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BRTN CELEBRATES RADIO DONNA LAUNCH - BRTN directorgeneral Cos Goossens (middle right) and BRTN Radio director Piet vanRoe (middle left) sign the guestbook to kick off the March 27 launch ofEHR Radio Donna, the Belgian pubcaster's fifth radio channel. At theparty, bands such as The Radios and Leyers, Michiels & Soulsisterplayed for a 300+ crowd. (Photo: Raf Serruys)

Task ForcesMap BBC'sLandscape

by Mike McGeever

BBC Radio can breathe atemporary sigh of relief afterlearning that no majorchanges concerning pro-gramming or the possibilityof taking select advertisinghave been recommended inthe initial -draft reports fromthe 15 task forces appointedby the BBC.

Unauthorized copies ofthe drafts were made publiclast week by the Broadcast-ing Entertainment Cinemato-graph and Theatre Union(BECTU), the largest at theBBC. BECTU has chargedthat the BBC is planning tocut 10.000 jobs-more than a

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18.9% SHARE IN 1ST QUARTER

RTL France KeepsRatings Crown

by Steve Wonsiewicz &David Roe

RTL continues its winning streakas France's ratings leader with an18.9% audience cume share, aquarterly increase of 1.2 pointsbased on the January -March 1992Mediametrie sweep.

The CLT-owned full -servicepowerhouse sustained its widelead over runner-up generalist netEurope 1, which had an 11.7%cume share, up 0.7 points fromthe 1991 November -December

period. Both stations, however,had a falloff from a year earlier,when many listeners were tunedinto the nets for Gulf War cover-age.

Pubcaster France Inter news/talk and FM EHR net NRJearned the number three and fourspots with audience cume sharesof 11.3% and 9.7%, respectively.

Rounding out the top five wasanother pubcaster, news/talkFrance Info, which capitalizedon the country's elections to score


M&M 1st Qtr. Chart ChampsEMI European Album PolyGram Grabs TopWinner, Led By Queen Spot In EHR Top 40For the first time, EMI earned top honours for chartshare in M&M's 1992 first-quarter European Top100 Albums analysis. The company's share of 20.4%was largely attributable to one band-Queen.

Freddie Mercury's passing last year boostedsales of the band's Greatest Hits II album to overfour million units across Europe. That album aloneaccounts for no less than 7.4% of total album shares.the highest of the quarter.

In the wake of that success, theoriginal 1981 Greatest Hits albumre-entered the European Top 100Albums and reached the five -mil-lion mark in Europe. Other Queenalbums that contributed to EMI'snumber one position include Innu-endo and A Kind Of Magic.

EMI's impressive album chart PolyGram

share is likely to be continued fol-lowing the purchase of Virgin nearthe end of the first quarter (Feb. 28).


European Top 5Album Companies

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Sony

0% 5% 10', 15', 20% 25% 30%

Contributions from a wide variety of labels, includ-ing newly licensed Motown, propelled PolyGram tothe top spot in M&M's 1992 first quarter ERR Top40 chart share. PolyGram, which scored a 26.3%share, compared to runner-up Sony Music's 21.6%share, had 26 of the 97 records that entered the EHRTop 40.

PolyGram's most successful title and third mostpopular song overall was ShaniceWilson's I Love Your Smile(Motown). Although it never hitnumber 1 (it stayed a month atnumber 2), the song surpassedMichael Jackson's six -week chart -topper Black Or White in total chartpoints.

Other PolyGram-marketed re-cords that fared well include (inorder of total chart points) U2'sMysterious Ways (Island), WetWet Wet's Goodnight Girl (Pre -


NewspapersUpset Over

SwedishRadio Plans

by Gerard O'Dwyer

Sweden's first private com-mercial radio licences will beissued this autumn and sta-tions are expected to beallowed to begin broadcastingin 1993, according to a newreport entitled "Rules &Conditions For Private Radio"released by the country's Min-istry of Culture (MOC).

The report, intended as aguideline for MPs in advanceof a full-blown debate in theRiksdag (Parliament) later thisspring, has angered newspaperowners, which will be limitedto a 40% stake of new privatestations. The recommenda-tions, if upheld, also wouldprevent major media groupssuch as state broadcasterSveriges Radio and NordiskTelevision from owning com-


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by Robert Lyng

Recorded music shipments inGermany by members of coun-try's industry trade organizationBPW increased 10.8% to a recordDM4.04 billion (app. US$2.44billion) during 1991. The BPWalso estimated that anotherDM413.7 million in trade deliver-ies were shipped by non-membercompanies. Dealer -direct imports/exports are estimated at 5.5% andillegal pirate recordings at 3%(DM150 million) of total turnover.The results cemented the country'sranking as the world's third largestand Europe's largest market at9.5% of the worldwide turnoverof US$24 billion.

Two-thirds of the 10.8%growth in turnover (DM395 mil-lion) is attributed to sales in thefive new states, while only 33%of the growth can be attributed towest Germany.

CDs were once again the lead-ing soundcarrier, increasing 34%to 102.2 million units shipped(96.6 million to retail and 5.6 mil-lion to clubs and mail order), andaccounting for 62% of all sales.

Cassette deliveries edged upslightly, increasing 1.5% to 75.8million units (70.8 million toretail and five million to clubs);that represented 23% of all BPWmember sales.

As expected, vinyl albumshipments continued to decline,dropping 47% to 23.4 millionunits (20.7 million retail, 2.7 mil-

lion clubs); the format comprisedonly 9% of total trade deliveries.

Singles, which made up only6% of total shipments, also con-tinued to drop, down 8.5% to 24.9million units for all formats.While CD single trade deliveriesrose by 55% to 14.6 million units,vinyl seven-inch singles and 12 -inch maxi singles sold only 7.3million and three million units,respectively.

Album shipments increased3.4% to 201.4 million units, whilesingle deliveries dropped 8.5% to24.9 million units.

Six percent of the Germanpopulation (app. 80 million) pur-chased 10 or more soundcarrierslast year, comprising 45% of thetotal turnover. Another 14% ofthe turnover is spent by 21% ofthe population who buy betweenthree to 10 recordings per annum,while 28% of the population pur-chases only one or two each year.Some 45% of the population doesnot buy pre-recorded music.

The 29 -year -and -under agegroup, which comprises 30% ofthe population, is the biggestbuyer, making up 48% of thesoundcarrier market. The 30 -39 -year -olds (17% of the population)make up 23% of the music mar-ket. The 40 -49 -year -old agegroup makes up 15% of both thepopulation and the market, whilethe over -50, the largest populationgroup at 38%, makes up a mere14% of the turnover for recordedmusic.

Repertoire ShareWest East

Format ShareWest East

Pop 44.0% 40.1% CDs 67% 40.0%Classical 11.5% 6.1% Cassettes 17% 39.0%Rock/heavy metal 13.1% 7.5% Vinly LPs 10% 17.5%German schlager 8.3% 15.5% Singles 6% 3.5%German rock 4.5% 4.8%Volksmusik 3.7% 8.6%Children's 3.7% 5.4%

Source: BPW

Bright Prospects For GermanMusic Video Market: Up 60%An estimated 2.1 million musicvideo units were shipped in Ger-many last year, a 60% increaseover 1990, according to theresults of a study commissionedby the video working group of theGerman recording industry asso-ciation BPW and carried out byG&I. The companies involvedinclude BMG Ariola, CastleCommunications, MCEG Vir-gin, PolyGram, Rainbow, SonyMusic, EMI Electrola, east westRecords and Warner Music.

Video shipments totalledDM66 million (app. US$40 mil-lion). The average unit price wasDM31.20. The price categoriesDM35-39 and DM25-29 eachcomprised 25% of the market,while the DM30-35 and DM15-20 price groups made up 17% ofthe market, respectively.

Fifty percent of all musicvideos were sold in record stores.Department stores accounted for25%, mail order 11%, consumer

markets 9%, clubs 6%; pop musicrepresented 60% of all deliveries,while rock comprised 20%. Clas-sical productions made up lessthan 2% of the total.

G&I also revealed that 56.9%of music video buyers purchase10 or more CDs per year. With anestimated potential of 3.9 millionconsumers, the study forecastsshipments of four to five millionunits per annum by the middle ofthe decade. While the 20 -29 -year -olds and the 30 -39 -year -olds buythe most videos, taking 35% and28% of the market, respectively,the study indicates the potentialdevelopment of the under -20 agegroup, which is expected to inher-it old model VCRs as their par-ents upgrade equipment.

The video music workinggroup predicts a turnover ofDM120 million by 1994, at whichtime nationally released productwill comprise 80% of the sales.

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PolyGram Germany chair-man Wolf -D. Gramatke pointsout that sales in former east Ger-many, which totalled approximate-ly DM600 million, comprised13% of the unified Germanturnover. He also stressed signifi-cant differences in buying patternsbetween the east and the west Ger-mans, pointing out that those inthe new states clearly prefer moreGerman -language product.

Gramatke also noted that buy-ers in eastern Germany are moreprice conscious than their westerncounterparts. They tend to buy

considerably more low-pricedproduct. For some labels, thesesales comprise up to 60% of theirturnover.

The price of CDs was one ofthe most hotly debated topics of1991. Virgin Germany MD UdoLange says that while the cost ofconcert tickets has risen to DM50-60, CD prices have continuallydropped. EMFElectrola's HelmutFest indicates that in 1990, theconsumer paid an averageDM29.70 for a full -price CD com-pared to DM36.10 in 1983.

JOHN JOINS POLYGRAM - PolyGram president/CEO Alain Levy(right) and Elton John celebrate the artist's move to a PolyGram label inthe US. Phonogram has been marketing John's product elsewhere in theworld since 1977. Under the new deal, John will reportedly deliver up tosix albums for the company.

MONTREUX MONITORLearning About Your Listeners

As privatiza-tion of Eu-rope's radiomarkets be-gins to takehold, a

NagMONTREUXJUNE 10-13, 1992

greater em-phasis will be placed on listen-er research. European adver-tisers may increasinglydemand that private stationowners reveal their audiencenumbers or face possible with-drawals of advertising. Wel-come to the real world of com-petitive radio.

Audience measurementtechniques aie widely used byUS broadcasters to pre-testprogramming ideas, conductstudies on preferred transmis-sion hours and develop under -served target audiences. Manystations' fortunes rise and fallon audience numbers.

When private US radio wasin its infancy, there was noreal need for listener research.One or two radio stations werethe only game in town, givingthem little choice or leverage.But increasing competitionchanged that picture forever inthe US -a change which islikely to take shape in Europe

over the nexttwo or threeyears, andone whichunderscoresthe need todevelop audi-

ence research techniqueswhich advertisers value anddemand.

NAB Radio Montreux,held June 10-13, it designedto show European broadcast-ers how they can meet theseadvertiser expectations. Aspecial session has beendeveloped featuring some ofEurope's top broadcasters,explaining how Europe'sradio industry can developlistener research. This ses-sion will focus on surveysspecifically tailored to attractmore advertising dollars forstations and to deliver bot-tom -line results for advertis-ers.

To register for the NABconference in Montreux, callNAB Radio Montreux inSwitzerland at tel: (+41)21.963 1212; fax: (+41)21.963 7895. For informa-tion, tel: (+41) 21.963 3220;fax: (+41) 21.963 8851.

MUSIC & MEDIA APRIL 25 1992 3


UNITED KINGDOM

Regional Specialist FormatPlans Get Mixed Reviews

by Mike McGeever

The Radio Authority's tentativeplan to advertise at least fiveregional specialist -format licencesin the autumn has met with mixedreaction in the commercial radioand related industries.

A top executive with one ofthe country's larger broadcastinggroups has his doubts about thecommercial viability of the sta-tions. "The services won't appealto local advertisers because theywant to reach a specific area orcity," he says. "They are not look-ing for a region. Meanwhile,national advertisers will be hard toconvince because specialist for-mats are unlikely to reach morethan 15% of the area-half of thereach of the primary services.There is very little local advertis-ing, certainly not enough to makea living."

However, regional stationsmay bring in new advertising rev-

enue to commercial ' radio, hesays, suggesting that it may comefrom local newspapers.

London consultant/researchgroup Hallett Arendt chairpersonDeanna Hallett is more,ponfidentabout the outlook for such sta-tions. "Radio is already being soldon a regional basis," she says.But, Hallett adds, it is importantfor the stations to identify thoseniches which will win listenerswithout eroding the audience ofexisting commercial broadcasters,therefore making it both attractiveto advertisers and acceptable tothe rest of the industry.

London -based Radio SalesCompany MD Don Thomsonargues that anything whichexpands the commercial radiomarket in terms of the total num-ber of listeners is good news."Business is business. Peoplehave to understand that," he says."The more radio stations thereare-as long as they are profes-

The World's Greatest Line-up?The World's Greatest MusicStation/Peterborough (WGMS)has signed up a marathon run-ner, a stand-up comedian and a140 -kilo heavyweight as thecornerstones in its new DJ line-up. The new presenters (pic-tured below), in order of spe-cialty, are Andy Grahamme,Rob Jones and Dougie King.

WGMS, which hit the air -

Andy Grahamme Dougie King

waves on April 14 broadcastingon 1332 AM, features a goldmix of oldies from the '50s, '60sand '70s, as well as airing regu-lar news reports and sports.

WGMS parent company, theMid Anglia Radio Group, hasalso acquired the franchise forKings Lynn and will launchKings Lynn FM later this year.

Rob Jones

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sionally run-the better. Itprovides for listener choice andcompetition."

Media buyer Zenith Mediabroadcasting director Steve Hydesays it is difficult to see the adver-tising appeal of the stationsbecause nearly all of the importantregions are already covered byILR outlets. "The listener appealof the format and its commercialviability are two different things,"he says. "Some stations such asMelody Radio/London don'tmake a great deal of money, buthave a large audience."

Hyde says he thinks theAuthority should wait until afterthe forthcoming re -advertisementof existing licences, and until thenational commercial franchisesare on -air before embarking onnew franchises. He also predictsdisagreements at the Authorityover format definitions and advo-cates that new services be deter-mined by specific types of music,rather than the current ambiguousdefinitions.

Hyde also questions why theregional licences were not adver-tised before the national franchis-es were offered, saying, "I'm notsure there would have been quiteso much competition for thenational franchises if there hadbeen regional opportunitiesbefore."

Straight ToDirect WEA's!nil RosterFollowing the appointment ofMoira Bellas as the new MD ofWEA (M&M, March 21),.. PhilStraight will join the company asdirector of international artistdevelopment.

Straight, who was rumoured tobe close to an international mar-keting job at EMI MusicEurope, returns to the companyhe left in 1986 when he joinedWarner Brothers in the US asVP international. In his new role,he will be responsible for WEA'sinternational roster, as well as theexploitation of UK product.

Meanwhile, previous market-ing manager Tony McGuinnesshas been appointed marketingdirector at WBA. MB

For The RecordIn the country music article in lastweek's M&M (April 18 issue), Euro-pean director of the Country MusicAssociation Martin Satterthwaiteshould have been quoted as saying,"Country stars have a good chance ofbecoming successful not only in theUK, but in the rest of Europe too."

KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY - PolyGram International Music Publishinghas signed a worldwide, multi -album publishing deal with A&M Records

artist Joan Armatrading. Included in the agreement is her next studioalbum "Square The Circle," scheduled for a June release. Pictured (l -r)are: PolyGram International Music Publishing chief executive David Hock -man, Armatrading and her manager Mike Noble.

Independents PrepFor INR Challenges

by Jeff Green

Facing a new, big -signal competi-tor? UK's independent radio (IR)broadcasters soon will be, now thatClassic FM and IMR are sched-uled to deliver the UK's first nation-al FM and AM commercial power-houses, respectively, in the comingyear. How will the independentlocal radio stations (ILRs) compete?

To tackle the challenge fromnew competitors, Association ofIndependent Radio Companiesdirector Brian West and MediaSales & Marketing chief execu-tive Paul Davies recently preparedan overview outlining what IR islikely to confront and their recom-mended strategic responses.

This autumn, Classic FM willbegin providing popular classicalmusic rorgetting an upwardlymobile 25 -45 -year -old demo. Itsbenefits include a unique, limited -inventory selling proposition, listen-ers who are less price -sensitive, aneasy national buy and useful region-al opt -outs.

On the other hand, Classic FM'sactual age profile is possibly lessattractive than existing IRs: it

somewhat duplicates BBC Radio3's classical output, and it mustattract new advertising categories.It is widely held that Classic FM'saudience will be smaller than IR,even if it triples Radio 3's audience.

On the AM band, IMR's plan tointroduce a format heavy with clas-sic rock, with some contemporaryrock, could threaten IR: gold hitsrepresent a significant part of mostIR station programming. The 35million IR listeners aged 15+ willhave a chance to hear a more exten-sive library and many artists previ-ously unavailable to them. LikeClassic FM, IMR will offer an easynational buy, and the advantagesinclude a more attractive age profileand a more foreground advertisingpresentation than Classic FM.

A key threat to IRs is that IMR,as a competitor for 1R -advertisedbrands, could drive down ad rates.But perhaps most significant is thefact that IMR will also provide analternative for IR's audience, manyof whom grew up on BBC Radio 1and Radio Luxembourg's contem-porary/rock programming.

IMR's biggest problem will beits signal disadvantage, especiallyafter dark. However, these formerBBC frequencies had neither signalprocessing, nor as many transmit-ters. It's believed that as many asfive new transmitters will bemandatory to fill in certain areas.

West and Davies maintain thatIR's strategy with IMR mustinclude building on local strengthsand improving the profile of theirpersonalities. They will also needto emphasizeFM signal superiori-ty. Evening programming shouldbe strengthened in order to ensurethat listeners wake up to it the fol-lowing morning. Broadcasters areadvised to review their promises ofperformance and carry out researchto keep in touch with listenerneeds.

It is inevitable that the publicwill sample these stations, and sothe IRs will need to increase mar-keting and promotional spending.But it's hoped that, as the profile ofcommercial radio improves overall,these expenses will be offset by anincrease in business.

With IR getting only £150 mil-lion (app. US$250 million) of the£6-7 billion spent on UK advertis-ing, broadcasters worry that insteadof growing, the radio pie will be cutinto smaller pieces, particularly ifthe new INRs (especially IMR) cancompete regionally.

In that case, marketing andcompetition will become moreintense and more expensive. IR'sreaction is then expected to includebudget reassessment, repositioningand further narrrowcasting.

4 MUSIC & MEDIA APRIL 25 1992


FRANCE

Lang, Jeanneney AddNew Duties

Some key ministers in the artsand media have been affectedby the recent governmentchanges in France since PierreBeregovoy replaced EdithCresson as prime minister onApril 2. Although nomajor policy revi-sions are expected inthese areas. formerminister of cultureand communicationsJack Lang has be-come the unofficialdeputy, adding to hisformer duties that ofeducation minister.

Lang, who served as minis-ter of culture between 1981and 1992 (excluding 1986-88when the right-wing eovern-ment was in power), is

believed to be willing toexpand the scope of his duties.

He will be assisted byJean -Noel Jeanneney asunder-secretary of state incharge of communications.This position was formerlyheld by Georges Kiejman,who moves to the ministry offoreign affairs. Jeanneney, aformer history teacher, hasheld various positions in thecivil service, including minis-ter of foreign trade in the for-mer Cresson cabinet.

It is too early to know howpolicies on communicationswill be affected, but insiders

Jack Lang

speculate that radio will not heJeanneney's major priority. TVissues continue to dominate theagenda. as the outcome of pri-vate channel La Cinq-de-clared bankrupt by a court last

week-is still un-clear.

Lang has beenvery supportive of themusic industry andartists, introducing aseries of measuresincluding a blank tapelevy and a law onneighbouring rights,which have raised the

revenues of a music industrythreatened by home recordingand increasing radio and TVbroadcasting.

Lang's interest in currentmusical trends was highlightedin 1989 when he named BrunoLion as his assistant for popu-lar music. Lang caught theradio industry by surprise lastSeptember when he announcedthat he was in favour of anincreasing share of Franco-phone music on French air-waves. In order to avoid legalquotas, the radio and musicindustry held negotiationswhich eventually ended in con-tracts signed by some keybroadcasters regarding thelevel of Francophone musicthey were ready to play.

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LIEGE IS FIRST STOP FOR AC FM NET

RFM Moves Into Belgium,Eyes Brussels By Summer

by Emmanuel Legrand

French AC FM network RFMhas started broadcasting in Bel-gium as part of a plan to expandits international coverage. RFM,49% -owned by UK media groupCrown Communications, isnow available on FM in the Bel-gium city of Liege on 105.4. Itsaim is to be present in five orsix cities in the French-speakingpart of Belgium by year-end.

Negotiations are being heldwith broadcasters in the cities ofCharleroi and Namur; Brusselsis also being seriously consid-ered. RFM president AndrewManderstam explains, "Itmight be a little bit more diffi-cult [to find a frequency] inBrussels, but I hope that we will

be able to broadcast there beforethe summer."

Manderstam says the totalinvestment for the Belgianexpansion will reach a"modest" Ffr1.5 million(app. US$280.000). Lo-cal advertising isscheduled to begin inMay.

The Liege outletcurrently plays theFrench RFM program-ming 24 hours a day,broadcast via satellite.RFM has chosen a sys-tem of franchising withlocal broadcasters whosubscribe to its service.

"But we encouragethem to carry local program-ming, especially news," says

AndrewManderstam

Manderstam, who adds thatlocal journalists will be invitedto Paris for training.

Manderstam says RFM isalready present in Nor-way, and has plans forSwitzerland andTurkey. It has also man-aged to secure two fre-quencies in Russia-St.Petersburg andMoscow.

Says Manderstam,"We haven't made anyfinal decision in Russia.We don't think the mar-ket is ready for Frenchprogrammes with nolocal content. We needto have programmes in

Russian. A decision will betaken in October."

SNRP's Zenou CriticizesBaudecroux On Categories A/B

by David Roe

Private radio association SNRPpresident Marc Zenou hasattacked NRJ Network presi-dent Jean -Paul Baudecroux ina letter published in the weeklymagazine Communication Newson April 6.

The letter is a reply to state-ments made by Baudecroux inan interview in the March 30edition of the same magazine, inwhich he argues that the only

RMC ResearchesEastern Europe

RMC has drawn up a Ffr40million (app. US$7.1 million)budget for its media studiesseries, "Media Focus on East-ern Cities," which includessurveys of St. Petersburg andMoscow. The research isbeing carried out in April andMay and will consist of 1.050interviews over three weeks.The results will be availableon subscription at the begin-ning of June. DR

Radio Pays TributeTo Birthday Of

CarolineFive hundred stations inFrance celebrated the 28thbirthday of Radio Carolineon April 19 by playing theCaroline jingle at noon. DR

practical means of survival forstations in category B (localcommercial independents) is tocross over into category C (radioaffiliated or franchised to -a

national network) if the stationsin question wish to do so.

The letter states that theobjective of the SNRP is tostruggle for the right of exis-tence of operators in both cate-gories, and to ensure that sta-tions in both categories have the"real" means to survive.

Zenou writes, "The conductof Baudecroux is known: vindic-tive towards all those who resist.Yesterday, he slammed the CSAfor its 'stupidity'. Before that, itwas his colleagues in other net-works who were under attack. Inbelieving to be in advance of the

law, he ends up by believinghimself to be above it.

"No opposition is tolerableand he cannot accept contradic-tion. Whoever doesn't bowbefore him must be 'eliminated'by either lies or calumny," headds.

Baudecroux calls Zenou'sreaction "a little hysterical. WhatI said in the interview was mere-ly to underline the fact that inorder to maintain local stationsas viable commercial enterpris-es, I think it is necessary thatthose in category B be allowedto cross over to category C ifthey want or need to. What Ifind surprising is that a syndicateclaiming to represent local oper-ators should adopt the position ithas."

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East, WestMeet OnCopyrights

The first major conference on copy-rights and neighbouring rights will takeplace on June 15-16, organized by theEuropean Commission and the Hungar-

ian government.The symposium, to be held at the

Budapest Hilton hotel, is a result ofrecent developments in eastern Europe.with Poland, Hungary and Czechoslo-vakia signing European agreements.

The sessions on June 15 will be presid-ed over by Hungarian Bureau ForAuthor's Rights (ARTISJUS) director

general Gyorgy Boytha, and willinclude sessions on EC objectives oncopyrights. On June 16, head of thedivision of the EC's F4 department(dealing with Industry Affairs and Inter-nal Market) Jean -Francois Verstryngewill welcome IFPI representatives forthe opening session on neighbouringrights; that will be followed by seminarson the EC's policy towards EasternEuropean countries and presentationsby both Czechoslovakian and Polishspeakers on recent rights developmentsin those territories.

Organizations are invited to sendup to three representatives to the sym-posium and the organizers hope to

include more eastern European coun-tries by the end of May.

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Belgium LowersAudio/Video VATRates To 19.5%

by Marc Maes

The decision on April 1 by theBelgian government to lowerVAT rates for both audio/videoand recorded music product to19.5% is being applauded byindustry groups involved.

At Sony Belgium-market-leader in audio and video hard-ware-head of consumer divisionGilbert Declercq says, "Thedecrease of VAT rates from 33%down to the new 19.5% will havevery positive effects on the tradein Belgium."

Sony Belgium has been ableto boost its growth by 21%,despite the general decrease insales in the Belgian audio/videomarket.

