic and Celine.
wave of their
Robbie Williams achieved super-star status in his native countrywith two albums, Life Thru A Lensand the recent I've Been ExpectingYou, but the former Take Thatfront man has not yet gained simi-lar success elsewhere in Europe.
Warner makes a significantrecovery compared to 1997's"annus horribilis," jumping tofourth position in the albumscharts ahead of BMG, which dropsone slot. Warner's resurgence isowed to a series of hit albums fromseveral established acts, and a fewnewcomers: Madonna (Top 3 albumof the year with Ray Of Light), TheCorrs, Phil Collins, Simply Red,Eric Clapton, Enya, AlanisMorissette, Catatonia and REM.
BMG has lost some ground inEurope this year, dropping to 5thposition in the albums charts andstaying steady at number 4 in thesingles charts, despite the impres-sive come -back of '80s Germandisco stars Modern Talking -whose album Back For Good
stands at number 7 -sales fromnewcomer Natalie Imbruglia (atnumber 10), and the consistentsuccess of Eros Ramazzotti.
In 1998, Universal continued tolive on the success of Aqua, withthe Danish band holding the topgroup title for both albums and sin-gles with no less than five titlescharting. However, despite astronger release schedule duringthe second half from artists such asMarilyn Manson and the eels,Universal's albums chart sharedeclined in 1998 compared to lastyear.
Based on this year's figures,Universal and PolyGram's com-bined chart shares would havereached 26.9 percent in singles and23.5 percent in albums, putting themerged company ahead of Sony onboth counts. Next year "UniGram"will be one single company, and itwill be interesting to see if its chartshare will match the aggregate ofUniversal's and PolyGram's sepa-rate 1998 chart shares.
Percentage shares, singles & albumsCompiled from M&M charts weeks 1-50 1998
Chart share:singles by label et.)
Chart share:albums by label cot.,)
Label Percentage Label PercentageColumbia 10.2 Columbia 8.3Virgin 4.9 Epic 5.0Polydor 4.8 Virgin 4.8RCA 4.7 Sony Classical 4.1Epic 4.0 Mercury 3.9Universal 3.7 Polydor 3.7WEA 3.1 Maverick/Warner Bros. 3.6Maverick/Warner Bros. 2.1 WEA 3.2EMI 2.1 EMI 2.9Profile 2.0 Hut/Virgin 2.7
Chart share: albums by company (0/0)
1998 1997 1996 1995Sony 23.0 15.6 19.9 18.0PolyGram 20.0 23.9 19.7 25.0EMI 19.2 24.5 21.1 17.7Warner 16.0 9.9 17.1 15.8BMG 11.4 12.9 12.3 9.8Universal 3.5 4.8 n/a n/aOthers 6.9 8.4 9.9 13.7
Chart share: singles by company (%)
1998 1997 1996Sony 24.7 14.2 16.5PolyGram 20.2 19.2 17.0EMI 14.6 17.7 21.5BMG 11.1 15.0 13.8Warner 10.1 10.4 11.1Universal 6.7 6.3 n/aOthers 12.6 17.2 20.1
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YEAR IN FOCUS
Airplay: Girls on top and Europe to the foreAnalysis by Menno Visser
"Girl power" still holds its potency on Europe's airwaves,and there were also strong signs in 1998 that Europeanrepertoire is gaining ground with programmers more usedto giving U.S. acts high exposure.
Alook at this year's mostplayed records onEuropean radio showspure pop making a come-back. Des'ree's soul -
tinged Life (Sony S2), a record whichfits most formats, wins top honours.It stayed at number one for sevenweeks in the summer, and survivedfor a total of 25 weeks in the chart.
Staying power is a key quality inthis year's airplay chart: SavageGarden's poppy Truly, Madly, Deeply(Columbia) made number one for justone week in May, but took up resi-dence in the Top 50 for 32 weeks,guaranteeing a high year-end posi-tion. Even longer -lived on the air-waves was the Lighthouse Family'ssoulful High, (Wild Card), peaking atonly number 7, but lasting for 33weeks in the Top 50.
Female ascendancyThe Spice Girls dominated the 1997
Girls on top (from top)
Natalie Imbruglia, Des'ree
and Madonna
year-end roundup with four entries,and this year they're back with twobig European airplay hits: VivaForever ends at 11, and Stop at 23(both on Virgin).
It seems they've inspired otherfemale artists with their girlpower.In '97, only 19 of the Top 50 fea-tured female voices, but this yearthere are no less than 29. The mostsuccessful female acts of 1998 areMadonna, Natalie Imbruglia, AllSaints and Janet Jackson, withtwo entries each.
For Madonna, backafter a long hiatus, it wasa particularly good year:Frozen at number 3 andRay Of Light at number18. Those singles werenumber one on theEuropean Radio Top 50for nine and four weeksrespectively. The thirdsingle from her Ray Of
2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30.31.32.33.34.35.36.37.38.39.40.41.42.43.44.45.46.47.48.49.50.
Light album (Maverick), DrownedWorld I Substitute For Love, endedjust outside the Top 50, at number55, while the fourth single, ThePower Of Goodbye, is currentlyhigh in this week's top 10.
U.S. grip loosened1998 was also the year in which theinfluence of the United States onEuropean radio gave way to domes-tic acts: the trend was for Europeanradio to support product of mainlandEuropean origin. In 1997, 26 of theTop 50 Airplay came from the UnitedStates, 20 from the U.K., 3 fromIreland and one from Australia.
In 1998 only 17 hailed from theUnited States, 18 from the U.K., 3from Ireland and one fromAustralia. The remaining 11 wereBorder Breakers, including Ace ofBase (Life Is A Flower at number
10 and Cruel Summer at 38 -bothon Mega/Polydor), Mousse T atnumber 21 with Horny '98(Peppermint Jam) and MusicSounds Better With You(RouleNirgin) by Stardust at 25.
Finally, it sometimes pays off tolook a little further. This year someobscure covers did really well onthe European airwaves.
At number 7, Karen Ramirezdug up an album track fromEverything But The Girl andenjoyed a big summer hit withLooking For Love (Manifesto). Andat number 9, Natalie Imbrugliasings Torn (RCA) as if it were herown, although it's been recorded bya whole bunch of artists before,including Trine Rein.
Originals or covers, 1999's radiomenu looks like retaining itsEuropean flavour.
European Hot Radio Top 50 1998Artist/Title
1. Des'ree/LifeSavage Garden/Truly Madly DeeplyMadonna/FrozenEagle -Eye Cherry/Save TonightLighthouse Family/HighAerosmithll Don't Want To Miss A ThingKaren Ramirez/Looking For LoveBrandy & Monica/The Boy Is MineNatalie Imbruglia/TornAce Of BaselLife Is A FlowerSpice Girls/Viva ForeverCeline Dion/My Heart Will Go OnRobbie Williams/MillenniumJennifer Paige/CrushSimply Red/Say You Love MeAll Saints/Never EverJanet Jackson/Together AgainMadonna/Ray Of LightPras Michel feat. ODB & Int. MyalGhetto Supastar (Interscope)
(Label)
Natalie Imbruglia/Wishing I Was ThereLutricia McNeallStrandedMousse T/Horny '98
(Sony S2)(Columbia)(Maverick)
(Superstudio/Polydor)(Wild Card)(Columbia)(Manifesto)
(Atlantic)(RCA)
(Mega/Polydor)(Virgin)
(Epic)(Chrysalis)
(Edel)(East West)
(London)(Virgin)
(Maverick/Warner Bros.)
(RCA)(Siljemark/CNR)
(Peppermint Jam/Edel)Spice Girls/Stop (Virgin)Manic Street Preachers/If You Tolerate This Your Children (Epic)Stardust/Music Sounds Better With YouEric Clapton/My Father's EyesWill Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With ItGeorge Michael/OutsideThe Tamperer feat. Maya/Feel ItThe Corrs/DreamsBoyzone/No Matter WhatRobbie Williams/AngelsB*witched/C'est La VieBackstreet Boys/All I Have To GiveSheryl Crow/My Favorite MistakeK-Ci & JoJo/All My LifeSash!/Mysterious TimesAce Of Base/Cruel SummerEros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner/Cose Della VitaPuff Daddy & Jimmy Page/Come With MeU2/Sweetest ThingAlanis Morissette/Thank UEagle -Eye Cherry/Falling In Love AgainAll Saints/Under The BridgePhil Collins/True ColorsCornershop/Brimful Of AshaShania Twain/You're Still The OneFastball/The WayAqua/Turn Back TimeJanet Jackson/Go Deep
(Roule/Virgin)(Reprise)
(Columbia)(Epic)
(Time/Five)(143/Lava)
(Polydor)(Chrysalis)
(Glow Worm/Epic)(Jive)
(A&M)(MCA)(X -IT)
(Mega/Polydor)(DDD)(Epic)
(Island)(Maverick/Warner Bros.)
(Superstudio/Polydor)(London)
(Virgin)(Wiiija)
(Mercury)(Hollywood)(Universal)
(Virgin)
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`Proper' songs break radio borders in 1998Analysis by Christian Lorenz
The M&M Border Breakers chart, which highlights The abilityof continental European signed artists and songs to be suc-cessful outside their country of origin, gets 'serious' in 1998,as staying -power begins to tell.
The novelty hits are gone.Every year for the past threeyears novelty hits were sit-ting at the top of M&M'sBorder Breakers year-end
chart. But for 1998, Eagle -EyeCherry puts an end to the trend andplaces a proper pop ballad, SaveTonight (Polydor), at number one.
Scatman John's Scatman startedthe novelty trend in 1995; Los DelRio followed with Macarena; andAqua continued it last year withBarbie Girl. Not that Barbie Girlisn't a brilliant pop song, but it'sgood to see that continental
European artists don't have toresort to gimmicks and costumes tohave success. Longevity is the word,and with marketing budgets risingacross the board it is significant tosee artists who have the potential togrow with their audience.
Sweden's Cherry has made animpressive debut on the BorderBreakers charts this year, as hasNorwegian singer/songwriterEspen Lind. If Cherry is a bit more"funky," Lind displays a MOR sen-sibility which propelled his ballad,When Susannah Cries (Universal),to number 14 in the year-end chart.
Eagle -Eye Cherry
Last year's newcomer, SwedishR&B diva Lutricia McNeal, is nowfirmly established with hits suchas Stranded (Siljemark/CNR/Wildstar) at number three andSomeone Loves You Honey at 19.
Border Breakers Top 50 1998Artist/Title (Label) Country of signing
1. Eagle -Eye Cherry/Save Tonight (Superstudio/Polydor) Sweden2. Ace Of Base/Life Is A Flower (Mega/Polydor) Denmark3. Lutricia McNeallStranded (Siljemark/CNR/Wildstar) Sweden4. The Tamperer feat. Maya/Feel It (Time/Jive) Italy5. Mousse T/Horny '98 (Peppermint Jam/Edel) Germany6. Stardust/Music Sounds Better With You (Roule/Virgin) France7. Aqua/Turn Back Time (Universal) Denmark8. Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner/Cose Della Vita (DDD) Italy9. Eagle -Eye Cherry/Falling In Love Again (Superstudio/Polydor) Sweden10. SweetboxlEverything's Gonna Be Alright (RCA) Germany11. Ace Of Base/Cruel Summer (Mega/Polydor) Denmark12. Sash! feat. Tina Cousins/Mysterious Times (X -IT) Germany13. Anouk/Nobody's Wife (Dino/BMG) Holland14. Espen Lind/When Susannah Cries (Universal) Norway15. Robyn/Show Me Love (Ricochet/RCA) Sweden16. Sash!/La Primavera (X -IT) Germany17. MejalAll 'Bout The Money (Columbia) Sweden18. WeslAlane (Saint George/Sony) France19. Lutricia McNeal/Someone Loves You Honey (Siljemark/CNR/Wildstar) Sweden29. 4 The Cause/Stand By Me (RCA) Germany21. Aqua/Doctor Jones (Universal) Denmark22. Eros Ramazzotti/Terra Promesa (DDD) Italy23. Los Umbrellos/No Tengo Dinero (Flex/EMI-Medley) Denmark24. Cardigans/My Favourite Game (Trampolene/Stockholm) Sweden25. Nek/Laura Non C'E (WEA) Italy26. Aqua/My Oh My (Universal) Denmark27. Warren G & Sissel/Prince Igor (Def Jam/Mercury) Germany28. Alexia/Gimme Love (DWA/Dance Pool) Italy29. Air/Kelly Watch The Stars (Source/Virgin) France30. S.O.A.P/This Is How We Party (SOAP/Sony) Denmark31. Espen LindlLucky For You (Universal) Norway32. Modern Talking/You're My Heart, You're My Soul 1998 (Hansa) Germany33. Nek/Se Io Non Avessi Te (WEA) Italy34. Air/Sexy Boy (Source/Virgin) France35. NejalRestless (LUP/New Music) Italy36. Close II You/Baby Don't Go (Epic) Holland37. Solid Harmonie// Want You To Want Me (Jive) Holland38. Venga Boys/Up And Down (Violator/Jive) Holland39. Robert Miles/Freedom (DBX) Italy40. Bell Book & Candle/Rescue Me (Ariola) Germany41. Lutricia McNeaUAin't That Just The Way (Siljemark/CNR/Wildstar) Sweden42. Era/Ameno (Mercury) France43. The Tamperer feat. Maya/If You Buy This Record (Time/Jive) Italy44. In Mood Feat. Juliette/Ocean Of Light (Universal) Germany45. Modern Talking/Brother Louie (Hansa) Germany46. Dana International/Diva (CNR/Dance Pool) Holland47. Sash!/Stay (X -IT) Germany48. Gala/Come Into My Life (Do It Yourself) Italy49. Venga Boys/We Like To Party (Violator/Jive) Holland50. Sash! feat. Shannon/Move Mania (X -IT) Germany
And talking about long-term artistdevelopment, veterans Ace Of Baseshow they are far more than a one -trick pony with Life Is A Flower(Mega/Polydor) at number two, andSwedish R&B singer Robynreturns with the mature Show MeLove (Ricochet/RCA) at number 15.
Scandi artists shineSince the inception of M&M'sBorder Breakers chart in October1993, Scandinavia has steadilygrown into the main source of pan-European airplay hits. BorderBreakers are singles by continentalEuropean signings which score air-play on stations outside their coun-try of signing, so this chart isdirectly related to a record's abilityto cross borders and appeal to anaudience beyond its home market.Out of this year's Top 25, 13 hailfrom Sweden, Denmark or Norway.
Italy, dropping back from a peakyear in 1996 -when ten Italian -ori-gin hits by seven different artistsmade the chart -relies in 1998mainly on rock stars ErosRamazzotti and Nek, but newdance act The Tamperer feat. Mayascores the highest position with thedance track Feel It (Time/Jive) atnumber four.
Germany continues to claim asignificant share -five out of theTop 25 Border Breakers areGerman productions -but theemphasis in Germany seems tohave shifted towards productaimed at the domestic market.More and more German singlehits -such as Oh R's Flugzeuge ImBauch and Witt/Heppner's DieFlut-target the local market withincreasingly popular German lan-guage lyrics, leaving exports todance producers such as Mousse Tand Sash! These two represent thecountry's new generation of danceartists which has made the movefrom techno to house.
If Sash! and Mousse T demon-strate the adaptability of theEuropean scene, Cherry, McNeal,Lind, Nek and Ramazzotti pointthe way to the future. Driven bygrowing songwriting confidenceand ever more sophisticated pro-duction tools, music made in conti-nental Europe now needs to devel-op some more international "faces."
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1998: the year at a glance
Virgin's Chris Evans does adeal with BSkyB
Andy Parfitt takes over as con-troller of U.K.public CHR net-work BBC Radio 1
Helmut Fest quits EMI Germany
Espen Lind cleans up atNorway's Spellmannprisenmusic awards
Frank Sinatra bows out to Europe -wide radio tributes
Alain Levy resigns from his CEOpost at PolyGram
The radio and music businesses in Europe, as covered in the pages of M&M, compiled by Terry Heath.
JanuaryNorway's ministry of culture allowscommercial radio to broadcast up to25 percent syndicated programming...The Dutch Mega Top 100 albumschart updates to electronically -gath-ered sales information... U.K nation-al commercial rock station VirginRadio inks a $4.83 million deal withsatellite/cable broadcaster BSkyB tosponsor Chris Evans' Virgin break-fast show... Spanish radio magnateBlas Herrero pulls his 60 local sta-tions out of Onda Cero Radio's CHRnetwork, Onda 10... Italian danceindies Flying Records and ZacMusic fold... Ailing year -old nationalcommercial broadcaster RadioIreland relaunches as Today FMwith a $1.6m marketing blitz...Frederic Rebet quits Sony Franceto join Naïve... U.K. newspapergroup DMG buys Essex RadioGroup, valued at $36 million... AtMidem in Cannes the priorities areintellectual property and piracy, andIFP1/131EM talks at the music mar-ket culminate in a new mechanicalroyalties agreement...The MidemAsia music market-scheduled forBali-is cancelled because of "politi-cal unrest" in Indonesia... The entireboard of governors of Italian publicbroadcaster RAI resigns amidcharges of pro -government bias...Antwerp -based CHR station RadioAntigoon is taken off -air for ten daysby the Flemish Media Ministry forexceeding its transmitter powerlimit... The French governmentmounts its fifth attempt to privatiseFrance's fourth largest radio group,Radio Monte Carlo...
FebruaryFrench broadcaster M6 announcesthe launch of 24 -hour TV station M6Music... French broadcast regulator-the CSA raps radio stations for"deliberately" breaking the 40 per-cent Francophone music quota law...London alternative rock outletXfm-the U.K's first-has disap-pointing first quarter audience rat-ings... Airplay monitoring debuts inthe Czech Republic with the newIFPI-created Radio 2000 service...German public broadcaster Hess-ischer Rundfunk launches newyouth station XXL... The roll -out ofcommercial radio in Austria receivesanother blow as licence awards arelegally challenged... The Verve andAll Saints clean up at the U.K BritAwards... Aqua take five awards atthe Danish Grammies... Eagle -Eye Cherry scores three SwedishGrammies... Country music TVchannel CMT Europe close's down...Swiss labels boycott radio in the dis-pute over copyright payments...Radio advertising revenues in theU.K and France reach record levels,according to official figures... StudioGong is censured by the Bavarianradio regulator for concealingfinancial involvement in local sta-tions... U.K group Emap Radio
buys London MOR/soft AC outletMelody FM for $40.3 million...France's revamped Victoires de laMusique awards draw a 7 millionlive TV audience, as Florent Pagny,Zazie, Noir Desir and LaraFabian win top honours... AndyParfitt succeeds Matthew Bann-ister as controller of U.K nationalCHR outlet BBC Radio 1... WarnerMusic suffers 26 percent fall in prof-its in 1997... Sony MusicColumbia's Annalisa Minetti winsthe Sanremo Song Festival...
MarchHelmut Fest quits as EMIGermany managing director...German commercial broadcasters"outraged" at high level of publicbroadcasters' profits... NRJ groupprogramming director ChristopheSabot resigns, but the French radiogroup refuses to accept... Italian pub-lisher Gruppo L'Espresso preparesto buy national radio network ItaliaRadio... Classic FM/Stockholm istaken over by the Netherlands' SkyRadio and replaced with soft ACSky Radio 107.5FM... Spanishmusic market recovers to record salesof 60.3 million units in 1997, 15 per-cent up on previous year... Max Holequits East West U.K. to joinUniversal Music International...Rap trio Nana, Biilent Aris andToni Cottura scoop three accoladesat the German 1998 Echo Awards...IFPI Platinum Europe Awardsreveal that 65 percent of qualifyingalbums (1 million sales) in 1997 wereby European artists... Allocation ofSpain's new FM commercial radiolicences in the Galicia region causespolitical furore... EMI Music Italypresident Roberto Citterio isreplaced by Riccardo Clary...France's public RMC Group is soldto Sud Communication, a jointventure between radio groups NRJand Fabre and newspaper LaDepeche Du Midi, for Ffr. 100 mil-lion... Alternative commercial sta-tions Crash FM/Liverpool and Surf107/Brighton launch in the U.K...
AprilU.K. radio groups GWR formsDigital 1 consortium to bid for firstU.K. digital multiplex licence...Andre de Raaff steps down as pres-ident/CEO of Netherlands -basedArcade Music Group... CHR net-work RDS/Rome achieves a record4.8 million average daily listeners inthe first quarter 1998 Audiradioratings... Sony and Warnerannounce creation of a new distribu-tion company, The EntertainmentNetwork... Catalonian radio sta-tions say Europe's latest quota lawshurt them in their ratings competi-tion with Spanish national stations...MTV announces new services inRussia and Scandinavia... Germany'sgold and schlager stations make biggains in latest Medien Analyse rat-ings survey... The EU launches a
pan-European study of CD pricing...Espen Lind wins three categories atNorway's Spellmannprisen musicawards... Brussels -based indie AMCenters long-term partnership withBMG Belgium... Alejandro Sanzsweeps the board at Spain's Premiosde la Musica Awards... Jean -Francois Cecillon quits as presi-dent/CEO of EMI Records GroupU.K. and Ireland... Labels bodyIFPI announces a drop in globalmusic sales...
MayIsland Records founder ChrisBlackwell announces plans for newlabel, Palm Pictures... EMI MusicPublishing Worldwide chairmanMartin Bandier and RecordedMusic chairman Ken Berry getseats on the EMI board after resig-nation of president/CEO JimFifield... Cologne -based EMIElectrola sheds 50 of its 470 staff...European media company CLT-UFAconfirms it will sell most of its U.K.radio interests... French radio sta-tions angry at proposals to stiffenFrancophone music quota laws...U.K. broadcast group CapitalRadio moves to buy London alterna-tive station Xfm... French broadcast-er NRJ announces plans to set up arecord label under group program-ming director Christophe Sabot...Israel's Dana International winsthe Eurovision Song Contest andis signed by Sony Music... Belgianpublic broadcaster BRF teams withGerman commercial AC stationSalii to form new cross -border radioservice "Radio 3000"... JayBerman is confirmed aschairman/chief executive of IFPIfrom Jan. 1 1999... Sony MusicEntertainment posts pre-tax prof-its of $410 million for the year toMarch 31 1998... Mariah Carey,Puff Daddy, Spice Girls, LeannRimes and Andrea Bocelli areacknowledged as best sellers in theWorld Music Awards in Monaco...Seagram confirms acquisition ofPolyGram NV for $10.5 billion,subject to fair trade approval...Frank Sinatra's death promptsEurope -wide radio tributes... BMGFrance president Herve Lass-eigne quits... London RecordsU.K. managing director Colin Bellquits to head up Elton John's man-agement team... U.K. imprintChrysalis is folded into EMIRecords U.K... EMI Group postspre-tax profits down 19 percent at$497.5 million for the year to March31... Flemish media commissionapproves extensive networking bycommercial radio stations...
JuneFrench labels' body SNEP meetsMPs to ask for copyright protection,and restructures to give more powerto indies... PolyGram CEO AlainLevy resigns, Doug Morris isappointed chairman and chief execu-
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TEAR N FOCUSfive of Universal Music Group(Universal Music and PolyGramcombined) and Jorgen Larsenbecomes chairman and CEO ofUniversal Music International...BMG U.K. & Ireland reorganises asHarry Magee and Ian Dickson joinfrom A&M... Stephen Mulhollandleaves BBC Digital Radio to joinU.K. radio production & syndicationcompany Wise Buddah as MD...French radio regulator the CSAapproves sale of three publicly -ownedRMC networks to Sud Comm-unications, and publishing groupEmap France claims the tenderingprocess was not fair... Italian localradio body ANTI protests as with-holding payments to SIAE is ruledillegal... BMG EntertainmentInternational senior VP of A&R &marketing Heinz Henn announceshe's quitting... Czech national com-mercial AC station Radio Alfa losesits licence to new AC/talk stationRadio Impuls... PolyGram cutsback A&M operations in the U.K....U.K. regulator the Radio Authorityreceives only one application (Digital1) for the country's first national dig-ital radio "multiplex" licence...
JulyItalian majors restructure theirtrade body, Jean -MichelJarre becomes IFPI EuropeanArtist Spokesman... IncumbentRSL retains the contract for theU.K. radio industry's official audi-ence ratings survey, RADAR...PolyGram combines its Swiss andAustrian affiliates under a singlemanagement unit headed byPolyGram Switzerland MD VicoAntippas... Bruno Gerentes con-firmed as president of BMGFrance... Dutch music TV stationThe Music Factory launches acable service in Belgium... GilbertOhayon, EMI Music France pres-ident, quits... The second IFPIPlatinum Europe Awards dinnertakes place in Brussels, and Jean -Michel Jarre calls for greater pro-tection of artists' copyrights... GuyBanville, programme director ofFrench national AC networkEurope 2, quits... Guido Montiresigns as station manager of ItalianCHR network Radio 105... Dutchgroup Wegener Arcade sellsArcade Music Company Franceand restructures its Belgian opera-tion...
AugustTeddy Bautista, executive presi-dent of Spanish authors' societySGAE, receives the Midem LatinAmerica & Caribbean "Man ofthe Year" accolade... BMGEntertainment chairman MichaelDornemann appoints BMG NorthAmerica president & CEO StraussZelnick as president and CEO ofBMG Entertainment... U.K. broad-cast group Capital Radio preparesto launch an online music store...German independent production/dis-tribution company edel music AGplans flotation on the FrankfurtStock Exchange... France's"National Commission on Today'sMusic" produces a report recom-mending the government makes
major changes to its music policies,and industry body SNEP calls it "ill-informed" Chris Blackwellacquires U.S -based Ryko for $25million... U.S. media giant ClearChannel Communications buys51 percent of Copenhagen hot AC sta-tion Radio Uptown and nationalDanish cable outlet Radio 2 (softAC)... Italian government issues anemergency decree to penalise vendorsof pirate recordings... Spanishregions of Aragon and La Riojaaward 40 new independent radiolicences... Music TV channel 40wlaunches in Spain... StephanBourdoiseau is appointed CEO ofWagram Musique, formerly knownas Arcade France... Denniz Pop,Swedish producer, dies at 35...