Sony and the rest of the indus-try were also facing serious com-petition with its border -regiondealers because a considerablenumber of customers crossed intoHolland, Germany or Luxem-

bourg to purchase TV sets, stereoequipment and video hardware,where VAT rates were far lowerthan those in Belgium.

IFPI Belgium director Vin-cent van Mele welcomes thegovernment's decision, saying,"We are very happy with the cur-rent measurements, but remain abit critical since we still have abig difference between the VATon books [6%] and the new VATrate on record material, whichdropped from 25% to 19.5%.Although the drop might havepositive effects on record saleshere, I think that the difference isstill too small to stimulate con-sumers to buy more records."

In IFPI's annual report, thegroup illustrated that a possibleVAT drop to 18.5%, such asexists in France, would pay offwithin two years as a result ofincreased sales to consumers,who will benefit from the currentlower rates.

LOVE THAT SMILE - Polydor Holland welcomes Shanice, the firstMotown artist to visit the label in the Netherlands. The I8 -year -oldsinger was in the country recently to promote her latest album "InnerChild." Pictured (4) are: Shanice's manager Bill van Dern, Polydor Hol-land marketing manager Kees van Weijen, Shanice, PolyGram Hollandpresident Paul Hertog and Polydor Holland MD Albert van der Kroft.

Holland Loosens Cable Regsby Marlene Edmunds

Dutch broadcasters who want tostart new radio and television cableoperations in the Netherlands willnow have an easier time.

Minister of culture HedyD'Ancona has rescinded a regula-tion requiring would-be cablers toshow that they have signed 60% ofcable subscribers in a specificregion before they are granted alicence. In its place, new Dutchcable broadcasters will be given upto a year to come up with the 60%figure, and if they are not success -

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ful, their licences will be revoked.Would-be cable companies hadpreviously complained that theywere caught in a vicious circle: notable to obtain subscribers untilthey had come up with acceptableprogramming and not able to comeup with acceptable programminguntil they knew who their sub-scribers were. The plan does notneed parliamentary approval.

Foreign broadcasters are notrequired to comply with the 60%requirement because such a provi-so would contravene EC broad-casting regulations.

BMG Norway Buys 40% Of Stagewayby Kai Roger Ottesen

BMG Ariola Norway has bought40% of Norwegian language musiclabel Stageway Records, as wellas picking up sales and distributiontights for the Oslo -based company.

Stageway's booking agency inBergen was not included in thedeal. No price was disclosed.

BMG Ariola MD ErlingJohannessen will have a place onthe board, along with StagewayMD Per Alm and Arne Svare,

who owns the other 60%.Comments Johannessen, "This

move is a part of our strategy toincrease market shares in Norwe-gian repertoire. We have our ownlocal A&R department, and webought 10% of the shares in Norsk

Fazer Music Consolidates Position,Siiderholm Takes Over As New MD

by Gerard O'Dwyer

Long-time Fazer Music MD JohnEric Westii was recently replacedby former Discus sales managerHarry Soderholm. The appoint-ment comes at an important timeof expansion for Fazer, crowned bythe acquisition of music companiesDiscophon and Edition Coda inMarch.

Soderholm's arrival will markthe start of a reorganization of Faz-er's key business divisions, withthe planned merger in 1993 ofmusic companies Fazer Retail andDiscus with the parent group, cre-ating an entity with annual sales ofUS$500 million.

Eager to boost its export perfor-mances, Fazer Music has signed anagreement with InternationaleMusikverlage Hans Sikorski

(IMHS) under which IMHS willact as Fazer's publishing agent inGermany, Austria and Switzerland.

The agreement between Fazerand Novello & Co. also has beenextended to foster a higher market-ing and sales profile for Finnishmusic produced by Fazer in

Europe, Australia, South Africaand New Zealand.

SOderholm says the idea for theexpansion was triggered by the unique nature of the Finnish mar-ket, where every second LP, CD ortape cassette sold is made by aFinnish artist-double the amountof domestic music sold in Sweden.

In adding Discophon and Edi-tion Coda, Fazer Music has added2.000 song titles to its portfolio.The deal came with full rights tore -launch titles which representsome of the most popular music

from the '60s and '70s in Finland.Fazer's market share has been

reduced in recent years with theexpiration of representative con-tracts with PolyGram, Sony,Warner, EMI and Bertelsmann,which are now firmly establishedon the Finnish market through theirown subsidiaries.

Nevertheless, Fazer's strongmarket position was clear duringthe recent Emma Awards, when itcollected 14 accolades, which rep-,resented about 65% of the total.The company was responsible for70% of the music produced in Fin-land last year.

However, with Finnish stateand local commercial stationsplaying less new music in an effortto cut operating costs, Fazer hasforecast a drop in royalties -relatedearnings this year.

Plateproduksjon last year simplybecause we believe Norwegianmusic will be even more popular inthe future."

Stageway currently has artistssuch as Jonas Fjeld, Ole Paus andStain Monsters on its roster. Alsoincluded is UK band Smokie. SaysJohannessen, "It's not Norwegian,but it's a popular band."

Until now, Stageway's distribu-tion has been handled by SonyMusic Norway, CNR Recordsand PolyGram Records. SonyMusic is distributing BjornAfzelius, CNR is handling bandssuch as Vikingarna, while Poly -Gram is taking care of Oslo gospelchoir Get Together, Hilde Helt-berg, Stain Monsters and Smokievocalist Alan Barton. Stageway'sAIm says the repertoire will even-tually go over to BMG's catalogue.

Asked about the reasons forhaving BMG invest in the compa-ny, Alin adds, "It's not a matter ofmoney. The partnership we canachieve with BMG is vital for ourdevelopment. As a small company,we are not able to open affiliates inother countries. BMG has officesabroad, and thinking about futurepan-European releases, it's a greatbenefit. We have done this to

secure our future and to developour artists."

Four Vie For 50%Of The Voice

At least four media compa-nies-one from France, onefrom the UK and two fromDenmark-have expressedinterest in buying the 50%share of Danish EHR stationThe Voice owned by Klaus

Petersen,who filedf o r

bankruptcyearlier thisyear.

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Voice MDOttoReedtz-Thott,who ownsthe other50%, hasright of

first refusal on any sale. Hesays, "It's not impossible that Iwill buy it all."

The Voice began broadcast-ing in 1984 and currently hassix stations. A 1991 year-endsurvey by Gallup for TheVoice's three largest stationsshow Copenhagen with368.000 listeners (+3.1%),Odense with 103.000 (+21.2%)and Alborg with 72.000. KRO

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RTL 102.5 Bows 'Explosive'Sweeps To Cut DJ Chatter

by David Stansfield

Private national EHR stationRTL 102.5 Hit Radio has intro-duced what itcalls "MiscelaEsplosiva" (ex-plosive mix-ture), a seriesof three -recordsequencesaired at strate-gic pointsthroughout theday.

RTL headof musicGrant Ben-son admits,"This is nothing particularlyexciting as far as avant-garde

Grant Benson

But as an EHR station, the idea isto improve and increase theamount of non-stop music weair."

RTL 102.5 has always prideditself on its low -talk content. Ben-son says he has listened 4o sta-tions in France, Holland, the UKand the US and has noted thatItalian DJs generally speak farmore than those at stations withsimilar formats in other territo-ries. "There's possibly a culturalreason behind it," he says. "Butmost things that Italian DJs say in30 seconds could be said in 10seconds by most people on thisplanet."

While Benson acknowledgesthat RTL's new strategy will benothing new to many stations in

other territories, he does believe itis fresh for the Italian market.

Benson says RTL 102.5 is notscheming to be included in thegrowing number of music -onlystations in the domestic market.He believes the trend is part ofthe natural evolution of pop radioin Italy. "About 10 -to -15 yearsago, there was a spate of automat-ed stations in the US because lis-teners were sick of DJs," he says."Things went from one extremeto the other, but now there's thehappy medium of relatively intel-ligent DJs interrupting music withsomething more than telling lis-teners how wonderful they are.That's a policy we've alwaysadopted."

Sanz, Mecano HighlightUn Alio De Rock Awardsby Anna Marie de la Fuente

New teenage singer AlejandroSanz beat a veteran field to winthe Best Artist award at the thirdUn Alio De Rock (A Year OfRock) awards night on April 9 inMadrid. The Warner Music -signed Sanz, whose sales of hisdebut album Viviendo Deprisa iscurrently topping the 600.000 -unit mark, also picked up BestNew Artist honours and BestSong Of The Year with his singlePisandro Fuerte.

Mecano walked away withthe remaining three top awards:Best Album (Aidelai), Best Video(for the single 7 De Septiembre)and Best Live Act. Nearly900.000 units of Aidelai havebeen sold locally, while about 1.5million have been bought inEurope and Latin America.

Mecano 'and Sanz's dominantsweep of the Coca Cola -spon-sored awards clearly revealedthem as the strong favorites of theover 50.000 voters who hadmailed in their choices. A jurycomposed of various local musicand broadcasting professionalsgranted the Special Jury award tosoloist Antonio Vega.

In the international section,R.E.M. seized two of the threecategories they were nominatedfor, winning Best Album for OutOf Time and Best Song for Los-ing My Religion; Michael Jack-son's Black Or White took theBest Video category. The BestNew Artist award went to Ches-

ney Hawkes-the only interna-tional artist present to receive hisaward.

The duo Roxette took theBest Live Act award, whileBryan Adamswon over GunsN' Roses, MichaelJackson, NewKids On TheBlock and R.E.M.for the Best Artistaward. The Spe-cial Jury award inthe internationalcategory wasgiven to LennyKravitz. Mecano

Un Ario de Rock was broad-cast live on leading EHR stationSER Los 40 Principales and wasshown at a later date over its pay -TV affiliate, Canal Plus.

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Catalunya Musica BoostsSpecial ProgrammingBarcelona public classical musicstation Catalunya Musica isexpanding its format with theintroduction of more specializedprogramming.

Among the additions is a clas-sical morning programme from7.00-10.00, and a two-hour themeslot on weekdays at 14.00 whichwill focus on areas such as newtalent, choral music and regionalcomposers. Increasing listenerrequests have also led to a newprogramme entitled "El Dia del'Oyente" (Listener's Day), whichruns on Fridays from 16.00-22.00and Saturdays from 10.00 to22.00.

Meanwhile, the new hour-long

"La Musica Etnica" broadcasteach Tuesday night features clas-sical and traditional music fromall over the world. Other newshows are dedicated to new -agemusic, jazz and cinema sound-tracks. Says station musical coor-dinator Pere Bures, "We offer arange of music that fits in withour main aim-to broadcast ahigh quality cultural productwhile maintaining a specificallyCatalan context."

Catalunya Musica, which is inits fifth year, is run by the officialregional body the Catalan Radioand Television Corporation(CCRTV). JS

Radio Centro Suono Picks UpCMC Club Programmes

Rome -based regional R&B sta-tion Radio Centro Suono(RCS) has signed a deal withCMC Club Music, an arm ofthe UK -based CMC Group, tobroadcast its music shows"House to House" and "BackTo Black." They are being fea-tured in the first part of the sta-tion's all night programme"Centro Suono Rave" aired onSaturdays, and include dancemusic genres such as swingbeat (described as "blackAmerican music") and housefrom indie techno labels.

Three US DJs are present-ing the shows, which started onApril 18. Sir Charles Dixonand Benji Candelario werealready slated at presstime foran initial two -month deal,while the third was still uncon-firmed. The programmes willbe sponsored by CMC for thefirst four weeks, but 'the firmhopes to involve co-sponsors.

Comments CMC associatepartner Michael Chigbue, "Ifthe shows become as popularas we think they will, we standto gain by bringing in co-spon-sors. And the biggest gainersare the featured DJs. We've hadco-sponsorship dealsfirms in the past and when theshows with Centro Suono takeoff, we'll commit to bringing aDJ to Rome for a live show atleast once a month."

CMC has worked with sta-

tions in the UK, Spain, Brazil,US and Japan, but this is thefirm's first experience in Italy."We spent all of January doingresearch on Radio CentroSuono," explains Chigbue. "Weasked a lot of people what thestation was about and what itwas doing. We also askedabout its attitude, because a lotof stations are staid and don'tlike to shift programmes or trynew ideas. When we heardhow progressive Centro Suonowas, we contacted them andthey were very interested."

Station PD Alberto Castellisays the CMC shows fit hisformat perfectly. "This deal isthe first step towards futureinternational projects for thestation," he adds. "And thatincludes satellite."

Castelli hopes Radio CentroSuono will act as syndicator forCMC programmes on thedomestic market in return forexclusive broadcast rights forthe Rome and Lazio regions.

Chigbue says it's too earlyfor such a prospect, but con-firms his interest in the Italianmarket. "We've found that themusic is accepted regardless of

across well-the way we do it.I'd love some syndication, butI'll be in a better bargainingposition once the shows takeoff." DS

Real World Featured In Milan Multimedia ShowWorld music on Virgin's Real World labelwas given an exclusive Italian boost inMilan from April 2-15 with the multimediaproject "Progetto Real World."

The event was sponsored by Italianstylist Romeo Gigli and organized by Vir-gin (Italy), Inc, Mostre and Arci Nova.Gigli's new fashion line was dedicated tomusicians from Africa, Asia and Europe,and was presented alongside the photo-graph and music exhibition Interpretazioni,which featured acts and artists MusiciansOf The Nile (Egypt), Nusrat Fateh AliKhan (Pakistan), The Guo Brothers(China), Mari Boine Persen (Norway) andGeoffrey Oyrema (Uganda).

Photographers Duane Michaels (US),

Arthur Tress (US), Riwan Tromuer(France), Timo Keleranta (Finland) andJoan Fomntcuberta (Spain) attended theMilan launch.

A concert featuring Real World artistsRemmy Ongala &, Orchestra SuperMatimila, Terem Quartet, Guo Yue andGeoffrey Oyrema was also staged in thecity.

Founder of the Real World label PeterGabriel was present for the launch, andwas pleased with the 14 -day event, saying,"It's a chance to introduce our music to awider audience. I can see definite linkswith what Romeo Gigli has pulled off andI'm very appreciative of the support we'vebeen given." DS

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Radio Gong 2000Plans Format Change,A Tighter Playlist

by Miranda Watson

Multi -formatted Radio Gong 2000/Munich is revamping its image in aneffort to combat slumping ratings overthe last few years. It is rumoured that thestation, which programmes a mix rangingfrom MOR to gold to EHR, will changeits name to Radio Gong 96.3 FM.

MD Stefan Zobel says the audiencedemo of the "new -look" station will bethe 14-40 age group, and the station'semphasis on local information willincrease. Possible changes are being test-ed at the moment. The station has signedon Kiel -based Funk Biiro, the consultan-cy set up by ex -Radio Schleswig-Hol-stein PD Hermann Stiimpert.

"After so many successful years of asimilar format, we have decided that it'stime to change," Zobel says. "We aregoing to modernize our programming for-mat and the image of Radio Gong 2000.Our main priorities will be to strengthenand tighten up our format and our DJ-ing.We might also start playing more hitradio than we used to."

Zobel says the present name is a littleoutmoded and wordy. DJs have differentnames for the station in their programmeswhich, he adds, is causing some confu-sion. "We are going to agree upon onename for the station, which will probably

mean dropping the '2000'. We will defi-nitely keep the Gong part, as it's so wellestablished, and we might introduce somereference to FM in the title."

Reactions in Munich to the plannedchanges have been mixed. Classic rock -formatted Radio Xanadu MD BennySchnier says, "They have had a lot ofproblems over the last years and lost a lotof listeners, so I think they have realizedthat they have to do something. Theirmistake has been trying to cover all tastesand they have really gone down in theratings since stronger formatted stationssuch as Radio Arabella and ourselvesstarted up."

Arabella marketing director MartinSchmitz says he was expecting the sta-tion to make a much sharper change ofimage. "I thought they would make morealterations to their format. From the testruns I've heard, they haven't changedmuch, just speeded things up. I get theimpression that Stumpert has just madethe station concentrate on its goodpoints."

Charivari Radio PD Inge Seibelcomments, "They had to move on.They've stayed the same for so long,while all the other stations have beenchanging. Radio Gong 2000 has knownthis for some time, but has taken a longtime to do something about it. "

Sony Hunts For German TalentThe discovery of new German talent isthe aim of the Sony UX-S TalentAward '92, sponsored by Sony'sRecording Media Products Group.This year the awards arebeing backed by FachblattMusik Magazin, SonyMusic, Kick Musikverlag,Electrola, Maarweg Stu-dios and POPKOMM.

The competition is opento all German musicianswho have never had a con-tract with a major company. The win-ners will be given money, studio pro-duction facilities, promotional andmarketing strategies and productionsampling, as well as professionaladvice to help launch them in themusic business. The most interesting

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new acts will also perform live at thisyear's POPKOMM in Cologne in

August.Entries will be judged at the Nord-

Rhein-Westphalien centrefor music culture and thebest ones will then be lis-tened to by judges fromSony Music, Electrola andthe other partners, whowill the choose the finalwinners.

There were over 1.500entrants last year and the winners TheStroke and Hands On The Wheelwere signed to record contracts withSony Music and Electrola, respective-ly. Although neither have had chartsuccess yet, they have been touringGermany over the last year. MW

MORE THAN A 2 DAY DEAL - Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin (DSB) will help roll outindie Music Plus Frankfurt's new label 2 Day on a worldwide basis. The first release isthe new Robin Beck album "Human Instinct." Pictured (l -r) are: DSB business affairs man-ager Henning Zimmermann, DSB marketing director Chris Georgi, Music Plus ownersAndreas Kirnberger and Peter Hauke and DSB managing partner Jorgen Larsen.

DoRo Productions PlaysTribute To MercuryThe latest feather in the cap for Austrianvideo producers DoRo Productions is itsinvolvement in the Freddy Mercury Trib-ute concert in London this week.Nicknamed "The TorpedoTwins" by Freddy Mercury,Rudi Dolezal and MimesRossacher have directed 13

video clips and three long -formvideos for Queen since 1985and their final tribute to Mercuryis the co -direction of an interac-tive video wall at the concert tointegrate the legendary star intothe event.

Dolezal explains, "The videowall was designed to bringFreddy back for the concert, andenable him to join in and even get thecrowd to sing along. We had a very closerelationship with Freddy and this is our wayof saying 'thank you' to him."

DoRo Productions is currently workingon the ultimate Mercury documentary, aproject which was discussed with the artistshortly before his death. To be entitled "TheLegend Lives On," it will chronicle Mer-cury's" career. This and the final Queenvideo "Magic Years Part 4" will be releasedaround September.

Since its involvement with Queen, thetwo producers have since worked with theRolling Stones, La Toya Jackson, TomWaits, Sting and Gianna Nannini. One oftheir latest successes is the video for West-emhagen's Krieg, the first German -lan-guage video to be played oh hit rotation onMTV Europe. DoRo is now working on

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the video of the album Ja, Ja, which is duefor release in late summer.

Dolezal says, "We are hoping Western-hagen's success will show thatGerman artists can compete onan international level too. Oneproblem is that many GSArecord companies don't thinkit's worth making expensivevideos, which is a big mistake.MTV is just beginning to rec-ognize the GSA as one of thebiggest markets in the world.Also, you never have a secondchance to document yourmusic. In 10 years time, artistslike Westernhagen and NinaHagen will be putting out com-

pilation videos and reaping the profits."DoRo has just finished a 40 -minute

video for David Bowie's Tin Machineentitled "Tin Machine Live."

Says Dolezal, "It is a live film of a con-cert in Hamburg using a new concept,which gives the effect, of a trip through thepast, present and future, mixing black andwhite and colour film. We hope that this isthe start of a new working relationship withBowie." MW

Radio Boosts New'Whiter Shade Of Pale'Koch International is releasing a reggae/dance ser-sion of the 1967 Procul Harem classic A WhiterShade Of Pale. Sung by Jamaican -born Ria Hamil-ton. the single is getting good airplay on 100.6, SFB,Rias/Berlin, as well as Antenne Bayern and SWF1. It is being released in the GSA initially, with otherterritories to follow. MW

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The former Commodore has written some of the most emotive and successful ballads in pop music history. Do It To Me is in thatlong line of romantic songs that have touched all our lives since his first global hit, the all-time classic Three Times A Lady. As a soloartist, most of Richie's hits have been romantic ballads. However, he's always had the ability to write great dance music from the1978 Commodores hit Brickhouse to the Carribean-flavoured uptempo funker All Night Long in 1983.One year later, the man had the world at his feet with the unforgettable ballad Hello, which will always be remembered by theaccompanying video with the blind sculptor girl. With 1985's Say You, Say Me he strengthened his image as a specialist in slow songs.This year Richie celebrates his 20th year with Motown, whose European license agreement has recently switched from BMG toPolyGram. He is the only composer who scored US number 1 hits in seven consecutive years, including his 1981 duet Endless Lovewith Diana Ross and the song Lady, written especially for Kenny Rogers. Together with two other new songs, My Destiny and LoveOh Love, the new single will be included along with the classics on the new Back To Front greatest hitscompilation.A complete new album is not in the making yet. Comments Motown product manager Nick West,"Lionel has been away for so long now that we thought it best to re-establish him first. A world tour isplanned for next year."

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SINGLESCHYP-NOTICI Can't Get Enough - Coconut/Ariola

PRODUCER: Chereyne/Jamski

This German dance trio has one leg inradio and the other firmly planted inmainstream discotheques. Verging on theschmaltz.

GLORIA GAYNORThe Wild Boys - BCM

PRODUCER: Andy Hill/Stock/Aitken/Waterman

On her label debut for BCM, the singer ofhits such as Never Can Say Goodbye and IWill Survive remains faithful to her soulroots. Because of the modern Soul H Soulbeats, she confidently stands the test oftime.

RIA HAMILTONA Whiter Shade Of Pale - Koch

PRODUCER: Bernie Paul

Giving the Procol Harum classic sunnytreatment, this Jamaican singer's reggaeversion replaces the original dramaticaspect of the song with a festive mood.

CINDY PERESSSomewhere In Switzerland - Shamrock

PRODUCER: C. Peress/T. Agterberg/H.Bekking

The American songstress has taken herguitar to Austria to sing this fragile songabout the neighbouring country.

POTSCHKA/PERXONFreund Und Feind - K&P Music/BMG

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The German duo fuses an Anglo-American -styled rock riff with their owncentral European influences, providing theultimate "Euro-blues."

ACHIM REICHEL

Auf Der Rolltreppe - WEA

PRODUCER: Achim Reichel

Keeping in style with the lazy beat to thissoulful pop song, Reichel takes the

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ALBUMSTONY CAREYThe Long Road - east west

PRODUCER: Erwin Musper

The former Rainbow keyboardist,nowadays a German resident, furnishes apleasant set of middle-of-the-road rock.Melodies are the real forte of this man,who has composed songs for the likes ofJoe Cocker and Chris Norman, amongothers. The poppy song Sandy is apotential hit, as is Goodnight America,enhanced with a lovely slide guitar.Musically, this perfect mix of pop withcountry blues is most soothing.

JOHNNY LOGANEndless Emotion - WEA

PRODUCER: Jurgen Fritz/Ralf-Rene Maue

The Eurovision Song Contest winner'sfirst album for WEA is a good showcaseof Logan's vocal talents. His emotionaldelivery fits the mainstream mid -tempomaterial, while the glossy production addsto the overall romantic sophistication ofthe project. Best tracks: How 'bout Us (acover of the Champaign 1981 hit), CloseTo The Edge and It's Only Tears.

PEACOCK PALACEAdding Wings - Columbia

PRODUCER: Nhoah

Time out for some real talent. Because ofits constellation with female lead singerPetra Jansen, this German outfit is

slightly following the same path as theAmerican band 10.000 Maniacs. Theyshare the same semi -acoustic setting andthe knack of writing great songs. Yeah ICan Ride could have come out the SteelyDan soggbook. Like A Snake is the trackMTV Europe has been supportihgheavily. We strongly recommend thatEHR go for the ballad Henry's Song.

RAUSCHGood Luck - Vertigo

PRODUCER: Paul Grou

History has proved that the best rock 'n'roll has always been made on the razor'sedge. Rausch, from Germany, is definitelya band that fits this description. Althoughbest characterized as an alternative band,its third album is more accessible thanever. The rough edges remain, but are nowmore functional, as is evident on C'est PasVrai, the only track sung in French. NoMessage, ornamented with exquisitevocal harmonies and crystal clear acousticguitars, holds out hope for pure pop in thisdance -dominated era.

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Open Invitation - Polydor

PRODUCER: Albert Boektiolt

This is a German rock band withunmistakable international potential.Supported by Boekholt's ornamentalproduction, Roko's second album forPolydor stays nicely on the moresophisticated end of hard rock. And theysure know how to write excellent powerballads; Is It Love is remarkably radio -friendly, as are Heaven and All Your Love.For more meaty material, check out MilesAway.

Sailing On The WavesOf Success - U 96

Following the huge success ofGermany's first number 1 techno recordDas Boot, U 96's debut album, alsoentitled Das Boot and released byPolydor at the beginning of March, issailing towards gold status.

Presently at number 11 in theGerman sales charts, the album hasalso been released in Austria andSwitzerland and is now number 10 inthe album charts in both countries.Produced by Matiz, it comprises 10tracks, including as a bonus the classicversion of Das Boot, as well as morehouse and ambient music -orientednumbers.

The album's release has beenbacked by over 100 20 -second TVadvertising spots on MTV Europe,while adverts have been placed inmagazines such as Bravo and Popkornand U -Boat mobiles have been sent tothe trade press. Polydor ,progressivemusic director Tim Renner says, '.1Wehave concentrated mainly onpromotions in the teen press to try toestablish Alex Christensen, the DJproducer behind U 96, as a person tokeep the whole thing alive. Normally,having a big dance hit doesn't meanthat you will be automatically sellingalbums."

The single Das Boot, the themesong to the movie of the same name,stayed at the top of the charts for 12weeks and is now close to reachingplatinum status. It has also charted inBelgium, Holland, Austria,Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark andFinland, and the video is still beingplayed on MTV. The single also has

POP

the distinction of being the first number1 to be available only on one format,the 12 -inch LP.

The new single I Wanna Be AKennedy, also released only on 12 -inch format, has been at number 4 inthe German sales charts for threeweeks after storming straight in atnumber 15. It has sold over 100.000units so far. Renner remarks thatdespite the success of the first single, IWanna Be A Kennedy is not gettingradio airplay in Germany. "The tasteof music of German kids just isn'treflected by radio. Instead, I think thekids go watch MTV to informthemselves. It is fast becoming asubstitute for radio."

Renner thinks, however, that despitethe high profile given to techno musicsince Das Boot, techno's days arenumbered. "Once a trend becomes toowell known, people start jumping onthe bandwagon and spoil it. There arenow about 10 techno compilationscoming out in Germany every weekand often what they claim to be"techno" is ridiculous. Techno and theideology behind it gets weakened.

"I think the over -exploitation wehave from other record companies willmean that the word techno willdisappear in about two or three months.The dance scene that created technowill carry on and its baby will get anew name."

The next single from U 96 will be adouble A -side with an ambient/housesong Come Together and anothertechno number Der Kommodant.

KOMMIDie Hesse fiir Popmusik in Deutschland.The 1992 PopKomm conference inCologne, supported by alleconomically important recordcompanies in Germany, is shaping upto be the central meeting place anddiscussion forum for the German musicindustry.

Companies attending the festival andpresenting their latest acts from August20-23 are: Bellaphon, BMG Ariola inMunich, BMG Ariola in Hamburg,BMG UFA Musikverlage, ChlodwigMusik, Deutsche Austrophon, DINO,east west Records, Efa, EMIGermany, Electrola, EMI Publishing,Intercord, Kick Musik, KochInternational, MCA, Metronome,Normal, Phonogram, Polydor,Roadrunner, Rough Trade,Semaphore, Sony Music, SPV,Virgin, Warner Chappell, WEA andWintrup Musikverlage.

After only three years, PopKomm is

now the third largest music trade fair inthe world, with over 3.500 attendees. Itis taking place in Cologne's CongressCentre, which offers more room andfacilities than in previous years.

Discussions, seminars andperformances will take place in roomsin close proximity to each other and apress centre will be available for mediaand trade press.

PopKomm is not just intended as atrade fair; it is also Germany's biggestrock and pop festival, withperformances from over 160 bands in1991. This year an added attraction willbe the new German bands chosen aswinners of the Sony UX-S TalentAwards '92.

Also, Northrhine Westfalia ministerof economics Giinter Einert willpresent a special award on August 22to a small -label company foroutstanding artistic quality.

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GERMAN PUBLISHING

Facing The Responsibilities OfPublishing In The '90s

The face of music publishing in Germanyis continuing to change. As in other

countries, income from the sales of sheetmusic is long gone, along with the days of

sitting back and waiting for the mechanicalreproduction royalties to roll in.

Nof only must contemporary music publisherscope with intense, highly concentratedcompetition and an almost restrictive medialandscape on a national basis, they must also

begin thinking globally with the merger of Europe andthe internationalization of the recorded music market.

It no longer suffices to simply acquire sub -publishingrights; publishers must develop and nurture new writersand their repertoire. Modern publishers must providetheir composers and/or lyricists with a wide range ofabilities and services, allowing immense room forcreativity and a personalized style and making the artistsinfluential members of the creative team.

One of the most critical problems facing the Germanmusic industry is the development of successful nationalartists of all sorts. The work -laden record companyA&R managers are often overwhelmed with material forartists already under contract, and are not always in aposition to scout the countryside for new talent. Germanpublishers-if one can put all of these eggs in onebasket-have recognized this challenge, and can often

be found "on the streets" in search of diamonds.Comments Frankfurt -based Sony Music Publishing

MD.Mike Weller,"It's difficult to findrecord companyA&R managers whohave the time andthe means to look forgood new song-writers. It's asobvious to me that apublisher shouldparticipate activelyin A&R as it is for abank to seek out newinvestmentpossibilities." SiegelMusic's MDJoachim Neubauersees his role as anagent between twoworlds. "One of thepublisher's primaryfunctions is tonurture the contact between the artist and the recordcompanies," says Neubauer, "as well as assisting indemos, pre -production or production. They must do a lotof A&R work developing songwriters and artists, and tryto bring the two together. We must prepare everything

up to the point that all the record company A&Rmanager has to do is nod his or her head. That has

"Since EMI is aninternational publisher,crossovers are somethingwe have always held astop priority...We've had twocontinental meetings so far,where we've worked onpromoting our signings andfocused on transferringthem into the Anglo-American market ."- Peter Ende, MD of EMIMusic Publishing

become the rule. Nowadays most of the successful ideasseem to be coming from publishers."

Although some projects are developed by thepublisher to the point that a tape lease deal can be made,

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(continued from page 11)the majority of the production work provided by thepublishers is demo and pre -production work. "I don't tieup our resources in production," explains BMG/Ufapresident Hartwig Masuch. "We have excellentrelations with all of the record companies, and itpresents no real problem placing product we reallybelieve in. In my opinion,producing finished productseems to indicate a lack ofconfidence in your ability toconvince a record companyof the quality of your act."PolyGram Songs MD Joostvan Os would surely haveanother opinion on thismatter. He was able to score a100.000 -unit hit in Francewith an album by the Germanartist/producer Gregorian,which his company financed.

Regardless of to whatextent any publisher iswilling to invest inproduction, all of the Germanpublishers surveyed haveagreed they also have aprimary responsibility toprovide career andmanagement consulting totheir writers and composers. Since the end of WorldWar II, the German labour office interpreted the nation'slabour laws as implying a state monopoly in terms oflicensing artists' managers and agents, thereby inhibitingthe development of these critical career areas. Withrecent court decisions shaking the foundation of thisoutmoded interpretation, Germany has finally taken thefirst steps taken in a positive direction.

Nonetheless, there is still a critical lack of

experienced managers in a nation of 80 millioninhabitants, and publishers are filling this gap. KickMusikverlag's Alexander Elbertzhagen, co-ownerwith his brother Giitz Elbertzhagen and partner HeinzKremer, has a definite idea of what the consultationprovided by the publisher should offer. "It must includeadvice over which record company can provide the best

"It's, difficult to find recordcompany A&R managers who

have the time and the means tolook for good new songwriters.

It's as obvious to me that apublisher should participateactively in A&R as it is for a

bank to seek out newinvestment possibilities."- Mike Weller, MD of Sony Music

Publishing

setting for the artist, which styles and genres arepreferred by various companies, the advantages anddisadvantages of various companies and how the artistcan possibly negotiate for better terms in his or hercontract. The publisher must also inform the artist aboutcompetition on the market in general. Musicians usuallyknow all of the hits, but are not familiar with all of theflops," says Elbertzhagen.

Good professional advice is not enough, however.

He adds, "We have to offer more than just telling anartist we believe in him. They have a right to expectmore service."

Several Investment AreasAll of today's publishers are investing in other areas

of artist development, marketing and promotions toassist in the exploitation of theircopyrights. The differences in the focusof such investments show a wide rangeof alternatives. MCA Publishing MDAdrian Facklan-Wolf, who hasacquired the Star Music catalogue (withartists including Udo Lindenberg andVicky Leandros) and the Italian DiAngelis brothers Magister catalogue, isnow also helping develop such youngacts as Fury In The Slaughterhouse(SPV). Facklan-Wolf prefers to invest inareas such as photo sessions, thearrangement of showcase performancesand the services of independentpromoters. "We are still a small companyin Germany," explains Facklan-Wolf, "sowe do not have our own promotion staff.We work very closely with MCARecords, and for special projects such asthe Australian band Indecent Obsession,I have received very good media resultsworking together with the independent

promotion company Splendido in Cologne."EMI Music Publishing invests a large amount of

time and attention to crossover acts. Explains MD PeterEnde, "Since EMI is an international publisher,crossovers are something we have always held as toppriority. As far as continental Europe is concerned,we've had two meetings so far, where we've worked onpromoting our signings and focused on transferring them


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(continued from page 12)to the Anglo-American market. Our next continentalmeeting is in May, to be held in Stockholm. Here, all ofthe professionals from EMI in Europe will get togetherand work on our current and future acts." Living up tohis own words, Kick's Elbertzhagen offers fullpromotional service. Within a staff of 22 people in all ofits divisions, Kick employs seven radio promoters, twoTV promoters and two press promoters.

BMG/Ufa's Masuch views the question of promotionmore critically. "It would be a welcome development ifthe major publishers would install real promotiondepartments and do their jobs efficiently. But that is notcurrently the case. It's a whitewash. The really bigpublishers use two or three people for this job andpromise their artists effective promotion of their records.This seems misleading in light of the number of radioand TV stations that must be covered, not to mention theamount of repertoire that has to be represented. If apublishers can promote effectively, I give all my respectto them.

"I think the best way to show your commitment to anact is through money," continues Masuch. "We providethe record companies with sufficient means to promoteour copyrights by assisting in the financing of theirmarketing and promotions plans. This, in my opinion, isoften better received by record companies than apublishing company promoter is with the same recordsin his or her hand."

PolyGram's Van Os tries to combine the best of bothservices. Working with independent radio promoters,Van Os also utilizes the promotional opportunitiesoffered by the international press by writing for

will be interested in dancefloor product to make itworthwhile for samplers in the future."

Masuch sees a brighter future for this form ofexploitation. "Ten years ago, nobody thought therewould be an interest inrepertoire from the mid'70s. In England, themost successfulcompilations are nowpunk, and that is how itwill be with the hip hopand house megahits.The sentimental effectwill be felt by people intheir mid -20s in about10 years. It's the sametoday with formerpunks who are now intheir mid -20s."

Although verypleased with thesuccess of compilationalbums on the Germanmarket, publishers areno longer satisfied withjust collectingmechanical reproduction fees and broadcasting rights.As in the US and the UK, synchronization rights aregaining an increasing amount of attention. The marriageof music and advertising and the excellent royalties thatcan be earned from such licences-according toMelodie der Welt's copywriter Hans Mai,approximately 5% of the entire campaign budget for TV

advertising -has

recognizes the need to do more for them in such areas asfilm soundtracks and advertising, as well as to developnew areas. Masuch and Neubauer tend to disagree withthis frame of mind. Explains Neubauer, "We have to

"I also try to financiallysupport the record

company's marketingand promotion budgets

so they can do that littlebit extra,"

- Joost van Os, MD ofPolyGram Songs

"...We do not have our ownpromotion staff. We workvery closely with MCARecords, and for specialprojects...I have receivedvery good media resultsworking together with [an]independent promotioncompany." - Adrian Facklan-Wolf, MD of MCA Publishing

European radio programmers, using cooperativeadvertising, arranging opening slots and supporting tours(including artists such as German -language pop singerPetra Laser or the Dutch/German group Scam Luiz

"We have to give more chancesto people who have studiedmusic. The moment somebodyhas a keyboard and puts a fewthings on top of a rhythm, that'scomposing." -Joachim Neubauer,MD of Siegel Music

with Metronome). "I also try to financially support therecord company's marketing and promotion budgets so itcan do that little bit extra," says Van Os.

CompilationsA major source of licensing income for German

publishers is compilation albums. Siegel's Neubauersees composers returning to more melodiouscompositions. "I'm not convinced that enough people

awakened ahunger.

Some of thelarge publishers,including EMI,

alreadystaffed depart-

ments responsiblefor exploitation ofsynchronizationrights. Kick hasalso founded anew division,Position, tohandle suchlicensing requestsand activelyacquire placementin advertising andfilm soundtracks.Other publishers

are working with freelancers. MCA, for example, placedBorn To Be Wild with Puma and PolyGram Songs hasplaced Spencer Davis group's Keep On Running with agasoline company and Elton John's Your Song with abank.

The Future For TalentThe future-whether it lies in self-

contained artists who write their ownmaterial or in authors and lyricists notnecessarily artists themselves-is anotherpoint of division among publishers. AsSony's Weller points out, "In contrast toEngland and the US, Germany does nothave a tradition of song plugging." Theway the future is envisioned oftendetermines how the publishers worktogether with their signings. Kick, withoffices in Berlin and Hamburg, tends towork with self-contained artists. SaysElbertzhagen, "They interpret theirmaterial the best. I think the chances forpure composers and lyricists willdiminish in the future."

MCA's Facklan-Wolf, working closelytogether with writer/producer ChristophBusse, shares this dark view of the futurefor composers and lyricists and

give more chances to people who have studied music.The moment somebody has a keyboard and puts a fewthings on top of a rhythm, that's composing. The Siegelcompaniel have always had pure writers under contract.They have the opportunity to work on demos, which wethen offer to other artists." It is also in this area thatsmaller publishers like SPV (helping develop Fury InThe Slaughterhouse) or Jurgen Thiirnau's MamboMusic (working closely with authors including HubertKemmler and Thomas Loh, Miinchener Freiheit,Sandra and Michael Cretu, all administered by Siegel)can offer their writers the right creative atmosphere.This may be part of the reason that the Americansuperstars the Bellamy Brothers have signed directly toSiegel and are currently producing their next album inMunich.

Masuch also sees more opportunities for writers,which he attributes partly to the fact that an increasingamount of self-contained artists are willing to co -write.Says Masuch, "Artists are beginning to understand thatit is not realistic to think you can come up with 16 topsongs every 18 months."

Sunny SkiesAll in all, there seems to be a bright future for

German publishers. The companies surveyed,representing only a small part of the hundreds ,of largeand small houses in Germany, have reported notablesuccesses and exciting times ahead. Kick, which haspublished numerous multi -platinum albums by Germansuperstars Hebert Groenemeyer and Marius Muller-Westernhagen, has scored a number of internationalreleases and TV appearances for (Metronome) andSwimming The Nile (WEA), which have been released.


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(continued from page 13)in most European territories, including Austria,Switzerland, Sweden, France, Italy, and also inIndonesia. German -language star Pe Werner's albumKribbeln Im Bauch, which sold over 200.000 units athome, was released in both the German and Swedishlanguages in Sweden.

The group Pur has sold over180.000 units of their latestalbum (Intercord). GeorgeMcCrae is released in SouthAfrica and Hong Kong, wherehe holds a place in the charts.Other artists whom Kick iscurrently developing includeMicky Reinke, Ulrich Tukor,Hans -Christian Muller, I.C.Falkenberg and WigaldBoning.

EMI's Ende can boast anumber of hits in the past and iscurrently enjoying chart success.Says Ende, "Last year we hadfive of our new signingsappearing in the charts. At themoment our priority is Valerie'sGarden, who entered the chartsat 52, the highest entry last

recording Campanions dAmour is being released onPolydor.

Although not long at his job, Sony Music's Wellercan already look back on a number of national andinternational successes, including Ten Sharp. Othersignings include award -winning Irish artist Ralf Rene

"In my opinion, producingfinished product seems to

indicate a lack of confidence inyour ability to convince a recordcompany of the quality of your

act."-Hartwig Masuch, president of

BMG/Ufa

week.Because MCA Publishing is a young company in

Germany, Facklan-Wolf is still trying for his first majornational success. He has been instrumental in helpingdevelop Fury In The Slaughterhouse, whose third albumwas published by MCA.

Facklan-Wolf is also busy working closely withChristian Busse, the writer, developing a number ofGerman folk music projects, as well as the artistsHartwig Rudolz and Renee Knapp, who were in theHamburg cast of Phantom Of The Opera. Their first

Muae, who produced the 10 -year -old singer Sarah.(Sony Herzklang).

The List Goes OnMasuch sees an exciting future for his company as

well, which owns enormous catalogues of evergreens.Current and upcoming releases include such artists asSmiles In Boxes (Sony), Element Of Crime (Polydor),Tara G. (Intercord), Brings (EMI) and Westbam (LowSpirit/Polydor), Blind Guardian (Virgin), Casanova

and Twice As Nice (both WEA), Christian Demant(east west), Max (BMG/MCA) and Anna Haigis(BMG/Munich). "Regardless of the fact that Anna's newalbum is in English and was produced in Nashville andLos Angeles, it's a dream," says Masuch. "It's the bestalbum to ever come out of the German-speaking area."

The first single from Anna Haigisisexpected to be released at the end ofMay.

Besides having such valuablecopyrights as Bruce Springsteenand The Bellamy Brothers, SiegelMusic (which has A&R offices inAustin, Texas, and Los Angeles,California, among other locations) isalso very active in working withback catalogue and developing newartists.

Currently number 14 in theGerman charts, the single JiveConnie has given singer ConnieFrancis a new lease on life. Havingfound the Scottish duo Paul andAndy in Turkey, Neubauerproduces demos with them andplaced the effervescent pop productwith Sony. World On Edge hasreached gold status in Canada, andgreat hope and a lot of work is being

placed into the acts Tomas Friedrich (Fata Morgana)and Clouseau.

Although the royalties may not be rolling in as theywere in the good old days of sheet music, few of theGerman publishers today are heard complaining. Moresuccessful publishers are using their new responsibilitiesof nurturing their artists to stay ahead of the stiffcompetition in the publishing industry today.

Robert Lyng

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Presuntos Implicados Luca Barbarossa Signed to Warner Music Spain. Publisher: Warner Chappell. Management: Tratos/Valencia. New album: Ser De Agua, released onOctober 7. At presstime, it is at number 5 inSpain and at number 66 in the EuropeanTop 100 Albums. New single: LLovio, released on February 1. Recorded at Kirios Studios/Madrid,Pertegas/Turia Townhouse and OlympicStudios, the latter two located in London. Producer: Presuntos Implicados. Marketing: Warner Music set up a specialTV campaign, culminating in a TVE 1recorded live performance by the band inMadrid on March 6 which has already beenbroadcast twice. Promotion: The band presented two show-cases in Germany, one in Hamburg and onein Frankfurt, on March 12 and 14, respectively. Concerts: From April to September 24, theband is touring Spain extensively (over 60dates). In October, the rest of Europe willfollow, European releases: Apart from the UK, thealbum and single are out across Europe.

Valencia -based trio Presuntos Implicados isSpain's best kept secret on the internationalfront, but with their new album Ser De Agua,a Warner Music international priority, itwill most likely not be for verystyle is not unlike Gloria Estefan's music, adigestive mix of soft soul, jazz and Latinmusic, and a touch more sophisticated. Morethan any EC law could, the warm voice of

Kurre Signed to Warner Music/Finland. Publisher: Warner Chappell. New album: Elan Haveistain releasedon March 30. New single: En Rakkauttas Saareleased on February 28; currently, it is atnumber 1 in Finland and at number 84 inthe Eurochart Hot 100 Singles. Recorded at Private Notes/Helsinki. Producer: Jokke Sappala. Marketing: From mid April to May TVspots are run on commercial station Main-os - TV/Helsinki. Concerts: Kurre is currently heavilygigging in Finland, with 10 to 15 concertsa month.

Every year Finnish commercial TV Sta-tion Mainos - TV organizes a song con-test called "Syksyn Saver ("The Song OfThe Autumn"). The winner of last year'sedition, Kurre (a.k.a. Kurt Westerlund)came totally out of the blue.

Apart from the local Warner Musicaffiliate who signed him just before thefestival, nobody had ever heard of the 27 -year -old singer. Actually, it was the com-pany's book keeper who happened to sharethe same hobby with Westerlund-floor-

lead singer Sole will bring down all barriersbetween different countries and radio for-mats. The current single, the moody mid -tempo song Llovio, deserves a multi -formatapproach.

The smooth jazzy title track has alreadybeen embraced by Dutch AC/news stationsRadio 1 and Radio 2. AC programmers arewise to check out the beautifully arrangedtorch song Recibes Cartas. The melody ofComo Hebos Cambiado, the opening track ofthe album, sounds like Swing Out Sister'sbig European hit Breakout "revisited" inSpanish, and the song's instant hum -alongfactor and uncomplicated hookline make it apromising EHR contender.

Top sessioneers like Prefab Sprout'sdrummer Neil Conti and George Michael'sband leader/keyboardist Chris Cameronperfectly understood the laidback ambiancethe band was looking for. All that teamworkresulted in the best Spanish material this yearfor programmes during the upcomingOlympic Games in Barcelona.

ball-who tipped the A&R department onKurre's talents.

It may sound strange for an artist out ofcold northern Europe, but the winningsong, Rat Sateen Taa ("After The Rain"),was a warm Italian -styled ballad. With19% out of more than 200.000 votes, thenation melted for this special tune. Thesingle, produced by Sweden's BernardLiihr at Stockholm -based Polar Studios,entered the Finnish airplay charts at num-ber 1 and stayed there for two months,while it peaked at number 7 in the officialsales chart.

According to Warner Music/Finlandmarketing manager Ari Lahenoja, thecompany deliberately waited with therelease of the album Ellin Haveistain. "Itwould have been easy to cash in the sud-den success and have an album ready forthe Christmas market. But if we did that, itwouldn't have been so good. We wouldrather see him as a long-term signing, sowe just recently released it."

Five out of the total of 13 tracks on theJokke Seppala-produced album areaccompanied by English -language subti-tles. Adds Lahenoja, "That gives us theopportunity to make English versions incase international interest appears."

Robbert Tilli

Signed to Sony Music Italy. Publisher: Sony Music/Persica. Management: Marsigli/Rome. New album: Cuore D'Acciaio, releasedon February 29, it is at number 7 in theRai Stereodue chart and at number 10 inthe Musica E Dischi chart. In the Euro-pean Top 100 Albums, it is number 77. New single: Portami A Ballare, releasedon February 29; currently, it is at number 4in the Rai chart and at number 8 in theMusica E Dischi chart. In March, itpeaked at number 81 in the Coca-ColaEurochart Hot 100 Singles. Recorded at Fonoprint/Bologna. Producer: Roberto Costa. Marketing: In the first week of March,15 -second radio spots were running on allthe major Italian networks, plus theregional radio stations. On April 1, amajor TV advertising campaign started onTele Monte Carlo and the three Berlus-coni-owned private channels. Promotion: Barbarossa gave many radiointerviews and was featured in the big TVtalk shows after winning the San RemoFestival on February 29. Concerts: In May he will tour Italyextensively. European releases: The album is alreadyout in Belgium and Switzerland, whileFrench and Spanish releases are pending.

Although it's a cliche, "la mamma," thestrong Italian mother figure, still exists.Luca Barbarossa won the prestigious San

Remo Song Festival with Portami A Bal-lare, a song about his mother. Translatedin English, the title means "Take MeDancing," which initially sends you in thewrong direction, as you may tend to thinkhe's singing about his girlfriend. Suddenlythe word "mamma" slips in, which givesthe piano ballad a very original angle. Thejury, as well as the Italian audience, fellimmediately for the song. Both the singleand the album Cuore D'Acciaio made thetop 5 in no time.

"Well, it is a bit of a stereotype, but thesubject of the song marks a typical Latinattitude; we're also planning a Spanish ver-sion of the song," says Sony Music Italyinternational manager Selma Howell.

Judging by the high quality of thealbum, the man appears to have even moreaces up his sleeve, including E'Vita, anoth-er piano ballad with a memorable melodyline. Jazz rock influences surface on thetrack Ho Fatto L'Eroe, the best arrangedsong on the entire album.

The most poppy track for EHR is prob-ably Forse No, which sounds like a combi-nation of Bruce Willis' version of the clas-sic Under The Boardwalk and Juan LuisGuerra's Burbujas De Amor. A doubledose of pleasure is guaranteed.

Mamma Barbarossa really has thechance now to nurse her son, who brokehis cheekbone in a football game. Afterrecovering from the minor accident, Bar-baro,ssa will be touring Italy in May.