SeptemberHut/Virgin U.K. act Gomez winthe 1998 Technics MercuryMusic Prize with their debutalbum Bring It On... Music -driveninternational satellite radio net-work Radio Voyager Network,based in Washington, DC, set tolaunch across the U.S. andEurope...NRJ prepares to launchCHR-formatted Radio Energy innorthern Belgium... 33 FM and 7AM commercial radio broadcastlicences are awarded to regionalstations in the Netherlands...Miguel Dega, president of leadingSpanish indie Max Music, facedwith charges of kidnapping thecompany's co-founder RicardoCampoy... Swedish indie labelsNorth Of No South Records,Vibrafon and Dolores Recordsmerge to form UndergroundTechnology... Competition author-ities on both sides of the Atlanticgive final approval to Seagram'sacquisition of PolyGram... BBCdirector of radio and controller ofpublic CHR network Radio 1Matthew Bannister is appointedchief executive of BBCProduction... French culture min-ister Catherine Trautmannannounces government review ofFrance's collecting societies...Spanish commercial CHR networkCadena Top is relaunched as TopRadio Espana with a more "adult"approach...
OctoberSir George Martin receives theU.K's 1998 Music Industry Trustaward for outstanding achieve-ment... French music trade bodiesSNEP and UPFI demand govern-ment action to end broadcasters'involvement in music production...The Spice Girls, Radiohead andU2 are among writers honoured atthe annual PRS/ASCAP dinner inLondon... IFPI first half figuresreveal flat world music sales, withthe European market growing byjust one percent... ManfredZumkeller, president Europe ofWarner Music International,warns that 'The music industry isnot recession -proof any more"...French regulator the CSA takesCHR broadcaster Vibration/Orleans off -air for 24 hours for non-compliance with Francophone quotalaws... TV music channel The Music
Factory goes on -air in Flanders to awarm reception from record labels...Emmanuel de Buretel, presidentof Virgin Records France, is pro-moted to president of VirginContinental Europe... HelgeTrilck, former MD of German indieedel's Scandinavian subsidiary, ispromoted to edel VP for NorthernEurope... A coalition of public andprivate broadcasters launches 100.5Das Hitradio, covering the Belgian -German -Dutch border area... Frenchculture minister CatherineTrautmann unveils a package ofmeasures designed to "put today'smusic back at the heart of the min-istry's cultural policy"...
NovemberShares initalian CHR networkRadio 105 are suspended pendingsettlement of an ownership dis-pute... The European Comm-ission launches an inquiry into theeffects of piracy and counterfeitingin the EU... Spanish acts Jarabe dePalo, Alejandro Sanz and EllaBaila Sola, veteran radio presenterJoaquin Luqui, take top honoursin Spain's Premios Ondasawards... Seagram commences thefinal stage of its $10.4 billiontakeover of PolyGram... WarnerMusic Italy/Greece presidentGerolamo Caccia and WarnerMusic Europe president for centralEurope Gerd Gebhardt take onbigger territories as Warner MusicInternational restructures... TheNational Association ofBroadcasters' NAB Europe eventin Madrid plots the future of radio inEurope... Police investigate U.K.Radio Authority following allega-tions of corruption... MichaelKreissl steps down as programmedirector of German music TV sta-tions Viva and Viva 2... Spanishradio faces "licensing crisis" asregional governments reject auto-matic licence renewal... Jean-Marie Cavada is appointed presi-dent of public network RadioFrance... Jenny Abramskyreplaces Matthew Bannister asdirector of network radio at U.K.public broadcaster the BBC...
DecemberU.K. regulator the RadioAuthority launches its own investi-gation into licence award irregulari-ties alleged by the body's former sec-retary... The BBC reveals plans tobring its total radio output more inline with mainstream tastes... TheRadio Italia SMI network launch-es the world's first exclusivelyItalian -language repertoire musicTV channel... Francisco "Pancho"Cespedes wins three prizes atSpain's Premios Amigo musicawards in Madrid... Svein Larsen,outgoing president of Norway's com-mercial AC station P4, is underinvestigation for alleged insiderdealing... Ken Berry, president andCEO of EMI Recorded Music, andMartin Bandier, chairman andCEO of EMI Music Publishing,finalise new rolling contracts wortharound $5 million a year and $4 mil-lion a year respectively... Seagrambuys PolyGram...
Gomez 'sdebutalbumwins theTechnicsMercuryMusicPrize
JulySecond IFPI
PlatinumEuropeAwardsheld inBrussels
augustIslandRecordsfounder ChrisBlackwellbranches outwith acquisi-tion of U S -based Rykofor $25 million
septemberCome,
October
Sir George Martin receives theMusic Industry Trust outstand-ing achievement award
Gerd Gebhardt extends hisinfluence at Warner Music
clecem k:ohr
EMI Recorded Music presi-dent/CEO Ken Berry finalises anew rolling contract with thecompany
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...jazzby Terry Berne
1998 was not an easy year for jazz,with global sales generally down forthe genre. But jazz festivals weremore popular than ever, new jazzradio stations or programmesappeared in several territories,many new specialist labels werelaunched, and both hip -hop anddance music showed an increasedinterest in jazz.
Alex Merck of Alex Merck Musicaddresses the apparent contradiction,pointing out that the decline in saleswas not universal,and that what hecalls "private pira-cy" is hurting thegenre's legitimatesales. 'Wide-spread copyinghas followed theintroduction of theCDR format inEurope," heclaims. "And lessthan 10 percent islegitimate. Thishurts jazz perhapsmore than other genres because it isexactly the upscale users and univer-sity students who are our principalaudience."
Despite the downturn, trendsemerged or consolidated this year.For example: the release of "defini-tive" boxed sets of jazz pioneers andlegends; the dominance of fusion onthe airwaves and at retail; and the
increase of ethnic influence andglobal rhythms among jazz artists.
The European jazz radio land-scape continues to be too diversifiedto draw any definitive conclusionsabout content. Where Jazz RadioBerlin or Paris Jazz are program-ming the harder -edged contempo-rary sounds of Joshua Redman,John Scofield, Gary Bartz, PharoahSanders and Courtney Pine, RMCMonte Carlo and Jazz FM/Lon-don/Manchester brew an altogethersofter blend of smooth jazz by thelikes of Ramsey Lewis, Bob James,George Benson. But there is muchoverlap, and a mix which avoidsstrict stylistic limits.
The radio panorama is certainlynot ideal. Accordingto Merck, radio canhelp sales but it canalso hurt them, espe-cially when pro-grammes focus onback catalogue or alimited number ofgreatest hits.
Miles Davis,Charles Mingus andJohn Coltrane werethe subjects of multi-ple box sets and clas-sic album re-releases
which confirm their historical sig-nificance and, perhaps more impor-tantly, their continued relevance.Pianist/composer Herbie Hancock,a legend in his own right, launchedhis own Verve imprint, HancockRecords, which joins a long list ofartist -driven jazz labels. After all, ifthe artists themselves don't haveconfidence in the market, who will?
...classicalby Terry Berne
1998 will perhaps be rememberedas the year U.K.-based CollinsClassics closed up shop just monthsshort of its tenth anniversary. Thelabel, whose catalogue consists ofsome 300 titles, was the mostprominent victim of classicalmusic's declining market share andthe high cost of running a label.Collins were pioneers inattracting audiences torisky repertoire, and theyexperimented early onwith long -form CD singlesin their Twentieth CenturyPlus series.
Collins wasn't the onlycasualty of classicalmusic's recent downturn,which the latest IFPI figures havedipping just below 3 percent of allsales globally-its weakest showingof the '90s. Sweden's only dedicatedcommercial classical station, Clas-sic FM/Stockholm, finally suc-cumbed to chronic low audienceshare early this year.
Meanwhile, the original London -based Classic FM, whose successseems buck the trend, chose Decca'srecently appointed worldwide presi-dent Roger Lewis as managingdirector and programme controller.The station boasts some 5 millionweekly listeners, making it thecountry's leading national commer-cial station with an overall marketshare of 3.7 per cent. The station's
label, The Full Works, a joint ven-ture with BMG/Conifer, celebratesits first year this autumn.
While still at Decca, Lewis over-saw the third instalment of the phe-nomenally successful Three TenorsIn Concert series, featuring super-star tenors Luciano Pavarotti,Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.The Three Tenors-Paris 1998 wasreleased worldwide on August 17,just over a month after the eventwas staged for the soccer World Cupin Paris, and involved an unprece-dented collaboration between
Atlantic Records, handling thealbum in North America, andDecca, responsible for the release inthe rest of the world.
But if classical music overall isunder -performing, the genre isattracting artists not usually asso-ciated with it. Pop stars such asPaul McCartney, Joe Jackson andRyuichi Sakamoto all turned toclassical music for inspiration thispast year, and contemporary com-posers such as Philip Glass, GavinBryars, Arvo Part and the recentlydeceased Alfred Schnittke continueto break down both stylistic andsales borders. All, despite the num-bers, boding well for classicalmusic's future.
...danceby Gary Smith
Unsurprisingly, the most significantevent in the world of dance musicthis year was the success of Star-dust's Music Sounds Better WithYou (Roule/Virgin). Not merelybecause of the number of unitsshifted (1.3 million), but mostly dueto the fact that a record with itsroots firmly in the underground waswidely embraced by radio withouttrading its credibility.
Production -wise, MSB WY's onlyconcession to mainstream sensibili-ty was a minimal but seductivevocal hook. The rest is a club record,pure and simple. Putting aside for amoment its worldwide success, itwas the speed with which it crossedfrom the dancefloor to radio, andthen(' went on to become a retail phe-nomenon, which makes it THEtrack of 1998.
All in all it was a fine year for theFrench. Yellow Productions' labeldeal with East West is, for the
moment, working to theadvantage of both parties.The extra marketing musclehas pushed Yellow's sales onto a new level. Dimitri fromParis' Sacrebleu has nowsold more than 100,000units worldwide, while BobSinclar's Paradise is at87,000 units and Kid Loco'sA Grand Love Story is at55,000.
Further down the scale,labels such as Artefact andPro Zak Trax have emergedfrom the shadows with someof the very best music of theyear. Doctor L, a foundermember of Assassin,released a solo album,Exploring The Inside World(Artefact), which caused ripplesacross the continent, while Pro ZakTrax act Seven Dub put out Rock ItTonight and Run For Cover, two ofthe best singles of 1998..
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in aworldwide sense, it has been theyear of the rebirth of hip hop. "Thenew scene is a reaction to the dull-ness of mainstream hip hop actslike Puff Daddy," says Belgian -
based DJ Morpheus. "That and theaudience getting tired of gangstarap." The result is a new wave ofacts from both sides of the Atlantic,such as Jigmastas and the U.K.'sFreestylers. Both combine block -rocking music with humour andpoetry which honours the traditionand dignity of The Last Poets andGil Scott Heron rather than prais-ing the dubious joys of a warm gun.
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Big deals, more pop, new grovvh: The year in..
...musicby Emmanuel Legrand
In 1998, the music industry's agen-da was clearly dominated by one ofthe decade's most important events:Seagram's acquisition of PolyGram.
The irony is that observers pre-dicted EMI would be sold in 1998.But against all the odds it was Poly -Gram, the world's largest recordcompany, which was eventuallyacquired by Seagram and mergedinto Universal.
The $10.4 billion merger, thebiggest so far in the history of themusic industry, will have massiveeconomic and structuralimpact-not to mentionits human cost and theconsequences forartists. Itseffects willcertainlyreverberateinto 1999.
The merg-er came as the IFPI(International Federa-tion of the PhonographicIndustry) announced flatworldwide sales during the firsthalf of 1998, despite a recovery ofthe North American market.
Uncertainty about the futurewas prevalent in industry circles,with the development of the Inter-net being at the heart of the musicbusiness' concerns. On-line retail-ing expanded throughout the year,and now accounts for an increasingpercentage of music sales.
But the crucial debate is aboutstreamlining and downloading fromthe Internet. This year's launchingof Rio, an affordable electronicproduct which allows downloadingof music from the Net and storagein digital memory, has sent shivers
throughout the industry.The evolution of digital technolo-
gy, highlighted by Rio, demands theevolution of copyright legislation ona worldwide basis.
On the legislative front the cal-endar was pretty heavy in Europe,with the ratification process of theWIPO Treaties by European Unionmembers and discussion of the newCopyright Directive. The Directive'spurpose is to harmonise currentnational legislation at a Europeanlevel, and to tackle the challengesof the digital world.
However, the draft version of theDirective contained some provisionswhich the music community founddifficult to accept, and the yearended without a single text being
adopted by the EU, leaving astring of crucial decisions to
be made next year inBrussels.
In sharp contrast toEurope's inertia,the USA's Con-gress has ratifiedthe WIPOTreaties and
passed a new CopyrightBill, which has some weak
spots but marks a significantstep forward in the protection of
rights owners in the digital age.On the positive side, the Euro-
pean music industry has made sig-nificant advances in presentingitself to European policy makers.One of the highlights of this strate-gy was the second IFPI PlatinumAwards show in Brussels last July,where artists such as Aqua, RickyMartin, The Corrs and Joe Cockerreceived plaques in recognition ofsales of more than a million units inEurope from the hands of EuropeanCommission president JacquesSanter. This celebration was a per-fect example of how to combinemusic and politics for the benefitof both.
...talentby Christian Lorenz
It's been a good year for music, butfirst and foremost it has been agreat year for pop.
Critics may point a finger at thenumber of "veteran" pop artists inthe charts-the likes of Cher,George Michael, Modern Talking-hut there is a lesson to be learnedfrom that: if you want to get ahead,get a face. Robbie Williams knows.So do Boyzone's Ronan Keating,Eros Ramazzotti and Eagle -EyeCherry. Four artists, totally differ-ent and yet with the common quali-ty that they are characters, enter-tainers. They don't just sing. Theydeal in dreams.
And that's where Europe is doingwell. There is a new generation of"proper" pop stars emerging who maysoon be able to follow in George's foot-steps and take on Celine Dion andMadonna. The infrastructure tomake it happen certainly exists.Never before has Europe-especiallycontinental Europe-boasted such ahigh standard of studios, producersand writers.
The technical equipment inEurope's studios and, more impor-tantly, the know-how of producersand engineers, can stand closescrutiny against U.S. standards: aSwedish writing and productionteam propelled U.S. boy band theBackstreet Boys into the charts;English writers and producerslaunched the career of Australiansoap star Natalie Imbruglia; R&Bsinger Karen Ramirez went to Italyto record her album; German produc-ers teamed U.S. hip hop star WarrenG with Norwegian opera singer Sis-sel and created a hit single. Theseare just a few examples of cross -border A&R.
At the same time, there is nodoubt that Europe's discrete mar-kets are becoming more and moreself -focused. For example, until1996 Germany was exportingdozens of formulaic Eurodance hits,but over the past two years thefocus of music production has shift-ed from export -oriented material tocatering for the German-speakingmarket. But the know-how gath-ered in the process of creating everslicker German hip hop could beuseful to Danish or Italian artistsas well.
In dance music, Denmark couldeven be "the new France" next year,thanks to a buzzing electronic scenearound acts such as Tokyo Combo,Future 3 and Kai Bojsen-Moller.These acts are just waiting for a lit-tle push. It's all down to the combi-nation of expertise and local flair.There's a perfect artist/writer/pro-ducer combination for everybody.The elements are in place. Thechallenge for the European indus-try is to bring them together.
...radioby Mike McGeever
Consolidation, diversification andexpansion were among the out-standing issues which helped toshape the landscape of Europeanradio during the past twelvemonths-and to set the agenda forthe next year.
The relaxation of media ownershipregulations led to consolidation insome major markets. In the U.K., forexample, Capital Radio, Emap Radioand Chrysalis all acquired a secondFM licence in markets where theyalready had established services.
Changes is broadcasting legisla-tion kickstarted the expansion of
the radio industry acrossmuch of Europe, but it wasnot without headaches. InMarch, Austrian broad-casting officials finallygave the green light fornational rollout of commer-cial stations, after lengthyarguments in the constitu-tional courts over thevalidity of the licenceawarding process.
Expansion was not limit-ed to western European countries.Hungary took a quantum leap intolarge-scale commercial radio with theSpring launches of two national musicstations, Danubius Radio (CHR) andSlager Radio (gold) by foreign opera-tors DMG Radio (U.K.) and EmmisCommunications (U.S.) respectively.
Exciting some consternation inthe music industry, major broad-
casting groups con-tinued to diversify byestablishing recordlabels or othermusic -related busi-nesses in 1998. Asthe Capital Radio -backed Wildstarlabel continued torack up chart hitswith artists such asLutricia McNeal andConner Reeves
(thanks in part to airplay on Capi-tal's stable of stations), Paris -basedgroup NRJ became in May the firstmajor French radio company toenter into the business of musicproduction, with a debut releaseexpected soon on the yet -to -be -named label.
There were no extraordinarymusic radio trends which stood out
in 1998. However, AC stationsacross Europe enjoyed ratings suc-cess as they were served with asteady diet of format -friendly tracksby border -breaking artists such asEros Ramazzotti (BMG), EspenLind (Universal) and Des'ree(Sony). Also, dance music found itsway from the clubs onto CHR sta-tions' playlists, as artists such asMousse T and Sash! found main-stream airplay success.
As 1998 drew to a close, severalbroadcasters such as national U.K.CHR/dance station Atlantic 252,Melody FM/London (AC/MOR) andSweden's CHR network P3 beganadjusting their programming poli-cies to attract and maintain femalelistenership, in recognition of theincreasingly influential femaleradio audience developing into the21st century.
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Music of their lives: the M&M jukebox 1998M&M staff pick the albums and singles which tickled their
personal fancy in 1998, and share their musical passions
in this once -a -year confessional.
Terry BerneSpain/jazz/classical correspondent
ALBUMS
1. Manu Chao/Clandestino(Virgin)
2. Van Morrison/ThePhilospher's Stone (Polydor)
3. Julien Lourau GrooveGanglCity Boom Boom(Warner Jazz)
4. Elvis Costello and BurtBacharacb/Painted From Memory(Mercury)
5. New Cool Collective/More! Soul JazzLatin Flavours 90s Vibes (Challenge)
6. Gidon Kremer/From My Home(Teldec)
7. Didier Lockwood/Round AboutSilence (Dreyfus Jazz)
8. Pharoah Sanders /Save Our Children(Verve)
9. Septer Bourbon/Smile Of TheHoneycake Horse (Jazzline)
10. Stacy Kent/The Tender Trap (Candid)
Remi BoutonFrance correspondentALBUMS
1. Manu Chao/Clandestino(Virgin)
2. Various/Live And Rare (F.Comm)
3. Alain Bashung/FantaisieMilitaire (Barclay)
4. Propellerheads/Decksandrumsandrockandrol (Wall ofSound)
5. Khaled, Thha, FaudeV/,2,3 Soled (Barclay)6. Miossec/A Prendre (PIAS)7. Rokia TraorelMouneissa (Indigo)8. Lhasa/L/orona (Tot ou Tard/WEA)9. Massive Attack/Mezzanine (Virgin)10. Janet Jackson/The Velvet Rope (Virgin)
Singles1. Stardust/Music Sounds Better With You
(Roule/Virgin)2. Faudel/Dis moi (Mercury)3. Various/Ensemble (V2)4. Amadou & Mariam/Je Pense A Toi
(Emarcy)5. Youssou N Dour & Axelle Red/La
Cours Des Grands (SMALL)
Raul CairoCharts EditorALBUMS
1. Air/Moon Safari (Source/Virgin)2. Dave Alvin/Blackjack David (Highlbne)3. Lauryn Hill/The Miseducation Of
Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)4. Lucinda Williams/Car Wheels On A
Gravel Road (Mercury)5. Smashing Pumpkins/Adore (Virgin)6. Ramblin' Jack Elliott/Friends Of
Mine (Highlbne)7. R. Kelly/R. (Jive)8. Metallica/Garbage Inc. (Vertigo)9. SashYLife Goes On (X -It)10. Beck/Mutations (DGC)
SINGLES
1. Frank & Ronald/Geld Maakt NietGelukkig (Bunny)
2. Stardust/Music Sounds Better With You(Roule/Virgin)
3. The Tamperer feat. Maya/Feel It(Time/Jive)
4. Touch & Go/Would You... (Oval/V2)5. Destiny's Child/No, No, No (Wyclef
Jean Remix) (Columbia)
Jon CrouchproductionmanagerALBUMS
1. TransglobalUnderground/DreamOf 100 Nations (Nation)
2. Julien Lourau Groove Gang/CityBoom Boom (Warner Jazz)
3. Amon Tobin/Permutation (Ninja Tune)4. Bonnie RaittlFundamental (Capitol)5. The Mavericks/Thampo/ine (MCA)6. The Orb/U.F-Off (Island)7. Audioweb/Fireworks City
(Mother/Polydor)8. John Coltrane/My Favourite Things
(Rhino) (Re -issue)9. Various/Future Sounds Of Jazz Vol. 5
(Skint/Epic)10.4 Hero/Two Pages (Talkin Loud)
SINGLES
1. Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins/It's LikeThat (Profile)
2. Cornershop/Brimful Of Asha (Wiiija)3. The Mavericks/Dance The Night Away
(MCA)4. Air/Kelly Watch The Stars
(Source/Virgin)5. Robbie WilliamsIMillenium. (Chrysalis)
Mark DezzaniItaly CorrespondentALBUMS
1. ManuChao/Clandestino(Virgin)
2. Almamegretta/Lingo(Anagrumba/BMG)
3. Ultra Nate/Situation Critical (A&M)4. Khaled/Hafla (Barclay)5. Adamski/Adamski's Thing (ZTT)6. AngeliqueKidjo/Oremi (Island)7. Zucchero/Bluesugar (Polydor)8. Billy Bragg & Wilco/Mermaid Avenue
(Elektra)9. Natalie Merchant/Ophella (Elektra)10. Goldie/Saturn Returnz (ffrr/London)
SINGLES
1. Faithless/God Is A DJ (Cheeky/Zomba)2. Sara McLachlan/Adia (Arista/Tide)3. Propellerheads (featuring Shirley
Bassey)IHistory Repeating (Wall OfSound)
4. Cornershop/Brimful of Asha (Wiiija)5. Blackwood/Peace (A&D)
Tom FergusonInternational associate editor, Billboard;formerly managing editor,Music & MediaALBUMS
1. Lambchop/What Another Matt Spills(City Slang)
2.Vic Chesnutt/The Salesman &
Bernadette (Pinnacle)3. Terry Callier/7Imepeace (Verve/Talkin Loud)4. Lucinda Williams/Car Wheels On A
Gravel Road (Mercury)5. R.E.MJUp (Warner Bros.)6. Nick Lowe/Dig My Mood (Demon)7. Sparklehorse/Good Morning Spider
(Parlophone)
8. Malcolm Ross/Happy Boy (Marina)9. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion/Acme
(Mute)10. Lyle Lovett/Step Inside This House (MCA)
Jonathan Heasmandeputy editor/news editorALBUMS
1. Air/Moon Safari(Source/Virgin)
2. Morcheeba/Big Calm(China)
3. theaudience/theaudi-ence (Mercury)
4. Fatboy Slim/You've Come A Long WayBaby (Skint)
5. Catatonia/International Velvet (BlancoY Negro)
SINGLES
1. Morcheeba/Part of the Process (China)2. Air/Kelly Watch The Stars (Source/Virgin)3. Space feat. Cerys from
Catatonia/Ballad of Tom Jones (Gut)4. Fatboy Slim/Rockafeller Skank (Skint)5. GomezIWhippin' Piccadilly (Hut/Virgin)6. The Dandy Warhols/Not If You Were
The Last Junkie On Earth (Capitol)7. Air/Sexy Boy (Source/Virgin)8. theaudience/A Pessimist Is Never
Disappointed (Mercury)9. Madonna/Ray Of Light
(Maverick/Warner Bros)10. The Cardigans/My Favourite Game
(Stockholm Records)