Upcoming Album ReleasesArtistAdamskiArc AngelsBeastie BoysThe Black CrowesMarc BonillaChris De BurghTracy ChapmanJulian ColbeckColorhausThe CureDo YoungstasDanzigStacy EarlElectric BoysThe Fans -LeeJeffrey GainesHardlineThe Immaculate FoolsHoward JonesWynonna JuddKodoKris KrossLyle LovettLynch MobMaxDavid MurrayDavid MurrayOSTPapa WembaLeon RusselDavid SanbornJane SiberryThe Sisters Of MercySlaughterKathy SledgeSoul II SoulJesse StrangeSun -60

Swing Out SisterTevin CampbellRichard ThompsonThree Shades BrownKeith TippettTLC

Two TribesVarious ArtistsVictoryGrover Washington Jr.Mike & Kate WestbrookWildsideSteve WynnXTCThe Spent Poets

TitleNaughtyArc AngelsCheck Your HeadThe Southern Harmony...Ee TicketPower Of TenMatters Of The HeartOne For You DuduWater To The SoulWishSomethin' For Da PelletHow The Gods KillStacy EarlGroovus MaximusRuns In The Forn-Lee

Jeffrey GainesDouble EclipseThe Toy ShopIn The RunningWynonnaIrodoriTotally Krossed OutJoshua Judges RuthLynch MobSilence RunningShakill's WarriorDavid Murray's Big BondBeethovenLe VoyageurAnything Can HappenUpfrontSummer In YukonSome Girls Wander By MistakeThe Wild LifeHeartsJust RightJesse StrangeSun -60

Swing Out SisterTE.V./.N.Sweet Talker OSTStronger Than StrongOne For YouOcooh On The TLC TripTwo TribesSpanish Fiesta - Olympic...You Bought It...Next ExitLondon BridgeUnder The InfluenceDazzling DisplayNonsuchThe Spent Poets

LabelMCAGeffenCapitolDef AmericanWarner BrothersA&MElektraEditions EGAtlanticFiction/PolydorAtlanticDef AmericanRCA

VertigoJWJ/Def JamChrysalisMCAColumbiaeast westCurbEpicColumbiaCurbElektraRed Dot/WEAColumbiaColumbiaMCARealworldVirgin AmericaElektraWarner Brotherseast westSBK

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WTG/EpicEpicFontanaOuest/Warner BrothersCapitolAtlanticEditions EGLaFace/AristaChrysalisEpicMetronomeColumbiaVentureCapitolRhino/AtlanticVirginGeffen

ProducerAdamskiLittle StevenBeastie Boys/Mario Caldato Jr.George DrakouliasNot listedRupert Hine :

Jimmy lovine/Trpcy ChapmanJulian Colbeck/Chris MacLeodPhil Radford/Bob MitchellDavid M. Allen/The CureLawrence & Ann GoodmanGlen DanzigVariousElectric BoysVariousNot listedNeal SchonAndy RossRoss CullumTony BrownKei-lchi NakamuraJermaine DupriNot listedKeith OlsenNot listedDavid MurrayDavid MurrayRandy EdelmanShin Yasui/Richord MoakesLeon Russell/Bruce HornsbyNot listedJane Siberry/John SwifterAndrew EldritchNot listedVariousJazzie B.Jesse StrangeD. Russo/J. JonesPaul Stavely O'DuffyQuincy JonesPeter Filleul/Richard ThompsonJohn McClainKeith TippeltVariousTwo Tribes/Chris SheldonVariousTommy Newton/VictoryVariousFiachra TrenchAndy JohnsSteve WynnGus DudgeonMatt Wallace

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New Ventures At Concert Radio:Philips Classics State Of The Art

by Terry Berne

With the release of Rarities & Sur-prises at the year's end, PhilipsClassics' monumental 45 -volume,180 -CD Complete Mozart Editionwas finally completed, six yearsafter preparatory work had begunin 1985. Including known authen-tic works by Mozart, many neverbefore recorded, theedition-launched to commemo-rate the bicentennial of the com-poser's death-became a huge andunexpected success, selling over40.000 complete sets in its firstyear, an astounding 7.2 millionCDs.

Mozart Edition project manag-er Stef Collignon acknowledgesthat many things aside from thehigh artistic standard of the seriesitself inspired its creation. "First,Mozart is the most popular com-poser. Second, he is even morewell known as a result of the filmAmadeus, and the Mozart Year hasbrought so many exhibitions,broadcasts and concerts, increasinghis popularity. Lastly, every otherclassical label has been focusingon their Mozart repertoire. All ofthese points ultimately helped usin its creation."

Despite the time and effortinvested in this series, the mostambitious in recording history,other projects were also awaitingdevelopment. In order to assureproper support for these ratherunusual undertakings, Collignon

assumed the newly created posi-tion of product manager forcrossover repertoire.

How does he view his new rolewithin Philips Classic's? ExplainsCollignon, "When we started usingCDs 12 years ago, everybodybought Beethoven and Brahmsbecause that was the basic place tobegin building a new library. Butsymphonies by Beethoven andBrahms simply don't do as well asthey used to. These symphoniesare still recorded, but you can'texpect the bulk of your product tocome from that sort of repertoire.

"So we have to look in differ-ent directions, and that's wherecrossovers come in," he explains."A crossover is not just classicalmusicians performing other reper-toire, like Kiri Te Kanawa'srecent album of jazz standardsSidetracks; it's also classical reper-toire that somehow appeals to abroader audience. It's artists reach-ing out. Not only is it interesting tobe involved in something otherthan the mainstream music; it's acommercial consideration as well."

Two current examples of thisthinking are taking shape atPhilips. The first is an exclusivecontract with the new and highlyacclaimed Hollywood BowlOrchestra. A collection of care-fully selected and produced filmscores, Hollywood Dreams as wellas the album Gershwin in Holly-wood have sold 40.000 copieswithin months of being released.

In the near future, the completeovertures of Rogers & Hammer-stein, as well as a new recordingof The King & I with JulieAndrews and Ben Kingsley, willbe issued.

Another important develop-ment is the creation of a new label,Point Music, which will feature awide variety of progressive newmusic. A joint venture of PhilipsClassics and American composerPhilip Glass's Euphorbia Pro-ductions, the label will concen-trate on music that defies the nor-mal formats, but remainsaudience -oriented. Says Collignon,"We have very high expectationsfor Point Music. Its associationwith Philip Glass assures its artis-tic integrity as well as a high com-mercial profile."

The first three CDs will bereleased in Europe within the nextseveral months.

One of the first releases of PhilipsClassics new label Point Music.

Concert Radio/Amsterdam isone of the few private stations inEurope broadcasting classicalmusic 24 -hours a day. Started in1989 as Radio 10 Klassiek withthe purpose of testing the market,it was reborn in April 1991 underits current name. Received viacable and satellite by five millionhomes in Holland and anotherhalf million in Belgium, the mostrecent available figures find anaverage of 700.000 householdstuned in to the all -classical stationweekly.

With a computerized CD -onlypolicy and state of the art Sonyhardware, PD Wouter Spijkerbelieves that high quality sound isa major part of its allure. Thecompany concentrates its market-ing efforts do the serious classicalmusic audience, advertising insuch publications as the pro-grammes for the AmsterdamConcertgebouw Orchestra andOpera Scala, as well as printingits full programme schedule inthe Dutch music magazine Luis -ter, which boasts 25.000 readers amonth.

Although its policy curently isto play complete works with noannouncements, the station willsoon begin to identify musicplayed on the air. Another changehas been the addition of a twice -weekly programme featuringcomplete operas. These and otherchanges are the direct result oflistener interest as expressed in

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frequent audience research.including a recent 30 -questionsurvey published in Luister.

Concert Radio airs advertise-ments in-between pieces, and isexperimenting with corporatesponsors. "Our sponsorship pro-gram has been a little difficult toget off the ground," says Spijker,"as it is still such a new conceptin Holland." Label support, how-ever, was also slow at the begin-ning, but grew quickly as recordcompanies became aware of thestation's growth.

Programmes are broadcast atthe same time each week and aregenerally divided into musicaltypes, such as chamber music orsymphonies, since there are alsoshows focusing on older,acclaimed releases from the LPera. In addition to Spijker andprogrammer Eric Bleys, there is aspecial advisory panel composedof music professionals to helpmake programming decisions.Though focused mainly on musicof the period from 1650 to 1940,some early music as well as post-war music is played.

Despite imminent changes inDutch broadcast regulations,Concert Radio will remain cableand satellite -based for the timebeing. And although the station iscurrently concentrating on Dutchspeaking territories, the pan-European potential offered by itssatellite link is an option for thefuture. TB

BBC WORLD SERVICE/London Takemitsu - John Williams, RADIO NEPTUNE/Brest Mozart - Nieuw SinfoniettaJohn Tusa - Music Director London Sinfonietta/E.P. Salonen Jean Le Corvoisier - Prog. Dir. Amsterdam, L. Markiz

Rossini - Soloists/Glyndebourne Fest. To The Edge of Dreams, Beatles Songs etc. Dvorak - Firkusny/Ridge Symphony No. 29 [Globe]

Chorus & Orch./Gui [Sony Classical] Piano Quintets [RCA] Bach - S. RichterLe Comte Ory [EMI] Paganini, Saint -Sans, Waxman - Maxim Strauss - C. Kleiber Dos Wohltemperierte Klavier' I, 8-14 [RCA]

Rossini - De los Angeles/Alva/Bruscanti/ Vengerow, Israel Ph.O. 1992 New Year's Concert [Sony] Mahler - J. van Nes/Het GeldersRoyal Ph.0./Gui Works For Violin & Orchestra fielded Handel - G. Lesne Orkest/Y. TalmiII Barbiere Di Siviglia [EMI] Beethoven - Anatol Ugorski Lucrezio [Virgin] Riickertlieder [Ottavo]

Rossini - Soloists/Glyndebourne Fest. Diabelli-Variationen [DGG] Brahms - Brendel/Abbado Rameau - LeonhardtChorus & Orch./Gui Vivaldi - Anner Bylsma Piano Concerto No.2 [Philips] Various Pieces For Harpsichord [DHM]Ceherentolo [EMI] Concertos For Strings [Sony Classical] Liszt - PogorelichBrahms - Stefan Vladar Various - Boston Pops/John Williams Sonata in B Minor [DGG] OPUS RADIO/ZurichPiano Sonata No. 1 in C, Four Ballades [Sony Classical] Swing, Swing, Swing [Philips] Campra - W. Christie Christoph Hanggi - ProducerMozart - Peter Frankl/Tamas Vasary Friedrich Il/Timur Leng - Sarband Idomenee [H.M.] Bach - Kathleen Battle & ltzhak PerlmannComplete Piano Duets [ASV] Music Of The Emperors [Jaro] Ravel - Ansermet Arias [DGG]Poulenc, Debussy & Satie - Kun Woo Paik Nielsen, Grieg, a.o. - Guildhall String Orchestral Works [Decca] Bobby McFerrin/Yo-Yo MaClair De Lune [Virgin Virgo] Ensemble Schumann - Arrau Hush [Sony]

Schubert - Radu Lapu Scandinavian Suite [RCA/BMG] Piano Works [Philips] Rossini - Cecilia BartoliPiano Sonatas [Decca] Heroines [London]

Dvorak - Prague Phil. Choir/Czech Ph.O. SWF (S 2 KULTUR)/Baden-Baden CONCERT RADIO/Amsterdam Various - Kronos QuartetStabat Mater, Psalm 149 [Chandosl Anette Sidhu - Prog. Editor Eric Bleys - Programmer Pieces of Africa [Nonesuch]

Various (Purcell e.a.) - Cambridge Monteverdi - Jurgen JUrgens Wouter Spijker Prog. Dir. Carlos Kleiber/Wiener Phil.Singers/Rutter Vespro Della Beata Vergine [Ambitus] Mendelssohn ! N. Marriner Neujahrskonzert 1992 [Sony]

Music Of The English Church [Collegium] Rossini - Cecilia Bartoli/Charles Spencer Pionoconcerto No. 2, Op.40 [CBS] Giaccomo PucciniCardoso, Rebelo & Pedro de Christo - Choir Of Lieder [Decca] Milhaud - Boston Symphony Orch./C. Munch La Fancuilia Del West [Sony]

Westminster Cathedral/James O'Donnell Various - Kronos-Quartet La Creation Du Monde [RCA] Various - Werner BiirtschiMasterpieces Of Portuguese Polyphony, Vol. 2 Pieces Of Afrika [Nonesuch] Dvorak - Alban Berg Quartet Mozart a.o. [ECM]

[Hyperion] R. Strauss - Bernard Haitink Stringquartet No. 12, Op. 96 [EMI] Mozart - Anne -Sophie MutterHowells - Kennard/Ainsley Der Rosenkavalier [EMI] Liszt - V. Cliburn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [EMI]Hymnus Paradisi [Hyperion] Manuel De Falla - Josep Pons Sonata in B Minor [BMG] Milhaud - Orch. Du Capitole De Toulouse

El Amor Brujo/EIRetablo De Maese Pedro Slostakovitsj - Nieuw Sinfonietta Symphonien No. 1&2 [DGG]

KLASSIK RADIO/Hamburg [Harmonic Mundi] Amsterdam, L Markiz Kiri Te Kanawa/Andrit ProvinJoachim Salau - Producer Kammersinfonie, Op. 118a [Fidelio] Kin Sidetracks -The Jazz Album [Philips]

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Station reports include allnew additions to the playlist,indicated by the abbre-viation "AD." Reports fromcertain stations will alsoinclude a "Power Play" (PP),a track which recievesspecial emphasis for theweek, as well as featurednew CD's and LP's indicatedby the designation "AL." Allplaylists must be recieved byMonday at 3 o'clock.

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B BC RADIO I/LondonPaul Robinson - Prog DirA List:AD Michael Jackson. In The Closet

B List:AD Extreme- Song Of Love

Iron Maiden- Be Quick OrKim Wilde- Love Is HolyNomad- Your Love IsSimply Red -Thrill Me

CAPITAL FM/LandonRichard Park Prog ConteA ListsAD Extreme Song Of Love

Extreme Love Of..Michael Jackson- In The ClosetMichael Ball- One StepSimply Red- Thrill MeTeeth Campbell. Tell Me WhatXi& The Disappointed

B ListsAD 2 Unlimited- Workaholic

Bomb The Bass. KeepCygnet Ring Love Crime

METRO RADIO GROUP/NewcastleLiz Elliott - Music 01 -901 -1i501 -

Power Play:Michael Morgan- Mk Meg Dich

A List:AD M People- SomedayB List:AD Bomb The Boss- Keep

Extreme Song Of LoveGuns N. Roses. PrettyJaki Graham- BandKim Wilde Love Is HolyMarc Almond- The DaysRichard Marx. HazardSound On Sound- TimeSpice- Don't Do ItTevin Campbell- Tell Me What

ATLANTIC 252/LondonPaul Kavanagh - Prog DirA List:AD Celine Dion- Beauty

David Byrne Girls On My MindSwing Out Sister. Am IZZ Top. Vivo Las Vegas

PICCADILLY RADIO/ManchesterKeith Pringle - Head Of MusicA List:AD Bomb The Bass- Keep

Celine Dion- BeautyDon E- Love MakesExtreme- SongJohn O'Kane- Stay With MeMariah Carey- Make ItRichard Mar, Hazard

B List:AD Cher- Could've Been You

Cygnet Ring- Love CrimeKin. Wilde- Love Is HolyMarc Almond- The Days

BRMB FM/BirminghomRobin Valk . Head Of MusicA List:AD Extreme- Song Of Love

Richard Marx- HazardB List:AD Block Crowes- Remedy

Don B. Love Makes

E.M.F. Gelling Through

Gun- Higher GroundHouse Of Love- FeelKim Wilde- Love Is HolyLove Decade- Feel You

M People- SomedaySL 2- On A RoggeSoeeled Out- In My Lie

RADIO CLYDE/GlasgowAlex Dickson - Prog DirA ListsAD Cher- Could've Been You

Cicero- That lovingKylie Minogue FinerRandy Crawford -Who's CryingRod Stewart. Your Song

B List:AD Julian Lennon -Get A Life

Tom Petty -Too Good

RADIO TRENT/NotlinghamLen Groat - Dep Prog DirA List:AD Cicero. That Loving

Inner City- HalleluiahB List:AD Big Bug. Marry For The

C.K.T.C.- Hang On

Hooter. SatelliteJerry Burns- Pale RedKylie Minogue FinerTracy Chapman- Bong Bong Bang

DOWNTOWN RADIO/BelfastJohn Rosborough - Prog DirA LishAD John OiKane Stoy With Me

Kim Wilde. Love Is HolyKylie Minague FinerMarc Almond- The DaysMary Black- No FrontiersRichard Marx -Hazard

GWR FM/Bristol/SwindonAndy Westgate - Head Of MusicA listsAD Texas -Tired Of Being Alone

B ListAD C.K.T.C.- Hang On

Pasadena. Make It With YouSqueeze- Cool For Cats

RADIO FORTH/EdinburghColin Sommerville - Head Of MusicB List:AD Black Crowe. Remedy

Blur- PopsceneDon F- love MakesEMF- UnexplainedExtreme- SongGun- Higher GroundHouse Of Lane Feel

B List.AD Damian & Dame- Gotta Learn

Mike Davis- When OnlyReggie Hall- MusicRobyn Springer. All InRonny Jordan- Get To GripsWhistle Get The Love

GLR/LondonTrevor Dann Head Of Music

RADIO 4U/BerlinBernd Albrecht - Frog DirPeter Radszuhn -Prog DirA List.AD Ce Ce Peniston- We Got A Love

Crowded House- les Only NagaiEn Vogue My Lovin.Opus Ill It's A Fine DayPrimal Scream- Movin' On

B List:

Maggie Reilly- TouchRandy Crawford- Who's CryingRight Said Fred- Deeply

B List.AD Army Of Lovers- Ride

Chris De Burgh- Separate TablesN.K.O.T.B.- If You Go AwoyPlanet Claim, HeavenQueen- Who Wants To Lim forever

AL Annie Lennox

RTL 102.5 - HIT RADIO/BergamoGrant Benson - Head Of MuskBust.AD C.K.T.C.- Hang On

Kym Sim. Take My AdviceRed Hot Chili Peppers- UnderSophie B. Hawkins- DamnTracy Chapman- Bang Bang Bong

POWER RVI THE BLACK RADIO/Turin

Jerry Bums- Pole Red A List: AD Adamski- Get Your Body Paolo Lauri - Head Of Musk

John Inane- Stay With Me AD 10 CC Woman In Boomers- Wishes RADIO T.O.N./Bad Mergentheim Power Plays

IGee Wade- Love k Holy Annie Lennox- Walking On Jame, Ring The Bells Reinhard Baerenz - Head Of Music AD Carol Bailey. Understand Me

LT Pretend We're Dead Rod Stewart- Your Song Soul II Saul Joy A List: A Ust

Marc Almond The Doys B list Sugarcubes- Walkabout AD Alexander Mexek- Temptation AD Us, One True Woman

Richard Marx- Hazard AD Chris De Burgh- Separate Tobles Tinth Louisiana Lonely Chris De Burgh- Separate Tables B Ust

Simply Red- Thrill Me Level 42 My Father's Shoes Wet Wet Wet- More Than Love Connie Francis- Jive Connie AD Sim Kiss My Ups

Melissa Etheridge Ain't It Heavy Al Westernhagen Julian Lennon- Help Yourself WreckeNEffect- Ready

RADIO BROADLAND/Norwich Peter COW Dream About You Shanice Wilson. Love

Dam Brown Head Of Musk Tracy Chapman Bang Bang Bang RB 4/Bremen RADIO MONTE CARLO/Milan

Power Ploy: Axel Sarnrnerfeld - Di/Producer RADIO N 1 /Nuremberg Francesco Migliozzi - Pun Corer

Annie Lennox- Why COOL FM/Belfast B Lien. Cohn Taman - Prog Dir A List:

Curtis Stigers- You're All John Paul Ballanline - Head Of Musk AD Adamski- Get Your Body Power Play: Annie Lennox- Why

Genesi. Hold On My Heart B'Est: Ce Ce Peniston- We Got A love Shanice Wilson- I Love Bruce Springsteen- Human Touch

Mr. Big. To Be With You AD Def Leopard. Heaven Is Clouseau. Anna AD Shanice Wilson- In Crying Bruce Springsteen. Better Days

Swing Out Sister. Am I John O'Kane Stay With Me Edo Zankie- Sieben Wer A List Michael Jackson- Remember The

Ten Sharp- You Kim Wilde Love Is Holy Genesi. Hold On My Heart AD Genesis- Hold On My Heart Tears For Fear. Laid So

A List: Melissa Etheridge Ain't It Heavy Kym Sims -Take My Advice Inner City- Hallelujah Ten Sharp. You

AD Dr. Robert- Simpler Place Mighty Fall- Try Too Hord Melissa Etheridge. Ain't It Heavy Opus III- It's A Fine Day U2. Mysterious Ways

Jody Watley- I'm The One Stunning December Sky National Galerie Hallo Pasadena. Make It With You U2 -One

Kim Wilde- Love Is Holy Naughty By Nature- Everything B List: AD Annie Lennox Precious

Kylie Minogue- Finer NWI. The Bond Played AD Paris Red -Ain't No Moutoin

Marc Almond -The DaysANTENNA DELLO STRETTO/Messina

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Rod Stewart Your Song Benny Schnier - Head Of Musk A List:Swing Out Sister -AmVictory- Rock-O-MoticTevin Campbell. Tell Me What A List: AD Angelique Kidk- We -We

B List: MU NETWORK/Paris X-Clon- Fire & Earth AD Boomer. love You Beattie Boys- Pass The Mic

AD Jerry Burns- Pale Red Max Guazzini Dir XTC- The Disappointed Nazareth- Every Time Use Stansfield Time To

A List Nuclear Valdez. Shore A kialph Sesso 0 Esse

FOX FM/Oxford AD Art Mengo Gino RAS 2/Berlin Southern Sons. Always And Ever Tarneka Siam Going In

Steve Ellis Prog Conti Crowded House- Fall At Your Henry Gross - Head Of Music ZZ Top. Viva Los Vegas

B List: A Ust SWF 3/Baden Baden

AD C.K.T.C.. Hang On SKYROCK NETWORK/Paris AD Bonnie Tyler -Where Joerg Lange RADIO CLUB 91/Naples

En Vogue- My Lavin' Laurent Boun.0 Prog Dir Genesi, Hold On My Heart A List: Franco Russo Mory Prog Dir

Marc Almond- The Days A List: Mr. Big To Be With You AD Kathy Troccoli- Everything Changes A List:

Randy Crawford- Who's Crying AD Martikk Martika's Kitchen B List. Udo Lindenberg- Sonderwg AD Chaka Khan- All My Lifetime

Vanessa Williams Save The Best AD Cher. Could've Been You Hammer- Do Not Pass

RADIO LUXEMBOURG/London XTC- The Disappointed Chris De Burgh- Separate Tables NDR 2/Hamburg Jesus & Mary Ch.- For Gone

Jeff Graham - Prog Dir Land- Round Round Lutz Ackermann - Head Of Musk Marc Almond- The Days

Power Play: SCOOP/Lyon Maggie Reilly -Touch . A List Michelle Shocked Come A Long Way

AD If. Saturday's Angels Alain liberty - Prog Dir Mariah Carey -Make It AD Castelli- Cuore Di Liberia Tony Hadley- Lost In

Kim Wilde. Love Is Holy A List: Shakespeare Sister -Stay Dan Hill- I Fall All Tracy Chapman- Bang Bong Bang

Love/Hate- Warted AD Zucchero/Crawford- Diemen* Shanice Wilson- I'm Crying Jody Watley- I'm The One Yothu Yindi- Treaty

Mission- Never Agoin B List. Johnny Logan- It's Only ZZ Top- Vim Los Vegas

A List: AD Billy -Fes Ma Nona RSH/Kiel Jule Neigel Band- Wenn Die

AD Ian McCulloch- Dug For Love Bryan Adams- Thought I'd Died Ralf Bukowski Head Of Music OMD- Then You Turn Away

Rod Stewart- Your SongRush- Ghost

Ce Ce Peniston- FinallyClaudio Philips- Donne-Moi

Power Play:AD Cher Could've Been You

Planet Claire I killt-nTony Jenkins- Baby Come Bock HOLLAND

Texas- Bred Of Being AloneB List

Kenny Thomas- Best Of YouLaurence Jalbert- Les Yeux

A LishAD Mr. Big- To Be With You RADIO F/Nuremberg

AD Julian Lennon- Get A Life Michel Sardok Boc G Shakespeare Sister Stay Ziggie Hoge - Prog Dir VERONICA/Hilversum

Primitives- Lead Me U2 -One A Lists Hans van der Veen Vice MD

They Might Be Giants- Guitar Wet Wet Wet- Goodnight Girl RADIO Ff hi/Frankfurt AD Avalanche If You Ever Want Unico Glorie - Producer

Tracy Chapman- Bong Bong Bong Sabine Neu - Head Of Musk Dirk Busch- Du Kennel Power Ploy:

ZZ Top Viva Las Vegas ISABELLE FM/Tocone Saint Apre B List Engelbere Dream With You AD Isabella Shortie Shame Shame

Patrick Lapeyronnie - Frog Dir AD Clouse u-Anna Michael Morgan- Ich Meg Dich A List:

SWANSEA SOUND/Wales Power Play: Crowded House- It's Only Natural Thommy Raiker- Living As AD FM Only The Strong

Rob Rendry Head Of Music Art Menge- Gino Garth Brooks- Shamelem Lidell Townsel Nu Nu

Power Play: Bashung- Madame Rene Genesis. Hold On My Heart RADIO RT 4/Reutlingen Prince Money Don't Maher

Randy Crawford- Who's Crying A Lish Peter Maffay- Zwei In Dorothee Seyer - Head Of Musk Red Hot Chili Pepper. Under

AD C.K.T.C.. Hang On AD Au P'tit BonheutMeuriceite Reinhard Fendrich-Teti A List: Wiger V Even Bellen

Texas Tired Of Being Alone Chris De Burgh- Separate Tables Tracy Chapman- Bang Bang Bang AD Clouseau- Anna

B List: Etienne Doh. Attractions Genesi, Hold On My Heart NOS/Hilversum

AD Angie Giles- Submerge Fabian- Paradise HUNDERT 6/Berlin Jule Neigel Band. Wenn Die Tom Blomberg Di/Producer

Jody Watley- I'm The One Gory Moore- Separate Ways Rainer Gruhn - Musk Dir Pur Lad Fur All DM Power Play:

Kim Wilde- love Is Holy Jevetta Steele Say A Little Prayer Power Plays Rod Stewart- Your Song Hans De Booli. Groene Smart

Rod Stewart Your Song Katherine F- Then I Udo Irn KUhlschrank A List:

Temptations- Gel Ready Les Valentines- Aussi Beau AD Reinhard Fendrich- Tura RADIO NRW/Oberhausen AD Curtis Stiger. You're All

Ten Sharp- You Ofro Has. Dow Da Hiya Tony Carey- Wonderland Jeff van Gelder - Head Of Music Havenzangers- Combo La Rumba

Randy Crawford. Who's Crying A List: A Lists Kim Wilde Love Is Holy

INVICTA RADIO/Canterbury Tracy Chapman- Bang Bang Bang AD Andy Borg- Bleib Bei Mir AD Fernandez/Kent Perdona Sophia- Rennin'

John Lewis - Head Of Music Umberto Tozzi- Gli Altri Bellamy Brothers -Miami Moon Genesi. Hold On My Heart Torn Petty T. Good

A List: Blaue Engel- Licht Am Pur- Lied FUr All Die AL Powerpley

AD Cher- Could'. Been You RTL/Paris Blue System- Romeo And Rod Stewart- Your Song Van het Groenewoud

Kylie Minna.. Finer Monique Le Monis - Head Of Programmes Collin Raye Every Second Swing Out Sister- Am I Troekener Xeres

M People Someday A List: Fernandez/Kent Pardon°

Marc Almond- The Days AD Akin Bashung. Madame Reve G.G. Anderson -Rosalie STATION 3/Hilversum

Michael Jackson- In The ClosetB List:

Francois Feldman- Tombe d'AmourGuesch Patti Wake Up

Michael Jackson- Remember TheMichael Morgan- Ich Wag Dich ITALY

Carla Versloot - Co -OrdPower Play:

Ultramagnetic MC, One ToAD Cicero- That Loving Peacock Palace Like A Snake 010- Almeria

AD Feel. SlaveJulian Lennon- Get A Life Roth Voisine Avec Tes Yeux Relax- Blue Farewell River

Rod Stewart- Your Song AL Melissa Etheridge Rod Stewart- Your Song REIF 105 NETWORK/Milan A List:

Sounds Of Blackness- Testify Pierre Ferret Sonny & Cher- I Got You Alex Peroni - Head Of Musk AD Bonnie Raiff Not The Only

Steve Harley- Make Me Smile Wind- Traume Sind FM A Lish Buffalo Tom- Taillights

EUROPE 2 NETWORK/Paris AD Cure. Friday I'm In Love Erasure Breath Of Life

POWER FM/Ferehem Christian Savigny - Prog Dir RADIO GONG 2000/Munich FPI Project Feel It Joe Publk- Live And

Jim Hicks - Head Of Music A List: Andy Wenzel - Head Of Programmes Lightning Seed, Life Of Kin, Wilde- Love Is Hdy

A List: AD Concrete Blonde Someday Power Play: Utfiba- Bambino Michael Jackson- In The Closet

AD Mariah Carey -Make It Prince- Money Fax' Matter Blue System. Romeo And Shawn Christopher. Don't Lose The Rebel MC- Rich And

Prince- Money Don't Matter U2- One Bruce Springsteon. Human Touch Sophie 8. Hawkins- Damn Santana- Right On

Swing Out Sister- Am I Simply Red- For Your Babies Soul II Soul- Joy Seydinolv Folic

B Lint: RMC COTE D'AZUR/Mante Carlo B List: Stage Dolls- Love Don't Bother Me

AD Temptation, Get Ready B List: AD Annie Lennox- Why TROS RADIO 3/Hilversum

AD Deer.- Feel So High Michael Bolton- Steel Bars STEREORAI/Rome Ferry Maat - Head Of Music

RED DRAGON FM/Cardiff Mr. Big. To Be With You Nirvana- Come As You Are Elio Molinari -Head of Dept. Power Play:

John Dash - Heed Of Music Right Said Fred. Pm Too Sexy Eodele Bellisario - Frog Dir AD Lionel Richie Do 11 To Me

Power Play: RADIO GONG/Nuremberg Power Play: A List:

Curtis Stigers- You're All RADIO RIVIERA/Monte Carlo Peter "Marc" Stingl - Head Of Music Annie Lennox. Why AD Anny Schad°. Working Girl

Kym Sim. Take My Advice Andrew Astbury - Musk Dir Power Ploy: Bruce Springsteen- Human Touch Billy Vera- Something like

Soul II Soul- Joy A List: AD John Parr. Man With A Cure High Def Leppord- Let's Get Rocked

AD ZZ Top Vivo Las Vegos AD Cher When Love Calls XTC- The Disappointed KLF- America. What Tee Is Love? Dries Roolvink-lipBent

A List: John Lee Hooker. Mr_ Lucky A Usti U2 One Henk Westbrook- Wear Ze

AD C.K.T.C.. Hong On Lightning Seeds- Life Of AD Army Of Lovers. Ride A Usti Isabella- Shame Shame Shame

Julian Lennon- Get A Life Michelle Shocked- Come A Long Way Cure High AD Beautiful SAWA We Are Each Perception- Feed

Kylie Minogue- Finer Soul II Soul -Joy Vanessa William. Save The Best Frankie Need Your Lovin' Rene frog., Mon With A

Marc Almond. The Days AL Annie Lennox Jesus & Mary Ch.- For Gone Stella- Over 'n Uur

Swing Out Sister. Am I L'ONDE LATINE/Aix en Prey.. Luca Carboni- More Mane XTC- The Disappointed

Tears For Fears- Woman In Power Play: RADIO CHARIVARI/Nuremberg Tracy Chapman- Bang Bong Bang

Ten Sharp- You AD Pow Wow- Le Chat Mathias Hofmann - Music Dir AL Del Leopard HIT RADIO/Bussum

B List. A List: Power Play: Keen Van Tlin - Music Dir

AD Black Crowe. Remedy AD Bernard Lavilliers. Saigon Ten Sharp- You RADIO DIMENSIONE SUONO/Rome Power Play:

Brand New Heavies- Hold It Down David Kovee Bord A List. Carlo Mancini - Music Dir AD Genesi. Hold On My Heart

Iron Maiden. Be Quick Or Mylene Farmer- Beyond AD R.E.M. Losing My Religion Power Play: B List:

Jody Watley Pm The One Tanya St. Vol. Tropical B List Crowded House Weather With AD Om Osbourn. No More Tears

Metallic. Nothing Else Matters AL MC Solaar AD Bryan Adams- Thought I'd Dad Curtis Sfigers- I Wonder Ten Sharp- Rich Mon

Soundgarden- Jesus Christ Rose Mama's & The Papa's- Dream A Litle Cure HighGenesis- Hold On My Head POWER FM/Amsterdam

BEACON RADIO/Wolverhampton Soul II Soul -Joy Peter Belt - MD

GERMANYSTAR SAT RADIO/GreenwaldJo Lueders - Prog DirPeter Wagstaff - Prog Dir A List: Power Play:

A List: AD Outfield Closer To Me AD R. Kelly- Honey ThiefB List:AD En Vogue. My Lovin'AD 10 CC- Woman In Swing Out Sister- Am I B List:

Foreigner- Waiting For A Girl WDR1/Cologne Garland Jeffrey. Murder B List. AD Genesis- Hold On My Heart

Kylie Minogue Finer Wolfgang Roth - Producer Jenny Morris. Break In AD Bas Noir- Superficial Love Henk Westbrook- Wear Ze

Steve Harley. Make Me Smile A List Joe Cocker- Let's Go Get Eddie Money- Falling In Mass Order. Lift Every Voice

B List AD Adarnski- Get Your Body OMD- Then You Turn Away Eric Carmen- My Heart Stops Roxelte Church

AD Jaki Graham- Bond Beattie Boys- Pass The Mic Frankie- Need Your Levin' Sounds Of Blackness- Testi

Kin, Wilde Love Is Holy Definition Of Sound- Moira Janes RADIO REGENBOGEN/Mannheirn Jagdeep Singh- Who's Gonna Ten Sharp- Rich Man

Love Decade- I Feel You Def Leppard- Let's Get Rocked Martin Schwebel - Music Dir Joy Salina. Stay Tonight Tevin Campbell- Tell Me Whet

Marc Almond- The Days Winne Boel. Falling In Love Power Play: Kid Frost- No Sunshine

Squeeze- Cool For Cats Hr. Nielsson- Pippi AD Rod Stewart- Your Song Stage Doll. Love Don't Bother Me SKY RADIO/Bussum

Mario Jordan- Welch Ern A List: Riley/Lucas- Is It Tom Lathouwers - Operations Mgr

SUNSET RADIO/Manchester Bean/Smear Campaign. Elected AD Clouseau- Anna Power Ploy:

Duncan Smith - Prog Dir National Galerie Hallo Genesi. Hold On My Heart PETER FLOWERS FM/Milan Annie Lennox- Why

A List: Non Art Art- I Wander Jule Neigel Band. Wenn Die Marco Garavelli - Producer Crowded House Weather With

AD Alison Williams- Can't Hove Par. Lied FUr All Die Mariah Carey- Make It Franco Lazzari - Head Of Music Dinah Washington- Mad About

Cherrelle Tears Beeeoh- No Message B List: Power Play: Wet Wet Wet- Goodnight Gid

Degrees Of Motion- Do U Soup Dragons Divine Thing AD Brand New Heavies Never Stop AD Tony Hadley- lust The A List

Leroy Hudson- Shore Your Love Sugorcube, Walkabout Castelli Cuore Di Liberia A List. AD Mr. Big. To Be WU You

Modest Fol. Promise Me They Might Be Giant. Guitar Pau Lied Fur All Die AD John Norum/Jmy Tempest We Will Be Rod Stewart Your Song

Swing Out Sister- Am I Shawn Christopher. Don't Lose The Right Said Fred- Don't Talk Ten Sharp. Rich Mon

CHOICE FM/London5DR 3/StuttgartHans Thomas - Producer

Tracy Chapman- Bang Bang BongRADIO BABBOLFO/Gen. RADIO NOORD-HOLLAND/Haarlem

Merritt Crawford - Head Of Music Power Ploy: RADIO SALU/Soarbruereen Lenny Ratio. - Prog Dir Pieter Bulis - Producer

A List: AD Rod Stewart. Your Song Adam Hahne - Prog Dir Power Play: A List:

AD Aaron Halt Don't Be Afraid AL Nick Kamen A list: AD Tracy Chapman- Barg Boxy Bang AD Billy Vera- Something Like

Absolute- Introduce Me AD Beautiful South- We Are Each Don H.- Harley

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STATION REPORTS

Eleven ,LowGeoffrey Williams- Nol A LoveJody Watley I'm The OneMoss Order Lift Every VoicePerception FeedRonny Jordan- So WhatSokkel & Funket Sportclub

CFNB/BrunssurnLou Rowland Head Of MuskPower Ploy:AD Betsy Cook How Can IA ListAD Peter Case Dream About You

Tony Joe White Love M.D.Tracy Chapman- Bang Bang Bong

AL One 2 One

BELGIUM

RADIO CONTACT N/BrusselsDanny de Bruin - Prog DirB List.AD Cher Could've Been You

Dinky Toys- The BestDouble You- Please Don't GoMora Almond- The DaysRed Hot Chili Pepper. UnderRobert Palmer. Every Kind OfRod Stewart. Your SongSoulsister. Locks AndToast- Vroeg Of Loot

RADIO EXPRES/AntwerpMarc Dhollonder - Head Of MusicB ListAD Bort Vandenbosschst Opp Is

Helmut Lott Nooil MeerRight Said Fred, DeeplyRosh Voisine Lo ?tomes.Seydinah, FoieTony Hadley- Lost InWigbert Rob

RADIO ROYAAL/Hornont-AchelTom Holland - Prog DirPower Play:AD Henk Westbrook. Wear ZeA List:AD Army Of Lover. Ride

Beautiful South- We Are EachBoys II Men, Ws So HardDes'ree MindDouble You- %ease Don't GoDries Roelvink,lii BentGenesis Hold On My HeronGrant & Forsyth- Turning OverRight Said Fred- DeeplyRobbie Valentin. I Believe In YouTemptations My GirlU 96 DU, boot

AL Beautiful South

HIT FM NOORDZEE/HasseltAndre Hemeryck - Prog DirA ListAD Double Tort Please Don't Go

R. Kelly, Honey ThiefRoy Orbisor, I DroveShawn Christopher- Don't Low TheSnap, Rhythm Is A DancerTom Browne Funkin'Vanessa William. Soon The Best

B List:AD ZZ Top Vivo Los Vegas

BRT STUDIO BRUSSELS/BrusselsJan Hautekiet - ProducerA list.AD Candy Skins Submarine

Danish Butter Cookie. GettingFille Dimon. Systerne DGenesis, Hold On My HeadKym Sims- Take My AdviceMary & The Girt Time TurnsPeter Case- Six -Pack Of LoveTracy Chapman- Bang Bang BangVincent Von Gogh- La Beaune

BRT RADIO 2 -EAST FLANDERS/GhentRudi Sinio ProducerA List:AD Army Of Lover. Ride

Chic -Chic MystiqueDinky Toy. The BestDouble You. Please Don't GoJohn Terre- Allen Goot GoedOpus III, It's A Fine DayPop Gun WhereverTofhu lindi, Treaty

AL Red Hot Chili Peppers

BRT RADIO 2 -WEST FLANDERS/KortrijkPeter de Groot Head Of MusicPower Play:AD Swing Out Sister A.niAL Annie Lennox

RTBF RADIO 2/HainautPhilippe Jounioux - Music DirA List.AD Cure- High

Eddy Mikhelf Tell It

KLF, Americo What Time Is Love,

Michel Sardou- Bac G

BRF/EupenGuy Janssens - ProducerPower Play:AD Bonnie Tyler Where

Marc Almond. The DaysPrince Money Don't MatterPus Lied For All Die

A ListAD Benny & Farce Ou'On

Hiram. Come As You Are

SPAIN

40 PRINCIPALES/MadridLuis Merino Musk MgrPower Play:

Nirvana- Smells Like

A ListAD Bruce Springsteen- Baer Days

Cure- HighJuonjo Y Tomas- Nos VolverernosLos tunes- Los Anos OwSergio Dolma- Ave Lucia

Serafin Zubiri- Todo EsteSonora- Algunas CarozonesSoup Dragons- Divine Thing

NORWAY

RADIO 1/OsloTOP 97.2/Madrid Bjorn Faarlund - Di/ProducerRaul Marchant - Music Mgr B Lkt:Power Play: AD Bean/Smear Campaign- Elected

AD Dania Invisible Solo El Amor ZZ Top- Viva Los Vegas

A ListAD Garth Brooks- Burning RADIO VEST/Stavanger

Los Lunen Los Anos Gue Bjarte P Tjostheim - Head Of MusicMichael Jackson- Remember The Power Play:Sergio Dolma- Ave Lucia Orup- Non Annan

Shanice Wilson. I Love A List:

AL David Santisteban AD Julee Cruise Summer KissesMath Rossland- &pen BatMichael Morgan- Ich Meg D,chPogo Pops- Hit The GroundTreble & Bas. My Sweet

B ListAD Dr. Alban, It's My Life

Howard Jones- lift Me UpOpus III. It's A Fine DoyTracy Chapman- Bong Bong Bong

RADIO OSLO/OsloAlison Chase - Prog DirA List:

Bruce Springsfeen- Human TouchBruce Springsteen- Better DaysDef Leppard- Let's Gel RockedGary Moore Cold DayIzabella- Shame Shame ShameKLF Atc, ca What Time Is Love?Michael Jackson- Remember TheMr. Big- -c Be With YouRithord Marx -HazardShanice Wilson- I Love

Shakespeare Sister- StayTen Sharp You

YLE 2/RADIOMARA/HelsinkiRADIO 102/Haugesund &Aka Haarma - Music Co -OrdEgil Houeland A List.A List: AD Bruce Springsteen- All Or Nothin'

AD Curtis Stigers- You're All Def Leopard- Heaven Is

Eleven- Rainbow Gory Moore- Separate WaysGenesis Hold On My Heron Juice Leskinen, POO POP 92.4 FM/AthensGrease Svensen- The Right Thing B List Isaac "Easy" Couiiyel - Prog Dir

Izabella Snarl. Shame Shame AD Alivaltiosihteeri- Tompereelle A UMSoul II Soul- boy Everything But The Girl- Time Alter Time AD Gary Wright, Dream Weaver

CITY RADIO/Gothenburg AL Tony Carey Jenny Monis. Break In Howard Jones- lift Me Up

Lars Bodin. -Music Dir Wilma- Lout& Nilda Fernandes- Mes Yeux

Power Play: NRK-REPORT 1/0slo Queen Lerida& How Do I Love Thee

Howard Jones Lift Me Up Vidar Loren -Arneson - Producer RADIO 100+/Tampere Right Said Fred- Don't Talk

A List: A List Penni Teravainen - Music Dir Riley/Lucas Is It

AD Crowded House Weather With AD Guns N' Roses- November Roin A List: List:

AD Boycott Knock On Wood AD Aaron Hall, Don't Be AfraidCurtis Stiger. You're All Halleluja 92- inner City

Dan Hill Doll AllChris Walk's Take TimeTreble & Boss- My Sweet Devonsguire Bye Bye

Geoffrey Willionss-Nol A Love B List: Km Sims- A Little Bit More Spheeris/Voodeuris- Enchantment

George McCrea- Breathless AD Erasure- Breath 011ie Twins Not The Loving Color Me Budd- NI 4 Love

Gerald Levert- School Me John Norum/Joey Tempest We W.II Be David Byrn. Girls On My Mind

Honne Boef Falling In Love Elton John- Down On Me

Posodenos- Make It With You Rune Hagen - Head Of Music 11111111=311.1KLF- Justified & AncientL.A. Gun. les Over

Nia Peeples, Kissing The Wind STUDENTRADIOEN/Tromso

AL Annie Lennox Power Play: Lisa Stansfield- All Woman

Bel Canto- Summer Opus 111- It's A Fine Day

CITY RADIO/Malmo A List: CD INTERNATIONAL/Vienna Prince, Money Don't Matter

Fredrik Hellstrom - Music Dir AD Breeders- Sakai Peter Lossock Herod el- Music Solt-N-Pepa- You Showed Me

AL Church Jame, Ring The Bells Power Play: Tito Puente Rhon Khan Khan

Lisa Nilsson Kristine Frey -This Is Garland Jeffreys- Hoil Hoil Tony Hadley Lost in

Stone Rose, Waterfall B List: U2

RADIO P4/Lund Tracy Chapman Bong Bang Bang AD Eric Clopton- Tears

Camillo Mellnerf - Music Dir AL Barbie Bones Everything But The Girl- Love Is Stange ANTENNA 97.1 FM STEREO/Athens

Power Play: Guns N. Rose. November Rain Elias Xinopoolos - Pros Dir

AD Crowded House Weather With RADIO TRONDHEIM/Trondheim Hammer Do Not Pass A List

En Vogue- My Lovin' John Branaes - Head Of Music Indecent Obsession Kiss Me AD Jody Watley- I'm The One

Right Said Fred. Depply Dippy Power Ploy: Max & Mario Colors Walking In Kim Sink- Take My Advice

Swing Out Sister Am I Dinah Washington- Mad About MC 900 Ft. Jesus- The City Michael Jackson- In The Closet

A List A List: Mr. Fingers- Closer Prince. Money Don't Matter

AD Geoffrey Williams Not A Love AD Celine Dion- II You Asked Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under B List

Giant- --, rir L & A Engbergs Ork, Twen Skal Soup Dragons. Divine Thing AD Bruce Springsteen- Better Days

Howard lone, Lift Me Up Moth Rossland Stiller Bet Steve Harley- Irresistible Concrete Blonde Ifs AMon's World

Julian Lennon- Gel A Life Tor Endresen- Luxembourg Tony Hadley- Lost In

Nikolay Steen. I Wont You B List: ZZ Top Vivo Las Vegas JoeHigh Dream

Orup Non Annan AD Chaka Khan- All My Lifetime Lou Reed- What's Good

Pasadena. Make It With You Genesis- Hold On My Heart

Sophie B. Hawkins. Damn Jody Watley- To The One

West Of Sunset -Giving

RADIO RYD/LinkopingMaoism Arwidson - Head Of MusicPower Ploys

Snap Rhythm Is A Dancer

A List:AD Blue Train The Hardest Thing

Electric Gad- PictureKym Sims- Take My AdviceTerry Ronald, One More DollarTracy Chapman- Bang Bong Bang

AL Orup

RADIO 16/MadridCarlos Honorato - Prog DirPower Play:AD Ronaldos- Tu Yews

Soul II Soul- JoyTracy Chapman, Bong Bang Bang

A List:AD Esclarecidos El Trent

Ten Sharp TorAL Bruce Springsteen

SWEDEN

SAF RADIO CITY/Stork holmNiklos Ehring - Music DirPower Ploy:

Kriss Knots -rumpA List.AD Alyson Williams Can't Have

Christer Sandelin- GalenCurtis Stigers, You're AllHanne Boel- Falling In LoveMelodie MC Your BodyMichael Bolton- MissingNia People, Kissing The WindPosadenas, Make It With YouSophie B. Hawkins DamnWest Of Sunset Giving

AL Annie LennoxLisa Nilsson

DANMARKS RADIO/CopenhagenLeif Wivelsfed - Prog DirA List:

Bruce Springsteen- Human TouchKLF- Americo: What Time Is Low?

Mr. Big- To Be With YouShanice Wilson- I Love

Ten Sharp -You

RADIO SYDKYSTEN/CopenhagenPeter Hold Head Of MusicA List:AD Rho -hi -D. ,orr.renB List:AD Chris De Burgh- Separate Tables

Swing Out Sister- Am

RADIO HOLBAECK/HolbamkBrig Nielsen - Prog DirPower Play:AD Euphoria love YouA ListAD Her Personal Pain- TouchB List.AD Silar hundeprutsongen

Chris De Burgh- Separate TablesGenesis Hold On My HeartGeoffrey Williams- Not A LoveJenny Morris Break InJohn Parr. Man With AMadness- It Must BeMariah Carey. Make ItWet Wet Wet, More Than loveYam One True Woman

FINLAND

B List.AD Massive Attack

RETE 3/LuganoGiorgio Passers - Head Of MusicPower Play:AD Happy Head- FabulousA List:AD Bruce Springsteen Souls Of

Howard Jones. Lih Me UpMatthew Sweet. GirlfriendMichelle Shocked Come A Long WayPoi Dog Pondering The Hordes) ThingSoup Dragon. Divine Thing

RSR LA PREMIERE/GenevaCatherine Colombara - ProducerAL Bruce Springsteen

Michel Swaim.

PORTUGAL

RADIO RENASCENCA/LisbonA List:AD Jame. Ring The Bells

Moby Dick 5

SLOVENIA

STUDIO D/Novo MestaRasta Bozic - Di/ProducerA List:AD Bruce Springsteen- Human Touch

KLF. Americo What lime Is Love?