Terry HeathFeatures and specials editorALBUMS
1. Sonny Black & theDukes/Free Spirit (FreeSpirit Prods.)
2. Errol Linton's BluesVibelVibing It! (Ruby Records)
3. Kelly Joe Phelps/Roll Away The Stone(Rykodisc)
4. Adrian Byron Burns/Back To TheWood (Bluetrack Records)
5. Peter Green/The Robert JohnsonSongbook (Artisan)
6. Big Lucky Carter/Lucky 13 (Blueside)7. T W Henderson/The Wilderness Years
(Bluetrack Records)8. Mick Martin & the Blues
Rockers/Good Reaction (JSP Records)9. Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges/Born To
Be Blue (Blueside)10. Jonny LanglWancler This World (A&M)
Michele LeggeCzech Republic correspondentALBUMS
1. Air/Moon Safari(Source/Virgin)
2. MogwailKicking ADead Pig (Eye QRecords)
3. PJ Harvey/Is ThisDesire (Island)
4. Lo FidelityAllstars/How To Operate On A BlownMind (Skint)
5. The Divine Comedy/Fin De Siecle(Setanta)
6. The Jesus And Mary Chain/Munki(Creation)
7. Sonic Youth/A Thousand Leaves(Geffen)
8. Bernard Butler/People Move On(Creation)
9. Fatboy SlinilYou've Come A Long WayBaby (Skint) ,
10. Irresistible Force/It's TomorrowAlready (Ninja Tune)
SINGLES
1. Fatboy Slim/Rockafeller Skank (Skint)2. Robbie Williams/Millennium
(Chrysalis)3. Des'ree/Life (Sony S2)4. Stardust/ Music Sounds Better With
You (Roule/Virgin)5. Space Dust/Gym and Tonic (East
West)
Emmanuel Legrandeditor -in -chiefALBUMS
1. Manu Chao/Clanclestino (Virgin)2. Elliott Smith/Xo
(Dreamworks)3. Air/Moon Safari
(Source/Virgin)4. Lucinda Williams/Car Wheels
On A Gravel Road (Mercury)5. Smashing Pumpkins/Adore (Hut/Virgin)6. Terry Callier/7imePeace (Verve/Talkin'
Loud)7. Massive Attack/Mezzanine (Virgin)8. Bran Van 2000/Glee
(Audiogram/Capitol)9. Mangu/Mangu (Island)10.Craig Amstrong/The Space Between
Us (Melankolic)
SINGLES
1. Mercury Bev/Goddess On A Highway(V2)
2. Babybird/Bad Old Man (Echo)3. Wasis Diop/Once In A Lifetime
(Mercury)4. Eagle -Eye Cherry/Save Tonight
(Superstudio/Polydor)5. Cornershop/Brimful Of Asha (Norman
Cook Remix) (Wiiija)
Howell LlewellynSpain CorrespondentALBUMS:
1. Manu Chao/Clandestino(Virgin)
2. Compay Segundo/LoMejor De La Vida (DRO East West)
3. Jimi Hendrix Experience/BBCSessions (Universal)
4. Radio Futura/Memoria Del Porvenir(BMG-Ariola)
5. Sexy Sadie/Its Beautiful , Its Love(Subterfuge)
6. Bob Dylan/Live 1966 (Columbia)7. VargaslFeedback (DRO East West)8. Nina Pastori/Eres Luz (BMG-Ariola)9. Manolito Y Su Trabuco/Marcando La
Distancia (Eurotropical)10. Calaveras y Diablitos/Legitimo Rock
Latino Vol. 1 (BMG-Ariola)
Kai R. LofthusNorway correspondentALBUMS
1. MidnightChoir/AmsterdamStranded (S2)
2. Elvis Costello & BurtBacharach/PaintedFrom Memory(Mercury)
3. Gluecifer/Soaring With Eagles AtNight To Rise With The Pigs In TheMorning (White Jazz/House Of Kicks)
4. Jan Garbarek/Rites (ECM)5. Bob Hund/Jag Rear Ut Min $jal! Allt
Skall Bort!!! (Silence)6. Mari BoinelBealvvoslatjna (Lean/Verve)7. The Getaway People/The Getaway
People (Columbia)8. D'Sound/Beauty Is A Blessing (Polydor)9. Nils Petter Molvaer/Khmer (ECM)10. Metallica/Garage Inc. (Vertigo)
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1. Touch And Go/Would You...? (V2)2. Hole/Celebrity Skin (Geffen)3. All Saints/Never Ever (London)4. Eagle -Eye Cherry/Save Tonight
(Superstudio/Polydor)5. Fatboy Slim! Rockafeller Skank
(Skint)
Christian LorenzMusic & talent editorALBUMS
1. Massive Attack/Mezzanine (Virgin)
2. Pete Rock/Sou/Survivor (Loud)
3. Morcheeba/Big Calm(China)
4. Air/Moon Safari (Source/Virgin)5. Terry Caller/ 71mepiece (Verve/Talkin'
Loud)6. William S. Burroughs/Best Of (Mouth
Almighty/Mercury)7. Craig Armstrong/The Space Between
Us (Melankolic)8. Buckfunk 3000/1st Class Ticket 7b
Telos (Language)9. Billy Bragg & Wilco/Mermaid Avenue
(Elektra)10. Belle & Sebastian/The Boy With The
Arab Strap (Delabel)
SINGLES
1. Roy Vedas/Fragments Of Life(Mercury)
2. Studio 2/Travelling Man -Ray Keith's10" mix (Multiply)
3. Foul PlaylRisk (Partisan)4. Jazz CarteFB/ue Haze-Flytronix
remix (Creative Wax/Partisan)5. Blak Twang/19 Long Time /Red Letter
(white label)
Marc MaesBelgium correspondentALBUMS
1. Eric Clapton/Pilgrim(Duck/Reprise)
2. Paul Michiels/InnerChild (CNR)
3. Simply Red/Blue(East West)
4. 3rd Force/Vita/ Force (HigherOctave/Virgin)
5. Anouk/Together Alone (Dino)6. The Corrs/Ta/k on Corners
(143/LavaWarner)7. Cuban All Stars/Cuban All Stars
(World Circuit)8. Axelle Red/Con Solo Pensar Lo
(Virgin)9. Soundtrack/The Avengers (Warner10. K's Choice/Cocoon Crash (Double
T/Sony)
Mike McGeeverprogramming editorALBUMS
1. Lucinda Williams/CarWheels On A GravelRoad (Mercury)
2. The Corrs/Talk OnCorners(143/Lava/Atlantic)
3. Fun Lovin' Criminals// 00 %Columbian (Chrysalis)
4. Catatonia /International Velvet (BlancoY Negro)
5. Smashing Pumpkins/Adore(Hut/Virgin)
6. OrgylCandyass(Elementree/Reprise/Warner Bros.)
7. Dave Mathews Band/Before TheseCrowded Streets (RCA)
8. Eagle -Eye Cherry/Desireless(Superstudio/Polydor)
9. Various/Chef Aid (Columbia)10. Billie Myers/Growing Pains
(Universal)
SINGLES
1.Eagle-Eye Cherry/Save Tonight(Superstudio/Polydor)
2. Massive Attack/Teardrop (Virgin)3. Fatboy Slim/The Rockafeller Skank
(Skint)4. All Saints/Never Ever (London)5. Billie Myers/Kiss the Bair" (Universal)
Ed MezaGermany correspondentAlbums1. Jerry Goldsmith/Planet Of The Apes
Soundtrack 1998 re-release (VareseSarabande/Colosseum)
2. The King/Gravelands (EMI)3. Talvin Singh/OK (Island)4. Massive Attack/Mezzanine
(Circa/Virgin)5. Various Artists/Rockin' Is Not Our
Business! (Westside)6. R.E.M.IUp (Warner Bros.)7. Madonna/Ray Of Light
(Maverick/Warner Bros.)8. Space/Tin Planet (n/a)9. Robbie Williams/I've Been Expecting
You (Chrysalis)10. Janet Jackson/The Velvet Rope
(Virgin)
SINGLES
1. The King17'wentieth Century Boy (EMI)2. Propellerheads feat. Shirley
Bassey/History Repeating (Wall of Sound)3. Madonna/Ray Of Light
(Maverick/Warner Bros.)4. Janet Jackson1Together Again (Virgin)5. Rammstein/Stripped (Motor Music)
Dominic SalmonDesignerALBUMS
1. Anton Ibbinl Permutation(Ninja Time)
2. Julien Lourau GrooveGang/City Boom Boom(Warner Jazz)
3. The Orb/U.F-Off (Island)4. Slayer/Slayer (American)5. AudioweblFireworks City
(Mother/Polydor)6. AkashalCinernatique (Wall Of Sound)7. Various/Future Sound Of Jazz Vol.5
(Compost)8. Air/Moon Safari (SourceNirgin)9. Talvin Singh/OK (Island)10. Embrace/The Good Will Out (Hut)
SINGLES
1. SuperchargernImebomb Ticking (China)2. The Herbaliser/Wall Crawling Insect
Beats EP (Ninja Tune)3. Air/Kelly Watch The Stars
(SourceNirgin)4. Dragon Bass/Cocaine Sex (Le Coq
Musique)5. Moby/Honey (Mute)
Paul SextonU.K. correspondentALBUMS
1. Morcheeba/Big Calm(Indochina)
2. The FamilyStand/Connected(East West)
3. The Handsome Family/Through TheTrees (Loose/ Vinyl Junkie)
4. Ian Dury and theBlockheads/Mr.Love Pants (RonnieHarris Records)
5. Brian Wilson/imagination (Giant/RCA)6. Nick Lowe/Dig My Mood (Demon)7. Bruce Hornsby/Spirit Trail (RCA)8. Lucinda Williams/Car Wheels On A
Gravel Road (Mercury)9. Wasis Diop/Toxu (Mercury)10. Semisonic/Feeling Strangely Fine
(MCA)
SINGLES
1 Brandy & Monica/The Boy Is Mthe (Atlantic)2. Massive Attack/Teadrop (Virgin)3.The Montrose Avenue/Shine (Columbia)4. James Brown/Funk On Ah Roll
(Eagle)5. Space featuring Cerys from
Catatonia/The Ballad Of 7bm Jones (Gut)
Gary SmithSpain/dance correspondentALBUMS
1. Various/FutureSounds of Jazz vol.5(Compost)
2. The EgglTravelator(Indochina)
3. Manu Chao/Clandestino (Virgin)4. Sylk 130/When The Funk Hits The Fan
(Ovum)5. Doctor L/Exploring The Inside World
(Artefact)6. Various/DJ Morpheus presents
Phax'n'Phixion (SSR)7. Urban Species/Blanket (Talking Loud)8. Various/Freestyle Files vol.4 (Studio K7)9. Various/Chinese Whispers (Sprawl)10. Various/The K&D Sessions
(Studio K7)
SINGLES
1. Stardust/Music Sounds Better WithYou: Chateau Flight Mix (RouleNirgin)
2. Scott Grooves feat.Parliament/Funkadelic/MothershipReconnection (Soma)
3. Seven Dub/Rock It Tonight (ProZak Trax)
4. Moby/Honey (Mute)5. Urban Species/Woman (Talkin Loud)
Sid StavenesCharts researcherALBUMS
1. SmashingPumpkins/Adore(Hut/Virgin)
2. Embrace/The Good Will Out(HutNirgin)
3. Madonna/Ray Of Light(Maverick/Warner Bros.)
4. Gomez/Bring It On (Hut/Virgin)5. Manic Street Preachers/This Is My
Truth Tell Me Yours (Epic)6. Massive Attack/Mezzanine
(Circa/Virgin)7. Robbie Williams/I've Been Expecting
You (Chrysalis)8. Lenny Kravitz/5 (Virgin)9. Alanis Morissette/Supposed Former
Infatuation Junkie (Maverick/Warner Bros.)10. De Linos/Gamic Sanger Om Igjen
(Sonet/PolyGram)
SINGLES
1. Bis/Eurodisco (Wiiija)2. Green Day/Time Of Your Life (Reprise)3. Mark van Dale & Enrico/Water Verve
(Club Tools)4. Garbage/Special (Mushroom)5. Ruff Driverz pres.Arrola/Thraming (Inferno)
Sally StrattonU . K . correspondentALBUMS
1. The UnbelievableTruth/Almost Here (Virgin)
2. Gomez/Bring It On(Hut/Virgin)
3. Roddy Frame/The North Star (Independiente)4. Bluetones/Return To The Last Chance
Saloon (A&M)5. Robbie Williams/I've Been Expecting
You (Chrysalis)6. The Divine Comedy/Fin De Siecle (Setanta)7. Semisonic/Feeling Strangely Fine (MCA)8. Neil Finn/7iy Whistling This (Parlophone)9. Carleen Anderson/Blessed Burden
(Circa/Virgin)
10. Duffy/I Love My Friends (Cooking Vinyl)
Cecile TesseyreFrance correspondentALBUMS
1. Miossec/A prendre (Pias)2. Madonna/Ray of Light
(Maverick/Warner Bros.)3. Lenny Kravitz/5 (Virgin)4. Louise Attaque/Louise Attaque
(Atmospheriques)5. Khaled, Taha, FaudeV/ 2 3 I soleils
(Barclay)6. All Saints/All Saints (London)7. The art of singing/past present and
future (Delabel)8. U2/Best of U2 (Island)9. Manic Street Preachers/This Is My
Truth Tell Me Yours (Epic)10. George Michael/Ladies And Gentlemen
The Best Of George Michael (Epic)
SINGLES
1. Brandy&Monica/The Boy is Mine(Atlantic)
2. Ensemble/Sa raison d'être (V2)3. Zebda/ca va pas etre possible (Barclay)4. The Divine Comedy/If (Setanta)5. Stardust/Music Sounds Better With
You (RouleNirgin)
Robbed TilliNetherlands correspondentALBUMS
1. The Mavericks/Trampoline(MCA)
2. Manu Chao/Clandestino(Virgin)
3. Lauryn Hill/The Miseducation OfLauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
4. Nick Lowe/Dig My Mood (Demon)5. The Manic Street Preachers/This Is
My Truth Tell Me Yours (Epic)6. Elvis Costello With Burt
BachamchiPainted From Memory (Mercury)7. Lucinda Williams/Car Wheels On A
Gravel Road (Mercury)8. Bonnie Raitt/Fundamental (Capitol)9. Duane Jarvis/Far From Perfect
(Watermelon)10. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends/The
Virginian (Bloodshot)
SINGLES
1. The Mavericks/Dance The Night Away (MCA)2. Stardust/Music Sounds Better With
You (Roule/Virgin)3. Elliott Smitb/Wa/tz No 2. (Dreamworks)4. Fat Boy Slim/Rockafeller Skank (Skint)5. Ilse Delange/I'm Not So Tough
(Warner Brothers)
Menno VisserCharts researcherALBUMS
1. U.N.K.L.EJPsyence Fiction(Mo'Wax)
2. Mercury Rev/Deserter's Songs (V2)3. The Beta Band/3EP's (Rega )4. Kid Loco/A Grand Love Story
(Yellow/East West)5. Gomez/Bring It On (HutNirgin)6. Freestylers/We Rock Hard (Freskanova)7 .1631Sounds From Another Room (Eye Q)8. Talvin Singh/O.K (Island)9. Sparklehorse/Good Morning Spider
(Parlophone)10. Hefner/Breaking God's Heart (lbo Pure)
SINGLES
1. Stardust/Music Sounds Better WithYou (RouleNirgin)
2. Bran Van 3000/Drinking In L.A.(Audiogram/Capitol)
3. Spearmint/A Trip Into Space(hitBACK/Vital)
4. B*Witched/CTst La Vie (Glow Worm/Epic)5. Brock Landers/Smack My Dick Up
(Blue Planet/Parlophone)
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UNITED KINGDOM
Top National SellersGERMANY
TW LW SINGLES
1 1 Cher - Believe (WEA)2 22 Jay -Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) (Northwestside)
3 3 Vengaboys - Up And Down (Positiva)4 2 Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me (Polydor)5 4 Steps - Heartbeat'Tragedy (Jive)6 37 Bryan Adams feat Melanie C. - When You're Gone (Mercury)
7 5 Celine Dion & R. Kelly - I'm Your Angel (Epic)8 6 Five - Until The Time Is Through (RCA)9 NE Robbie Williams - No Regrets (Chrysalis)10 NE Emilia - Big Big World (Universal)
TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 Various - Now 41 (EMI/Virgin/PolyGram)2 2 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best OF... (Epic)
3 9 M People - The Best Of M People (M People/BMG)
4 3 U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990/B Sides (Island)5 11 Boyzone - Where We Belong (Polydor)6 6 The Corrs - Talk On Corners (East West)7 4 Robbie Williams - I've Been Expecting You (Chrysalis)
8 7 Steps - Step One (Jive)9 5 Bee Gees - Live: One Night Only (Polydor)10 8 Charlotte Church - Voice Of An Angel (Sony Classical)
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TW LW SINGLES
1 1 Cher - Believe (WEA)
2 2 Oli P. - Flugzeuge Ion Bauch (Ariola)3 3 Sasha - If You Believe (WEA)4 5 Boyzone - No Matter What (Polydor)5 4 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye (WEA)
6 7 Loona - Hijo De La Luna (Motor)7 6 Liquido - Narcotic (Virgin)8 14 Music Instructor feat. AB Get Freaky (East West)
9 8 Vengaboys - We Like To Party (Motor)10 9 Down Low - Once Upon A Time (Zyx)
TW LW ALBUMS
1 2 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (Mercury)2 5 Madonna - Ray Of Light (WEA)
3 7 Celine Dion - These Are Special Times (Columbia)
4 6 Die Rotes Rosen - Wir Wafter) Aufs Christkind (East West)
5 4 Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (WEA)
6 3 George Michael Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of George Michael (Epic)
7 8 Cher - Believe (WEA)8 9 Westernhagen - Radio Maria (WEA)9 1 Metallica - Garage Inc. (Mercury)10 13 Wolfgang Petry - Freude (Ariola)
TW LW SINGLES
1 1 Daniel Lavoie - Belle (Pomme)2 2 Laam - Chanter Pour Ceux Qui Sant Loin De Chez Eux (EMI)
3 3 Cher - Believe (WEA)
4 4 Tin Arena & MarcAntholy lEantro Spend My Lilian Lonng You (Columbia)
5 5 Celine Dion - S'Il Suffisait D'Aimer (Columbia)6 7 Khaled & Rachid & Faudel AbdelKader (Barclay)7 6 Faudel - Dis Moi (Mercury)8 8 Jennifer Paige - Crush (Edel)9 10 Tarkan - Simarik (Podia)10 9 Lara Fabian - Si Tu M'Aimes (Polydor)
TW LW ALarMs
1 1 Artistes Ensemble Contre AIDS - Ensemble (V2)
2 3 Original Cast - Notre Dame De Paris (Pomme)3 2 Johnny Hallyday - Stade De France 1998 (Mercury)
4 5 Original Cast - Notre Dame De Paris (Integral) (Pomme)
5 NE Doc Gyneco - Liaisons Dangereuses (Virgin)6 8 Khaled & Rachid & Faudel -1,2,3 Soleils (Barclay)
7 7 Florent Pagny - Live (Mercury)8 4 Celine Dion - S'll Suffisait D'Aimer (Columbia)9 10 Manau - Panique Celtique (Polydor)10 6 Les Enfoires - Enfoires En Coeur (WEA)
TW LW SINGLES
1 2 Cher - Believe (WEA)
2 1 Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (WEA)3 4 DJ Dade & Simone Jay - Ready Or Not (Time)4 6 Warmdue Project - King Of My Castle (Level One)
5 9 George Michael - Outside (Epic)6 5 Jennifer Paige - Crush (Edel)
7 12 The Tamperer Feat, Maya - If You Buy This Record (Time)
8 8 Neja - Shock (New Music)9 3 Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing (Columbia)
10 11 Vengaboys - We Like To Party (Time)TW LW ALeums
1 1 Zucchero - Blue Sugar (Polydor)2 2 U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990/B Sides (Mercury)3 3 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best... (Epic)
4 17 Phil Collins - Hits (WEA)5 4 Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (WEA)
6 16 Mina & Adrian Celentano Mina & Adrian Celentano RD)
7 7 Renato Zero - Amore Dopo Amore (Epic)8 5 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing - The Very Best Of (Mercury)
9 9 Mariah Carey - #1's (Columbia)10 10 Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Lave (BMG Ricordi)
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TW LW SINGLES
1 1 Cher - Believe (WEA)2 NE Des'ree - What's Your Sign (Epic)3 5 George Michael - Outside (Epic)4 2 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye (WEA)5 4 Gloria Estefan - Cuba Libre (Epic)6 3 Manolo Garcia - Zapatero (Ariola)7 7 Shakira - Ciega Sordomuda (Columbia)8 10 Azucar Moreno - Ole Remixes (Epic)9 NE Five - Everybody Get Up (RCA)
10 9 U2 - Sweetest Thing (Mercury)TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 Rosana - Luna Nueva (Universal)2 2 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (Mercury)3 3 Julio Iglesias - My Life/Greatest Hits (Columbia)
4 NE Siempre Asi - Diez Y Cuarto (Disco De Arte)5 4 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of .. (Epic)
6 5 Mariah Carey - #1's (Columbia)7 6 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing The Very Best Of (Mercury)
8 15 Fransisco Cespedes - Vida Loca (WEA)9 7 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III (WEA)10 9 Phil Collins - Hits (WEA)
TW LW SINGLES
1 1 Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom (Zomba)2 2 Emilia - Big Big World (Universal)3 3 Boyzone - No Matter What (Polydor)4 5 Cher - Believe (Warner)5 4 Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody? (Warner)6 6 Dru Hill - How Deep Is Your Love (Mercury)7 9 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye (Warner)8 10 Volumia! - Hou Me Vast (BMG)9 8 &Life - More Days To Come (CMC)
10 13 Honk Westbroek - Zelfs Je Naam Is Mooi (Mercury)
TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990/B Sides (Mercury)2 4 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen. The Best Of George Michael (Epic)
3 3 Volumia! - Volumia! (BMG)
4 2 Boyzone - Where We Belong (Polydor)5 5 Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Warner)
6 6 Vengaboys - Up & Down - Greatest Hits (Zomba)
7 7 Kinderen Voor Kinderen - Volume 19 (Virgin)8 11 Metallica - Garage Inc. (Mercury)9 9 De Dijk - Het Beste Van De Dijk (Mercury)10 8 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing- The Very Best Of (Mercury)
TW LW SINGLES
1 2 Cher - Believe (Warner)2 4 Emilia - Big Big World (Universal)3 1 Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom (Zomba)4 3 Tarkan - Simarik (Podia)5 5 Boyzone - No Matter What (PolyGram)6 12 X-Treme - Love Song (EMI)7 6 Manau - La Tribu De Dana (PolyGram)8 11 De Pop -Honing - Albert Rap (Alora)9 8 DJ Springer - Jerry's Theme (ARS)
10 9 Loam - Chanter Pour Ceux Qui Sant Loin De Chez Eux (EMI)
TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (PolyGram)
2 2 Helmut Lotti Gres Classieffinall &Classical Christma (PolyGram)
3 3 George Michael - Ladies &Gentlemen, The Best Of... (Sony)
4 4 Kabouter Plop - Kabouter Plop (PolyGram)5 6 Joe Cocker - Greatest Hits (EMI)6 5 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing- The Very Best Of (PolyGram)
7 9 Steps - Step One (Zomba)8 8 Original Cast - Notre Dame De Paris (Universal)
9 15 Vengaboys - Up & Down - Greatest Hits (Zomba)
10 10 Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Warner)
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15 Emilia - Big Big World11 Will Smith - Miami9 Graaf - Give It Up10 Pras - Blue Angels
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NE Metallica - Garage Inc. (PolyGram)NE E -Type - Last Man Standing (Stockholm)14 Dr. Bombay - Rice & Curry (Warner)1 Vonda Shepard - Songs From Ally McBeal (Sony)2 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of... (Sony)
3 Original Cast - Fran Waterloo Till Duvemala (Sony)
4 Maids Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Warner)
34 Mariah Carey - #1's (Sony)11 Phil Collins - Hits (Warner)8 Sarah Brightman - Eden (Warner)
LW SINGLES
2 Cher - Believe (Warner)1 E -Type - Here I Go Again (Stockholm)4 Dr. Bombay - S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family) (Warner)
8 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye (Warner)(BMG)
(PolyGram)(Universal)
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DENMARK NORWAY FINLAND IRELAND
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1 1 Cher - Believe2 2 Emilia - Big Big World3 6 Toy -Box - Tarzan & Jane4 3 Boyzone - No Matter What
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(Ede))(PolyGram)
5 5 E -Type - Here I Go Again (PolyGram)6 4 Infernal - Kalinka (Flex/EMI-Medley)7 8 666 - Paradoxx (Remixed)8 7 Antiloop - Believe (PolyGram)9 9 The Tamperer Feat. Maya - If You Buy This Record (Virgin)
10 18 Touch & Go - Would You... (MNW)TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 George Michael Ladies & Gentlemen. The Best Of George Michael (Sony)
2 2 Boyzone - Where We Belong (PolyGram)3 7 Cartoons - Tonnage (Flex/EMI-Medley)4 3 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (PolyGram)5 4 Maggie Reilly - The Best Of Maggie Reilly (CMC)
6 5 Kim Larsen - Loft Under Vingerne (EMI -Medley)7 15 Stig Rossen - Julelys (PolyGram)8 16 Emilia - Big Big World (Universal)9 NE Celine Dion - These Are Special Times(Sony)10 18 Sarah Brightman - Eden (Warner)
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1 2 Cher -Believe (Warner)2 1 Emilia - Big Big World (Universal)3 3 Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner (Virgin)4 9 Alex Rosen - Bobby Brown (PolyGram)5 NE Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston -When You Believe (Sony)
6 4 E -Type - Here I Go Again (PolyGram)7 5 Alanis Morissette - Thank U (Warner)8 7 La Cream - You (Arcade)9 6 Dr. Bombay S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family) (Warner)
10 14 Toy -Box Tarzan & Jane (Sony)TW LW ALBUMS
1 11 Celine Dion - These Are Special Times(Sony)2 9 Arve Tellefsen - Stile Natt (Sony)3 6 Oslo Gospel Choir - Julenatt (BMG)4 4 Emilia - Big Big World (Universal)5 2 Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Warner)
6 3 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of... (Sony)
7 5 U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990 (PolyGram)8 12 Joe Cocker - Greatest Hits (EMI)9 7 Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (BMG)10 8 Mariah Carey - #1's (Sony)
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1 NE Marita Taavitsainen- MistaJoulupulai Tunnetaan (PolyGram)
2 1 E -Type - Here I Go Again (PolyGram)3 2 Tehosekoitin - Pakko Patista Pois (Levy)4 3 Apulanta - Toit Meista Kauniin (Levy)5 4 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye (Warner)6 8 Tehosekoitin - Finite Elli Pillita (Levy)7 NE CMX - Sillanrakentaja (EMI)8 6 Cher - Believe (Warner)9 9 T.H. Also & Mika Sundqvist - Hakkisen Mika (AXR)
10 7 Metallica - Turn The Page (PolyGram)TW LW ALBUMS
1 NE E -Type - Last Man Standing (PolyGram)2 1 Metallica - Garage Inc. (PolyGram)3 3 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (PolyGram)
4 18 Smurffit Smurffit Avaruudessa Vol. 5 (EMI)5 4 Apulanta - Aivan Kuin Kaikki Muutkin (Levy)
6 2 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing The Very Best Of (PolyGram)
7 6 Dr. Bombay - Rice & Curry (Warner)8 5 Jari Sillanpiiii - Varastetut Helmet (Universal)ier)
9 7 Marna Taavitsainen - Salainen Puutarha (PolyGram)
10 14 Vonda Shepard - Songs From Ally McBeal (Sony)
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1 1 Cher - Believe (WEA)2 2 Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me (Polydor)3 3 Vengaboys - Up And Down (Positiva)4 4 Five - Until The Time Is Through (RCA)5 5 Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy (Jive)6 6 The Tamperer Feat. Maya - If You Buy This Record (Jive)
7 7 4 The Cause - Stand By Me (RCA)8 13 Celine Dion & R. Kelly - I'm Your Angel (Epic)9 8 Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing (Columbia)
10 NE Jay -Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) (Northwestaide)
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1 1 IT2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990/B Sides (Island)2 2 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of... (Epic)
3 5 Various - Now ! 41 (EMI/Virgin/PolyGram)4 4 Robbie Williams - Pve Been Expecting You (Chrysalis)
5 NE Various - Across The Bridge Of Hope (White Records)6 3 Garth Brooks - Double Live (Capitol)7 6 M People - The Best Of M People (M People/BMG)
8 12 Wwitched - B*witched (Epic)9 13 Bee Gees - Live: One Night Only (Polydor)10 10 The Corrs - Talk On Corners (East West)
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1 1 Cher - Believe (Warner)2 2 Oli P. - Flugzeuge Ins Bauch (BMG)3 3 Boyzone - No Matter What (PolyGram)4 4 Sasha - If You Believe (Warner)5 5 Vengaboys - We Like To Party (PolyGram)6 39 Loona - Hijo De La Luna (PolyGram)7 NE Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston - When You Believe (Sony)
8 7 Celine Dion & II. Kelly - I'm Your Angel (Sony)
9 8 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye (Warner)10 11 Dru Hill - How Deep Is Your Love (PolyGram)TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 Celine Dion - These Are Special Times(Sony)2 3 Gina - Ut U Dervo (Phonag)3 2 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (PolyGram)4 12 Peter Reber - Winterzyt - Weihnachtszyt (Phonag)5 5 Mariah Carey - #1's (Sony)6 7 Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (BMG)
7 6 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of .. (Sony)
8 8 Cher - Believe (Warner)9 4 Mania Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Warner)
10 10 Metallica - Garage Inc. (PolyGram)
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1 2 Emilia - Big Big World (Universal)2 1 Oli P. - Flugzeuge Im Bauch (BMG)3 3 Cher - Believe (Warner)4 4 Boyzone - No Matter What (PolyGram)5 9 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye (Warner)6 10 Vengaboys - We Like To Party (PolyGram)7 7 Down Low - Once Upon A Time (Zyx)
8 5 Celine Dion feat. The Bee Gees - Immortality (Sony)
9 12 Sasha - If You Believe (Warner)10 8 DJ Visage - Geil (EMI)TW LW ALBUMS
1 1 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides jPolyGram)
2 2 Die Roten Rosen - Wir Warten Auf s Christkind (Warner)
3 6 Celine Dion - These Are Special Times(Sony)4 9 Kiddy Contest Finalisten - Kiddy Contest Vol. 4 (BMG)
5 5 Minis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Warner)
6 7 Mariah Carey - #1's (Sony)7 8 Cher - Believe (Warner)8 4 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of ... (Sony)
9 25 Schliimpfe - Oh Du Schlumpfige Vol. 8 (EMI)10 13 Al Bano & Carissi - D Nuovo Concerto (Warner)
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1 1 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (PolyGram)
2 2 Silence 4 - Silence Becomes It (PolyGram)3 3 Daniela Mercury - Eletrica (Sony)4 5 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing The Very Best Of (PolyGram)
5 NE Rui Veloso - Avenidas (EMI)6 6 Phil Collins - Hits (Warner)7 7 Bee Gees - Live: One Night Only (PolyGram)8 9 Netinho - Ao Vivo (PolyGram)9 12 Joe Cocker - Greatest Hits (EMI)10 8 George Michael. Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of George Michael (Sony)
11 13 Mariah Carey - #1's (Sony)12 14 Julio Iglesias - My Life/Greatest Hits (Sony)13 4 Metallica - Garage Inc. (PolyGram)14 11 Lighthouse Family - Postcards From Heaven (PolyGram)
15 10 Pearl Jam - Live On Two Legs (Sony)16 15 The Offspring - Americana (Sony)17 RE Queen - Greatest Hits I & II (EMI)18 RE Maria Joao Pines - Piano Concerto No.1 Chopin (PolyGram)
19 17 Banda Eva - Ao Vivo (PolyGram)20 19 Paulo Ricardo - 0 Amor Me Escolheu (PolyGram)
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1 1 George Michael- Outside (Sony)2 6 Cher - Believe (Warner)3 NE Vengaboys - We Like To Party (EMI)4 12 Ganxsta Zolee Es A Kartel - Feller 116 (Sony)
5 16 OJ Samson - Jingle Bells (Sony)6 10 Robbie Williams - Millennium (EMI)7 9 U2 - Sweetest Thing (PolyGram)8 8 UP - Nap (Record Express)9 11 Bryan Adams - On A Day Like Today (PolyGram)10 RE Modern Talking - Space Mix (BMG)
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1 1 Hupikek Torpikek - Az Apraja Nagyja (EMI)
2 3 George Michael - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Best Of... (Sony)
3 4 U2 - The Best Of 1980 -1990B Sides (PolyGram)
4 2 Hofi Geza - Kossuth Dij5 5 Zoltan Erika - Best Of...6 9 Andre Rieu - Valses7 6 Akos - Ikon
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8 10 TNT - Bum Bum (Magneoton)9 7 Konz Zsuzsa - Duettek/Csodalatos Vildg (Hungaroton)
10 8 Charlie - Fuszer Cseppenkent (Magneoton)
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MIKE YOUNGEL GRAN RITMO DEMIKE YOUNGDonna Lee Records/So DensSpanish release date: November 16Imagine how Bentley RhythmAce might sound if they hailedfrom Spain, and you have an ideawhere this album is coming from.Mike Young, a DJ and producer,spent the '80s in the U.K. as a
member of, and arranger for, various groups andprojects, but has now been resident in Barcelona forseveral years. He used the cut'n'paste technique inhis own home studio to create the "big beat, Spanishstyle" feel of this album. As well as knowing how tooperate the Atari, and where to find highly imagina-tive samples, Young also plays rock'n'roll guitarsand keyboards himself, which adds to the textureand integration. Among the twelve tracks, all drip-ping with a laid-back party feeling, most outstand-ing are the surf -inspired Rude 56, the funny name-dropping anthem My Name Is Young, and a newversion of the latin classic Si Si, No No, which fea-tures the vocals of Graciela Perez, sister of thefamous latin band leader Machito.This is an unusu-al release for the small independent Spanish label,and Young is now busy putting together a live showto support it. Menno Visser
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MercuryEuropean release date:December 14This steady seller by Frenchmulti -instrumentalist EricLevi sees a Europe -wide re-release in time for Christ-mas. Originally released inFebruary 1997, Era quietlyclocked up sales of 3.8 million albums across Europewith a cocktail of classically influenced, ambientmusic. Now PolyGram gives the album a new leaseof life with a repackaged version which includes pre-viously unavailable remixes of Ameno and Mother. "Idid the new mixes when I was working on the videosfor these tracks," says Levi. "On the original versionsyou hear very subtle rhythms. But the editingprocess, the flow of the visual images set off a differ-ent, more pronounced rhythm In my head." Levihopes that the remixes will help to attract new buy-ers to the album. 'The re -launch of Era is an oppor-tunity to do more promotion in Europe," says theartist, who has just written a choreography for ashort stage show based on three tracks off the album."We can't bring Era on stage as a 'rock' band,"reflects the former heavy metal guitarist. "I've seenthe Corrs, man. No way I could do that. So I plan todo a dance show, a bit like a musical." Levi plans torelocate to the U.K, where he will start work on hissecond album early in 1999. Christian Lorenz
Please send review copies, information and artistphotographs for consideration as Album Spotlight entries
to: Christian Lorenz, Music Editor, Music & Media,23 Ridgmount Street, London, WC I E 7AH, U.K.