GREECE

HIT FM/StockholmJohan B. Bring - Frog DirA List.AD 2 House Go iecono

BB Jerome/Bang Gang Shock RockBlock Machine How GeeChrister Bjorkman- I MorgonCords Rigors- You're AllDr. Alban, It's My LifeEn Vogue My Loom'Hann, Boot Falling In LovePS 12- KrlighedQueen Who Wants To Live Forever

Right Said Fred- DeeplyTen Sharp- A n' My Beot.ng

RIKSRADIO P3/StockholmL.G. Nilsson - ProducerA List:AD Eric Clopton TearsB ListAD Chako Khan- All My Lifetime

Jennings & Nelson. Silver StallionLeon Russel- No Mon's LandSator I Wenner

Sophie B. Hawkins DomnSvenne Rubin. tango Boller

DENMARK

THE VOICE/CopenhagenLars Kjaer Frog DirA List:AD New, Goodbye Is Goodbye

Swing Out Sister. Am IYam, One True Woman

RADIO VIBORG/ViborgPool Foged - Head Of MuskA List:AD Allan Olsen- Er Del Mig

Celine NW.- If You Asked

Chris De Burgh- Separate TablesGenesis Hold On My HeartKinks- Did ToMoggie Reilly- TouchMork Chesthutt JukeboxTracy Chapman. Bang Bang Bong

B List:AD Drwsinebandert Song

Fenders Solens BornKenny & Lott. Alt DenKym Sims- Take My AdviceLightning Seeds- Life 01Pasadena, Make II With YouQueen 'Dhc Worts To Dye Forever

UPTOWN FM/CopenhagenNiels Pedersen - Head Of MusicA List:AD Celine Rion- If You Asked

Genesis Hold On My HeartKim Larsen- Danes HawShakespeare Sister- StoyShu-bi-Duo- FamilienTemptations- My Girl

RADIO MALMOHUS/Malmo011e Nilsson - Head Of Musk RADIO ABC/Randers

Power Ploy: Stig Hartvig Nielsen Prog ConnLisa Nilsson. Himlen Runt A List:

A List AD Alpha Bloody- Rendez-Vous

AD Buckaroo Beat. Bring It Kinks De ToChrister Biorkman- I Morgon Maggie Reilly- Touch

Curtis %ger. I Wonder MC Lyte- Poor Georgie

Diesel Park West. Fall Pasadena, Make It With You

Ern Clopton- Tears B List:

Honne flcel- tome Into My AD Berth! Abildgaard- boyPasadena. I'm Going Bertel Abildgoord- iner-SongTom Petty The Donk Damian & Dame Gotta LearnTracy Chapman- Bong Bang Bang En Vogue- My Lovin'

AL Lars Damian Geoffrey William. Nol A LoveLittle Village Nick Cove Straight To You

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under

RADIO MADRID/Madrid RADIO HUDDINGE/Stockholrn Shutai-Dua Familien

Luis Merino - Music Mgr Robert Sehlberg - Prog Dir Shu-hi-Duo- Sexchikane

Power Play: A List: Sophie B. Hawkins -Damn

AD Presuntos Implicado.Uovio AD En Vogue My Lovin' Soul II Soul- jay

A List ., Michael Balton- Missing Swing OW Sister -Am I

AD Double Yost Please Dong Go Prince- Money Don't Moser Treble & Bass- My Sweet

Elegantes No Soy Swing Out Sister -Am I Westwood Once In

Emilio Aragon- Susanito AL Lisa Nilsson XTC The Disappointed

Patrick Brad- Romper ZZ Top Viva Las Vegas

Ronaldos- Tu Veras AL Shu-hi-Due

OE 3/ViennaGunther Lesjak - Head Of MusicA List:AD Annie Lennox- Why

Bruce Springsteen- Better DaysHans Theessink- Call MeJ. Gotfried Coll MelKathy 7.0.011 -Everything ChangesMaggie Reilly- Touch

SWITZERLAND

RADIO ZUERISEE/StoefaUeli Paul Frey - Head Of MusicA List:AD Bryan Adams- Thought I'd Died

Mariah Carey. Make ItOthsenknecht Only OneRandy Crawford Who's Crying

B ListAD Beautiful South- Old Red Eyes

Bonnie Tyler- WhereCeline Dion- If You AskedDesmond Child- ObsessionGarland Jeffrey. Hoil HeilMichael Learns To Rack -The Actor

RADIO 24/ZurichDoni Richiger Head Of MusicPower Ploy:

Annie Lennox- WhyBruce Springsteen- Human Touch RADIO 4 U/WorsawEric Clanton- Tears Bogdan Fabionski Dj/ProducerGarland Jeffrey. Hod Hoil Power Play:Mr. Big- To Be With You AD Tracy Chapman- Bang Bong Bang

B List: A List:

AD Chris De Burgh- Separate Tables AD Clouseau- Close Encounters

Joe Cocker- Feels Like Etienne Doh. SoudodeKym Sims- Take My Advice

RADIO FOERDERBAND/Bem OMD --_n You Turn Away

Res Hassenstein - Dj/Prodiker Soul II Soul. Joy

Power Play: Wolfsheirn It's Not Too Late

Annie Lennox- Why ZZ Top Ara Los Vegas

B List:AD Maggie Reilly Touch RADIO RMF/Krakow

Randy Crawford- Who's Crying Pion Metz - Head Of MuskTracy Chapman, Bong Bong Bong Power Play:

Def Leopard- Let's Get Rocked

DRS 3/Basel A List:

Christoph Alispoch - Music Co -Ord AD Curtis Stigers- You're All

AL Au Plit Bonheur , Devon squire II You CouldIon McCulloch- boon lover

COULEUR 3/Lausanne Tony Hadley- Lost In

Thierry Catherine - Head Of Music B ListPower Play: AD Amy Grant, I Will Remember

AD Des'ree Mmd Eddie Money, Falling In

Single Gun Theory- From A Million Gun- Steal Your Frre

STAR FM STEREO/ThessolonikiVassilis Turonis Prog DirA List:AD Chris Walker- Take Time

En Vogue My LoveLightning Seed. life OfMora Almond- The DaysShakespeare Sister- StaySwing Out Sister Am I

B List:AD Devon squire II You Could

Gary Moor. Cold DayKriss Kross JumpRandy Crawford Who's Crying

POLAND

A List.AD Cud Through the Roof

Immaculate Fool. Stand DownJesus & Mary Ch.. Far GoneKezioh Jones- The WisdomLiberty Horses- BelieveSwans Ire Sound Of FreedomTonna Tikaram- Men andTemptation. The JonesX Tel- Block Russian

POLSKIE RADIO 3/WarsawMarek Niedzwiecki - ProducerPower Play:AD Genesis Hold On My HeartA ListAD Cher. Could've Been You

Crowded House Weather WithDef Leopard Let's Get RockedJody Watley, I'm The OneJu I ion Lennart Get A LifeSoul II Soul JoyTom Petry Too Good

RADIO ZET/WorsowDorek Andrzejewski - Head Of MusicPower Play:

Tears For Fear. Laid SoA List:AD Maanorn Zlote TangoB List:AD Del Leppord- Let's Get Rocked

Genesis Hold On My HeadMono Negro- Halo Vida

Pearl Jon, Even FlowSugarcubes WalkaboutU 96- Das Boot

RADIO MERKURY/PoznanRyszard Gloger - Head Of MusicPower Play:AD Troggs Don't You Know

A List:AD Bobby McFerrirt Hush

Bruce Cockburn- Mighty TrucksChris De Burgh- Separate TablesFats Domino I'm WalkingLow Come Sove MeTorn Petty. Too Good

RUSSIA

RADIO MAXIMUM/MoscowAlexander Kosparov - Prog DirA ListAD KMC Kra Talk Doy

Rush -Bravado

B List:AD Barry White- Volore

Bonnie Raiff Not The OnlyIan McCulloch. Lover LoverKriss Kross JumpRed Hot Chili Peppers Under

EUROPE

VOICE OF AMERICA/EuropeJune Brown DirB List:AD Chris Walker. Tyke Time

Paula Abdul. Will YouPrince- Money Don't MatterRichard Mare -Hazord

MSC TELEVISPON'

MTV EUROPE/LondonBrian Diamond - Prog DirHeavy Rotation

Bruce Springsteen- Human TouchKI.F. Amer co. Whot Time Is Love?

Mr. Big- To Be With YouNirvana- Came As You AreRed Hot Chili Peppers- UnderShakespears Sister- StayU 96 Dos Boot

Active Rotation2 Unlimited- Twilight ZoneAnnie Lennox- WhyChic C ^, MystiqueCurtis Stiger. I WonderCure 1,ghDef Leppard- Lees Get RockedDes'ree- Feel So HighGary Moore- Cold DayPrince Money Don't MatterRosana. Are You ReadyU2-OnoWesternhagen. Krieg

Buzz BinAdarnskt Get Your BodyCharlatan, WeirdoDel Tho Funkee H. Minced°Jesus & Mary Cl.- Far GoneUgly Kid Joe- Everything

Medium RotationGenesis- Can't DanceKLF-Jusithed & AncientMichael Jackson- Remember TheRight Said Fred- Don't TolkShanice Wilson- Love

Simply Red StarsSimply Red. For Your BabiesTen Sharp- You

Break OutArmy Of Lover. RideCrowded House- Weather WithDavid Byrne. Girls On My MindEn Vogue My Levin'Genesis Hold On My HeartRonne Beet No Love At AllKriss Kross JumpLisa Stanfield Time ToLithe Village She RunsMarley Mark. I Need MoneyMelissa Etheridge Ain't It HeavyNick Cave- Stroight To YouOzzy Osbourn. No More TearsSalt-N-Pepa- Do You Wont MeSoul II Soul- JoyTen Sharp- Ain't My BeatingVanessa Williams- Sow The BestYothu Yindi. TreatyZZ Top VI. los Vegas

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STATION OPERATIONS

Time For More Radio Creativityby Daniel Flamberg

For years, radio people have com-plained that the industry losesrevenue because creatives areunwilling (or unable) to produceanything besides lush four-colourprint ads or 30 -second TV com-mercial shots on location in Tahi-ti, Dakar or Rome. And whileradio is not central to the careerpath or advancement of agencycreative types, there hasn't beenmuch correlation so far betweenthe preferences of creatives andthe media selected for deliveringad messages.

To confront this chicken andegg question once and for all,Jim Thompson and his col-leagues at Group W Radio putup US$1 million in a 10 -yeartime span for this one question: Ifradio rewards creative excellencein the medium, can we move thesales needle? With a top prize ofUS$100.000, the MercuryAwards are open for entries. Thefirst winners will get their checkson May 11, 1992.

This is an idea that severalradio trade groups have thrownaround for a long time. It isanother PR opportunity for radioand a way to spike out one of thedominant false objections to radioadvertising. Now the industry, ineffect, can say "put up or shut up"to the creative community andonce and for all track the impactof ego -stroking on long-termsales development.

Tactics for TakingControl

During 1991, radio broadcast-ers acted like solo sailors in ahurricane. They tied down thetiller, went below and lashedthemselves in. At each step, they

clients' hesitating behavior? Howcan you convince a retailer tobelieve in advertising if you don'tbelieve? Have you noticed thatthe Wall Street Journal has tripledits ads on the topic? What do they

tion brings a big bag of tricks tothe party. Remote broadcasts,traffic -building promotions, DJappearances and co-op coordina-tion are all proven, powerful sell-ing techniques. The real chal-

Now is the time to work on packagingyour station: programming, image andinventory.

know that you don't? They knowthat bad times offer opportunitiesfor leaders to extend their leadand for advertisers to make spec-tacular come -backs against com-placent competitors.

If you aren't using every avail-able medium to promote your sta-tion and its value to your clients,you are missing the boat.

Since every other medium intown is also suffering, you cantrade time and space for attractivediscounts. Your air should befilled with promo spots featuringclient testimonials. And youshould be inviting clients intoyour station for marketing semi-nars, creative brainstorming and ataste of show biz.

2. Take The Moun-tain To Mohammed

People are worried and anx-ious. They are desperate to knowwhat's coming next. And they areanxious for someone to showthem a way out. You can be thatsomeone by actively organizingyour sales and marketing effort tomake your station and its com-mercial inventory available andaccessible to clients.

Now is the time to hold a sale,to create special "introductory"packages and to design neighbor-hood or mail -oriented campaigns

Anger, frustration and fear have turnedus into budget slashers with little visionand even less hope. The time has cometo turn lean into mean and to confrontour collective demons.

accepted the fact that events areout of their control and have con-tented themselves with holdingon for dear life. Anger, frustrationand fear have turned us into bud-get slashers with little vision andeven less hope. The time hascome to turn lean into mean andto confront our collectivedemons. Consider these five tac-tics for taking control.

1. Pump Up The JamNow is the time to aggressive-

ly promote radio and your station.If you are not soliciting the valueof advertising in a recession, howdo you expect to change your

that give retailers the radio equiv-alent of the local paper's "BannerPages." Big ideas with accessiblesmaller -sized participation willadd new business to your station,while your competitors continuebusiness as usual. There is virtu-ally no limit on the names youcan give these efforts or theimpact they can have on yourclients. They require your ulti-mate effort in understanding thecustomer and his needs. Yourclients and prospects are lookingfor someone with a "we're in thistogether" attitude who can palpa-bly help them, as would a gen-uine partner.

In this regard, your radio sta-

lenge is communicating thispower, emphasizing your abilityto help find co-op/vendor fundingor your understanding that themodest costs of this effort actual-ly calculate out to pennies per day(or per customer).

Appealing to the stressedclient requires an understandingof negative motivation. Very fewclients are pro -active, even whentimes are good. This year youcan't expect anyone to see, under-stand or move for the right rea-sons.

You must make a direct appealto fear-fear of failure, fear ofloss, fear of humiliation or fear offuture consequences are drivingbusinesses today. Why else wouldwe be willing to lay off recordnumbers of employees and makedrastic cuts in firms of all sizes?To penetrate the client's currentmind set, you must frame yourappeal in terms of what he willmiss or how he will be harmed ifhe doesn't act.

It is not the traditional benefit -selling tact, but if you do yourhomework right, you will see thatovercoming fear is the client'sbiggest need. And we are in aneed -fulfilling business.

3. Just Do ItTimes are so bad that the

moment has come to try out yourcraziest ideas. You have little ornothing to lose. Promotions, day -part programming, themes andconcepts you hesitated to use justa month ago are now fair game.

Consider programming con-sultant Walter Sabo's observa-tion, "In a business that dependson reflecting the needs and tastesof the audience, we remain insu-lar. As a business that must spottrends and anticipate pop culture,we lust after the familiar. Theworst crime in other media is torepeat the past. In radio, intro-duce a new idea and you will beasked, 'So who else has done it?'Now is the time to abandon oursecret lives as lemmings and trynew things."

4. Packaging IsEverything

In a market of parity products,or products perceived to be thesame, the one with the most

Have you consideredany of the following:

1. Committing to a newspaper schedule at most -favorednation rates and combining it with spots plans in athemed promotion?

2. Representing the local cable operator or interconnector the weekly county newspaper as the seller/packager of his inventory?

3. Making a tactical alliance with the local dis-tributor/publisher of phone books, Valu-Paks or directmarketing vehicles to sell in combination?

4. Striking a short-term alliance with non-affiliated TV sta-tions to create a retail -oriented electronic media packagethat breaks the newspaper hold on the market's largestgrocers, chains and mass retailers?

appealing package wins. Sure,she has a slightly crooked nose,home -bleached hair, plastic shoesand, if you look real close, a zit ortwo. But the perceived image ofthe entire package brought youacross the room hot to trot.

Now is the time to work onpackaging your station: program-ming, image and inventory. Lookat the consistency of the mes-sages you are projecting, conductthe research, carefully select yourtarget listeners and sculpt aunique posture to convince yourclients and listeners that they aremaking the right choice by tuningyou in. Remember, radio is enter-tainment, information, comfort,companionship and friendship.Keep in mind that TSL, AQH andcume/reach are psychological aswell as mathematical indicatorsand use that data to get closer toyour audience and to offer yourclients greater persuasion andimpact with your listeners.

5. Master MultimediaMarketing

Did you notice that GMbought a US$95 million multime-dia campaign from Time Warnerand that radio didn't get one centof it? Multimedia marketing is areality on Madison Avenue. Theonly ones not making deals,alliances and pacts in record num-bers are radio networks and radioreps. Soon multimedia will beeverywhere. If you don't antici-pate it and control the ball, youwill be the big loser. Have youconsidered any of the following:

1. Committing to a newspaperschedule at most -favored nationrates and combining it with spotsplans in a themed promotion?

2. Representing the local cableoperator or interconnect or. theweekly county newspaper as theseller/packager of his inventory?

3. Making a tactical alliancewith the local distributor/publish-er of phone books, Valu-Paks ordirect marketing vehicles to sellin combination?

4. Striking a short-term

alliance with non-affiliated TVstations to create a retail -orientedelectronic media package thatbreaks the newspaper hold on themarket's largest grocers, chainsand mass retailers?

If not, why not? Now is thetime to anticipate the future,understand the synergies betweenand among media and put theminto service to aid your stationand your clients.

The outlook is a paranoid'sdream come true. But that's noreason to retreat to your room andhide under the covers. The uncer-tainty of the economy gives usunusual latitude to see the glassas either half empty or half full.Realistic optimists can achievegreat things in uncertain times.

Longtime industry l'eteranDaniel Flamberg is managingdirector of Morgan Rothschild& Company, Inc.. a New York -based advertising, promotionand public relations a,gency.

Prior to forming MR&C in1989, Flamberg was COO andprincipal sales development/marketing officer for the

Radio Advertising Bureau. ,Anaward -winning creative execn-tire, he earlier served as VPo/ advertising/PR for the

Mutual Broadcasting System.Flamberg can be reached at(+1) 212.463 8200; fax (+I)212.691 9805.



Billboard SINGLESEDR TOP 25TW 2WA WOC Artist/Title

1 1 5

2 3 163 2 5

4 5 9 22 3

CD 9 5 8 3

8 7 11

11 5

12 3

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21 3

17 314 13 315 6 5

16 14 3

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18 16 919 15 920 10 7

23 40425 25 5

SOUL II SOUL/JoySHANICE WILSON/I Love Your SmileCHAKA KHAN/Love You...ROZALLA/Are You ReadyJODY WATLEY/I'm The One You NeedPASADENAS/Make It With YouPRINCE/Money Don't MatterMICHAEL JACKSON/Remember The Time

MARIAH CAREY/Make It HappenKYM SIMS/Take My AdviceSALT-N-PEPA/Expression

J.T. TAYLOR/Follow MeEN VOGUE/My Lovin'CHERRELLE/Tears Of Joy

SHAWN CHRISTOPHER/Don't Lose The MagicGEOFFREY WILLIAMS/It's Not A Love ThingDEGREES OF MOTION/Do You Want It Right Now

CHIC/Chic MystiqueCE CE PENISTON/Finally

RAY SIMPSON/Crazy PicturesSWING OUT SISTER/Am I The Same Girl

RIGHT SAID FRED/Deeply DippyCLIVILLES & COLE/A Deeper Love

ARMY OF LOVERS/Ride The BulletTEDDY RILEY/TAMMY LUCAS/Is It Good To You

Label

(Ten)

(Motown)

(Warner Brothers)

(Pulse 8)

(MCA)

(Columbia)

(Paisley Park)

(Epic)

(Columbia)

(Atco)

(ffrr)

(MCA)

(east west)

(Tabu)

(Arista)

(EMI)

(ffrr)

(Warner Brothers)

(A&M)

(Circa)

(Fontana)

(Tug)

(Columbia)

(Ton Son Ton)

. (MCA)European Dance Radio (EDR) is based on a weighted -scoring system and is compiled on the basis of playlists from European stationsplaying dance music fulltime or during specific dayparts. Songs in "A" rotation airplay receive more points than those in "B° rotation ormore limited airplay exposure. The following stations hove participated: Choice FM/London; Club FM/Gothenburg;Hit FM/Stockholm; Hit Radio N-1/Nuremberg; Horizon Radio & Galaxy Radio/Milton Keynes -Bristol; KISS FM/London; Radio2-Day/Munich; Radio HSR/Copenhagen; Radio Kiss Kiss Network/Naples; Radio Luxembourg/London; RadioStockholm/Stockholm; Radio Venaria/Turin; Radio Voltage/ Paris; Radio VSD/Gothenburg; Rainbow Radio/Oslo; Sun-set 102/Manchester.

UNITED KINGDOMMost played records on BBC stations and majorindependents.

1. (13) Vanessa Williams- Save The Best For Last2. (5) Right SaidFred - Deeply Dippy3. (I) Anoie Lennox -Why?*4. (16) Curtis Stigers - You're All That Matters To Me

5. (2) Prince/N.P.G - Money Don't Matter6. (-) Ten Sharp - You7. (4) Mr. Big - To Be With You8. (15) Hammer - Do Not Pass Me By9. (6) Swing Out Sister - Am I The Same Girl *10. (3) Erasure - Breath Of LifeII. (8) Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked12. (10) Crowded House - Weather With You13. (9) Ce Ce Peniston - Finally14.(12) Soul II Soul -Joy15. (14) Shakespears Sister - Stay *16. (11) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch

17. (-) Genesis - Hold On My Heart *18. (20) Cure - High *19. (-) Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer *20. (-) Wet Wet Wet - More Than Love

P NMost played records on Cuarenta Principales.covering the major stations.

1. (6) Presuntos Implicados - Llovio *2. (-) Emilio Aragon - Susanita *3. (-) Soup Dragons - Divine Thing4. (-) Los Roualdos - Tu Veras5. (-) Patrick Bruel - Romper La Voz6. (-) Los Elegantes - No Soy Tan Duro *7. (-I Sonora - Algunos Corazones8. (-) Serafin Zubiri- Todo Esto Es Musics9. (-) Doable You - Please Don't Go10 (-I Sergio Dalma - Ave Lucia11 (-) Bruce Springsteen - Better Days12. (-) Simply Red - For Your Babies13 (d2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone14 (-I Complices - Ojos Gitanos15 1-) Amistades Peligrosas - Muy Pefigroso16. I-) Dire Straits - The Bug17. (-I Modestia Aparte - Maria18. (-) La Union - Amor Fugaz19. (-) Los Inhumanos - Directum Tremens *20. (-1 Los Lanes - Los Altos Que...

. © 1992, Billboard/BPI Communications, Inc.

T\A/ LW Artist/Title For week ending April 25 1992 Label ECO

0 3 KRIS KROSS/Jump

2 1 VANESSA WILLIAMS/Save The Best For Last

C 4 QUEEN/Bohemian Rhapsody

5O2 ERIC CLAPTON/Tears In Heaven

0 8 ENVOGUE/My Lovin'

0 7 TLC/Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg

7 6 MARIAH CAREY/Make It Happen

8 5 ATLANTIC STARR/Masterpiece

O 12 RICHARD MARX/Hazard

10 14 JOE PUBLIC/Live And Learn

11 10 MINT CONDITION/Breakin' My Heart

12 9 CELINE DION AND PEABO BRYSON/Beauty And The Beast

13 19 U2/One

14 15 KATHY TROCCOLI/Everything Changes

ci) UGLY KID JOE/Everything About You

16 11 MICHAEL JACKSON/Remember The Time

17 13 GENESIS/I Can't Dance

18 16 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Human Touch/Better Days

0 24 BRYAN ADAMS/Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven

20 18 MR. BIG/To Be With You

21 20 CECE PENISTON/We Got A Love Thong

*2 23 JODY WATLEY/I'm The One You Need

23 17 RIGHT SAID FRED/I'm Too Sexy

24, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS/Under The Bridge

4 at* PAULA ABDUL/Will You Marry Me?

27 DEF LEPPARD/Let's Get Rocked

27 21 AMY GRANT/Good For Me

28 25 COLOR ME BADD/Thinkin' Back

29 22 THE KLF FEAT. TAMMY WYNETTE/Justified And Ancient

30 26 SHANICE/I Love Your Smile

NATIONAL AIRPLAYGERMANY

Most played records on the ARD stations and majorprivates. Compiled by Media Control/Baden Baden.

1. (1) Shanice - I Love Yom Smile2. (6) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch3. (2) Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss4. (9) Curtis Stigers - I Wonder Why5. (3) Mr. Big - To Be With You6. (4) The Pasadenas - I'm Doing Fine Now7. (7) Genesis - I Can't Dance8. (5) Michael Jackson - Remember The Time9. (-) Ten Sharp - You10. (-) Maggie Reilly - Every Time We Touch11.(10) Chyp-Node - 1 Can't Get Enough12. (-) Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last13. (14) Des'Ree - Feel So High14. (111 Kylie Minogue - Give Me Just A Little...15. (8) Roxette - Church Of Your Heart16. (17) Simply Red - Stars17. (-) Annie Lennox - Why?18. (-) Miinchener Freiheit - Liebe Auf Den Ersten...*

19. (20) Nicki - Du Bist In Meiner Macht *20. (13) Simply Red - For Your Babies

Must played records on national stations Radio 2 andRadio 3. Compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.

1. (-I Genesis - Hold On My Heart2. (5) Mr. Big - To Be With You3. (-) Powerplay - Rosie *4. (-) Rod Stewart - Your Song5. (7) Prince/N.P.G. - Money Don't Matter6. (-) Swing Out Sister - Am I The Same Girl7. (I) Henk Westbroek - Waar Ze Loopt Te... *8. (10) Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever9. (17) Annie Lennox - Why?10. (13) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The BridgeI1. (-) Rene Froger - Man With A Mission12. (-) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch13. (6) XCTC - The Disappointed14. (-) Double You - Please Don't Go15, (2) Crowded House - Weather With You16.114) Gordon - Blijf Jij Vannacht Bij Mij17.(16) UMC's - One To Grow On18. (-) Wet Wet Wet - Goodnight Girl19. (-) Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy20. (12) Army Of Lovers - Ride The Bullet

FRANCE AMMost played records on AM stations. Compiled byMedia Control/Strasbourg.

I. (1) Art Meng° - Gino *2. (7) Queen - The Show Must Go On

3. (51 Johny Hallyday - Dans Un An... *4. (15) Francois Feldman - Joy *5. (8) Dany Brilliant - Suzette6. (18) Nilda Fernandez - Mes Yeux Dam Ton... *7. (2) Ten Sharp - You8. (16) Shanice - I Love Your Smile9. (11) Renaud - P'Tit Voleur *10. (-) Les Inconnus - C'Est Toi Que Jr... *II. (17) Marc Lavoine - L'Amour En 30 Seeondes12. (-) Au Mit Bonheur - TVeux Du Soleil *

13. (3) Jane Birkin - Je Suis Venu Te Dire...14. (12) Genesis - I Can't Dame15. (4) Jean Leloup - 1990 *16. (-) Jean-Louis Murat - Sentiment Nouveau17. (-) Keziah Jones - Rhythm Is Love

18. (-) G.Michael/EJohn - Don't Let The Sun.,.19. (-) Carole Laure - She Says Move On20. (-) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch

SWITZERLANDMost played records on the national station DRS 3 andmajor privates. Compiled by Media Control/ Basel.