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9 P.M. (Till I Come) 91 Lords Of The Boards 58Abdel-Kader 31 Love Song . 84All About The Money 71 Ma B'nz 98Another One Bites The Dust 73 Miami 22Are You That Somebody? 86 Millennium 43Believe 1 Move Mania 27Belle 8 Music Sounds Better With You 44Big Big World 2 Narcotic 46Big Panty Woman 90 Next November 68Blue 89 No Matter What 3Blue Angela 70 No Noel 95Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom 32 No Regrets 35Brother Louie '98 75 Once Upon A Time 29Bye Bye 63 Outside 17Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi) 93 Panique Celtique 53
Chanter Pour Ceux Qui Soot Loin De Chez Eux 11 Protect Your Mind 67Crush 16 Ready Or Not 66Dis Moi 37 Rester Femme 78Doo Wop (That Thing) 54 Suffisait D'Aimer 25Dreaming 100 S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family) 62Each Time 74 Searching My Soul 45Egoist 49 Si Tu M'Aimes 41Es Ist Vorbei 94 Simarik 28Everybody Get Up 52 So Young 69Falling In Love Again 87 Stand By Me 56Flugzeuge lm Bauch 5 Stay 99From This Moment On 65 Storm 77Geil 96 Sweetest Thing 33Get Freaky 48 Sweetheart 76God Is A DJ 30 Take Me There 47Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) 6 Take The Long Way Home 81Have You Ever? 59 Thank U 26Heartbeat/Tragedy 18 That's My Way To Say Goodbye 92Here I Go Again 34 The Boy Is Mine 40Hijo De La Luna 23 The Everlasting 55How Deep Is Your Love 36 The Power Of Goodbye 4
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing 15 This Is How We Party 88I Love The Way You Love Me 13 Ti Amo '98 97I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You 19 To You I Belong 85I Want You '98 42 True To Your Heart 79I'm Your Angel 7 Tu M'Oublieras 82If You Believe 14 Turn The Page 72If You Buy This Record 24 Until The Time Is Through 21Immortality 38 Up And Down 9
Iris 60 War Of Nerves 64King Of My Castle 83 We Like To Party 12La Tribu De Dana 80 What's Your Sign 57Lambe An Dro 51 When You Believe 10Le Temps Des Cathedrales 50 When You're Gone 20Life 61 Would You... 39
Top 1 00 cA I k=, rns3 Junge Tenire Die 99 Madonna 9Bryan Adams 71 Manau 64Artistes Ensemble Contre AIDS 21 Manic Street Preachers 98B.witched 44 Meat Loaf 53Michael Ball 89 Metallica 6Beautiful South 49 George Michael 2
Bee Gees 19 Mina & Adrian() Celentano 56Billie 73 Alanis Morissette 4Dr. Bombay 34 Xavier Naidoo 65Boyzone 8 Oasis 84Sarah Brightman 31 The Offspring 58Mariah Carey 5 Original Cast - Fran Waterloo Till Duvemal 92Cartoons 87 Original Cast - Notre Dame De Paris 22Cher 13 Original Cast - Notre Dame De Paris 30Charlotte Church 32 Oslo Gospel Choir 83Joe Cocker 20 Oh P. 35Phil Collins 7 Florent Pagny 48The Corrs 18 Laura Pausini 61Culture Club 57 Pavarotti & Friends 52Depeche Mode 76 Pearl Jam 59Depeche Mode 93 Wolfgang Petry 51Celine Dion 3 Wolfgang Petry 69Celine Dion 38 Pras 90Celine Dion 63 R.E.M. 14Dion/Estefan/Franklin/Twain/Carey 27 Eros Ramazzotti 36Dire Straits 10 Peter Reber 80Doc Gyneco 42 Andre Rieu 29Duran Duran 74 The Rolling Stones 82E -Type 23 Rosana 46Emilia 40 Vasco Rossi 97Les Enfoires 77 Die Roten Rosen 16Lara Fabian 78 Sasha 68Lara Fabian 96 Savage Garden 94Five 28 Schlumpfe 37Fury In The Slaughterhouse 95 Schliimpfe 100Gala 54 Seal 72Johnny Hallyday 25 Vonda Shepard 26Lauryn Hill 66 Siempre Asi 79Whitney Houston 12 Soundtrack Chef Aid: The South Park Alum 39Julio Iglesias 43 Steps 24R. Kelly 41 Arve Tellefsen 75The Kelly Family 55 U2Khaled & Rachid & Faudel 50 U2 33Kiddy Contest Finalisten 91 Vengaboys 62Lenny Kravitz 70 Volumia! 85Ladysmith Black Mambazo 45 Paul Weller 88Helmut Lotti 60 Westernhagen 47Helmut Lotti 86 Robbie Williams 15Louise Attaque 81 Renato Zero 67M People 11 Zucchero 17
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This song is verydifferent from earlierBeck materialTropicalia isdefinitely suitablefor daytime play onour format. -
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Each week, M&M brings you the latest airplay additionsfrom market leaders and taste -makers at radio across
Europe-the Power Players(figures in brackets are the predicted number of plays for the current week)
U.K: Kiss 100 FM
FORMAT: DanceSERVICE AREA: LondonPLAYLIST MEETING: Thursday PMGROUP/OWNER: Emap Radio
Playlist AdditionsMark Matthews
Programme director
Basement Jaxx/Red Alert (20)Melky Sedeck/Raw (20)Another Level feat. GhostfaceKillah/I Want You For Myself (13)D'Angelo/Devil's Pie (13)E-17/Bet'cha Can't Wait (13)
The Netherlands: Radio 3
FORMAT: CH ItSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Friday AMGROUP/OWNER: PublicBroadcaster
Playlist Additions Paul Van Der LugtProgramme coordinator
Bryan Adams & Mel C./When You're Gone (7-8)Freestylers/Warning (7-8)Portishead/All Mine (live) (7-8)TQ/Westside (7-8)Will Smith/Miami (7-8)
Turkey: Number One FM
FORMAT: CLIP.
SERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Friday14:00GROUP/OWNER: The Media
Playlist Additions Emre YonterMusic & Programming director
Manic Street Preachers/The Everlasting (20-25)Sheryl Crow/There Goes The Neighborhood (20-25)Emilia/Big Big World (25-30)Andrea Berg/Reputations (15-20)Divine Comedy/GenerationSex (15-20)
Italy: Radio Dimensione Suono
FORMAT: CHRSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: variesGROUP/OWNER: RadioDimensione Suono
Playlist Additions
Mocker/Sometime Love (28)Oasis/Rockin' Chair (28)Lovestation/Sensuality (28)R. Kelly/Home Alone (28)Marina Rei/Cuore A Meta' (28)Leda Battisti/Sei Tu (28)Cher/Believe (28)
Carlo ManciniMusic director
Germany: Eins Live
FORMAT: CHRSERVICE AREA: Regional(North Rhine/Westphalia)PLAYLIST MEETING: Friday AMGROUP/OWNER: WDR
Playlist Additions
DJ Sakin/Nomansland (14)Absolute Beginner/Liebes Lied (7)Five/Everybody Get Up (7)
Jochen RauschMusic director
L VERadio fins Live
Norway: Radio 102
FORMAT: Hot ACSERVICE AREA: HaugesundPLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday 10:30
GROUP/OWNER: Radio 102 A/S
Playlist Additions Egil HouelandHead of music
98 Degrees & Stevie Wonder/True To Your Heart (10-12)Beck/Tropicalia (10-12)Bruce Springsteen/Sad Eyes (10-12)D'Sound/Tattooed On My Mind (10-12)Spice Girls/Goodbye (10-12) RAD1O2
Denmark: Radio P3
FORMAT: CHRSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday
AM
GROUP/OWNER: Public
Morten RindholtHead of music
Playlist Additions
Tina Dickow/You're My Waste Of Time (23)Cardigans/Erase/Rewind (7)Bacon Popper/Free (2-3)Bla Ojne/Romeo (2-3)Melanies/Wizz Kid (2-3)Selfish/Living Room (2-3)TQ/Westside (2-3)
U.K: Capital Radio
FORMAT: CHRSERVICE AREA: LondonPLAYLIST MEETING: variesGROUP/OWNER: Capital RadioPLC
Playlist Additions Richard ParkGroup programme director
Another Level feat. Ghostface Killah/I WantYou For Myself (30-40)Chef/Chocolate Salty Balls (30-40)Fatboy Slim/Praise You (30-40)Lighthouse Family/Postcard FromHeaven (30-40)Lutricia McNeal/When A Child Is Born(30-40)
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FORMAT: CHR/ACSERVICE AREA: StockholmPLAYLIST MEETING: Thursday 11:00GROUP/OWNER: PublicBroadcaster
Playlist Additions Robert SehlbergMusic director
Edyta Gorniak/Anything (10-15)Blagul/Sa Nara (5-8)Richard Anderson/I Can't Sing Like You (5-8)Jennifer Brown/Alive (5-8)Lenny Kravitz/Fly Away (5-8)Bryan Adams/Cloud Number Nine (3-5)Blues/Under Ytan (3-5) P5 Radio Stockholm
UK: Atlantic 252
FORMAT: CHRSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Monday 10.30GROUP/OWNER: CLT-UFA
Playlist Additions David DunneProgramme director
Juliet Roberts/Bad Girls (60)3 Colours Red/Beautiful Day (30-35)Blockster/You Should Be.. (30-35)Duran Duran/Girls On Film'98(30-35)Cassius/Cassius 1999 (30-35)Ednaswap/Back On The Sun (30-35)The Egg/Getting Away With It (30-35)Fatboy Slim/Praise You (30-35)Mercury Rev/Delta Sun (30-35)
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Switzerland: Radio 105 Network
FORMAT: CIIR
SERVICE AREA: GermanSpeaking SwitzerlandPLAYLIST MEETING: variesGROUP/OWNER: Radio 105 4
Playlist Additions Grant BensonProgramme director
Cypress Hill/Dr. Greenthumb (35)Boyzone/I Love The Way You Love Me (28)Jay-Z/Hard Knock Life (20-25)Touche/This Goodbye (15-20)Fettes Brot/Konnen Diese Augen (14-15)Lovestation/Sensuality (10-15)Wolfsheim/Once In A Lifetime (10)R.E.M./Lotus (10)Soul Hooligan/Sweet Pea (7-8)Chewy/All Over The Place (6-7)666/Paradoxx (6-7)Dune/One Of Us (4-5)2Pac/Happy Home (4-5)
UK: BBC Radio 1
FORMAT: ('IIRSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Thursday 11:30GROUP/OWNER: PublicBroadcaster
Playlist Additions
Ace Of Base- Always Have, Always Will (15-18)All Seeing UWalk Like A Panther (15-18)Blockster/You Should Be.. (15-18)Emmie/ More Than This (15-18)Fatboy Slim/Praise You (15-18)Juliet Roberts/Bad Girls (15-18)Pretenders/2000 Miles
97-99 Fig MOM RADIO(15-18)
FORMAT: RockSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday 10:00
GROUP/OWNER: Ginger MediaGroup
Playlist Additions
Garbage/When I Grow Up (n/a)R.E.M./Lotus (n/a)
Geoff HollandProgramme director
Norway: NRK P3
FORMAT: (HRSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Tuesday AMGROUP/OWNER: PublicBroadcaster
Playlist Additions Marius LillelienHead of music
The Tamperer feat. Maya/IfYou Buy This Record (15)Bertine Zetlitz & MarteKrogh/Fi Fy Fo Fum (8-10)Chocolate Overdose/Memories (8-10)Something Odd/Ingen EgKjenner (8-10)
UK: Galaxy 105
FORMAT: DanceSERVICE AREA: YorkshirePLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday AMGROUP/OWNER: ChrysalisRadio
Playlist Additions Ande MacPhersonProgramme director
Blackstreet & Mya/Take Me There (30-35)Presence/Sense Of Danger (15)Juliet Roberts/Bad Girls (15)Roger S./Twilight/I WantYour Love (10-12)
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Belgium: Radio Contact F
FORMAT: CIIItSERVICE AREA: BrusselsPLAYLIST MEETING: variesGROUP/OWNER: ( I ,T-UFA
Playlist Additions
Sttellla/Annees 80 (6-7)
Jean -Lou BertinProgramme & music director
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Italy: Radio Energie
FORMAT: (TIR
SERVICE AREA: Reggio Calabria,Messina & CataniaPLAYLIST MEETING: variesGROUP/OWNER: Antenna Del Sud srl
Playlist Additions Carlo TarantoProgramme director
All Saints/War Of Nerves (15-18)Biagio Antonacci/Iris(15-18)Dee-Tah/Relax (15-18)
NRG
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FORMAT: RockSERVICE AREA: Regional(Bavaria)PLAYLIST MEETING: Thursday 11:00GRouP/owNER: Public Broadcaster
Playlist Additions
`N Sync/Merry Christmas (7-10)Hootie & The Blowfish/Only Lonely(7-10)
Loona/Hijo De La Luna (7-10)
FORMAT: Hot ACSERVICE AREA: Essex CountyPLAYLIST MEETING: Tuesday 14:00GROUP/OWNER: Essex RadioGroup/DMG
Playlist Additions Paul ChantlerGroup programme director
Aqua/Good Morning Sunshine (9-12)Beautiful South/Dumb (9-12)Spice Girls/Goodbye (9-12)Alda/Girls' Night Out (9-12)Billie/She Wants You (9-12)Whitney Houston & MariahCarey/When You Believe (9-12)
ESSEX0Radio 2
FORMAT: ACSERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: Wednesday AMGROUP/OWNER: Tele DanmarkRadio A/S
Playlist Additions
Boyzone/I Love The Way YouLove Me (27-33)911/A Little Bit More (3-7)
Jan BroddeHead of music
Ireland: FM104
FORMAT: Hot ACSERVICE AREA: Dublin City and County
PLAYLIST MEETING: thursday/fridayGROUP/OWNER: Consortium ofbusiness entrepreneurs
Playlist Additions Dave KellyMusic director & deputy
programme editor
Stars On 54/If You Could Read My Mind (22)Blackstreet/Mya/Take Me There (19)Emilia/Big Big World (18)R.E.M/Lotus (18)Beautiful South/Dumb (17)Beck/Tropicalia (11)
Italy: RTL 102.5
FORMAT: CHR
SERVICE AREA: NationalPLAYLIST MEETING: variesGROUP/OWNER: RTL
Playlist Additions Luca ViscardiGroup programme director
Divas/You've Got A Friend (18)Gianluca Grignani/La Canzone 15)Basic Connection/Angel (12)
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©BPI Communications Inc.Most added tillweek 51 /98Janet Jackson
Spice Girls
Five
Mariah & Whitney
Manic Street Preachers
Will Smith
Robbie Williams
Bryan Adams/Mel C.
Emilio
Jay -2
Sheryl Crow
Blockstreet/Mya
Faithless
R.E.M.
Every Time(virgin) 23
Goodbye(Virgin) 20
Until The lime Is Through(RCA) 14
When You Believe(Columbia) 14
The Everlasting(Epic) 13
Miami(Columbia) 13
No Regrets(Chrysalis) 13
When You're Gone(A&M) 11
Big Big World(Universal) 11
Hard Knock Ufe(Northwestside) 11
There Goes(A&M) 11
Take Me There(Interscope) 10
Take The Lon Way HomeCheeky) 10
Lotus(Warner Bros.) 10
Most Added are those songs whichreceived the highest number of playlistadditions during the week. In the case of atie, songs are listed alphabetically by artist.
Station Reports include all new additions to the playlist. Some reports will also include "PowerPlay" songs, which receive special emphasis during the week. All Power Play songs are printed,whether they are reported for the first time or not. Some lists include featured new albums, as indi-cated by the abbreviation "AL" Within each country, stations are grouped by ranking and listedalphabetically. Rankings include: platinum (P), Gold (G), Silver (S) and Bronze (B). All playlists mustbe received by Monday at 13.00 h. CET.
Playlist Additions:Divine -Lately
Emilia- Big Big World
Faith Hill -This Kiss
Leann Rime.- How Da I Live
Loona. Hijo De La Lma
Shania Twain. From This Moment On
Will Smith. Miami
Xavier Naidoo- Fur Mich Ans Licht
Mercury Rev- GAdess On A Highway
Mike Lehmann- Weihnachtaeit
Molotov- Voto Latino
Noreaga- Superthug
Oasis- Acquiesce
R'N`G- Darlrn
Schiller- Das Glockenspel
ORB/FRITZ: FRITZ ROADSHOW/
Xavier Nelda,- Fur Mich Ans Licht
RADIO REGENBOGEN/Mannheim G
CHR/Gold
Martin Schwebel Music DirPower Rotation
Loona- Hijo De La Luna
Playlist Additions:Hand In Hand- Children
GERMANYANTENNE BAYERN/Munich P
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Stephan Offierowski Programme Director
Playlist Additions:98 Degrees- True
Down Low- Once Upon A Time
Potsdam G Leon Rimes- How Do I LiveMb 3/Frankfurt PCHR
DELTA RADIO/Kiel C CHR/Rock
Ilans-dOrg Bombed, - Programme Director
Playlist Additions:
RockPop
Adam Hahne Frog Dir
Berri Albrecht, Frank Menzel,Jena Molle - Producers
RADIO RPR 2/Ludwigshafen GNational Music
I'm Your AngelFrank Wilkat - Head Of Music Playlist Addition. Guido Willer - Mimic Dir
Liquido- NarcoticPlaylist Additions: Beck- Tropicaha Playlist Additions:
Styes- Next NovemberBackyard Babies- Highlights Bran Van 3000- Afrodisiac Alex Wegener- Verruckt Nach
Vonda Shepard- SearchinEve 6- Leech Drugstore- Sober Andy Schafer- Verdanunt Hoch Mal
Whispers- And The BeatLagwagon- Messengers Locust- Master And Servant Helmut Lotti. You And Me
Will Smith. MiamiLiving End. Second Solution Lama- Hijo De La Luna Ulli Bastian- Daddy
R.E.M. Lotus Push- Universal Nation Wolfgang Petry- Jingle Bells
NDR 2/Hamburg PRialto. Summer's Over Spite -Respect
AC/CHRWill Smith- Miami RADIO SALC/Saarbruecken
Jorg Hamann Programme Director HIT RADIO N 1/Nuremberg G AC/CHR
Fred Schoenagel - Head Of MusicDance RADIO ARABELLA/Munich G Jan -Michael Meinecke - GM/Prog Dir
Playlist Additions:Stefan Meinner Prog Dir National Music Thomsen Mathieu - Head Of Music
Bryan Adams. When You're GoneEranie Funderbunk - Music Editor Matthias Friedrich - Prog Dir Playlist Unchanged
Power Rotation Playlist Additions:
RADIO FFH/Frankfurt P Spice Girls- Goodbye Leonard- Es Geht Tins So Gut RSH/Kiel G
CHRPlaylist Additions: No Mercy- Tu Amor CHR
Ralf Blasberg Head Of Music Ace Of Ham- Travel To Romantic Vicky Leandros- Dumb Define Liebe Meike Ziegert Head Of Music
Playlist UnchangedEmilia- Big Big World Beate Struve - Aseistent Head Of Music
Metallica- Turn The Page RADIO ENERGY/Munich Playlist Additions:
RADIO NRW/Oberhausen PRock Leann Rim. How Do I Live
ACHUNDERT 6/Berlin G Georg Deese - Music Dir
Carsten Hoyer Head Of Music AC Stefan Wiper Prog Dir JAM FM/Berlin S
Playlist Additions: Rainer Gruhn - Music Dir Power Rotation Dance
Christian Wunderlich- hr HeavenPlaylist Additions: Dru Hill- How Deep Frank Nombnann Programme Direcior
Highs. As Long ChristmasJanet Jackson- Every Time Liquido- Narcotic Playlist Unchanged
Man Doki. I Lost My HeartLoona- Hijo De La Luna Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
Opheie Winter. I SpyMeat Loaf- No Matter Playlist Additions: RADIO F/Nuremberg S
Sarah Brightman- EdenWynne- Freedom `N Sync- Merry Christmas AC
98 Degrees -True Ziggie Hop Prog Dir
N -JOY RADIO/Hamburg G Absolute Beginner- Liebm Lied Petra Steel - Prog CoordRADIO RPR 1/Ludwigshafen P
CHR Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life Playlist Additions:CHR
Uwe Frigge - Programme Director Thorsten Engel - Programme Director Jessica Folcker- How Will I Know Engelbert. Deep In My Heart
Playlist Additions:Henry Gross Head Of Music Loona- lino De La Luna
Ace Of Base- Travel To Romants
Bryan Adams. When You're Gone
Playlist Unchanged Sheryl Crow- There Goes The
Touch & Go- Would You,. UNITED KINGDOM96.4FWBRAIBIBirminghem PHand In Hand- Children ORB/FRITZ/Potsdam G Xavier Naidoo- Fiir Mich Ave Licht
Joe Cocker- Broken Hearted CHRCHR
Wit Smith- MiamiBernd Albrecht, Frank Menzel. RADIO FEN/Hannover G Paul Jackson - Programme ControllerJens Molls - Producers CHR Playlist Additions:
WDR 2/Cologne PPlaylist Additions: Rainer M. Cabanis Frog Dir
Aqua- Good Morning
AC/CHRAddict- Dust Antje Schmidt - Head Of Music
Blockster. You Should Be
Michael Zimmermann Music DirectorBanana Fish Bon. Come To Sin Playlist Additions:
Chef- Chocolate
Tom Petersen Music Editor Basis- lob Will Euer Janet Jackson- Every- TimeE. John & L Rimes- Written
Playlist UnchangedIlia Eurodisco Ronan Hardiman. Far Away
Lighthouse Family- PAcard From HearinBlackstreet/Mya/Mase- Take Me There
Lutricia McNeal- When A Child Is Horn
104.6 RTL !MALIN/Berlin GBone Thugs- B.N.K. RADIO GONG(Nuremberg
Lutricia McNeal. The Greatest love
CHRBrovaz/Nona Hendryx. It's A Party Rock,CHR
Slade. Merry X -kiss Everybody
Holger Lachmann Head Of Music&Rhymes/OD:Mourne- This Means War Peter "Marc" Sting! - Prog Dir
Spice Girls. Christmas Wrapping
Power Rotation:Core- Innocent Eyes Playlist Additions: Three Degrees- Last Christmas
Ace Of Base- Travel To RomantisE-17- Each Time Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away
Truhble- Dancing Baby
Chen BelieveEnergy 52- Cafe Del Mar Loona- Hijo De La Luna
Madonna- The Power Of GoodbyeLocust- All Your Own Way Wham!. Last Christmas
KEY 103/Manchester P
CHI? Steve Kirk Head Of Music UNKLE- Be There Dario Usuelli Head Of Music
Dave Shearer - Programme Director Power Rotation Playlist Additions:
Mike Bawden Deputy Programme Director
Playlist Additions:
Ednaswap- Back On The Sun
Emma- It May Be Winter
Boyzone- I Love The Way...
Down Low- Once Upon A TimeFRANCEE. John & L. Rimes- Written Fatboy Praise You Goldin- What You
Janet Jackson. Every Time Linea- Way Up HereEUROPE 2 NETWORIC/Paris P
Nina -Excited
Lighthouse Family. Postmrd From Heaven Trouble- Dancing BabyAC
Trubble. Dancing Baby Playlist Additions:Nicolas du Roy - Music Dir RADIO BABBOLEO/Genoa C
Blockster- You Should Be..Playlist Additions:
CHR
METRO FM/Newcastle P Emmie- Mom Than ThisKaren Ramirez- Invoking For Love
Lenny Walton - DJ/Prog Dir
CHR Juliet Roberts- Bad Girls Flavio Vidulich - Head Of Music
Sean Marley Programme Controller Sinead O'Connor- ChiquititaFRANCE INTER/Paris P
Playlist Additions:
Playlist Additions: Slade- Merry X -Mss EverybodyAC Marco Masini- Sconmie
Ace Of Base- Always Have, AlwaysMaim Garcia - Music Dir
Robert Miles- Everyday Life
Aqua- Good Morning TAY FM/Dundee SPlaylist Additions: Sarah Brightman- Eden
Illackstreet/Mya/Mase- Take Me There CHRJuliette Greco. Planate
Chef- Chocolate Arthur Ballingall Prog DirLars Fabien La Difference
RVI FM/Turin C
John Darroch - FM CoordinatorMeja- All 'Bout The Money
CHR
CHOICE FM/London C Playlist Additions:Pierre Ferret. La Rem Ea Revenue
Max Deaiato - Head Of Music
Dance Alberta- Yo -Yo BoyPrincess Erika. Nouvelle Generation
Power Rotation
Ivor Etienne - Programme Controller Aida- Girls' Night Om Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting
Kirk Anthony Head Of Music Aqua- Good Monti.FUN RADIO/Paris P Playlist Additions:
Playlist Additions: Bewitched- To You I BelongCHR Jennifer Paige- Crush
Celetia/Red Cat- On The Phone Beautiful South -DumbAxel Duroux - President Matthew Marsden -The Heart's
TQ- Westmde Beck- TropicaliaChristian Lefebvre - Head Of Music
Quintorigo- Kriato
Xscape- My Little Secret Billie- She Wants YouPlaylist Unchanged
Savage Garden. Break Me, Shake Me
Blackstreet/Mya/Mase Take Mx There
CITY FIN/Liverpool G Boyzone- I Love The Way...IPSOS CHART/Paris P
RADIO SOUND STEREO/Ferrara S
CHR PM Dawn- I Had No RightCHR
CHR
Paul Jordan - Programme Director R.P.M.. LotusPlaylist Additions:
Sandra Alherghini - Prog Dir
Richard Maddock - Head Of Music Robbie Williams- No RegretsCheb Mami- Perinea Dunor
Power Rotation
Playlist Additions: Savage Garden- I Want YouFaith Evans- love Like
Cher- Believe
1Pwitcherl To You I Belong Sinead O'Connor- ChiquititaLariryn Hill- Can't Take My
MM.- All 'Bout The Money
Beautiful South- Dumb Spice Girls- GoodbyeLois Andrea- Insomnie
Robbie Williams- No Regrets
Eva Cassidy- Fields Of Gold Straw- The Aeroplane SongManta- Molls Qui Est
Playlist Additions:
Manic Street Pr.- The EverlastingOphelie Winter Elle Pleure
Ace Of Base- Travel To Rom.tis
B.E.M. Lotus 107.7 CHELMElt FhliChebinford B Biagio Antonseci- Iris
Spice Girls- Goodbye Soft ACNIRJ NETWORK/Paris P
Danielle Groff. Bob, Paul & Seneca
T -Spoon Tom o Party David Baker - Head Of MusicCHR Divine -Lately
Playlist Additions:Max Guamini Dir Ligabue- Mein In Circolo
CLYDE I FNUGI.gow G RI- A Little Bit MorePlaylist Additions:
Nek Se Una Regola CE
CHR Ace Of Base- Always Have, AlwaysShawn Christopher. Sweet Freedom
Zucchero. You Make Me Feel
Roes Macfadgen - Head Of Music Beautiful South- Dumb
Playlist Additions:Ace Of Base- Always Have, Always
Honeya End OfLutricia McNeal -The Greatest Love
RTUParis PAC SPAIN
Ash- WildsurfAlain Tibolla - Head Of Frog
Blackstreethlya/Mase Take Me There MORAY FIRTH RADIO/Inverness BPlaylist Additions: CADENA 100/Madrid P
Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life CHRJacques Higelin- 1.:Accoreelmn RockG FIR
Thom. Prag Prog Cont/MDLara Fabien La Difference Carlos Finely - Director Of Programming
DOWNTOWN RADIO/Belfast C Tim McCooey - Head Of MusicLionel Richie- Lady Power Rotation
Full Service Playlist Additions:Natalie Imbruglia- Big Mistake Bruce Springstmn- Sad Eyes
John Rosborough Prog Dir Emma- It May Be WinterWebb- Yoh Mo Be There Playlist Additions:
Playlist Unchanged Engelben flumperditick-Qmrido (Pada Quad,RTL 2/Paris P
Franklin & Carey- Chain Of
Beck. TropicanaLighthouseFamily Postcard From Heaven
AC Bee Gees. How DeepFORTH FM/Edinburgh C Robbie William.- Antmusic
Christian Lefebvre - Programme Director Des'ree- You Gotta BeCHR Sinead O'Connor- Chiquitita
Power Rotation: Enrique Iglesias- ContigoTom Wilson - Music Co-ordinator Slade -Merry X-Mas Everybody
Alamo Morissette- Thank C Hole- MalibuPlaylist Additions: Ensemble- Sa Raison D'Etre Juan Luis Guerra- Mi PC
Egork- Alarm Call ORCHARD FM/Taunton B Florent Peony. Mourn Helen.. Si DejabaFatboy Slim- Praise You CHR Joe Cocker- Broken Hearted Main Coma Una FlorLighthouse Family- Postcard From Heaven Bob MoCreadie Programme Controller
William Sheller- Centre Ville Texas- Put Your ArmsPrince -1999 Playlist Additions: Van Helen- JumpTrubble- Dancing Baby Bewitched- To You I Belong
ROC FM/Lille GBeautiful South- Dumb
Dance/CHR CADENA DIAL,Madrid PGALAXY 101 FM/Bristol G Billie- She Wants You Philippe Schemberg - Prog Dir National MusicDance-CHR Clock- Blame It On
Playlist Additions: Paco Herrera Prog DirMusic ProgrammerJohn Dash - Programme Director Emilia. Big Big World
2Pac- Changes Playlist Addition.Mike Cass . Deputy Programme Controller Emma- It May Be Winter
Jane Foetin- Tani Qu'll Y Aura Hakim. Tan MalePlaylist Additions: Emma. I'll Never Fall
Kirk Franklin- Lean On Me Jambe De Palo- AguaBob Sinclar- My Only Love Five- Until The Time
Menelik- Touche Jose Feliciano. Me Has EchadoBrandy- Have You Ever? Lauryn Hill- Can't Take My
Native- L'Eclat De Nos Laura PausIni- En Amencia TiChef. Chocolate Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
PJ Gonzalez- Beatles -medleyLutricia McNeal -The Greatest love Savage Garden- I Want You
VIBRATION/Orleans C Raimundo Arnador. Pam La VidaVan Dale & Enrico- Power Woman Sheryl Crow- There Goes The
CHR Sur -SurSpacedust- Let's Get Down Space- We Gotta Get Out
Maxime Caubel - Prog CooedTrobble. Deming Baby Whitoey & Mariah When You Believe
Playlist Additions: M-80/Madrid GWill Smith- Miami
Alanis Morissette. Thank U AC/CHRGALAXY 102/Manchester G Boyzone- No Matter Sandra D'Angeli DirectorDance SUNSHINE 855 AM/Ludlow B
Florent Peony- Mourir Santiago Alcanda Frog Dir/Music DirJim Hicks - Programme Director CHR
Lars Fabien- La Difference Playlist Additions:Chris Buckley Head Of Music Graham Symonds - Managing Director
Lauryn Hill- Can't Take My David Bross. When A Mem HoldsPlaylist Additions: Playlist Additions:
EagleEye Cherry When Mermaids CryAll Saints- War Of Nerves Beautiful South- Dumb
OUT FM/Paris S Hootie/Blowfish- Only LonelyAnnelid Yen Heiden. You Don't Know Me Lutricia McNeal -The Greatest Love
Adult Alternative Jennifer Paige- SoberMoho Misters- Ain't No Savage Garden- I Want You
Michael G.ile GMFrogramme Director Lauryn Hill- Can't Take MyStraw- The Aeropl.e Song
Jean -Patrick Laurent Head Of Music Stars On 54- If You Could ReadHALLAM FM/Sheffield G Power Rotation: Symbol- Come OnCHR THE WAVE/Blackpool B
Alanis Morissette- Thank U Macey floustati.My Love Is Yom LoveTony McKenzie - Programme Controller AC
Cardigans. My Favourite GameChris Strew - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
Simon Tate - Programme ControllerMarc Henry Deputy Programme Controller
Manic Street Pr.. If You Tolerate Tim
Offspring- Pretty Fly For A White Cup PORTUGALCardigans- My Favourite Game Playlist Additions:
R.E.M. DaysleeperLenny Kravitz- Fly Away Billie. She Woos You
Playlist Additions:RFM/Lisbon P
Spice Girla. Goodbye C.DioWILKelly- Pm Your AngelSheryl Crow- There Goes The
CHR
Debelah Morgan- I Love You Pedro Tojal Head Of Music
ROCK FM/Preston/Blackpool G Lighthouse Family. Postcard From Heaven Playlist Additions:
CHR Lutricia McNeal -The Greatest Love ITALY Don. Lewis- Love Him
Andy Roberts Acting Programme Director 11.E.M.- Lotus H.son Gann. Some Loin'
Start Baldwin - Head Of Music ITALIA NETWORK: James- Sit Down
Playlist Additions: VIBE FAlfBury St. Edmunds B LOS CUARENTA/ Bologna P Whitney & Mariah-Wien You Believe
All Saints- War Of Nerves Dance Data
Boyzone- I Love The Way...
C.Dion/R.Kelly. Pm Your Angel
Barry Jones - Programme ManagerGlen White -Head Of Music
Michele Menegon Prog Dir
Playlist Additions: HOLLANDChef- Chocolate Playlist Additions: Disco Dust. Feel The Force
Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life Diskorrida. Ai No CorridaAIRCHECK NETHERLANDS/
Savage Garden- I Want YouHilversum P '
ILFM 109.9/London B ITALIA NETWORK:Playlist Additions:
CENTURY FM/Gateshead S Alternative MUSIC FM/Bologna PHoneys- Finally Found
CHR Dec Shaw - Programme Cent ('HRIlse De Lange- I'd Be Yours
John Myers - Managing Director Amanda Law - Music Editor Michele Menegon - Prog DirJay -Z- Hard Knock Life
John Simons - Programme Director Playlist Additions: Playlist Additions:Whitney & Mulab When You Believe
Playlist Addition. All Seeing I- Walk Like A Panther Jestofunk- HappyNPS KORT EN KLIJN/Hilversum P
/Pwitched- To You I Belong Audioweb- Test The Theory Miatura- Think PositiveCHR
Havana- Funky Love Belle & Sebastian- Slow Graffiti Stars On 59- If You Could ReadTom Blomberg - DJ/Producer
Lovestation- Sensuality Black Star Liner- &leerily And Bind: Conte Klpn - DJ/ProducerFatboy Slim- Praise You RADIO 105/Milan P
Playlist Additions:FOX FM/Oxford S Grotre.h. Out Of It CHR
IllackstreetfhlyaLdase Take Me ThereCHR Lang.ge Lab- Burning Disaster Angelo De Robertis - Head Of Music
Costello/Bacharach- The HouseMark Flanagan - Prog Dir Llama Farmers- Big Wheels Playlist Additions:
Extince- ViervoetersStuart Davies - Head Of Music Lowcraft- One Of Us Aqua- Didn't I
Five- Until The TimePlaylist Additions: Muse- Unintended Gemelli Diversi- Alaimo Aocora
Ilse De Lange- I'd Be Yourslightho. Faraih. Postcard From Heaven Placebo Every You Every Me Whitney & %trial, When You Believe
Janet Jackson- Every TimeSkeewiff- G Fools Metallica- Tom The Page
Q 102.9 FM/Londonderry S Surreal Madrid- Girls Of The Night RADIO DEEJAY NETWORK/Milan PPrince -1999
CHR They Might Be Giants. Doctor CHR/Dance
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RADIO 2/Hilversum PAC
Ron Stoeltie
C.Dion/RICelly- I'm Your Angel
Cubeila- Elle Est Comma Ca
Johnny Hallyday- Knock Go Wood
John Lennon- Only You
Tina Arena- I Want To Spend
Jessica Folcker- How Will I Know
Ricky- Schmerz In Mir
Sonigue- Put A Spell In You
Tina Cousins- Pray
Touch & Cm Would You.
Another Level. Gums I Was A Fool
Bacon Popper- Free
Bruce Springsteen- Sad Eyes
Cdrey Glover- April Rain
Da Skop- Brmche Les Watts
THE VOICE/Copenhagen PCHR
Eik Frederiksen Prog DirPower Rotation:
CHR
Kim N. Jorgensen - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
IP-witched. To You I Belong
Billie- She Wants YouPlaylist Additions: Dignity- Talk To Me Blackstreet/Mya/Masa Take Me There Blondde- Maria
Bryan Adams, When You're Gone BRTN RADIO 2 -EAST FLANDERS/ RADIO EXTRA BERN/Bern G Embrace- All You Good People Playlist Additions: Hanson- ChristmasDe Vliegende Panters- Het Dorp Ghent G AC Ensemble- Sa Raison D'Etre 98 Degrees- True Multicyde- The ClaptrapE'velyne- I Would CHR Pierre Barbemt - Head Of Music Funky Diamonds Get Funky, Go Sim Ace Of Base- Always Have, AlwaysElliott Smith- Waltz 02 Johan Van Achte - Producer Playlist Additions: Janet Jackson. Every Time Bewitched. To You I Belong
FINLANDPlaylist Additions: Bap -Lena Johmy Hallyday- Knock On Wood Bluebeat- Big TimesRADIO 538Milvennam P Get Ready- Zeemeermm C.Dion/111(elly I'm Yoar Angel John Lee Rooker Boogie Chillen Discomen- Blame It OnCHR Savage Garden- To The Moon Colin Rich- Fly Eastwood & King. Why Cm't We Live Emilia- Scud Sign
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Erik de Zwart -Music Director Tina Cousins- Pray Jewel -Honda Lenny Eremite- Fly Away George Michael/MaryJ. AsTampere P
Power Rotation Kis.- As. Long Christmas Louise Attague Les Nuits Parisians Goo Goo Dolls- SlideCDR
Dial M. For Mogwa- Beath= NOSTALGE NETWORK BELGIQUE/ Linda Davis- I'm Yours Marisa Turner- Who's Gonna Kiss R.E.M.- LotusPentti Teravitinen -Director
Whitney & Maria], When You Behave Brussels G Nek- Sto' Con Te Molotov- Vote Latino Sash! feat. DrAlban- Colour The WorldPlaylist Additions:
Playlist Additions: AC Ricky Martin- Vuelve Nicole Renee -Strawberry Third Eye Blind- JumperC3134 Sillartrakentaba
Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life Axel Delcour - Programmer Robbie Williams- No Regrets Sens Unite- Zak & Loly Dave Lindholm. Et Voi Jattaa
Jessica Fokker. Frew Will I Know Playliet Addition. Spice Girl. Goodbye ARHUS NDERRADIO/Spice Girls- Goodbye
Mike Koglin- The Silence Jane Fostin- Tent Y Aura RADIO FOERDERBAND/Beme G Tuff Jam- Need Good Love RADIO COLOMBO/ Arhus GWhitney & Modell When You Behave
TQ- Westside Johnny Hallyday- Sur Ma Vie CHR Yves Z- Ouvrez La Vie CHR
Michael Thrbi' Buholzer Heed Of Music Jesper Raab - Mimic DirectorYLE 2/RADIOMAFIA/Helsinki P
RADIO NOORDZEE NATIONAALi BRF/Eupen S Jens -Claude Frick Music Coordinator RADIO RHONE/Sion B Power Rotation:CHR
Naarden P AC Power Rotation AC Brandy- Have You Ever?Jukka Haarma -MD
National Music/AC Guy Jcumsens - Producer Are Of BEM- Travel To Romentis Joel Perrier -Prog Dir Playlist Additions: Willa Wilen -Head Of Music
Ron Sterrenburg - Head Of Music Playlist Additions: Janet Jackson- Every Time Playlist Additions: Barenaked Ladies- One WeekPlaylist Additions:
Playlist Additions: C.Dion/R.Kelly- Cm Your Angel Emilia- Big Big World Emilia- Big Big World Blii Ojne- RomeoAsh- Wildsurf
Arling/Canseron- Jealous -le Dreambeat When The Children Playlist Additions: Janet Jackson- Every. Time Danny- Danny's JulBillie Myers- You Send Me Flying
Arthur Umbgrove. Spijkers (Live Faith Hill- This Kiss Spice Girls- Goodbye Manau- Mais Qui Est Faithless- Take The Long WayBillie- She Wants You
Nits- Suter Rosa dolut Cashmere- You Are Sonia Lacers -Au Fond De Toi Infernal- Woo Doe CowboyBrian Powell- The Hustler
Spiros- Geen Weg Terug Lars Fabian- Si Tu M'Aimes RADIO FRAMBOISE/ Stomy Bugsy- Gangster DAmour Lovestation- Sensuahty Faithless- Take The long Way
Van Yolleaboven Duizend lawman Oasis- The Masterplan LausanneCrissier Savage Garden- Tears Of PearlsHole- Malibu
%Tapia Twain -From This Moment On CHR Janet Jackson- Every Time
AUSTRIASKY RADIO 100.7FM/Bussum P Tamperer- If You Buy Jean Luc Zwickert - Pr. Dir ANTI/Aalborg GPaneies., Girl No -One
AC Will Smith- Miami Playlist Additions: 0111RE.M.- lotus
Ton Lathouwers Managing Director Zucchero- Blu Bryan Adams- When You're GoneO 3/Vieena P
Lam Trillingsgaard - Head Of MusicStahl feat Shannon. Move Mania
Yranz van Maaren Programme Director Emilia -Big Big WorldCHR
Martin Leary - Operations ManagerPlayliet Additions: HIT -FM 106.1/Hasselt Ophelie Winter- Elle Pleure
Alfred Rosenauer - Head Of MusicPlayliet Additions: KISS FM/Helsinki G
Janet Jackson- Every Time CHR Spice Girls- GoodbyePlaylist Additions:
98 Degrees- TrueCHO
Kirk Franklin- Lean On Me Andre Hemeryck - Prog Dir ON Sync- Merry ChristmasBillie- She Wants You
Toni Yrjola Prog Dir
Marco Borsato- Speeltuin Sandra Rousso - Head Of Music RADIO PILATUS 104.9/Luzern CFalco- Push
Boyzone- I Love The Way..Playlist Additions:
Playlist Additions: CHRManic Street Pr,- The Everlasting
Dodo & The Dodo's. leg Bonder fa EngelAbode- Keep On Moving
TROS RADIO 3/MEGA TOP 100/ Air- All I Need Ralf Tschuppert Musk CoordinatorWill Smith- Miami
Five- Until The TimeBruce Springsteen- Sad Eyes
Hilversum P ATB- 9 PM (Till I Come) Reto Fischer - Head Of Music Hole- MalibuE -Type- Morning Light
CHR Bryan Adams- When You're Gone Power Rotation SWEDEN Jay -Z- Hard Knock LifeWhitney & Ranch -Wheal'. Believe
Maas Samplonius - Head Of Music Divine- Lately Banana Fish Bones- Come To Sin JuiceS.OAP/Chria let lore& LovePlaylist Additions: Five- Until The Time Playlist Additions: SVERIGES RADIO P3: Havana- Funky Love RUSSIA
AD Saints- War Of Nerves Jessica Foleker- How Will I Know Absolute Beginner- Liebes Lied MEST SPELADE/ Stockholm PBeat Box- Dial M For Moguai M. Experience- The Tunnel Christian Wunderlich- In Heaven CHR RADIO ABC/Randem C RADIO MAXIMUM/Bryan Adams- When You're Gone Rada Tuner kit Need To Kars tourbiame Colin Rick- Fly Mats Grimberg - Producer CHR Moscow/St. Petersburg PCB Milton- Carry Robbie Williams- No Regents Friends Dn. Refugees- Light Of Hope Per Alexandersson - Head Of Music Morten Bach Programme Director CHRE'velyne- I Would Voggue. Feel The Energy Hand In Hand- Children Playlist Additions: Power Rotation: Mikhail Eidebnan Programa. DirectorFaith Hill- This Kiss Janet Jackson- Every Time Magid- SI Nero BIle (dine- Romeo Power flotationJay -Z- Hard Knock Life RADIO MOL/Mol Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away Blues- Under Ytan Playliet Additions: Cardigans- My Favourite GameJessica Folcker- How Will I Know CHR Manic Street Pr,- The Everlaetim Bryan Adana- C'mon Cmun Cmon Dr, Bombay- S.O.S Tamperer- If You BuyRobbie Williams- No Regrets Sonja Celen - Producer Mandalay- Beautiful Christian Falk/Robyn Remember Dune- One Of Cr Playlist Additions:TQ- Westoide Power Rotation: Organiz, Are You Ready Emilia- Good Sign Leticia McNeal. Wbeo A Child Is Born C.Dion/ILKelly- I'm Your Angel
Corea So Young WhVG- Darlin' Fun Loynd Criininak Up On The Hal Savage Garden- Tears Of Pearls Detakiy Panadol- MoscowRADIO 10 GOLD/Amsterdam Cl Playlist Additions: Sena Unik- Zak & Loly Girlsmen Rumblia' Janet Jackson- Every TimeGold Amanda Marshall- Believe In You Touche.- This Goodbye Jennifer Brown- Alive RADIO UPTOWN/Copenhagen G Neo- Pink PantherTom Mulder - Prog Dir Bobbie Eakm- A Broken Wing Lenny Kravitz. If You Can't Ssy No CHR Nogu Svelo- ValleyPlaylist Additions: Bryan Adams- When You're Gone RADIO Z/Zurich Mango- Calle Luna Jan Brodde - Music Coord Spice Girls- Goodbye
Cher- Beheve Janet Jackson- Every Time AC Ophelie Winter- Je Marche A LEnvers Playlist Additions:Madonna -The Power Of Goodbye Natalie Imbruglin Smoke Chris Kramer Head Of Music Selfish- Wood Louise Ma Ojne- Romeo RADIO MAXIMUM/Perm G
Pres- Blue Angels Playlitit Additions: Five- Until The Time CHRLOVE RADIO/Amsterdam B Voggue- Feel The Energy 4 The Cause- Let Me RADIO RIX/Stockholm G 3I -People- Dreaming Alexey Glasatov General DirecorAC Afscheid A.- Enjoy Yourself AC/CHR Stars On 54- If You Could Read Oleg Postnikov ProgrammePlaylist Additions: Allan Theo- J'Aurai Voula Te Dire Anders Svensson -Head Of Music Van- Ice Got My love Director
All Saints- War Of Nerves
Urn Hill- How Deep SWITZERLANDBell Book & Candle -Bliss la My Tears
Christian Wunderlich- In Heaven
Playlist Additions:Boyzone- I Love The Way...