I. (2) Mr. Big -To Be With You2. (I) Slumice - I Love Your Smile3. (3) Ten Sharp - You4. (7) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch5. (9) Annie Lennox - Why?6. (4) Curtis Stigers- I Wonder Why7. (8) Simply Red - Stars8. (5) Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven9. (10) Ce Ce Peniston - Finally10. (6) Genesis- I Can't Dance11. (20) Pasadenas - I'm Doing Fine Now12. (11) Richard Marx - Hazard13. (12) Des'ree - Feel So High14. (-) G.Michael/EJohn - Don't Let The Sun...15. (-) Ochsenknecht - Only One Woman16. (19) Zucchero/Crawford - Diamante17. (15) Micheal Jackson - Remember The lime18. (-) John Parr - Man With A Vision19. (-) Monty Python Always Look On The...20. (14) Garland Jeffries - Hail HMI Rock...

FRANCE F.Most played records on FM stations. Compiled byMedia Control/Strasbourg.

1. (1) Ten Sharp - You2. (2) Queen - The Show Must Go On3. (3) Tears For Fears - Laid So Low4. (5) Genesis - I Can't Dance5. (4) Shanice - I Love Your Smile6. (7) Simply Red - Stars7. (6) Prince/N.P.G. - Diamonds And...8. (8) Michael Jackson - Remember The Time9. (11) Michael Bolton - When A Man Loves...10. (15) Marc Lavoine - L'Amour En 30 Seconder1I. (17) Joe Cocker - Night Calls12. (9) Dire Straits - On Every Street13. (12) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch14. (10) Garlands Jeffries - Hail Hail Rock...15. (16) Cher - Love And Understanding16. (13) G.Michael/E.John - Don't Let The Sun...17. (14) Jean Leloup - 199018. (18) Art Mengo - Gino *19. (19) KLF - Justified And Ancient20. (-) MC Solaar - Caroline *

FINLANDMost played records on private radios as compiled byDiscopress.

I. (I) Popeda - Kersantti Karoliina *2. (12) Vilperin Perikunta - Piirimyyja *3. (11) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch4. (3) Toni Rossi & Sinitaivas - Katseet...5. (2) Ten Sharp - You6. (5) Tauski Peltonen - Lauluni Sinulla *7. (19) Hausmylly - Gigolo *8. (10) Miljoonasada - 506 Ikkunaa *9. (7) Anna Hanski - Jos El Si Soita10. (6) Neljii Ruusua - JuppihippipunkkariI I. (14) Riki Sorsa - Silmusi Sun *12. (18) Benny Tornroos - Kay Muumilaaksoon13. (9) Puolikuu - Viimeiset Viisi... *14. 141 Tonle Amberla - Korpii15. (-I Q.Stone - Train Train *16. (20) Kurre - En Rakkauttaas Saa17. (8) Simply Red - Stars

18. (-) Juhamatti - Dot Mun Nainen19. (-) Ressu Redford - Laskeutumisvalo20. (17) Veikko Lavi - Ota Loysin Rantein *

Ruffhouse

Wing

Reprise UK

Hollywood UK

Atco east west

LaFace

Columbia

Reprise

Capitol

Columbia

Perspective

Epic

Island IR

Reunion

Stardog

Epic

Atlantic UK

Columbia

A&M

Atlantic

A&M

MCA

Charisma UK

Warner Brothers

Captive

Mercury UK

A&M

Giant

Arista UK

MotownECO =European Country of Origin

National product is highlighted in red

NORWAYMost played records on 40 Norwegian stations.

Compiled by Radio Tow 20/Seance°, Young & Rubieam.

1. (1) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch2. (3) Mr. Big - To Be With You3. (2) Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy4. (71 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last5. (9) Crowded House - Weather With You6. (14) The Temptations -My Girl7. (4) Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked8. (10) Bel Cant0. Shimmering, Warm And Bright9. (5) Annie Lennox - Why?10. (13) Richard Marx - HazardI 1. (6) Kim Larsen & Bellami - Danas Have12.119) Fra Lippo Lippi - Thief In Paradise *13. (121 Prince/N.P.G. - Money Don't Matter14. (111 Anja Garbarek - Male Oynene Dine15. (-) Chaka Khan - Love You All My Lifetime16. (-) Izabella - Shaft Shame Shame17. (-) Opus HI - It's A Fine Day18. Shanice - I Love Your Smile19. (-) Tor Endresen - Radio Luxembourg20. (16) Michael Learns To Rock - The Actor

SWEDEN

Most played records on Swedish national and localstations. Compiled by Airplay Sweden.

I. (I) Lisa Nilsson - Himlen Runt Hornet *2. (14) Orup - Nan Annan Kommer Tolja...3. (3) Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch4. (2) Mr. Big - To Be With You

5. (I5) Soul H Soul - Joy6. (-) Opus ID - It's A Fine Day7. (4) Annie Lennox - Why?8. (11) Just D - Grannar *9. (-) XTC -The Disappointed10. (13) Stefan Andersson - Catch The Moon *11.110) Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina12, (-) ZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas13. (-) Fra Lippo Lippi - Thief In Paradise14. (-) Timebomb - Girls

15. Id Chaka Khan - Love You All My Lifetime16. (-) Treble And Bass - My Sweet Senorita17. (-1 Dr. Alban - It's My Life *18. (17) Shakespears Sister - Stay19. (-) Alison Limerick - Make It On My Own20. I-) Contenders - Radioland *



MUSIC'MEDIA

ARTIST

TITLE - ORIGINAL LABEL (PUBLISHER)

COUNTRIES CHARTED

0 To Be With You' Mr. Big - Mantic (EMI/CC)

You UK.F.D.B.A.CH.S.DK.Ir.N.SEGR

2 2 17 Ten Sharp - Columbia (Sony Music)

UK.D.B.NL.A.CH.S.DK.IEN

Why? UK.D.B.NL.E.CH.S.DK.Ir.N.1

3 6 Annie Lennox - RCA (La Lennoxa/BMG)

0 Das Boot7 16 U 96 - Polydor (BavariaSonor)

D.B.NL.A.CH.S.DK.SF

ARTIST


COUNTRIES CHARTED

# Viva Las Vegas UK.S.DK.Ir

94 2 ZZ Top - Warner Brothers (Elvis Presley/Williamson)

(I Want To Be) Elected36UK.Ir

34 2 Mr.Bean And Smear Campaign/Bruce Dickinson - London (EMI)

C'Est Toi Quo Je T'Aime37 Les Inconnus - Productions Lederman (Lederman)

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me Fs° B.A.CH.PDK.GR.I5 3 18 George Michael & Elton John - Epic (Big Pig)

America: What Time Is Love? D.B.NL.A.CH.S.DK.Ir.N.SF6 5 7 The KLF - KLF Communications (EG/Zoo/WC/MCA/Wandee)

Human Touch UK.D.B.NL.E.A.CH.S.P.DK.Ir.N.SF1

4 6 Bruce Springsteen - Columbia (Zomba)

Deeply Dip\,!!)11 5 Right Said Freed -Tug (Hit & Run)

UK.D.B.DK.Ir

Stay UK.D.B.NL.A.CH.S.IEN

9 8 12 Shakespears Sister - London (EMI/Island/BMG)

Let's Get Rocked UK.F.CH.S.P.DKAN.SF

10 10 4 Def Leppard - Bludgeon Riffola (Bludgeon Riffola/Zomba)

Joy UK.B.NL.CH.S.Ir

N" 3 Soul II Soul - Ten (Jazzie B/Soul II Soul/Virgin)

I Can't Dance1'1' Genesis - Virgin (Genesis/Hit & Run)

F.D.B.NL.A.CH.P

I Love Your Smile13 9 19 Shanice - Motown (Carlin)

UK.F.D.A.CH.S.DK.Ir.1

Justified And Ancient FDA.CH.S.DK.SEGR

The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette - KLF Communications (EG/Zoo/WC/BMG)

Don't Talk Just Kiss15 12 18 Right Said Fred - Tug (Hit & Run)D.B.NL.A.CH.S.DK

@High417Cure - Fiction (Fiction)

UK.F.D.B.CH.S.DK.1,1

4-4.2 Shame Shame Shamet.atly40 5 Izabella - Virgin (Sweden Music)

B.S.DK.N

Come As You Are39 29 6 Nirvana - DGC (Virgin)

D.B.NL.E.CH.S.InSF.1

Colour OF Love D.E.A.S.P.GR.I

40 37 16 Snap - Logic/Ariola (Warner Chappell/Zomba)

I Wonder Why41 39 13 Curtis Stigers -Arista (Sony/MCA)

D.B.DK

4.4) Take My Advice48 3 Kym Sims - Atco (Sony)

4-1.1 Mad About The Boy UK.NL.S.DK.Ir

51 3 Dinah Washington - Mercury (Warner Chappell)

Church Of Your Heart44 28 5 Roxette - EMI (Jimmy Fun/EMI)

UK.D.A.DK.Ir

I'm Too Sexy45 30 4 Right Said Fred- Tug (Hit & Run)

D.A

Song Of Ocarina F.B.NL

46 44 24 Jean Philippe Audin & Diego Modena - Delphine (Delphine)

November Rain D.NL.E.CH.DKIESF

47 35 7 Guns N' Roses - Geffen (Warner Chappell)

@Make It With You60 2 Pasadenas - Columbia (EMI)

UK.Ir

Oh Little Darling49 49 5 Paul Severs - Telstar (Various)

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Finally17 15 11 Ce Ce Peniston A&M (PolyGram)

UK.D.8 .ACH.Ir

a Save The Best For Last18 31 Vanessa Williams - Wing (Various)

Smells Like Teen Spirit19 1819 Nirvana -DGC (Virgin)

F.D.E.A.CH.S.N.SF.I

ark,. God Gave Rock & Roll To You II4" 5 Kiss - Interscope (Warner Music UK/CC)

D.CH.DK

Dans Un An Dans Un Jour F.B

51 52 4 Johnny Hallyday - Phonogram (Desperado/N.B.Music)

Time To Make You Mine652 46Lisa Stansfield - Arista (Big Life)

UK.B.CH.Ir

Remember The Time F.D.B.E.A.CH.S.GR.I

20 16 10 Michael Jackson - Epic (Warner Chappell/Zomba)

#40 13 2 Unlimited - PWL Continental (MCA)Twilight Zone D B.NL.E.A.CH.S.P.InGR

Joy22 19 10 Francois Feldman - Phonogram (Marilu)

Suzette24 7 Dany Brilliant - WEA (Musicalement Votre)

F.B

Are You Ready To Fly4,54,26 9 Rozalla - Pulse 8 (Peer)

.D.B.E.CH.S.SF.1

Hail Hail Rock'N'Roll F.D.CH.GR

,55 11 Garland Jeffreys - RCA (Black & White Alike)

Un, Deux, Trois179 9 Fredericks, Goldman & Jones - Columbia (JRG)

One55 38 7 U2 - Island (Blue Mountain)

D.B.NL.CH.P.Ir.1

Weather With You56 47 8 Crowded House - Capitol (EMI)

UK.NL.Ir

ARTIST


COUNTRIES CHARTED

Temptation"m" Indra - Carrere (Orlando)

On A Ragga TipSL2 - XL (Westbury/Momentum)

UK.Ir

4.11nn2

Hallelujah '92kf..2)Inner City - Ten Records (Drive On/Virgin)

UK.Ir

Fallingk(511wIr Wedding Present - RCA (Hallin)

UK

41 Non Amarmi93 6 Aleandro Baldi & Francesca Alotta - Ricordi (Ricordi)

Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)i(..!...%), MP Tears For Fears - Fontana (Virgin/Rondor)

F.D.I

We Got A Love Thong75 61 5 Ce Ce Peniston -A&M (Last Song/Third Coast)

D.B.NE

76 Goodnight Girl4' 1' Wet Wet Wet - Precious (Precious/Chrysalis)

B.NL

77s9 19StarsSimply

Red - east west (So What/EMI)

F.D.CH

#86 31

Let's Talk About SexSalt-N-Pepa - ffrr (Next Plateau/All Boys)

CH.P

f_Tisulr Chimo Bayo - Areo (Copyright Control)

Romeo & Juliet80 75 3 Blue System - Hansa (Hanseatic)

D.A.SF

Je Ne Te Suffis Pas81 56 2 Frederic Francois - Trema (Barracato)

F.B

82 63ExpressionSalt-N-Pepa - London (Next Plateau/All Boys)

UK

83 62 4 Do Not Pass Me ByHammer - Capitol (EMI)

UK.NL.Ir

Stockholm84 67 7 Orup - Metronome (Megaluf)

Am I The Same GirlWar Swing Out Sister - Fontana (Warner Chappell)

UK

Mes Yeux Dans Ton Regard86 Nilda Fernandez - EMI (Warner Chappell)

(2-1 It's A Fine Dayow Opus III - PWL Continental (Complete)

B.S.P.DK.Ir

Diamante D.B.CH

88 77 11 Zucchero Fornaciari/Randy Crawford - London (EMI/PolyGram)

Feel So High D.CH.GR

1489 66Des'ree - Dusted Sound (Sony Music)

Nous On Veut Des Violons\ie.!) uulPF Morgane - Car Music (Car Music)

8

UK.13.NL.CH.DK.IrTears In Heaven25 21 6 Eric Clapton - Reprise (Rondor/Copyright Control)

I Wanna Be A Kennedy26 23 4 U 96 - Polydor (BavariaSonor)

D.CH

#42 3

*57 3

10D36 5

0)45 2

Please Don't GoDouble You - Robyx (Robyx/Mikulski)

B.NL.E

Jive ConnieConnie Francis - Polydor (Various)

The Show Must Go OnQueen - Parlophone (Queen/EMI)

F.CH

You're All That Matters To MeCurtis Stigers -Arista (Hit & Run/Rondor/Sony)

UK.Ir

Money Don't Matter 2 Night UK.B.NL.CH.DK.Ir

31 25 4 Prince & The New Power Generation - Paisley Park (Warner Chappell)

..jr Under The Bridge B.NL

33 6 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Warner Brothers (Copyright Control)

Breath Of Life33 27 4 Erasure -Mute (Bell/Clarke)

UK.Ir.SF

Evapor 871 2 Altern 8 - Network (Kool Kat/Virgin)

UK.Ir

4-e 199089 4 Jean Leloup - Audiogram (Georges Mary/Audiogram)

4-A Separate TablesWar' Chris De Burgh -A&M (Rondor)

UK.CH.Ir

, Hold On My HeartWar Genesis - Virgin (Genesis/Hit & Run)

UK.B.NL.Ir

Himlen Runt Hornetuusr Lisa Nilsson - Diesel (Topco)

S

Black Or White D.CH.P.GR

90 64 21 Michael Jackson - Epic (Warner Chappell/CC)

En Rakkauttas Saa91 84 3 Kurre - WEA (Warner Chappell)

Aan De Noordzeekusten92 68 2 De Vedetten - Lucky Star (Fono Service)

SF

93 Parce Qu'On Est Jeune" Benny B - Private Life (Copyright Control)

I'm Walking94 82 Fats Dominio - EMI (EMI)

Obsession62 54 28 Army Of Lovers - Ton Son Ton (Team Sonet)

D.A.CH.GR

Kaplaarzen92 2 Dingetje - Polydor (Mhara/Many/Ass.Art.Mus.l)

NL

Ride The Bullet UK.B.CH7SF

72 3 Army Of Lovers - Ton Son Ton (Team Sonet)

Injected With A Poison2 Praga Khan feat. Jade 4 U - Profile (Protoons)

UK.Ir

BSGli Altri Siamo Noi" Umberto Tozzi - CGD (Tobia Music)

a:4 HazardV.976 2 Richard Marx - Capitol (Chi -Boy)

D.CH.S.N

Chic Mystique70 9 Chic - Warner Brothers (Warner Chappell)

D.B.NL.A.CH

Big In Japan95 73 7 WEA (Budde)

S.SF

Hold It Down7_9 muir Senseless Things - Epic (Warner Chappell)

UK

La Promesse97 65 9 Roch Voisine - GM/Ariola (Ed. Georges Mary)

FB

Pretend We're Dead7_5!) Paw L7 - Slash (Drop Trou/Virgin)

UK

Semilla Negro99 88 2 Radio Futura - Ariola (BMG)

Don't Cry100 99 2 Guns N' Roses - Geffen (Warner Chappell)

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The Eurochart Hot 100 Singles is compiled by BPI Communications BV in cooperation wills Bomo/Stemra and based on the Following national singles soles charts: MRIB cup; Bundesverbond Der Phonographischon Wioschaft/Medio Control/Musikmarkt (Wee Germony); Europe 1 /Canal Plus/Tele7lours lFrancel. RAI Stereo Due/Muslin F Dischi/Morio De Luigi

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(Portugal); Austria Top 30 (Austria); Media Control/ Musikmorkt (Switzerland); Virgin precool.e BPI Communications BV/Buma/Stornra - All rights reserved.® Hat 100 is a trademark el Billboard Publications, Inc. used with permission bums Eemra 23


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UNITED KINGDOMSingles

1 Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy (Tug)2 Mr. Big - To Be With You (WEA)3 Soul II Soul - Joy (Ten)

4 Annie Lennox - Why? (RCA)

5 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last (Polydor)

6 Ce Ce Peniston - Finally (A&M)7 Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked (Phonogram)8 Curtis Stigers - You're All That Matters To Me (Arista)

9 Shakespeare Sister - Stay (London)10 Mr.Bean And Smear Campaign - Elected (London)

Albums1 Annie Lennox -Diva2 Def Leppard - Adrenalize3 Right Said Fred - Up4 Madness - Divine Madness5 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch6 Beautiful South - 08987 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town8 Simply Red - Stars9 Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down10 Josef Locke - Hear My Song

SPAIN

(RCA)

(Phonogram)(Tug)

(Virgin)(Columbia)(Gol Discs)(Columbia)(east west)(Fontana)

(EMI)

Singles1 Chimo Bayo - Quimica (Area)

2 Double You - Please Don't Go (Blanco Y Negro)3 Radio Futura - Semilla Negro (BMG)4 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)5 O.B.K. - De Que Me Sirve Llorar (Blanco Y Negro)6 Rozalla- Are You Ready To Fly (Blanco Y Negro)7 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone (Blanco Y Negro)8 O.B.K. - Dejame Comerte (Blanco Y Negro)9 Sencillos - Bonito Es (BMG)10 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (BMG)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Vangelis - The Best (PolyGram)4 Presuntos Implicados Ser De Agua (Warner Music)5 Luz Casal - A Contra Luz (Hispavox)6 Enya - Shepherd Moons (Warner Music)7 Queen - Greatest Hits II (EMI)

8 Radio Future - Tierra Para Bailar (BMG)

9 La Union - Tren De largo Recorrido (Warner Music)

10 Alejandro Sanz - Viviendo Deprisa (Warner Music)

DENMARKSingles

1 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)2 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Mega)3 KLF/Tammy Wynette -Justified And Ancient (Mega)

4 Ten Sharp - You (Sony Music)5 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)6 Curtis Stigers - I Wonder Why (BMG)7 Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy (Sonet)

8 Casanova Keld - Han Kan Ikke F6 Den Op (Harlekin)

9 Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy (PolyGram)10 Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked (PolyGram)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Thomas Helmig - Rhythm (Genlyd)4 Hanne Boel - My Kindred Spirit (Medley)5 Def Leppard - Adrenalize (PolyGram)6 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)7 Malurt - SpOgelser (Genlyd)8 Annie Lennox - Diva (BMG)

9 Queen - Greatest Hits II (EMI)

10 Curtis Stigers - Curtis Stigers (BMG)

SWITZERLANDSingles .

1 U 96 - Das Boot (PolyGram)2 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)3 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Phonag)4 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)5 Shanice - I Love Your Smile (PolyGram)6 G.Michael/E.John - Don't Let The Sun... (Sony Music)

7 U 96 - I Wanna Be A Kennedy (PolyGram)8 Garland Jeffreys - Hail Hail Rock'N'Roll (BMG)9 KLF/Tammy Wynette -Justified And Ancient (Phonag)

10 Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Sony Music)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Gary Moore - After Hours (Virgin)4 Def Leppard - Adrenalize (PolyGram)5 Genesis - We Can't Dance (Virgin)6 Queen - Greatest Hits II (EMI)

7 Nirvana - Nevermind (BMG)8 Gotthard - Gotthard (BMG)9 Ten Sharp - Under The Waterline (Sony Music)10 Patent Ochsner - Schlachtplatte (Zytglogge)

TOP 10 SALESIN EUROPE

GERMANYSingles1 U 96 - Das Boot (Polydor)2 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)3 Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss (Intercord)4 Connie Francis - Jive Connie (Polydor)

5 U 96 - I Wanna Be A Kennedy (Polydor)6 Shakespeare Sister - Stay (Metronome)7 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Intercord)8 Shanice -IL,pve Your Smile (Polydor)9 Curtis Stigers - I Wonder Why (Ariola)10 Kiss - God Gave Rock & Roll To You II (Warner Music)

Albums1 Westernhagen - JaJa (Warner Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)3 Genesis - We Can't Dance (Virgin)4 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)5 Curtis Stigers - Curtis Stigers (Ariola)6 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)7 Queen - Greatest Hits II (EMI)

8 Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down (Phonogram)9 Nirvana - Nevermind (MCA)10 Gary Moore - After Hours (Virgin)

HOLLANDSingles1 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge Warner Music)

2 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)3 Dingetje - Kaplaarzen (Polydor)4 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone (Boudisque)5 Wet Wet Wet - Goodnight Girl (Phonogram)6 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Indisc)

7 Prince/The N.P.G. - Money Don't Matter 2 Night )Warner Music)

8 Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy (Phonogram)

9 Annie Lennox - Why? (RCA)

10 Gordon - BlijfJe Vannacht Bil Mij (CNR)

Albums1 Red Hot Chili Peppers - BloodSugarSexMagik ' )Warner Music)

2 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)3 Foreigner - The Very Best Of (Warner Music)4 Genesis - We Can't Dance (Virgin)5 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)6 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)7 Gary Moore - After Hours (Virgin)8 Soundtrack - Tour Of Duty 4 (Magnum)9 Wet Wet Wet- High On The Happy Side (Phonogram)10 Robert Long - Voor Mijn Vrienden (EMI)

NORWAYSingles

1 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)3 Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked (PolyGram)4 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Mega)5 Izabella - Shame Shame Shame (Virgin)6 Shakespeare Sister - Stay (PolyGram)7 Ten Sharp - You (Sony Music)8 Annie Lennox - Why? (BMG)9 Richard Marx - Hazard (EMI)

10 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (BMG)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Def Leppard - Adrenalize (PolyGram)4 Gary Moore - After Hours (Virgin)5 Randy Crawford - Through The Eyes Of Love (Warner Music)

6 Mods - Originaler (NA)7 Hanne Boel - My Kindred Spirit (EMI)

8 Oslo Gospel Choir - In This House (NA)9 Bonnie Tyler - Bitterblue (BMG)10 Kim Larsen - Wisdom Is Sexy (Sony Music)

AUSTRIASingles1 U 96 - Das Boot (PolyGram)2 Genesis - I Can't Dance (Virgin)3 KLF/Tammy Wynette -Justified And Ancient (Echo)

4 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)5 Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (Exclusa)

6 G.Michael/E.John - Don't Let The Sun... (Sony Music)

7 Ten Sharp - You (Sony Music)8 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Echo)

9 Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss (Exclusa)

10 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone (Echo).

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Genesis - We Can't Dance (Virgin)4 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)5 Queen - Greatest Hits II (EMI)

6 Nirvana - Nevermind (BMG)7 Prince/The M.P.G. - Diamonds And Pearls Warner Music)

8 Michael Jackson - Dangerous (Sony Music)9 Bonnie Tyler - Bitterblue (BMG)

10 U 96 - Das Boot (PolyGram)

FRANCESingles1 Ten Sharp - You (Columbia)2 G.Michael/E.John - Don't Let The Sun... (Epic)

.3 Francois Feldman -Joy (Phonogram)4 Dany Brilliant - Suzette (WEA)5 Queen - The Show Must Go On (EMI)

6 Les Inconnus - C'Est Toi Que Je T'Aime (Ledermann)

7 Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Epic)

8 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Ariola)9 Fredericks, Goldman & Jones - Un, Deux, Trois (Columbia)

10 Johnny Hallyday - Dans Un An Dans Un Jour (Phonogram)

Albums1 Nirvana - Nevermind (Ariola)2 Genesis - We Can't Dance (Virgin)3 Michael Jackson - Dangerous (Epic)

4 J.P. Audin/D. Modena - Ocarina (Delphine)5 U2 - Achtung Baby (Ariola)6 Soundtrack - Dirty Dancing (RCA)

7 Francois Feldman - Magic' Boul'vard (Phonogram)

8 Dire Straits - On Every Street (Phonogram)9 Frederic Francois -Je Ne Te Suffis Pas (Trema)

10 Patrick Bruel - Si Ce Soir (RCA)

BELGIUMSingles

1 Paul Severs -Oh Little Darling (CNR)

2 Morgane - Nous On Vent Des Violons (RM Records)

3 Double You - Please Don't Go (S.O.M.)4 Ten Sharp - You (Sony Music)5 De Vedetten - Aan De Noordzeekusten (Fono Service)

6 Cure - High (PolyGrpm)

7 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge Warner Music)

9 Will Tura - Alles (PolyGram)10 Leyers, Michiels & Soulsister - Locks & Keys (EMI)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down (PolyGram)4 The Radios - The Sound Of Music (EMI)

5 Gary Moore - After Hours (Virgin)6 Genesis - We Can't Dance (Virgin)7 Michel Sardou - Nouvel Album (Trema)

8 Pitti Polak - Silly Coincidence (EMI)

9 Ennio Morricone - II Etait Une Fois Morricone (BMG)

10 Queen - Queen Greatest Hits (EMI)

FINLANDSingles

1 Kurre - En Rakkauttas Saa (Warner Music)2 Bad Boys Blue - Save Your Love (BMG)3 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Mega)4 Army Of Lovers - Ride The Bullet (Sonet)

5 Alphaville - Big In Japan (Warner Music)6 Nelja Ruusua -Juppuhippipunkkari (EMI)

7 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)8 Def Leppard - Lees Get Rocked (PolyGram)9 Guns N' Roses - November Rain (BMG)10 Blue System - Romeo & Juliet (BMG)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Nelja Ruusua - Haloo (EMI)

4 Ten Sharp - Under The Waterline Pony Music)5 Miljoonasade - Lelukaupan Haat (Finnlevy)6 Popeda - Svoboda (Poko)

7 Hector - In Concert 1966-1991 (Flamingo)8 Anna Hanski -Jos Et So Soita (Ensio)


10 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)

GREECESingles1 G.Michael/EJohn - Don't Let The Sun... (Sony Music)

2 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone (F.M.)