Venda Shepard- Smrchin'
Zididada- Please Ye, LisaPlaylist Additions:
A -Mega- NogiE -Life- More Days To Come
COULEUR 3/Lausanne GDru Hill- How Deep Bruce Springsteen- Sad Eyes Bravo- Little 15
Janet Jackson -Every TimeRock
Faithless- Take The Long Way Faith Hill- This Kiss RADIO VIBORG/Viborg G Five- Until The TimeBirk Franklin- Lean On Me
Thierry Catherine - Head Of MusicFury/SImghterhouse Come On Jennifer Brown -Alive Hot AC Janet Jackson- Every Time
Power RotationGloria Estefan- Don't Let This Neje- Shock Kent Kordt Roder - Prog Dir Manic Street Pr, The Everlasting
BELGIUM Zita Swoon She.Like Meeting Jesus
Playlist Additions:
Mandalay- Beautiful
Patrick Fiori- Elle EstSlides Strometedt. Nu liar Dot Londe
Ophelie Winter- I SpyJan Thulstrup - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
Muady Troll -Happy Now Year Baby
Fabulous Trobadors- L'AccentPrincessa- Snowflakes Sheryl Crow- There Goes The Divine- Lately MUSIC RADIO/Perm SRADIO 21/Brussels P
Faithless- Take The Long WayRicky Martin- Vuelve Spice Girls- Goodbye Third Eye Blind- Jumper ACCHB/Rock
Christine Goor Head Of Music Hole- MalibuRobbie Williams, No Regrets Abney Glazatov General Director
Pierre Dubois . Head Of Music Locust- All Your Own WayWill Smith- Miami HIT FM 94.21Bromma S RADIO SILKEBORG/Silkeborg Lyudmila Gavriknko Head Of Music
Playlist Additions: Robbie Williams- No RegretsDance AC/CHR Playlist Additions:
Black Eyed Peas- Joints & Jam Serge. Garcia- Amber MalRADIO LAC/Geneva S Jmke Bring Prog Dir Michael Jorgensen Head Of Music Andrei Vahnin- Uvizhu Tebya
Cat Power -Cross Bones Styles Subsonic Legacy- Ode To Billie JoCHR Playlist Additions: Power Rotation: Janet Jackson- Every Time
Cher- Believe Tryo- L'HyrnneJacky Senders Prog Dir Glamma Kid- Fashion Me Ann -Louise- Stick Around Sabina- PM...
Ian Pooley- What's Your Number Will Smith- MiamiPlaylist Additions: Inferno -This Beat Playlist Additions:
Lewis Taylor- 18 With A Bullet98 Degrees- True
Barenaked Ladies- One WeekSavage Garden -Tears Of Pearls
Stars N Stripes- Murder One2 Eivissa- Open Your Eyes
Barnes- Muligvisvej POLANDLove & Rockets- Holy Fool DRS 3/Zurich G
Boys Ft Men- I Will Get There 1- RomeoMachiavel- Until The. End RockCleopatra- I Want You Hack POWER 106/Stockholm S DAD.- Jacketless
RADIO 4 U: DANCE/Warsaw GManic Street Pr.- The Everlasting Christoph Alispach - Mmic CoOrd
Corm- So Young Dance/CHR Danny- Danny's JulDance
-MC Solaar Gelaktika Playlist Additions:Florent Pamir- L'Aigle Noir Niklas Bluing Prog & Head Of Music DJ Santa- DJ Santa Bogdan Fabianski DJ/Prod.
Miele- Les 5 Heures A.- Enjoy YourselfSash! feat. Shannon Move Mama Benjamin Nilsson Music Dir JuiceS.0A.P.Chria Let Lone Beton
Playa. Additions:Soul Bootie.- Sweet Pea Down Low- Once Upon A Time
Tina Arena- I Want To Spend Playlist Additions: Lenny Kravitz- Fly AwayA.- Enjoy Yourself
Emilia- Big Big WorldWill Smith- Mari Billie- Laet Christmas Moffatts- I'll Be There
Barbara Tucker Everybody DanceVET RADIO DONNA/Brussels P Faithless- Take The Long Way
Jennifer Brown- Alive Soren Sko- Min Engel Club 89/Suzanne P. MusclesCHR Femi Kuti- Beng Bong Deng
ONE FM/Geneva B Neje- Shock Savage Garden- Tears Of Pearls Dim SurprieelJonm- On The TopJan van Hoorickx - Head Of MusicMarc Plate - Programmer
Mandalay- Beautifulhike Davenport Undenmth The Red
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Michel Colin Prog DirPatter- Mikrofonkat
Popsie- 24 SevenTine Dickers, You're My Waste
Van- Ice Got My Love
Double Vision- Knock=
Dtunonde- TomorrowPlaylist Additions: Robbie Williams- No Regrets
Power Rotation Republic- Ti Aim '98 Faithless- Take The Long WayBillie- She Wants You Shudder To Think- Hot One
Ensemble- So Raison D'Etre RADIO VICTOR/Esbjerg SFatcatt- The Way
Mackstreet/Mys/Mase Take Me Then Whitney Houston- HeartbreakManic Street Pn- The Everlasting BANDIT 105.5/Stockholm B CHR/AC
Jennifer Delgado- What Is ItGet Ready- Zeemeermin
Lutricia McNeal -The Great.. bon
Will Smith -MiamiRobbie Williams- No Regrets
Scott Grooves/Daft P- Mothership
Rock
Markus Committals - Music DirAdam Lehn - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
Jennifer Delgado- About You
dens Floraus- 50 Miles AroundMario Tumor Isn't Need To Know You New RADIO 24/Zurich G
Tamperer- If You Buy Playlist Unchanged Ble Ojne- Romeo Madonna- The Power Of GoodbyeNeje- Shock CHR
Playlist Additions: Kym Moselle -.A Mare In My HeartPhil Fuldner- S -Express
Scooter- We Are The Greatest Dani Richiger - Head Of MusicHole- Malibu K103. GOTHENBURG STUDENTRAD10/ Los Umbrellm- Drive Scott Grooves/Daft P,Mothershm
Stars On 54- If You Could Read Power RotationI Am- Independents Gothenburg B Latina McNeal WheoA aid Is torn
Spacedust- Gym & Tonic98 Degrees- True
JD feat. Mariah- Sweetheart CHR Moffatts- Be ThereVET STUDIO BRUSSEL/Brussels P Cher -BelieveLighthouse host In Space Fredrik Blom/ Tiggy- Falling
RADIO GDANSK/Gdansk CRock/CHR Oli P. Flumeuge Im Bauch
Johan Olofsmn - Heads Of Music V.- Ice Got My LoveCHR
Jan Hautekiet - Producer Playlist Additions:RADIO 3 M/Mendrisio Playlist Additions: Marek CegieLski - Head Of Music
Playliet Additions: 4 The Cause- Let MeCHR Basement Jam- Rendez Vu VIR/Vejle Playlist Unchanged
Black Crowes- Ricking Colin Rich- FlyBoris Piffaretti Prog Dir Chester Copperpot. l Care And I Tlunk CDRExtime- Viervceters Emilia- Big Big WorldRiccardo PeHegrini - Read Of Music Christian Falk/Robyn- Remember Jon liristiamen Prog Direlead Of Music
RADIO KOSZALINKomalinFaithless- Take The Long Way Friends (In. Refugees bight Of Hope
Playlist Additions: Embrace- All You Good People Playliet Additions: CHR/RockPearl Jam- Elderly WomanRZA- Bobby Digital
Golii- Shwan
Sae.- If YouDr, Livingstone- Oggi Fetboy Slim- Praise You Billie- She Wants You
Przemyslaw Mroczek DJ/Produ.rPower Rotation
Steplime PureutOf FlopmamsRADIO FRIBOURG/Fribourg B
Je. Floraux- 50 Mlles Around
KRS-One- CIA
E.'fype- Here I Go
Five- Until The Time Elektryczne Chary- Co Powie RybaRADIO BASILISK/Basel G
CHR Phoebe One- Doin' Our Thing Touch & Go- Would YouMaanan- Przystan
BEURTUBrussels G ACThierry Savory Head Of Music pJ Harvey -The Wind Playlist Additions:
CHR Nick Schuh: - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions: Thirdimensien Never In A Lifetime
Kozidrak & Friends- Jesli Tyke
NORWAYSerge Jonckers - Music Manager Playlist Additions:AK -SWIFT -The Professional Brian Wilson- South American
Alain Simons - Head Of Music 101- Why Don't YouAdeva- Been Around Dr, Alban- Papaya Coconut
DENMARKPlaylist Additions: Five- Until The TimeAlex Britti- Solo Una Volta
KISS FM/Romerike Five- Until The Time
Fun Factory- Party With
Harlem- W Pamieci Luster
Janet Jackson- Every Time
Rap Ansi... Last ChristmasResonance- After Midnight
Saw Doctors- Sugartown
Sigma- Jam HamSpice Girls- Goodbye
Stare Miasto- BohaterryWiericholskiffamowsk Poniedzialek
RADIO LUBLIN/Lublin G
Rock
Wiktor Jachace - DJ/ProducerPower Rotation
Budka &Alma- Memu MiastaSheryl Crow- Them Goes The
Playlist Additions:Kozidrak & Friends- Josh Tylko
Boyzone- I Love The Way..
Cliff Richard- Vita MM
Dire Straits- Walk Of
Elektryczne Gitary Co Powie Ryba
Grzegom Turnau SniegJanet Jackson -Every Time
Kasia Rodowis. Zaufaj Sobie
Mamma- Przystan
Picture House- SunburstReni Janis- Ryles Sena Bimem
Spice Girls- Goodbye
Tamperer- If You Buy
Whitney & Menai, Whm Youllelieve
RADIO MERKURY/Poznan
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Rymard Gloger - Head Of MusicPower Rotation
Brian Wilson- South American
Greener. Turner, SniegPlaylist Additions:
Celtic Spirit- Ailein Duinn
Dave Matthews- Crush
Delerium- Silence
Elektrycnie Chary. Co Powie Ryba
Five- Until The Time
Harlem- W Pamieci Luster
Janet Jackson- Every Time
K.A.S.A.- Wino, Marki Win
Kasia Rodowiecz- Zaufaj Sobie
Emmy Wayne Shepherd. Somehow
Maanam- Przystan
Picture House- SunburstSpice Girls. Goodbye
Wierschoishiffamowsk. Poniedialek
RADIO PLUS/Gclanak GAC
Piotr Felgentreu Head Of MusicPower flotation
Lighthouse Poryard Fmm Hanel
Playlist Additions:Brian Wilson- South American
Robbie Williams- No Regrets
Sarah Brightman- EdenWhitney & Mariah- When You Relieve
RADIO BIALYSTOK/Bialystok S
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Tomsk Wolski - Head Of Music
Power RotationWhitney & Mariah- When You Believe
Playlist Additions:Jmtem Aniolem
Basia- Clear Horizon
Boys II Men Your Home Is My Heart
D'Influence- Rock
Faithless- Take The Long. Way
John Lennon- Cm LosingRosie Rodowiscz- Zaufaj Sobie
Picture House- SunburstRein Bytes Serra Biciem
Robbie Williams- No Regrets
Stachumki- Ody Zaplaczesz
Swiateczny- Jesli TylkoTouch & Go- Would You...?
Tyrese- Nobody Else
RADIO ESKA NORD/Gdynia S
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Piotzt Patter - Head Of MusicPower Rotation
Basia- Clear Horizon
Playlist Additions:Boys B Men -Your Home Is My Heart
D'Intluence- RockFaithless- Take The Long Way
Faith Evans- Love Like
Gwiazdy Pomaton- Jeli Tego
Keith Sweat- Come With Me
Rap Allstars- Last Christi...Reni Jusis- Bytes Serca Biciem
Robbie Williams- No Regrets
RADIO GRATorms B
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Krzyeztof Komenda Head of Music
Power RotationLighthouse Family Postcard from Reeves
Spice Girls- Goodbye
Playlist Additions:Dave Matthews. Crush
Dire Straits- Walk Of
Elektrycme Chary- Co Po,. Ryba
Five- Until The Time
Janet Jackson- Every TimeJay -Z- Hard Knock Life
Maanam- PrzystanSheryl Crow- There Goes The
CZECH REPUBLIC
CITY 93.7 FM/Prague GCHR
Peter End Prog Dir
Dusan Kotora Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
Chantal lirevinuk- LeavingRobbie Williams- No Regrets
Stars On 54- If YouTould Read
EVROPA 2/Prague CAC
Milos Pokorny Head Of Programming
Roman Ondracek - Head Of Music
Playlist Additions:Bryan Adams- When You're Gone
Corm- So Young
Dan Lando- SmrtihlavManic Street Prd The Everlasting
Simply Red- To Be Free
Spice Girls- Goodbye
FREKVENCE 1/Prague CAC
Rene Hnilickn - Music Manager
Playlist Additions:
Helena Vondrackom- Copacabana
Iveta Bartomva- Tri °risky
RADIO ALFA/Prague GAC
Simon Ticha - He. Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
A. Of Base- Travel To Romantis
Desiree- What's Your Sign?
Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
R.E.M.- Dayeleeper
RADIO FM PLUS/Pilsen 8CHR
Jan Hanousek Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
Bryan Adams When You're Gone
Emilia- Big Big World
RADIO RELAX/Kladno SCHR
Milan Hamm . Head Of Programming
Playlist Additions:Cores- So Young
Lucie- Medvidek
Madonna- The Poser Of Goodbye
Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting
Robbie Williams- No Regrets
Sheryl Crow- There Goes The
Simply Red- To Be Free
Spice Girls- Goodbye
Whitney & Rehab- VO.You Believe
SLOVAKIATOP RADIO/Kosice SAC
Oto Tache Prog DirPower Rotation
Dave Stewart, Happy To Be Hem
Playlist Additions:Boynone- I Love The Way...
Elan- Vianocna
En Vogue- No Fool No More
Janet JOCIESOR- Every Time
Rap Alleters- Last Christmas
HUNGARYHUNGARIAN TOP 20 AIRPLAY CHART/
Budapest PCHR
Playlist Additions:Amoldutok- Nyugi Nyugi Bebi
Bon Bon- Szamlak, TV, Szoda
Emberek- Forog A FIld
Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
DANUBIUS RADIO/Budapest P
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Sandor Buse - Music DirGabriella Csik Music ProgrammerPlaylist Unchanged
RADIO BRMGFJBudapest GAC
Orsolya Megyeri - Head Of Music
Playlist Additions:Des'ree- What's Your Sign?
IRELAND2 FM/Dublin PCHR
John Clarke - Prog DirPlaylist Additions:
Alanis Morissette- OneBeautiful South DumbBryan Adams- When You're Gone
Corrs- I Never Loved You
Five.. It's The Things
Gambafreaks- Instant Replay
Garth Brooks- Seamless
George Michael- I Can't Make
Juliet Roberts- Bad Girls
MPmple- Moving On Up
REM- LotusRobbie Williams- No RegretsRuff DrivereArrola- Dreaming
Sash! feat, Shannon- Move Mania
Shania Twain -Prom This Moment On
Simply Red- Ghetto Girl
Stars On 34-H You Could Read
Stand- Questions
Stetsasonic- Tann MI That JanWhitney &Mariah- When You Mew
TIPP FM/Clonmel BAC/CHR
Michael Brett - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:
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AIRPLAYBewitched- To You I Belong
Beautiful South- Dumb
Emilia- Big Big World
Franc. Black. Revco For My Heart
Lutricia McNeal- The Greatest Love
Madonna -The Power Of Goodbye
Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting
PM Dawo- I Had No Right
Spice Girls- Goodbye
Vonda Shepard- Searchin'
GREECE
KISS 909 FM/Athens G
CHR/Danre
Michael Tsaoussopoulos - Prog Dir
Power RotationRoy Vedas. Frogmen. Of Life
Playliet Additions:Faithless- Take The Long Way
Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting
Steps -Tragedy
GREEK RADIO CORFU/Corfu B
CHR
Spyros Hytieia - Head Of Music
Playliet Additions:Monis Morismtte- Supposed Former
Jewel- HandsJohn Lemon- Working Class Hero
McGmrigle Hour- Skip Rope Song
Salako- The Moon Radiates
Sheryl Crow- Anything But Down
NRG 105.5/Athens B
Dance
Tolls Vern. - Head Of MusicPower Rotation
Z Factor- Give It On Up
Playlet Additions:Casino- Get Funky
Scott Grooves/Daft P- Mothership
TURKEYRADIO NUMBER ONE FM/Istanbul P
CHR
Lore YOnter Music & Programme Director
Playlist Additions:Emilia- Big Big World
Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting
Andrea Grant- Reputations
Sheryl Crow- There Goes The
Will Smith- Miami
Divine Comedy- Generation Sex
RADIO 5/Istanbul CCHR
Tim Verheyen - SupervisorMusic Director
Playliet Additions:2Pac- Changes
Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away
Levellers- One Way98
Manic Street Pr.. The Everlasting
SLOVENIASTUDIO D/Novo Merto S
CHR
Rasta Boric - DJ/ProducerPower Rotation
Seal- Human Beings
Playliet Additions:
Aaron Hall- All The Pieces
Alabama 3- Converted
Blacloureet/Mya/Mase- Take Me Them
Bruce Springsteen- Sad Eyes
Cardigan. Erase/RewindChess feat. Cogin Raise The Roof
DJ Quicksilver- Timerider
Duran Duran- Girls On FilM98
En Vogue- Hold On
Sheryl Crow- There Goes The
ESTONIARAADIO 2TallinnCHR
Immo Mihkelson - Head Of MuskPlayful Additions:
H.SabSidler/Smilers. Marten Smut
Maiken- Sine Naeratus
Touché- This Goodbye
Will Smith- Miami
RADIO KUKU/Tallinn
Rock/AC
Jean Riikoja Head Of ManicPlayliet Additions:
Beautiful South- DumbCardigans- Erase/Rewind
Hooch- Everything
LATVIARADIO MI/Riga GAC
J. Sipkevics - Pr. DirPlayliet Addition/.
Mielane & Vansovic. Panic Angelic.
Barenaked Ladies- It's Al Been Done
Fredis- Circenisa
Horror & Peter Oja- Shubert's Rap
Igo- Fieskariens
Zivare/bmants- Jos Bernini Eaglet
Nibs- Adeste Fideles
Sinead O'Connor- Chiquitita
LITHUANIARADIO M.1/Vilnius GCHR
Alta Gujyte - Prog DirPower Rotation
Goo Goo Dolls- Iris
Playliet Additions:Aida- Girls' Night Out
Beautiful South- DumbM -People- What A Fool
Pagalveles- Zieme
R.E.M. Lotus
Soul RenegadesTexad You'll Never Know
LUXEMBOURGELDORADIO/Lmembourg SCHR
Luc Mdse., - Head Of MimicPlayliet
Lenny Brevity- Fly Away
Metalli.- Turn The PageNo Name- Strange Decisions
Praa- Blue Angels
Seal. Human Beings
Spike -Respect
Wolfsheim- Once In A Lifetime
LIECHTENSTEINRADIO L/Liechtemdein BCHWAC
Dani Sigel Programme DirectorRoland Blum - Head Of Music
Playliet Additions:Bell Book & Candle. Bliss In My Tears
Hand In Hand- Children
PROGRAMMESUPPLIERSKFI MUSIQUE/Paris PCHR
Alain Rossi - Music ProgrammerEric Francais - Music ProgrammerA List:
AD Barbara Henricks- Tribu
Mork- Alarm Call
Chiwoniso- Mai
Daddy Lord- Lin Point Dlionneur
Dimitri- Une Very Stylish
Edgard Ravahatra- Ame Seeur
Lhasa- Los Pecos
Malavoi- La Peson
Mangy- Somebody
Manau- Mais Qui Est
Stephane Blok- Cyberceose
Yeronique Sanson IMe Suis Toujours
FM RADIO NETWORK/Germany G
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Armin Weis - Prog DirPower Rotation
Die 3 Generation. Voter Wo Bist Du?
Joann- Million Years
A List:
98 Degrees- True
Mania Moils -mite- Thank
Beautiful South- Perfect 10
Boysone- No Matter
Cher- Relieve
Culture Club- I Jost Wanner Be Loved
Dru Hill- How Deep
George Michael- Outside
Leona- Hijo De Le Luna
Lutricia McNeal- Someone Lures
Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
Meja- MI 'Bout The Money
Oli P. Flugzeuge Inn Bauch
Robbie Williams -Millennium
Saaha- If You
Seal- Haman Beings
U2. Sweetest Thing
A List:
AD Five- Everybody Get Up
Ricky- Sc_hmerz In Mir
Venga Boys- We Like To Party
MUSIC TELEVISION
MCM/Paris PMusic Television
Renee Lemaire Prog DirCecile Estrade ProgrammerPower Rotation
Cher- Believe
Doc Gyneco- Cleat Beau La Vie
A List:
All Saints- UnderArsenik- Affair° De EmilieAxelle Red- Rester Femme
Bacon Popper- FreeBrandy feat. Mass Top Of The World
Eagle -Eye Cherry- Falling In
Ensemble- Sa Raison D'Etre
Harvey Danger- Flagpole Sitio
Jantiroquai- Deeper Underground
J.Jacques Goldman- Bonne Idea
Loam- Loin De Chez E.Lenny Kravitz- I Belong To You
Matmatah- L'Ambe An Dro
MC &Mar- Galaktika
New Videos
Boysone- No Matter
Oasis -Acquiesce
Whitney & Mariah. When You Believe
Will Smith- Jost The 2 Of Us
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Zehda- Je Conic Que Fatboy Slim -Praise You
Garbage- Special
Faithless- Take The Long Way
JD feat. Merida- Sweetheart
Emre Tante. Programme DirectorHeavy Rotation
MTV/Central Region P George Michael- Outside Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away Alanis Morissette- Thank U
Music Television Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting Cake- Never Them
Andreas Heineke Head Of Music Pros- Blue Angels Ophelie Winter- I Spy Cardigans- My Favourite Game
Heavy Rotation REM.- Daysl.per Pres- Blue Angels Edyta Gorniak- Anything
Cher- Believe Semisonic- Closing Time Robbie No Regrets Janet Jackson- Every Time
Dro Hill- How Deep Tamperer- If You Buy Seal- Harem Beings Jennifer Paige- Crush
Liquido- Narcotic Break Oat Sheryl Crow. There Gees The Karen Ramirez- If We Try
Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye All Saints- War Of Nerves Whitney & Marian -When Too Believe Lenny Kravitz. Fly Away
Robbie Willinnia- No Regrets Another Level- Guess I Was A Fool Will Smith- Miami !Neje- MI Tout The Money
Xavier Naidoo- Far Mich Ave Licht Bacon Popper- Free Breakout Extra U2- Sweetest Thing
Hot Barenaked Ladies -One Week Fatboy Slim- Praise You Hot
Alanis Morissette- Thank U Bryan Adams- When You're Gone Spice Girls- Goodbye Air- All 1 Need
Faithless- Take The Long Way Desiree- What's Your Sign? Beautiful South- Perfect 10
George Michael- Outside Faithless- Take The Long Way MTV U.K/London P C.Dion/R-Kelly- I'm Your Angel
Janet Jackson- Every Time Graaf- Give it Up Music Television Chris beak- Please
JD feat. Mariah- Sweetheart Bask- Golden Heart Heavy Rotation Culture Club- I Just Wan. Be Loved
Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away All Saints- Wee Of Nerves Depeche Mode- Only When
Scy.- Next November Lutricia McNeal. The Greatest love Boysone- I Love The Way... Faithless- God Is A DJ
Spice Girls- Goodbye Popsie- 24 Seven Cores- So Young George Michael- Outside
Whitney & Meriab.When You Believe Robbie Williams- No Regret. Eagle -Eye Cherry- Falling In Kulay- Delicious
Break Out Whitney & Mariah- When You Believe Five- Until The Time Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
3.Generation- Voter Breakout Extra Madonna -The Power Of Goodbye Moby. Honey
A.- Enjoy Yourself Ace Of Base- Travel To Romantic Will Smith- Miami Stardust- Music Sounds Better
Broder- Zu Egrem Faith Evans- Love Like Hot Whitney & Mariah- When You Believe
Bryan Adams- When You're Gone OpheDe Winter- I Spy - Alanis Morissette- Thank U Will Smith- Miami
Cirri. Back On A Mission Sheryl Crow- There Goes The Bewitched- To You I Belong Buzz Bin
Craig Smart- I'll Be Ready Spice Girls- Goodbye Brandy- Hove You Ever? Axelle Red- Rester Femme
Die Arge. 1/2 Lovesong Cher- Believe Desiree- What's Your Sign?
Emilia- Big Big World MTV EUROPEA.ondon P Emilia- Big Big World %Mein Winter. Je Marche A L'Envers
Faith Evans- Love Like Music Television Robbie Williams- No Regrets Republica- From Rush Hour
Garbage- Special Hans Hagman Head Of Music S.11: feat. Shannon- Move Mania Semisonic. Closing Time
Guano Apes- Lords Of The Boards Heavy Rotation Savage Garden- I Want You Ultra Nate- New Kind Of
Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life Aaliyah- R U That Somebody Spice Girls- Goodbye New Videos
Kelly Price- Friend Of Mine Mania Morissette- Thank U Ste. Heartbeat Ace Of Base- Travel To Romantie
Knorkator- Boese Emilia- Big Big World Steps- Tragedy Bran Van 3000- Afrodisi ac
Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting George Michael- Outside U2- Sweetest Thing Cher- Believe
Metallic. Turn The Page Jennifer Paige- Crush Buss Bin Jewel- Hands
R.Kelly/Murray- Home Alone Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye Bryan Adams- When You're Gone Metallica- Turn The Page
Seal- Human Beings Meja- All 'Bout The Money Faithless- Take The Long Way Oasis- Acquiesce
U2- Sweetest Thing Hot Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life Paul Weller- Brand New Start
Breakout Extra All Saints- War Of Nerves Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting R.E.M.- Lotus
Absolute Beginner- Lieber Lied Another Level- Guess I Was A Fool Stereophonic. The Bartender Scuba- If You
Barenaked Ladies- One Week Cardigans- My Favourite Game Break Out Seal- Human Beings
Venus In Furs- Baby's On Cher- Believe Aerosmith- I Don't Want To Mies
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Sash! feat. Shannon- Move Mania
Billie- She Wants You
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Erik Kress - Music Director
Music Television Tamperer- If /ou Buy Cardigans- My Favourite Game Power Rotation
Hans Hagman - Head Of Manic Touch & Go- Would Yon..? E-17- Each Time Whitney & Mariah- When You Believe
Heavy Rotation U2- Sweetest Thing George Michael- Outside A List:
Almis Morissette- Thank U Buss Bin Finney.- End Of 98 Degrees- True
Cher- Believe Dru Hill- How Deep Pres- Blue Angels R U That Somebody
E -Type- Here I Go Break Out Sheryl Crow- There Goes The Cher- Believe
Honeys- Finally Found Air- All 1 Need Space- We Gotta Get Out Dru Hill- How Deep
Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye Bacoii Popper- Fr. Venga Boys- Up Emilia- Big Big World
U2- Sweetest Thing Bmenaked Ladies- One Week Whitney & Mariah. When You Believe Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
Will Smith -Miami Boyeone- No Matter New Videos Spice Ghia- Goodbye.
Hot Bryan Adams- When You're. Gone REM.- Lotus Tamperer- If You Buy
Antiloop- Believe Desiree- Whole Your Sign? Venga Boys- Boom
Bran Van 3000- Afrodisiac E -Type- Angels Crying NUMBER ONE TV/Istanbul P New Videos
Dee -Tab -Relent Faith Evans- Love Like Music Television DJ Tonka- She Knows You
E'velyne- I Would
Eddie Arnador- House Music
Extince- Viervoeters
Faith Hill- This Kiss
K-Ci & JoJe- How Could You
Lov.tation- Sensmility.Mob. IV Red- Missing YouOutkast- Rosa ParksSheryl Crow- There Goes The
VH-1/London PMusic Television
Lester Mordue -Head Of Programming
Heavy RotationBeautiful South- Perfect 10
Cher- Believe
Corns- So Young
Spice Girls- Goodbye
U2- Sweetest Thing
Medium RotationAerosmith- I Don't Want To Miss
Bryan Mama- When You're GoneC.Diondl.lielly- I'm Your Angel
Eagle -Eye Cherry- Falling InMadonna- The Power Of Goodbye
Venda Shepard- SearthinWhitney & Mgiah. When You Believe
Break OutFaith Hill- This KissSheryl Crow- There Goes The
ActiveEmilia- Big Big World
Garth Brooks- To Make You Feel
Janet Jackson Every TimeManic Street Pr.- The Everlasting
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Lutricia McNeal- The Greatest Love
Robbie Williams- No Regrets
Savage Garden- I Want You
Twain & From This Moment Oa
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Tine Busch Prog DirA List
ATB- 9 PM (Till I Come)
Boysone- No MatterCher- Believe
Down Low- On. Upon A Time
Dro Hill- How Deep
Falco -Egoist
Guano Apes- Lords Of The Boards
Liquido- Narcotic
Leona- Hijo De La Luna
Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
Music Instructor- Get Funky
011 P. Flugzeuge 1m Bauch
Sasha- If You
Venga Boys- We Like To Party
Westernhagen- Wieder Flier
B List:
2.4 Family- Stay
As- Enjoy Yourself
Aaliyah- R Li That Somebody
Amsssmith- I Don't Want To Miss
Alanis Morissette- Thank UBlfinachen- Es 1st Vorbei
Christian Wunderlich- In Heaven
Die Arste- 1/2 Lovesong
IM Saki°. Protect Your Mel ,Braveheartl
Dr. Bombay- Calcutta
Faithless- God Is A DJ
Five- Everybody Get Up
JD feat. Mariah- Sweetheart
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Lauryn Hill- Doo-Wap That Thing:
Rap Misters- Last Christmas
Ricky- Schmers In Mir
Richie- Buparichie
Spike- Respect
Spine Girls- Viva Forever
Watergate- The BattleWolfsheim- Once In A Lifetime
Xavier Naidoo- Far Mich Ans Licht
C List:
'N Sync- U Drive Me Crazy
98 Degrees- True
Ayle- Liebe
Banana Fish Bon.. Come To Sin
C.Dion/R.Kelly- I'm Your Angel
Die 3 Generation. Voter Wo Bist Du?
DJ Quicksilver Escape To Paradise
Faithless- Take The Long Way
George Michael- Outside
Mel DfSlissy Elliott. I Want You Back
Metallica- Turn The Page
Paul Van Dyk- For An Angel
Piet Blankdaspa- Hying To The Moon
Push- Universal Nation
Rote Rosen. WeihnachtsmanStorm- Huri-Shan
Touche- Y.M.C.A.
U2.- Sweetest Thing
Will Smith- Miami
N List:
Ti Sync- Merry ChristmasAbsolute Beginner- Liebes Lied
Beath°. Feat. Reel- Come Into My Club
BlackstreetiMmaime- Take Me There
Echt- Wo Big Du Jetzt
Fettes Bro. Kinney Diem AugerGil- Talk To You
Hand In Hand- Children
Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life
Rai Tracid- Liquid Skies
Nana- Father
Phil Fuldneti S -Express
RIVG- Darlin'
Robbie Williams -No Regrets
Touche- This Goodbye
Whitney & Mariah- When You Believe
New Vide.Another Level. Guess I Was A Fool
Bomfunk MC'. Uprockieg Beats
Boys- God Bless
Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away
Princess -SnowflakesBAR. feat. Trooper- Only You
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A Lis:Aliens Morissette- Thank U
Faith No More- Started A Joke
Guano Apes- Lords Of The Boards
Liquido- Narcotic
Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye
Metalli.- Turn The PageR.E.M.- Daysleeper
Rote Rosen- Weihnachtsman
U2- Sweetest Thing
Wolfsheim- Once In A Lifetime
B List:
Absolute Beginner- Lichen Lied
Banana Fish Bone. Come To Sin
Cypress Hill- Tequila Sunrise
Depeche Mode- Only When
Die Arzte- I/2 Loves,.Faithless- Take The Long Way
Fury/Slaughterhouse Dancing In The
Lauryn Hill- Doo-Wop iThat Thing/
Lenny Kravits- Fly Away
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Pearl Jam- Do The Evolution
Portishead- Ml Mine
Seal- Human Beings
Sheryl Crow- There Goes The
C List:
Eagle -Eye Cherry- Falling In
Faithless- God Is A DJ
Fettes Brot- Kinnen These Augen
Herbert Grinemeyer- FanatischJoachim Witt- Und...lch Lauf
Massive Attack- Inertia Creeps
Mel B./Missy Elliott. I Want You Back
Pres. Blue Angels
Rolling Sion.- Out Of Control
Stardust- Mune Sounds Better
N List:
Ash- Wild Surf
Barmaaked Ladies- One Week
Bis- Eurodisco
Bran Van 3000- Afrodisim
Core- filament Eyes
Cuba -Havana
Freestylers- Warning
Hole- Malibu
Ian Polley- What's Yaur Number
Jay -Z- Hard Knock Life
Jon Spencer- Talk About The Blues
King & I- Whole Lotter Rosie
Manic Street Pr.- The Everlasting
Monster Magnet- PowertripThievery Corporation- Lebanese Blond
New Videos2PaciDr. Dre- California Love
Beautiful South- Perfect 10Candyskina- Feed It
Cypress Hill- Dr. Greenthumb
Pigeonhead- Battle FlagWolfsheim- It's Hurting
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Lis Laskowski - Dir of Prog
Box TopsAerosmith- I Don't Want To Miss
Mackstreetfalyafklase- Take Me There
Boysone- No Matter
Boyzone- I Love The Way...
Bryan Adams- When You're Gone
Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On
Cher- Believe
Emilia -Big Big World
Five- Megamix
Five- Everybody Get Up
George Michael- Outside
Ghost- Bodyguard
Jay -Z- Hand Knock Life
Spire Girls- Goodbye
Steps- One For SceneSteps- Heartbeat
Steps -Tragedy
Venga Boys- Up
Whitney & Mariah- When You Believe
Will Smith- Miami
Breakin' Out Of The Box
MI- A Little Bit More
Alberta- Yo -Yo Boy
Bewitched- To You I Belong
Brandy- Have You Ever?
Destiny's ChildTimb- Get On The Bus
Foundations- Build Me Up
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Phoebe One- Doirg Our Thing
Robbie Williams- No RegretsSavage Garden- I Want You
TQ- Westside
UB40- Holly Holly
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Blockster- You Should Be..
Basta Rhymes- Gimme Some More
Evoke- Missing You
Fatboy Slim- Praise You
Johnson- Say You Love Me
Justin- Over
Kleshay- Rush
Lenny Brevity- Fly Away
Moroheeba- Summertime
R.E.M.- Lotus
Rolling Stones- Gimme
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On the airM&M's weekly airplay analysis column
The unusual combination of a hardcore rapper anda children's choir enters the European Radio Top50 this week as highest newcomer.
American rap artist Jay -Z came up with thewonderful idea of sampling a bit of the musicalAnnie for his single Hard Knock Life (Rock-A-Fella/Northwestside), and it comes in at number43. The song-from his album, Vol.2...Hard Knock
Life, which is hugelysuccessful in theU.S.-is performingwell at U.K radio, andis currently gaining at-tention in Holland andScandinavia, too.
Jocke Bring, pro-gramme director atSwedish regional dancestation Hit FM94.2/Bromma, whichcovers the Stockholmarea, is one of thesong's early supporters:"This one is special, be-
cause it's so very smart," he says. "Our listenersare quite hard to convince when it comes to rapartists, but now he's succeeded, the road tocrossover success is open to him."
Looking back over the past year, Bring reckonsit has been neither very good nor very bad fordance music. "Our listeners liked tougher beatsand more instrumental music. And local productappeared to have a magic touch," he comments,adding that the future seems bright for Hit FM94.2 as an interesting shift in advertisers' atti-tudes takes place. "The new generation in the mar-keting departments have a more positive attitudetowards dance music. Some of them are even hard-core listeners to our station!"
At the top of the chart, Cher enjoys her thirdweek at number one with Believe (WEA), whileMadonna, now at number 2, is edging slowly to-wards her with The Power Of Good -Bye (Mav-erick/Warner Bros.). Besides Jay -Z, two other newentries emerge. At 45, Boyzone comes in with ILove The Way You Love Me (Polydor). The ballad isreceiving early support in the U.K and Scandi-navia. Their former single, No Matter What (Poly-dor), is still holding strong at number 20 thisweek, in particular in the G/S/A countries where itis number 6 in the regional chart, as the MajorAirplay section reveals. Another artist who is pop-ular in different regions with different records isLauryn Hill, who enters with her cover of Can'tTake My Eyes Off Of You (Ruffhouse/Columbia) at46, while Doo Wop (That Thing) still holds atnumber 49. Her new single is popular in the un-usual airplay combination of the U.K and France.
Two re-entries appearthis week. At 41, Sad Eyesby Bruce Springsteen(Columbia) returns, pro-pelled by airplay in Spainand Scandinavia, and at47 Zucchero returns withBlu (Polydor), thanks toItaly, Switzerland andEastern Europe.
Finally, bubbling under this week are Travel ToRomantis by Ace of Base (Mega/Polydor), OnceUpon A lime by Down Low (K-Thwn /ZYX), ThisKiss by Faith Hill (Warner Bros.), War Of Nervesby All Saints (London) and Take The Long WayHome by Faithless (Cheeky).
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1 1 9 CHER/BELIEVE (WEA) 144 2
0 3 7 Madonna/The Power Of Good -Bye (Maverick/Warner Bros.) 141 7
3 2 12 George Michael/Outside (Epic) 115 0
4 5 11 Alanis Morissette/Thank U (Maverick/Warner Bros.) 111 1
5 4 11 U2/Sweetest Thing (Island) 104 0
6 6 17 Jennifer Paige/Crush (Edel) 83 1
CD 8 3 Spice Girls/Goodbye (Virgin) 96 20* 7 5 Robbie Williams/No Regrets (Chrysalis) 96 13
(9 10 4 Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey/When You Believe (Columbia) 92 14
16 5 Bryan Adams & Mel. C./When You're Gone (A&M) 103 11
11 9 9 Des'ree/What's Your Sign? (Sony S2) 87 2
@ 14 5 Emilia/Big Big World WILT'. (Universal) 88 110 12 6 The Tamperer feat. Maya/If You Buy ThisRecord litt4ft (Time/Jive) 86 4
® 15 5 Celine Dion & R. Kelly/I'm Your Angel (Epic/Columbia) 88 7
@ 22 5 Will Smith/Miami (Columbia) 83 13
CI 23 4 Manic Street Preachers/The Everlasting (Epic) 72 13
17 11 12 Meja/All 'Bout The Money night (Columbia) 70 1
18 13 12 R.E.M./Daysleeper (Warner Bros.) 65 1
@ 30 2 Janet Jackson/Every Time (Virgin) 70 23
20 20 18 Boyzone/No Matter What (Polydor) 54 1
21 18 24 Aerosmith/I Don't Want To Miss A Thing (Columbia) 42 0* 33 4 98 Degrees feat. Stevie Wonder/True To Your Heart (Motown) 57 6
23 26 7 Seal/Human Beings (Warner Bros.) 54 1* 32 6 Stars On 54/If You Could Read My Mind (Tommy Boy) 59 6
25 19 13 The Cardigans/My Favourite Game Illaiht (Trampolene/Stockholm) 53 1
26 27 5 Touch & Go/Would You...? (OvalN2) 65 4
Eit 29 6 Sash! feat. Shannon/Move Mania 112.1., (X -IT) 55 4
28 24 17 Robbie Williams/Millennium (Chrysalis) 46 0
29 17 14 Phil Collins/True Colours (Virgin/WEA) 44 0
30 25 12 Beautiful South/Perfect 10 (Go Discs/Mercury) 49 0
31 21 18 Eagle -Eye Cherry/Falling In Love Again litertg (Superstudio/Polydor) 46 0* 41 2 Lenny Kravitz/Fly Away (Virgin) 49 80 36 7 Joe Cocker/What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted (EMI) 48 1
ED 42 4 Sheryl Crow/There Goes The Neighborhood (A&M) 56 11
35 28 9 M-People/Testify (M-People/BMG) 53 0
36 31 10 Culture Club/I Just Wanna Be Loved (Virgin) 49 0
(It 40 2 Five/Until The Time Is Through (RCA) 51 14
38 35 15 Faithless/God Is A DJ (Cheeky) 29 0* 44 2 Sasha/If You Believe fteregat (WEA) 35 10 47 3 The Corrs/So Young (Lava/Atlantic) 58 4* - RE Bruce Springsteen/Sad Eyes (Columbia) 32 5
42 46 6 Simply Red/To Be Free (East West) 40 2
`643) > NE Jay-Z/Hard Knock Life (Rock-A-Fella/Northwestside) 41 11
44 49 3 Eros Ramazzotti & Joe Cocker/That's All I Need To Know 1129,4t. (DDD) 37 0
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49 45 2 Lauryn Hill/Doo-Wop (That Thing) (Columbia) 40 0
50 39 7 Queen feat. Wyclef Jean & Pras Michel/Another One Bites The Dust (Interscope) 36 0
The European Radio Top 50 chart is based on a weighted -scoring system.Songs score points by achieving airplay on all of M&M's reporting stations with contemporary musk fulltime or during specific dayparts.
Stations are weighted by market size and by the number of hours per week.7W = This Week, LW = Last Week, NE = New Entry, TS = Total Stations
1,2 Indicates singles which previously featured in the Border Breakers chart 1 Highest new entry Va Greatest chart points gainer
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Universal Music Group in Europe The `UniGram' masterplan
G/S/AThe combined group's operations in Germanywill come under the command of Wolf -D. Gra-matke as chairman and CEO.
From January 1, Tim Renner, former MotorMusic MD, takes day-to-day responsibility aspresident music group for the Motor, Mercury,Polydor and Universal labels plus German clas-sical operations.
"Renner has delivered the best perfor-mance... in terms of music overall," says Gra-matke, who adds the appointment will cause"no friction" with MDs.
Gramatke says there will be redundanciesbut none "in the context of this merger." HeinzCanibol, the Universal regional VP for GSAwho launched Universal Germany in 1992,says he is "considering some options" bothinside the new company and elsewhere.
Universal Germany is expected to have amarket share of around 25 percent. Its corpo-rate headquarters will be the former PolyGrambase in Hamburg.
Gramatke will oversee Austria and Switzer-land. PolyGram Austria has been managed byPolyGram Switzerland MD Vico Antippas sinceJune. Austrian and Swiss Universal MDs JorgEiben and Rolf Sommer will leave shortly.
U.K. and EireIn Britain and Ireland, PolyGram chairmanJohn Kennedy becomes chairman and CEO ofUniversal Music U.K Universal MD NickPhillips exited his post in October; he becomesWarner U.K chairman on January 1.
According to data from U.K. chart suppli-er Millward Brown, PolyGram had an albumsmarket share of 23.1 percent during the thirdquarter of 1998; Universal's share was 5.5percent. A announcement on Eire, wherePolyGram Ireland managing director PaulKeogh left on November 10, is due soon,according to Universal.
FranceIn France, the president of PolyGram Dis-ques, Pascal Negre, will be president/CEO ofthe new Universal Music France. AlainRebillard becomes executive vice presidentand chief fmancial officer. Says Negre: "Iexpect to announce the closure of [the old]Universal France as well as general redun-dancy plan." According to sources, around 60people would be affected by this -50 Univer-sal, 10 PolyGram. Negre says the final figurecould be lower, but adds: "some adjustmentscould happen during the first half of nextyear."
Current Universal France president GerardWoog is expected to announce his future plansshortly. Details of the restructuring are expect-ed by January 4.
Spain/PortugalJesus Lopez-currently senior VP of LatinAmerica-is relocating to Madrid as chairman,Iberian peninsula. Universal Music Spain MDCarlos Ituino takes the same position in thenew company; PolyGram lberica presidentPaco Bestard has already announced his exit(M&M December 5). Universal Argentina MDWalter Koln is tipped to head Mercury Spain.
In Portugal, PolyGram MD Ruch Steen-huisen becomes the new company's MD, withformer Universal Music head Pedro Gaspar inan as -yet -unspecified executive role.
racyAt time of going to press, the situation of Uni-versal Music Italy president Piero La Falce andPolyGram Italy president Stefano Senardi wasunclear. Sources say that La Falce and Senardiwere both offered positions with the new com-pany, with La Falce in the senior role of presi-dent. However, Senardi was reportedly unhap-py about working under La Falce, who is due toretire in two years.
ScandinaviaIn the Scandinavian territories, Thomas Hed-strom, PolyGram Sweden CEO and PolyGramContinental Europe VP of Eastern Europe,becomes Universal Music International VPEastern Europe, based in London. "I'm anemployee and HI have to work according to mysuperiors' directives," Hedstrom says. "If I don'tapprove, I am able to leave the company. But Ihave chosen to stay."
Gert Holmfred, currently Universal MusicScandinavia area director and Universal MusicSweden MD, will head the new Swedish compa-ny. Stefan Fryland, MD of PolyGram Denmark,becomes chairman of Universal Music Den-mark; Universal Music Denmark MD JensOtto Paludan becomes MD.
BeneluxIn the Netherlands, the new Universal Musicwill be headed by Theo Roos, currently presi-dent/CEO of PolyGram Holland and VPEurope. Kees van Weijen, general manager atUniversal Holland, becomes MD of MercuryHolland, replacing Paul Brinks, who isresigning.
An integration team of Roos, Van Weijenand Niel van Hoff-presently general manag-er at Polydor Holland-is discussing restruc-turing plans which reportedly will cost atleast 30 of the 130 jobs at the two companies.Roos comments: "It is too early to tell exactlyhow all positions at the new company will befilled. Partly it depends on the process thatinvolves unions and works councils." ThePolyGram buildings in Hilversum are likelyto be Universal's new headquarters.
A Mask & Media and Billboard staff report
Meet the new boss...The Seagram Company LtdEdgar Bronfman Jr., president and chief executive officer
Universal Music GroupDoug Morris, chairman and chief executive officerBruce Hack, vice chairmanZach Horowitz, president/chief operating officerNeal Cravens, chief financial officer
U.S. operationsUniversal Records Group (New York)Mel Lewinter, chairmanJean Riggins, presidentKedar Massenburg, president/CEO Motown RecordsLabels: Universal Records, Motown Records
Interscope Music Group (Los Angeles)Jimmy Iovine, Ted Field, Tom Whalley, co-chairmenLabels: Interscope, Geffen/DGC Records, A&M Records
Island/Mercury (New York)Jim Caparro*, chairmanJolla Reid*, presidentLabels: Island Records, Mercury Records
MCA Records (Los Angeles)Jay Boberg, president
in the U.K. (John Kennedy), France(Pascal Negre/Alain Rebillard), Ger-many (Wolf -D. Gramatke, with TimRenner), the Netherlands (TheoRoos) and Belgium (Dirk de Clip-peleir). Universal excutives pre-vailed in Sweden (Gert Holmfred),and in Spain (Jesus Lopez,Carlos Ituino). A decisionregarding the Italian affiliatewas still to be finalised atpress time.
Larsen told M&M that hefavoured "an all-star teamapproach," looking at eachindividual situation. Heexplains that ever since the acquisi-tion was announced in May, he hasbeen travelling and gathering infor-mation around the world, beforemaking some plans "based on thecompany's assets, their artists andthe management."
"It is obvious that in Europe, Poly -Gram has a large structure whichbecame the foundation of the newcompany," says Larsen. "Part of theexercise was to look at theorganisation and force one-self to see who the best peo-ple were for these jobs. Andin most cases, the Poly -Gram people will run thenew companies."
The most dramaticchanges will take place inthe U.S., where a series of new oper-ating units was set up "combiningthe best of both organisations,"according to a company statement.However, in North America, most ofthe key management positions havebeen filled by Universal executives(see table below).
On the international scene out-side of Europe, Larsen has retainedPolyGram executives in most of thekey territories. Two regions, LatinAmerica and Asia/Pacific, continuewith former PolyGram executives,respectively Manolo Diaz and Nor-man Cheng.
It is unofficially anticipated thataround 3,000 out of 15,500 jobs (8 -
Del Jam (New York)Russell Simmons, chairmanLyor Cohen, CEOKevin Liles, president
Verve/GRP (New York)Tommy LiPuma, chairmanRon Goldstein, president
Universal Music & Video Distribution (Los Angeles)Henry Droz, president
MCA Music Publishing (Los Angeles)David Renzer, president
InternationalUniversal Music International (London)Jorgen Larsen, chairman and chief executive officer (also directlyoverseeing Europe)Tim Bowen, senior VP, business affairs/GM business developmentBoyd Buir, senior VP finance
Regional managersNorman Cheng*, president, Universal Music Asia/PacificManolo Diaz*, president, Universal Music Latin America
European managersJohn Kennedy*, president, Universal Music U.K,Pascal Negre*, president, Universal Music FranceAlain Rebillard*, executive vice president/CFO, Universal Music FranceWolf -D. Gramatke*, chairman/CEO, Universal Music Germany,
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9,000 outside North America), willbe lost as a result of the merger,although the magnitude of Europeanlosses is not specified. Says Larsen:`There's an obvious overlap of cer-tain functions, mostly in the serviceand back -office areas, and some will
disappear. Exactly howmany, I don't know, butit'll probably be in thehundreds."
The week before theDecember 10 announce-ments, Larsen says, heran a series of meetingswith the key executives,
who presented him with plans forthe future in terms of organisationand strategy. "It was quite an inter-esting experiment," he says. "Whenone read about what was going onin the press, it was all about trau-ma, demotivation, bloodbath. It hasbeen difficult for people from bothcompanies-and certainly inEurope Universal people were quitetraumatised because they were
likely to suffer more-butpeople have dealt with thesituation with maturityand motivation. The Poly -Gram management haveresponded very positively.They came with ideas forstructures that weresometimes quite different
from what they are now, and some-times leaner."
He adds: "I'm amazed at howpositive all these people have been.They didn't see this as a cost savingexercise, but a way to create astructure for the future that willput us ahead of our competitors foryears to come."
Next week, Larsen will moveoffice to PolyGram's headquarters inSt James Square, London to get onwith the integration process. "I wantto get the integration process overwith as quickly and efficiently aspossible, so that we can get back tothe heart of our business, which ismaking hit records."
also oversseing Austria/SwitzerlandTim Renner*, president Music, Universal Music GermanyVico Antippas*, managing director, Universal Music Switzer-land/AustriaThomas Hedstrom*, VP Eastern Europe, UMITheo Roos*, president, Universal Music NetherlandsGert Holmfred, president, Universal Music SwedenStefan Fryland*, chairman, Universal Music DenmarkJens -Otto Paludan, managing director, Universal Music DenmarkPetter Singaas, managing director, Universal Music NorwayGugi Kokljuschkin*, managing director, Universal Music FinlandDirk de Clippeleir*, managing director, Universal Music BelgiumJesus Lopez, chairman, Universal Music Iberian peninsulaCarlos Ituino, managing director, Universal Music SpainRuth Steenhuisen*, managing director, Universal Music Portugal* indicates former PolyGram executives
PolyGram executives who are leaving
Jan Cook, chief executive officer & CEO, PolyGram (retiring)Roger Ames, president, PolyGram Music and group executive vicepresident, PolyGramRick Dobbis, president, PolyGram Continental Europe (moving toSony Music International as executive vice president);Danny Goldberg, chairman, Mercury GroupAl Cafaro, president A&MGeorge Jackson, president MotownDavid Hockman, chief executive, PolyGram International MusicPublishingDavitt Sigerson, chairman, Island Records USAChuck Mitchell, managing director, VervePaco Bestard, president, PolyGram Spain
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Queen Celine reigns supremeby Christian Lorenz
LONDON - Without question, CelineDion was Europe's artist of the yearin 1998, taking home six salesawards in a coup unprecedented inthe history of Music & Media's Euro-pean charts.
Dion tops both the singles andalbum year-end charts. She is alsothe best selling artist in both cate-gories overall, and therefore takesthe honours as the biggest sellingfemale act on both charts. Theartist's English language album Let'sTalk About Love (Epic/Columbia),released on 17 November 1997, iseasily the biggest selling album inEurope so far this decade.
"We have reached the nine mil-lion mark with Let's Talk AboutLove in Europe now," says SonyMusic Europe senior VP marketingRichard Ogden. "Our aim is toachieve 12 million by the end ofDion's tour next summer."
The International Federation ofthe Phonographic Industry confirmsthat the last official European salesupdate for the album, dating from
September this year, hasLet's Talk at 8.5 millionunits-that's more than anyother album has reachedsince IFPI Platinum Europestatistics began in January1994. If Sony hits its target,Let's Talk will be the firstalbum ever to achieve a dou-ble-digit Platinum Europecertificate from the IFPI.
According to Sony, Let'sTalk About Love has sold 50 percentmore in Europe than its 1996 prede-cessor, Falling Into You. Ogdenattributes the growth of Dion's fan -base "specifically to My Heart WillGo On," the theme tune from the20th Century Fox's blockbustermovie Titanic. The single, which topsthe 1998 Eurochart Hot 100, soldfive million units across Europe.
The marketing of Let's Talk willcontinue next year with the releaseof Treat Her Like A Lady, the fifthsingle from the album. "Treat HerLike A Lady is due out at the begin-ning of March to build up for Dion'stour of Europe in June and July,"confirms Ogden.
During thepast 18 months,Dion hasreached a cre-ative peak whichhas culminatedin a string offour Europeanhit albums: theothers are theFrench -languagerecording S'il
Suffisait D'Aimer (Epic/Columbia),the Christmas set These Are SpecialTimes (Epic/Columbia) and VH-1Divas Live (Epic), on which Dionfeatures alongside Mariah Carey,Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklinand Shania Twain.
However, the Canadian isunlikely to continue to record atsuch a pace. With plans firmly inplace to work Let's Talk About Loveuntil the end of July next year, talkabout an English language followup to the album remains nothingmore than speculation for now. "Wehave no news with regard to a newEnglish -language album," saysOgden.
SPD considers national radioradio stations could be given theright to network programming or begranted nationwide frequencies.
However, any attempt to intro-duce national commercial radio inGermany is likely to involve majorconstitutional difficulties. Nationalbroadcasting was outlawed in thecountry's federal constitution drawnup by the Allies after the war,although it is true that, in recentyears, commercial TV stations havemanaged to operate on a quasi -national basis.
Finding new frequencies for
national radio stations would also bea problem, although the advent ofdigital radio-to which the new gov-ernment is heavily committed-could provide answers to this prob-lem.
Stefan H6per, programmingdirector for Germany's CHR Energynetwork, says: "The realisation ofnational stations is not a matter ofdays away, but in one or two years Ithink the political changes couldhave been made to enable it to hap-pen. rm sure that national commer-cial stations on top of the existing
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regional system would be financiallyinteresting, and could bring newways of making radio to Germany."
Andi Reiz, radio promotionsmanager for EMI Germany, says:"I do not believe that this is goingto happen-the suggestions madeto the Media Commission wouldnot be possible without a change tothe existing law. But if it does, thefight to get on playlists will beeven harder. The [regional] systemas it exists now is exhausting [forrecord companies], but there isalso more room for niches."
Record companies to start radio stations?
desverband Phono. "But the dis-cussions on this subject have notbeen completed yet."
Stein said that a chain of label -backed stations playing a widerrange of new music could help toreverse stagnant record sales in Ger-many, which he estimates fell by 4.5-5 percent this year. The proposal doeshave a precedent. In 1993 Sony,Warner Music, EMI and PolyGramfounded German -language Music TVchannel Viva. With its self-imposedquota of 40 percent German -pro-duced acts, the Cologne -based stationis widely credited with boosting salesof German -language pop.
"Certainly, there's space for newformat niches in this market,"admits Stephan Offierowski, pro-gramme director of Bavarian region-al AC station Antenne Bayern. "Butif the labels think they can just setup a new station, they aren't beingrealistic, from either a political or acommercial point of view."
Politically, German radio is reg-ulated by the country's regionalstate governments, and national
stations or networking is notallowed under the German consti-tution at the moment. A new chainof stations backed by the recordindustry would therefore have toapply separately to each of Ger-many's 16 state governments for alicence-a procedure that couldtake years-and would not be ableto share programming.
Offierowski also notes that, inmost states, the FM band isalready full. "There's an FM fre-quency available in Berlin, andone in Bremen. If they [the recordcompanies] applied there, theoreti-cally, a new station could belaunched quite quickly, within ayear or so. But in the big states,Bavaria, North Rhein Westphalia,there's simply no frequencies left."
However, the labels could findencouragement in the new Ger-man government's apparent will-ingness to contemplate introducingnational commercial radio (seeseparate story, front page) and bythe development of digital radio.
But even if a chain of record
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company -backed stations was ableto make it onto the airwaves,many existing commercial broad-casters believe that any non -main-stream, "cutting edge" music for-mat would simply not becommercially viable in Germany.
"Stein mentioned Viva as anexample," says Bernt von zurMuellen, managing director ofBerlin's regional Hot AC station RTL104.6. 'Well, Viva plays hits too.Their percentage of new or experi-mental acts is very, very small. If therecord companies really set up a sta-tion, they'll soon find out that it's avicious circle. The only way to get anaudience is by playing hits."
But Von zur Muellen acknowl-edges that German stations andlabels could work together moreclosely, co-ordinating play listsbetter with the label's A&Rrequirements. "Maybe there hasn'tbeen enough discussion in the pastbetween the two branches of theindustry," he observes. "If Stein iscalling for more communication,then I welcome that."
R3, Los 40 atcharity gigsby Howell Llewellyn
MADRID - Two Spanish networkswere closely involved with two majormusic events held in aid of humani-tarian causes last week.
On December 10, as M&M wasgoing to press, alternative public sta-tion RNE Radio 3 was scheduled tobroadcast some 14 hours of livemusic and special features fromMadrid and Paris to commemoratethe 50th anniversary of the word -wide Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights.
Meanwhile, leading commercialCHR network Los 40 Principaleswas set to welcome a number ofSpain's top -selling artists (includingAlejandro Sanz, Jarabe de Palo,Ketama, Ella Baila Sola and Matti)to perform at its sell-out concert atMadrid's Sports Pavillion on Decem-ber 11. The concert was organised byLos 40 in order to raise an estimatedPta30 million ($211,000) for victimsof Hurricane Mitch in Honduras,Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Sal-vador.
Says Maid of her decision to per-form (like the other artists) for freeat the concert: "There are many peo-ple who have died [in hurricaneMitch], or who have lost their fami-lies and homes. This is not some-thing we can solve in two months oreven in two years, but anything wecan do helps."
Ketama members Juan and Jose-mi Carmona agree that "many peo-ple are suffering, and this is just afirst step. Hopefully in a few yearsthese concerts will not be necessaryany more." Los 40 director JavierPons adds that his network isalready starting to organise a fur-ther week of fund-raising activitiesfor next February.
Meanwhile, the Paris concertbroadcast by RNE Radio 3 was thecentrepiece of worldwide HumanRights anniversary celebrations onDecember 11, and was scheduledto include performances from thelikes of Bruce Springsteen, AlanisMorissette, Radiohead, Page andPlant and Youssou N'Dour. Artistslined up to play live in Madridincluded Dover, RaimundoAmador, Javier Vargas andIsmael Serrano.
For the RecordFollowing our recent news storyon the future of Austria's BlueDanube Radio, (M&M, November28), we would like to clarify that,while ORF is proposing to useBlue Danube's existing FM fre-quency for other types of program-ming, it is not proposing to shutdown Blue Danube Radio entirelyas a programme -making opera-tion. Under ORF proposals, someprogrammes made by BlueDanube Radio may still appear onvarious ORF networks.
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AIRPLAY
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9 8 Border BreakersMainland European records breaking out of their country of signing
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TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original LabelCountryOf Signing TS
1 1 14 MEJA/ALL 'BOUT THE MONEY (COLUMBIA) SWEDEN 71
(2) 3 6 734)- (Universal)Emilia/Big Big World ,) ' SWEDEN
4. \
(3) 2 9 The Tamperer feat. Maya/If You Buy This Record (Time/Jive) ITALY 79
4 4 20 Eagle -Eye Cherry/Falling In Love Again (Superstudio/Polydor) SWEDEN 48
5 5 14 The Cardigans/My Favourite Game (Trampolene/Stockholm) SWEDEN 46
(6) 7 7 Sash! feat. Shannon/Move Mania (X -IT) GERMANY 42
7 8 6 Eros Ramazzotti & Joe Cocker/That's All I Need To Know (DDD) ITALY 33
8 6 15 Lutricia McNeaUSomeone Loves You Honey (Siljemark/CNR/Wildstar) SWEDEN 27
9 9 11 Venga Boys/We Like To Party (Violator/Jive) HOLLAND 27
(16' 11 8 Aqua/Good Morning Sunshine (Universal) DENMARK 29
(11 i 16 6 Ace Of Base/Travel To Romantis (Mega/Polydor) DENMARK 29
12 12 6 Venga Boys/Up And Down (Violator/Jive) HOLLAND 21
13 10 21 Stardust/Music Sounds Better With You RouleNirgin) FRANCE 24
14 13 7 Zucchero/Blu (Polydor) ITALY 26
15 14 26 4 The Cause/Stand By Me (RCA) GERMANY 12
(16' 21 3 Ace Of Base/Always Have, Always Will (Mega/Polydor) DENMARK 22
(17) 22 8 Ophelie Winter/I Spy (East West) FRANCE 16
18 19 6 Anggun/Snow On The Sahara (Columbia) FRANCE 8
(a* - NE Lutricia McNeal/The Greatest Love You'll Ever Know (Siljemark/CNR/Wildstar) SWEDEN 20
20 15 5 Bacon Popper/Free (S.A.I.F.A.M.) ITALY 19
21 20 5 Jessica Folcker/Tell Me What You Like (Jive/Zomba) SWEDEN 13
22 17 9 Edyta Gorniak/Anything (EMI) POLAND 19
23 23 5 Cartoons/Doodah (EMI -Medley) SWEDEN 10
24 24 8 Manau/La Tribu De Dana (Polydor) FRANCE 13
CI > NE Nek/Sto' Con Te (WEA) ITALY 10
TW = This Week, LW = Last Week, WOC = Weeks On Chart, TS = Total Stations, NE = New Entry, RE = Re -Entry. Titles registering a significant point gain are awarded a bullet.Chart,
indicates the Road Runner award, assigned to the single with the biggest Increase In chart points.
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Some details of the "UniGram" internationalreorganisation (see story, front page) were stillbeing hammered out right up until the compa-ny's own December 10 deadline, as M&M went topress. The most delicate case was Italy, whereLairs chairman Jorgen Larsen favoured a sit-uation which would have seen Nero La Falceand Stefano Senardi, respectively MD ofUniversal and PolyGram, working together.Both were in London onDecember 9 to meet withLarsen, with no apparentresult. Also still unclear isthe operating internation-al marketing structure ofUMI. David Munns,PolyGram's senior VP popmarketing, is expected toleave and a UMI sourcesays that "Munn' setupwill not be continued." A new structure will becreated, in which it is understood that currentUMI senior VP marketing and A&R Max Hole"will play a major role," according to a source.
The "UniGram" announcements mean aninteresting turnaround for German hip -hop labelBooya, which left its old partner, PolyGram'sMotor Music, to strike a new licensing dealwith Universal Music in March (see story, page6). But under the newly merged operation, Booyafinds itself back under the auspices of formerMotor MD Tim Renner, who is the new presi-dent, music, of Universal Music Germany.
Paul Oakenfold, who took his labelPerfecto out of East West Records' portfolioearlier this year, is said to be joining forces withMushroom Records U.K. managing directorKorda Marshall. Sources close to the companysay a label deal between Perfecto and Mushroomis close to being signed. Perfecto's most recentrelease, the Dope Smugglaz' single The Word isalready marketed through Mushroom.
U.K label Xtravaganza and German indieedel will not extend their three-year licensingagreement. The last release under the old dealwill be the label compilation Sleepless Nights,due out January 25. The split is "amicable"according to Xtravaganza MD Alex Gold. A newGerman licensing partner for the label has notyet been announced.
The future of Onda Cero Radio (OCR),Spain's third largest commercial radio group,has been assured even if the ongoing takeovertalks with telecommunications giantTelefonica ultimately fail. The pledge hascome from Jose Maria Arroyo, chairman of
OCR's owner ONCE, thenational blind people's chari-ty. It is understood that nego-tiations with Telefonica wereat a "very advanced" stage,but that "various difficulties"are still being faced. OCR's
price tag is thought to be in the region of Ptal8billion ($127 million).
U.K. broadcasters Capital Radio and EmapRadio are formalising a partnership to apply forlocal digital radio multiplex franchises in Londonand Birmingham, which will be advertised by theRadio Authority next year.
Finally, OTR hears that, as expected, theDanish government will announce shortly that itis awarding the country's fourth national FM fre-quency to public broadcaster Danmarks Radio,which already runs the country's other threenational stations. However, as a sop to the com-mercial sector, the government is likely to offerlocal commercial stations increases in their trans-mission power and greater scope for networking.
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AIRPLAYweek 51 /98 Major Market Airplay
The most aired songs in Europe's leading radio markets1W=This Week, LW; Last Week, WOC=Weeks On Chart, TS=Total Stations
UNITED KINGDOMTW LW WOC ArtistiPitle Original Label TS TW LW WOC
1 2 4 WILL SMITH/MIAMI (COLUMBIA) 26 1 1 92 5 4 Madonna/The Power Of Good-Bye(Maverick/Warner Bros.) 27 2 2 63 15 3 Bryan Adams/When You're Gone (A&M) 24 3 3 54 3 5 Corrs/So Young (Lava/Atlantic) 25 4 4 65 9 4 Robbie Williams/No Regrets (Chrysalis) 22 5 6 86 7 3 Emilia/Big Big World (Universal) 25 6 10 12
7 I 8 Cher/Believe (WEA) 26 7 8 6
8 a NE Beautiful South/Dumb (Go Discs/Mercury) 22 8 5 8
9 16 2 Manic Street Preachers/The Everlasting (Epic) 21 9 14 2
10 19 2 Spice Girls/Goodbye (Virgin) 23 10 16 3
ll 10 4 Boyzone/I Love The Way... (Polydor) 24 11 13 212 a NE Wwitched/To You I Belong (Glow Worm/Epic) 21 12 19 4
13 4 3 Savage Garden/I Want You (Columbia) 24 13 11 214 17 2 Honeyz/End Of The Line (1st Avenue/Mercury) 21 14 17 3
15 11 3 Venga Boys/Up And Down (Violator/Jive) 18 15 9 16
16 12 6 All Saints/War Of Nerves (London) 20 16 7 917 a NE Jay-Z/Hard Knock Life 18 17 a NE18 6 7 Tamperer/If You Buy 21 18 15 919 13 11 George MichaellOutside 21 19 n NE20 a RE U2/Sweetest Thing (Island) 19 20 n NE
Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
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TW LW WOC Artist/Title
II I=IN =I
Original Label TS
1 1 9 CHER/BELIEVE (WEA)2 14 2 Spice Girls/Goodbye (Virgin)3 3 5 Bryan Adams/When You're Gone (A&M)4 2 7 Madonna/The Power Of Good -Bye (Maverick/Warner Bros.)5 9 3 Robbie Williams/No Regrets (Chrysalis)6 a RE Whitney & Mariah/When You Believe (Columbia)7 11 2 Manic Street Preachers/The Everlasting (Epic)8 6 11 Mania Morissette/Thank U (Maverick/Warner Bros.)9 7 12 Jennifer Brown/Tuesday Afternoon (Arista)10 4 11 George Michael/Outside (Epic)11 12 3 C.Dion/R.Kelly/I'm Your Angel (Epic/Columbia)12 8 9 Emilia/Big Big World (Universal)13 18 3 Tamperer/If You Buy (Time/Jive)14 10 4 Honeyz/Finally Found (1st Avenue/Mercury)15 19 3 Stars On 45/If You Could Read (Tommy Boy)16 a- NE Jessica Folcker/How Will I Know (Jive/Zomba)17 16 10 Beautiful South/Perfect 10 (Go Discs/Mercury)18 a NE Boyzone/I Love The Way... (Polydor)19 20 3 Sheryl Crow/1 here Goes The (A&M)20 13 2 Will Smith/Miami (Columbia)
2217
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1616
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Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
SPAIN1W LW WOC Artist/Title
1 20 82 12 63 n NE4 10 55 9 36 7 2
7 16 2
8 5 69 4 2
10 3 511 n NE12 1 713 n RE14 8 4
15 n RE16 19 217 18 918 15 219 14 220 13 2
ROSANA/CONTIGOSabor Ketama/Como Librarme De TiJarabe De Palo/AguaMarta Sanchez/Quiero Mas De TiGloria Estefan/Cuba LibreEspecialistas/Vivo VivoBruce Springsteen/Sad EyesNell.Lo/La Banda Del/Palabras VaciasLa Oreja De Van Gogh/Cuentame Al OidoElla Baila Sola/DespideteSheryl Crow/There Goes TheAlvaro Urquijo/Cada MinutoJewel/HandsCher/Believe
Original Label TS
(MCA)(Mercury)
(Virgin)(Mercury)
(Epic)(Polydor)
(Columbia)(Universal)
(Epic)(Hispavox)
(A&M)(Columbia)
(Atlantic)(WEA)
Madonna/The Power Of Good Bye (Maverick/Warner Bros.)Lenny Kravitz/Fly Away (Virgin)Manolo Garcia/Zapatero (Ariola)Oasis/The Masterplan (Creation)Seal/Human Beings (Warner Bros.)Whitney & Mariah/When You Believe (Columbia)
GSAOriginal Label TS TWArtist/Title
CHER/BELIEVE (WEA) 37 1
Madonna/The Power Of Good -ByeSasha/If You Believe
(Maverick/Warner Bros.)(WEA)
3630
234
Des'ree/What's Your Sign? (Sony S2) 30 5Oli P./Flugzeuge Im Bauch (Ariola) 27 6
Boyzone/No Matter WhatU2/Sweetest Thing
(Polydor) 2229
789
Alanis Morissette/Thank U (Maverick/Warne(rIsanBlrosd.)) 28 1098 Degrees/True (Motown) 25 11
C.Dion/ILKelly/Tm Your AngelRobbie Williams/No Regrets
(Epic/Columbia)(Chrysalis)
2324
121314
Bryan Adams/When You're Gone 26 15Spice Girls/GoodbyeDown Low/Once Upon A TimeJennifer Paige/Crush
(Virgin)
(Edel)
242120
16171819
George Michael/Outside (Epic) 23 20Emilia/Big Big World (Universal) 21 21
R.E.M./DaysleeperJanet Jackson/Every Time
(Warner Bros.)(Virgin)
2121
222324
Will Smith/Miami (Columbia) 22 25
Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
ETHE NETHERLANDSTW LW WOC Artistflale
1 4 6 MADONNA/THE POWER OF GOOD-BYE2 9 7 Cher/Believe3 1 17 Jennifer Paige/Crush4 38 5 Carey/Houston/When You Believe5 3 8 BiK BigWorld/Emilia6 2 12 Mem/All 'Bout The Money7 5 4 Kelly/Dion/I Am Your Angel8 10 13 Boyzone/No Matter What9 7 30 Henk Westbroek/Zelfs Je Naam Is Mooi10 17 6 98 Degrees/True To Your Heart11 6 15 VolumiallHou Me Vast12 8 3 Trijntje Oosterhuis/Vlieg Met Me Mee13 22 11 George Michael/Outside14 18 4 Tamperer/If You Buy This Record15 NE 1 Jay-Z/Hard Knock Life16 12 8 U2/Sweetest Thing17 21 9 Aaliyah/Are You That Somebody18 53 3 Ilse De Lange/I'D Be Yours19 16 8 Vengaboys/Boom Boom20 19 6 Dru Hillalow Deep Is Your Love21 20 10 Alanis Morissette/Thank U22 11 16 Marco Borsato/Het Water23 26 28 Des'ree/Life24 13 8 Jewel/Hands25 82 3 Five/Until The Time Is Through
Local Label
(WARNER)(Warner)
(Roadrunner)(Columbia)(Universal)(Columbia)(Columbia)
(Polydor)(Mercury)(Polydor)
(RCA)(BMG)(Epic)
(Zomba)(BMG)
(Mercury)(Warner)(Warner)(Zomba)
(Mercury)(Maverick)
(Polydor)(Epic)
(WarMGner)(B)Data supplied by Aircheck Nederland from an electronically monitored panel of national (8) and
regional stations (8). Songs are ranked by number of plays and weighted by audience
POLANDTW LW WOC Artist/Title Original Label TS
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FRANCELW WOC Artist/1We Local Label
1 11 JENNIFER PAIGE/CRUSH (EDEL)4 3 Cher/Believe (WEA)
27 5 Alanis Morissette/Thank U (WEA)20 3 Carey/Houston/When You Believe (Columbia)18 5 Zazie/Tout Le Monde (Mercury)7 10 Meja/All 'Bout The Money (Columbia)14 11 Cleopatra/I Want You Back (WEA)8 7 Brandy/Mase/Top Of The World (Eastwest)
26 3 Florent Pagny/Mourir Les Yeux Ouverts (Mercury)24 6 Ensemble/Sa Raison D'Etre (V2)21 5 Queen/Wyclef/Another One Bites The Dust (Universal)13 6 U2/Sweetest Thing (Island)3 13 Eagle -Eye Cherry/Falling In Love (Polydor)6 13 LavoieTiori/Belle (Pomme)
35 10 Lenny Kravitz/I Belong To You (Virgin)5 23 Axelle Red/Rester Femme (Virgin)11 8 Teri Moise/Fais Semblaint (Source)10 5 Stomy Bugu/Gangster D'Amour (Columbia)17 6 George Michael/Outside (Epic)9 22 Stardust/Music Sounds Better (Labels)15 7 Celine DionS'll Suffisait (Columbia)16 4 Organiz'/Are U Ready (M6 hit.)25 10 Laam/Chanter Pour Ceux Qui Sont Loin (DLA)19 7 Matmatah/Lambe An Dro (Trema)2 14 Jean -Jacques Goldman/Bonne Id& (Columbia)
Data supplied by SNEP/IPSOS from an electronically monitored panel of national andregional stations. Songs are ranked by number of plays and weighted by audience.
TW LW
1 1
2 23 44 55 3
6 14
7 68 79 16
10 811 912 11
13 10
14 12
15 13
16 15
17 17
18 18
19 1920 20
WOC Artist/Title Original Label TS
5 JENNIFER PAIGE/CRUSH (EDEL) 910 George MichaellOutside (Epic) 9
4 Karen Ramirez/If We Try (Manifesto) 9
6 Anggun/Snow On The Sahara (Columbia) 7
7 Alanis Morissette/Thank U (Maverick/Warner Bros.) 88 Zucchero/Blu (Polydor) 7
4 Tamperer/If You Buy (Time/Jive) 87 U2/Sweetest Thing (Island) 83 Whitney & Mariah/When You Believe (Columbia) 7
3 Spice Girls/Goodbye (Virgin) 6
8 Goo Goo Dolls/Iris (Reprise) 67 Neja/Shock (LUP/New Music) 612 X-Treme/Love Song (Dance Factory) 67 Meja/All 'Bout The Money (Columbia) 93 Robbie Williams/No Regrets (Chrysalis) 711 R.E.M./Daysleeper (Warner Bros.) 7
8 Ligabue/Ho Perso Le Parole (WEA) 6
4 Wamdue Project/King Of My Castle (Airplane) 5
5 Raf/Vita, Storie E Pensieri Di Un (CGD) 6
14 Aerosmith/I Don't Want To Miss (Columbia) 5
Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
TW LW WOC Arti et/Title
3 1 2 4 EROS RAMAZZOTTIfTHAT'S ALL I NEED TO (DDD) 9(Izabelin) 9
1 7
3 2 4 2 Kasia Kowalska/I Bedziez Znow 2 1
3 3 1 5 Seal/Human Beings (Warner Bros.) 9 3 53 4 16 2 MadonnafThe Power Of Good -Bye (Maverick/Warner Bros.) 10 4 83 5 5 2 Seventeen/Co Mi Dasz (Pomaton) 9 5 23 6 6 2 Will Smith/Miami (Columbia) 7 6 n3 7 3 5 Budka Suflera/Martwe Morze (New Abra) 8 7 13
3 8 13 4 Urszula/Dnie-Ye (Zic-Zac) 7 8 33 9 8 2 Simply Red/To Be Free (East West) 8 9 43 10 9 6 Justyna Steczkowska/Kryminalna Milosc (Pomaton) 8 10 17
3 11 > RE Lenny Kravitz/Fly Away (Virgin) 6 11 16
3 12 a NE Anioly/Jestem Aniolem (Zic Zac) 7 12 n3 13 10 4 Billie Myers/You Send Me Flying (Universal) 8 13 n3 14 > NE Basia/Clear Horizon (Epic) 11 14 >3 15 14 5 Metallica/Turn The Page (Vertigo) 6 15 10
3 16 a RE Bryan Adams/When You're Gone (A&M) 10 16 11
3 17 a NE Kirk Franklin/Lean On Me (Interscope) 9 17 a3 18 7 2 C.Dion/R.Kelly/I'm Your Angel (Epic/Columbia) 7 18 n3 19 a RE Rotary/Opowiesc (Izabelin) 8 19 n3 20 20 6 Magma/Dzien Jak Piekna (PolyGram) 7 20 n
Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.
CHER/BELIEVEGeorge Michael/OutsideUp/NapU2/Sweetest ThingRobbie Williams/MillenniumBryan Adams/On A Day Like TodayBoyzone/No Matter WhatPhil Collins/True ColoursJennifer Paige/CrushAmokfutok/Csak A CsillagokFive/Got The Feelin'Madonna/The Power Of Good -ByeMike Oldfield/Man In The RainC'Est La Vie/I Love You BabyV.IR/Rohan Az IdoAqua/Good Morning SunshineBon Bon/Szamlak, TV, SzodaSwirl 360/Hey Now NowEmberek/Forog A FoldAmokfutok/Nyugi Nyugi Bebi
Original Label
(WEA)(Epic)
(Record Express)(Island)
(Chrysalis)(A&M)
(Polydor)(Virgin/WEA)
(Edel)(Magneoton)
(RCA)(Maverick/Warner Bros.)
(WEA)(Sony)(BMG)
(Universal)(PolyGram)
(Mercury)(BMG)
(Magneoton)
Compiled by the Hungarian Commercial Radio Association on the basis of playlistreports, using a weighted -scoring system, based on audience size.
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