3 KLF/Tammy Wynette -Justified And Ancient (Virgin)

4 LA Style -James Brown Is Dead (F.M.)

5 Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Sony Music)

6 Army Of Lovers - Crucified (Virgin)7 Holy Noise -James Brown Is Still Alive (NA)8 Michael Jackson - Black Or White (Sony Music)9 The Pasadenas - I'm Doing Fine Now (Sony Music)

10 Army Of Lovers - Obsession (Virgin)

Albums1 Nirvana - NeverAind (BMG)

2 U2 - Achtung Baby (BMG)


4 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)5 Army Of Lovers - Massive Luxury Overdose (Virgin)

6 Michael Jackson - Dangerous (Sony Music)7 Lou Reed - Magic And Loss (Warner Music)8 Genesis - We Can't Dance (Virgin)9 Soundtrack - Until The End Of The World Warner Music)

10 Snap - The Madman's Return (BMG)

MUSIC&MEDIA

ITALYSingles

1 Annie Lennox - Why? (BMG)2 G.Michael/E.John - Don't Let The Sun... (Sony Music)

3 A.Baldi/F.Alotta - Non Amarmi (Ricordi)4 Luca Barbarossa - Portami A Ballare (Sony Music)

5 Aeroplanitaliani - Zitti Zitti (PolyGram)6 Cure -High (PolyGram)7 Paolo Vallesi - La Forza Della Vita (PolyGram)8 F.Fortunato/F.Fasa - Per Niente Al Mondo (Sony Music)

9 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)10 A.Bono/A.Mingardi - Con Un Amico Vicino Pony Music)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down (PolyGram)4 Annie Lennox - Diva (BMG)

5 Luca Carboni - Carboni (BMG)

6 Paolo Vallesi - La Forza Della Vita (PolyGram)

7 Aleandro Baldi - II Sole (Ricordi)

8 Anna Oxa - Di Questa Vita (Sony Music)9 Antonello Venditti - Benvenuti In Paradiso (Ricordi)10 Luca Barbarossa - Cuore D'Acciaio (Sony Music)

SWEDENSingles

1 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)2 Lisa Nilsson - Himlen Runt H6rnet (BMG)

3 Izabella - Shame Shame Shame (Virgin)

4 Orup - Stockholm (Warner Music)5 U 96 - Das Boot (PolyGram)6 KLF - America: What Time Is Love? (Mega)

7 Shakespeare Sister - Stay (PolyGram)

8 Richard Marx - Hazard (EMI)

9 Treble & Bass - My Sweet Senorita (Sonet)

10 Ten Sharp - You (Sony Music)

Albums1 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)2 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)3 Orup - Stockholm & Andra Stollen (Warner Music)4 Def Leppard - Adrenalize (PolyGram)5 Stefan Andersson - Emperors Day (Record Station)

6 Gary Moore - After Hours (Virgin)

7 Annie Lennox - Diva (BMG)

8 Hanne Boel - My Kindred Spirit (EMI)

9 Eva Dahlgren - En Blekt Blondins Hjarta (Record Station)

10 Mr. Big - Lean Into It (Warner Music)

IRELANDSingles

1 Shakespeare Sister - Stay (PolyGram)

2 Mr. Big - To Be With You (Warner Music)3 Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven (Warner Music)4 Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy (Tug)

5 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last (PolyGram)

6 Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked (PolyGram)7 Ten Sharp - You (Sony Music)8 Annie Lennox - Why? (BMG)9 Altern 8 - Evapor 8 (Network)10 Ce Ce Peniston - (PolyGram)

Albums1 Def Leppard - Adrenalize (PolyGram)

2 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)3 Annie Lennox - Diva (BMG)

4 Josef Locke - Hear My Song (EMI)

5 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)6 Madness - Divine Madness (Virgin)7 Tears For Fears - Tears Roll Down (PolyGram)8 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)9 Nirvana - Nevermind (BMG)

10 Right Said Fred - Up (Tug)

PORTUGALSingles1 G.Michael/EJohn - Don't Let The Sun... (Sony Music)

2 Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex (PolyGram)

3 Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry (BMG)

4 Snap - Colour Of Love (BMG)

5 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)6 Michael Jackson - Black Or White (Sony Music)7 Genesis - I Can't Dance (Virgin)

8 U2 - One (BMG)

9 U2 - The Fly (BMG)

10 Def Leppard - Lees Get Rocked (PolyGram)

Albums1 Resistencia - Palavras Ao Vento (BMG)

2 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Sony Music)3 Nirvana - Nevermind (BMG)

4 Simply Red - Stars (Warner Music)5 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town (Sony Music)6 Queen - Greatest Hits II (EMI)

7 James - Seven (PolyGram)

8 Fafa De Belem - Doces Palabras (BMG)

9 Gary Moore - After Hours (Virgin)10 Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II (BMG)

Based on the notional sales charts from 16 European markets. Informal n supplied by MRIB (UK); Bundesverband Der Phonogrophischen Wirtschaft/Media Control/Musikrnarkt (West Germany); Europe 1 /Canal Plus/Tele7Jours (France); RAI Stereo Due/Mucica EDischi/Mario De Luigi (Italy); Stickling Nederlandse Top 40 (Holland); SABAM/IFPI (Belgium); GLF/IFPI (Sweden);IFPI/Johan Schlueter (Denmark), VG (Norway); Gallup/AFYVE (Spain); Seura/IFPI (Finland); IFPI (Ireland); AFP (Portugal); Austria Top 30 (Austria);

Media Control/Musikmarkt (Switzerland); Virgin (Greece). Label listed are the national marketing companies.



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ARTIST

TITLE - ORIGINAL LABEL

COUNTRIES CHARTED

Bruce Springsteen UK.D.B.NL.E.A.CH.S.P.DK.I.N.SFIr0 1 3 Human Touch - Columbia

Bruce Springsteen2 2 3 Lucky Town - Columbia UK.D B.NL.E.A.CH.S.P.DK.I.N.SFIr

Nirvana3 5 19 Nevermind DGC

Genesis UK.F.D.B.NL.E.A.CH.S.P.DK.SF.GR.Ir

4 4 41 We Can't Dance - Virgin A3

Simply Red5 3 26 Stars east west A3

UK.F.D.B.NL.E.A.CH.S.PDK.I.SEGR.Ir

Def Leppard8 2 Adrenalize - Bludgeon Riffola

UK.D.B.NL.E.CH.S.P.DK.N.Ir

Annie LennoxlaUr Diva - RCA

UK.D.B.NL.S.DK.I.Ir

Queen UK.D.B.NL.E.A.CH.S.P.DK.I.SEGR

8 7 22 Greatest Hits II - Parlophone A4

Tears For Fears UK.D.B.NL.E.CH.P.DK.I.Ir0 9 6 Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92) - Fontana

Ga Moore UK.F.D.B.NL.E.A.CH.S.P.DK.N.SFIrry10 6 6 After Hours - Virgin0

12 4Right Said FreduP Tug

UK.D.B.NL.CH.S.DK.Ir

12 Michael Jackson1° 19 Dangerous - Epic A3

UK.F.D.B.NL.E.A.CH.S.GR.Ir

019

Curtis StigersCurtis Stigers -Arista

UK.D.NL.CH.S.DK.Ir

U214 11 19 Achtung Baby - Island

UK.F.D.NL.E.CH.DK.I.SEGR.Ir

WesternhagenJaJa - Warner Brothers

D.CH

.(1.--k Ten Sharp18 13 Under The Waterline - Columbia

Red Hot Chili Peppers17 14 7 BloodSugarSexMagik - Warner Brothers

F.D.B.NL.A.CH.S.DK.N.SF

D.B.NL.A.CH.S.DK.N.Ir

6-fik Madness..g,20 7 Divine Madness - Virgin

UK.B.NL.Ir

2Mr. Big- Lean Into It - Atlantic

LIK.D.NLCH.S.DK

Queen20 Queen Greatest Hits - EMI A5

UK.D.B.NL.A.CH.DK.SEGR

Shakespears Sister1 32 8 Hormonally Yours - London

UK.D.A.CH.S.Ir

Prince & The New Power Generation UK.E.D.NLEA.CH.S.P.DK.Ir

22 26 Diamonds And Pearls - Paisley Park A

Beautiful South26 2 0898 - Go!Discs

Bryan Adams UK.F.D.NL.E.CH.P.GR.Ir

24 16 27 Waking Up The Neighbours -A&M A3

Wet Wet Wet25 15 11 High On The Happy Side - Precious

UK.F.D.B.NL.E.GR

. Natalie Cole29 7 Unforgettable - With Love - Elektra

F.D.B.E.CH.S.P.DK.I

Lisa Stansfield27 " Real Love -Arista

UK.F.D.B.NL.DK

28 Melissa Etheridge25 3 Never Enough - Island

D.NL.A.CH.DK.N

U 96.17)31 3 Das Boot - Polydor

D.A.CH.S

Guns N' Roses30 24 28 Use Your Illusion II - Geffen

D.NL.E.A.CH.P.DK.SF.GR.Ir

2Josef Locke

1 58 Hear My Song - EMI

UK.Ir

Tina Turner32 21 26 Simply The Best - Capitol A2

UK.D.B.NL.E.A.P.GR.Ir

Enyg,33 21 41 Shepherd Moons - WEA

UK.D.NL.E.S.DK.N

Guns N' Roses34 28 28 Use Your Illusion I - Geffen A

UK.F.D.NL.E.P.DK.GR.Ir

ARTIST


COUNTRIES CHARTED

Dire Straits35 36 29 On Every Street - Vertigo A2

F.D.NL.E.SF

Crowded House36 30 6 Woodface - Capitol

UK.N1.1r

Jean -Philippe Audin & Diego Modena F B'M47 35 18 Ocarina - De p h' -7 in

38 Shanice33 8 Inner Child - Motown

UK.D.NL.A.CH.S.DK

P.J. HarveyDry - Too Pure

UK

Pearl Jam48 9 Ten - Epic

UK.D.B.NL.A.DK

Foreigner68 3 The Very Best Of - Atlantic

D.NL.CH.DK.SF

42 4° 55R.E.M.Out Of Time - Warner Brothers A3

UK.F.D.E.DK.GR

Genesis43 34 6 Turn It On Again '81 -'83 - Vertigo

D.B.NL.A

Vangelis56 3 The Best PolyGram

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Snap45 46 10 The Madman's Return - Logic/Ariola

D.NL.A.CH.GR

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Joe CockerNight Calls - Capitol

UK.D.CH.Ir

Soundtrack - The Commitments UK.D.CH.DK.Ir

47 37 25 The Commitments -MCA

(A -a Erasure69 2 Chorus - Mute

UK.D.GR

49 50 Soundtrack - Dirty Dancing' Dirty Dancing - RCA

crA, Gunwar Gallus - A&M

UK

Sandra51 38 8 Close To Seven - Virgin

ROACH

Army Of Lovers52 39 15 Massive Luxury Overdose - Ton Son Ton

D.A.GR

53 41 9Hanne BoelMy Kindred Spirit - Medley

S.DK.N

54 42 7 Francois FeldmanMagic Boul'vard - Philips

Lou Reed55 52 13 Magic And Loss - Sire

D.NL.A.CH.P.DK.GR

Roxette73 52 Joyride - EMI A4

UK.D.P

44 Frederic Francoisq...0 64 5 Je Ne Te Suffis Pas - Trema

F.8

Soundtrack - The Commitments 2 A.CH.S.DK.N.Ir58 3 The Commitments Part 2 - MCA

Randy Crawford D.CH.DK.N

59 55 8 Through The Eyes Of Love - Warner Brothers

Presuntos Implicados60 66 Ser De Agua - WEA

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Bonnie Tyler61 47 19 Bitterblue - Hansa

D.A.S.N.SF

Luca Carboni62 59 14 Carboni - RCA

Robert Palmer63 51 3 Addictions Vol. 2 - Island

UK

NicoleU4 57 5 Augenblicke -Jupiter

Paolo Vallesi65 60 6 La Forza Della Vita - Sugar

15Luz Casal

66A Contra Luz - Hispavox

Aleandro BaldiII Sole - Ricordi

Patrick Bruel68 54 Si Ce Soir - RCA

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COUNTRIES CHARTED

ScorpionsStill Loving You - Harvest

UK.D.8.NL.CH.DK

Fredericks, Goldman & Jones(%)J 84 63 Fredericks, Goldman &Jones - Columbia

Ochsenknecht I 71 3 Ochsenknecht - Metronome

D.CH

Rozallak(587 2 Everybody's Free - Pulse 8

UK.B.NL.CH.S.DK

73 James74 Seven - Fontana

UK.P

Salt-N-Pepa74 61 24 The Greatest Hits - Next Plateau

D.NL.A.CH.SF

8Little Village

67Little Village - Reprise

D.NL.CH.DK.SF

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Radio Futura%(..y../6 Tierra Para Bailor-Ariola

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Johnny HallydayCa Ne Change Pas Un Homme - Philips/Phonogram

4---a\ Jane Birkin%(5'°0 2 Je Suis Venue Te Dire Que Je M'En Vais - Phonogram

F.8

Anna Oxa®IMP Di Questa Vita - Columbia

orri92 Antonello Venditti2a

AntonelloIn Paradiso - Ricordi

Metallica?..2)" 33

Metallica- Vertigo

D.P.DK.GR

David Byrne82 65 5 Uh-Oh - Warner Brothers

NL.S.I

#Nirvana94 7 Bleach - Tupelo/Sub Pop

UK.D.A.SF

La UnionTren De Largo Recorrido - WEA

E

Les Inconnus85 88 11 Boulversifiant - Lederman

86 Simon & Garfunkel" '' The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel - Columbia

UKSFIr

87 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons43 6 The Very Best Of - PolyGram W

UK

Fiorella Mannoia88 8' 11 I Treni A Vapore - Epic

89 Alejandro Sanz" Viviendo Deprisa - Warner Music Spain

Luca Barbarossa90 77 6 Cuore D'Acciaio - Columbia

Oruplam' Stockholm & Andra Stollen - Metronome

Michael Bolton92 7° 48 Time, Love & Tenderness - Columbia

SDK

UK.NL

Resistencia93 95 6 Palavras Ao Vento - Ariola

Mylene Farmer94 81 13 L'Autre - Polydor

F.8

9William Sheller

95 80 En Solitaire - Philips

Eva Dahlgren96 76 27 En Blekt Blondins Hjarta - Record Station

S.SF

Stephan Eicher7_0 161111F Engelberg - Barclay

FCH

Pasadenas98 98 7 Yours Sincerely - Columbia

UK.D

99 Yanni- Romantic Moments - Private Music

D.A

n100 10 ?nuuengo - EMI A2

FD.A

UK = United Kingdom, D = Germany, F = France, CFI = Switzerland, A = Aushia I = Italy, E = Spain, NL - Holland,

B =Delgiuni, IR - Ireland, S - Sweden, DK - Denmark, N = Norway, SE = Finland, P . Portugal, GR = Greece.0 = FAST MOVERS = NEW ENTRY= RE-ENTRY

The European Top 100 Albums is compiled by BPI Communications BV in coopers ion with Buma/Stemra. BPI Communications BV/Buma/Stemra. All rights reserved. Compiled from the national album sales charts of 16 European territories.

MUSIC & MEDIA APRIL 25 1992 recogn tion of pan-European sales of 500.000 units recognition of sales of T million units,with multi -m' lion sellers indicated by a numeral following the symbol. 25


OFF THE RECORD

DUTCH TREMORS: The impending try -outs for Dutch cable radioon regional terrestrial frequencies (M&M, April 4) could assist in thefinal development of a national commercial terrestrial radio channel inthe country. Could it be that Veronica founder Rob Out and Peter deJager are busy behind the scenes? Is it true that they have bought thestocks from Vrije Ether to own the Rotterdam frequency? Are theowners of RTL4-Radio, Radio 10 and Sky Radio also behind thispotential national Dutch commercial station?

AND OTHER SHAKES: Ferry Maat, longtime head of pop musicat Dutch public broadcaster TROS, will leave the company reportedlybecause of a policy disagreement. He departs on October 1, when thenew public radio restructure takes effect in Holland.

TEXANS IN POLAND: Starstream Communications hasannounced an agreement with Warner Music International in whichthe Texas -based company's 80% -owned eastern European subsidiaryPolton Records will distribute Warner Music and east west productin Poland. Also, Polton has opened its first retail outlet in Warsaw.Starstream president/CEO Gary R. Firth hints that other eastern Euro-pean deals are being contemplated.

CASED CLOSED?: The defamation suit between NRJ presidentJean -Paul Baudecroux and Europe 2 MD Martin Brisac seems tohave been called off. The trial, due to begin on April 8, was over com-ments made by Brisac in a French daily newspaper. Although no offi-cial statement has been released, one source says that it is likely thatboth parties are fed -up with the polemics that have come to character-ize French radio, and that both would prefer to get on with the job athand. How long the truce will last no one knows.

BACK TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR: Claudio Astorri, stationdirector at Italy's RTL 102.5 Hit Radio, failed in his bid for parliamentafter fighting for a Republican Party seat in the general election heldApril 5-6. But he did give the opposition a run for its money in theFederalist stronghold of Bergamo and Brescia.

Newspaper(continued from page 1)

mercial stations. The newspapergroups had hoped for a more liber-al attitude to the issue of mediaownership in radio companies.

"The report is against both thelaws of freedom and of speech,freedom of the press and of freeenterprise," comments Jan Fried-man, head of SvenskRadioutveckling (SRU), the cen-tral organization owned bySwedish newspapers which is lob-bying the government to approvemedia ownership in commercialradio.

The government, however,remains steadfast. Says minister ofculture Birgit Friggebo, "I think40% ownership by media firmsand newspapers is quite highenough."

The MOC report recommendsthat private commercial radio sta-tions be owned by independentcompanies and broadcast only overa clearly defined area. Advertisingwill be limited to 10% of the totalbroadcast time, with one-third ofthe programming produced in-house. Licences are expected to beissued in five-year periods, withconcessions for Stockholm andother major centres of populationawarded to the "highest bidder" atspecial auctions. The cost of one-year concessions will run fromSkr50.000 to Skr70.000 (app.US$8.300-US$11.600).

Latest market research esti-mates the commercial radio marketto be worth Skr500 million a year,equivalent to 5% of the total admarket.

Mediametrie(continued from page 1)

a 7.8% cume share, up 0.9 pointsfrom the November -Decembersweep, but far below its 9.7% cumeshare during the Gulf War.

The biggest point -gainer duringthe past year and second -highestimprovement during the quarterwas Fun Radio. The FM EHR net,consulted by Burkhart/Douglas &Associates and 100% -owned byone of France's largest publishingcompanies, Hersant, earned a5.8% cume share, an increase of0.8 points from the previous quarterand 1.8 points from a year earlier.Fun is the only major web to haveconsecutive quarterly ratingsincreases over the past year.

French Radio Ratings(Audience Cume %)

1991Jan/

1991

Nov/1992Jan/

Network (Format) Mar Dec Mar

RTL (FS) 20.1 18.7 18.9Europe 1(FS) 12.8 11.0 11.7

France Inter (N/T) 12.0 10.8 11.3

NRJ (EHR) 9.3 9.5 9.7France Info (N/T) 9.7 6.9 7.8Fun Radio (EHR) 4.0 5.0 5.8Skyrock (EHR) 5.6 4.8 5.3RMC (MOR) 5.6 4.7 4.8Europe 2 (AC) 5.0 4.2 4.5Nostalgie (G) 4.0 4.7 4.3Cherie FM (G) n/a 2.7 2.6REM (AC) ra 2.0 n/a

Source: Mediametrie

PolyGram(continued from page 1)

cious/Phonogram) and East SideBeat's Ride Like The Wind (ffrr).

Sony's ranking was based onthe power of the number 1 song forthe quarter, the GeorgeMichael/Elton John duet Don'tLet The Sun Go Down On Me(Epic), the first live record ever toenter the EHR chart. Although thesingle peaked at number 2 (andremained there for five consecutiveweeks), it stayed a record 12 weeksin the top 10. A pair of EHR Top40 number 1's from Jackson, BlackOr White (six weeks) and Remem-ber The Time (four weeks), furthercemented Sony's position. Thecompany had 15 charting recordsduring the quarter, with top per-formers in the Pasadenas' I'mDoing Fine Now and MichaelBolton's When A Man...

Warner Music, the third -bestcompany with a 16.8% share,charted 14 records. Simply Red'sStars was the most successful andwas the second -best -played albumon ERR. The record peaked atnumber 3 and held that spot for sixweeks, but could be broken byJackson, Genesis andMichael/John. Other artists con-tributing to Warner's chart shareincluded Prince (Diamonds &Pearls) and Kym Sims (TooBlind).

Ranked by individual label per-formance, Sony's Epic andColumbia comfortably grabbed thetwo top spots, with a chart share of11.3% and 10.3%, respectively.

Virgin was third with 7.2%,thanks to two records byGenesis-/ Can't Dance and NoSon Of Mine. The former stayed inthe pole position for two weeks.

EHR chart share statistics are

based on total cumulative points,grouped over a three-month period.Each week, records score points byachieving airplay on M&M's EHRroster of stations, which are pri-marily weighted by market size andthe number of hours per week com-mitted to the format. Each record'stotal chart points are in turn linkedto companies and individual labels.

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EHR Company Leaders

Polygram

Sony

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21,7%

3%

Warner 6,8%

EMI 12,5%1®BMG 0,4%

Virgin -r ,3%

Others 0%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%

EMI(continued from page 1)

28).Registering 11%, the Par-

lophone label took the lion's shareof the company's leading position.Meanwhile, the EMI label deliv-ered 4.5%, due to Roxette's albumJoyride (over three million units) aswell as Pet Shop Boys' Discogra-phy.

Although EMI's reign was, forthe most part, determined by estab-lished artists, BMG's runner-upposition (19.9%) can be traced toone of last year's most surprisingmusical breakthroughs -the rise ofUS band Nirvana.markets its own repertoire in theUK and Germany, the majority ofthe chart points that DGC (Nir-vana's label)/Geffen/MCA reper-toire accumulated went to its

licensing partner, BMG. Neverthe-less, MCA still collected a 4.8%share due to its solid performancein Germany and the UK.

The Island label also helpedBMG to second place with U2's lat-est album, Achtung Baby. AlthoughIsland is owned by PolyGram,BMG's still holds licensing rightsuntil the end of 1993 in some keymarkets (including GSA, Beneluxand Spain). Other labels that havefared well for BMG include Arista(Lisa Stansfield's Real Love) andRCA (Patrick Bruel's Ce Soir andEurythmics' Greatest Hits).

Warner Music ranked third,thanks to east west act Simply Red

singer Enya(Shephard Moon).

On the Eurochart Hot 100 sin-gles chart, Sony Music. led with22.1%, owing to the good perfor-mances of the Epic and Columbia

labels (the number 1 and 2 labelswith 13.1% and 6.3%, respective-ly). Sony's biggest first-quarter hitsincluded George Michael/EltonJohn's duet Don't Let The Sun GoDown On Me and two hits byMichael Jackson.

Out of the 20 songs that chartedfor the Columbia label during thefirst quarter, Dutch act Ten Sharp'sYou contributed the most points.

PolyGram placed second with18.9%, carried by Salt-N-Pepa'sLet's Talk About Sex (ffrr), U96'sDas Boot (Polydor and BryanAdams' Everything I Do... (A &M).BMG was the third -ranked singlescompany, owing to the Europeansuccesses of Nirvana's Smells LikeTeen Spirit (DGC) and four singlesby Geffen act Guns N' Roses,including Don't Cry and Live AndLet Die.

BBC(continued from page])

tenth in radio -before the govern-ment conducts an inquiry into thefuture of the pubcaster prior to itscharter renewal in 1996.

The BBC has denied the allega-tions. In a statement, it says the rec-ommendations in the leaked reportsare only documents for discussionand that nothing has been set instone. The BBC's boards of gover-nors and directors are expected todiscuss the research teams' recom-mendations and summaries -duringa meeting next month.

Some of the key points in a taskforce report titled, "BBC: TheEntertainer," are:

Radio 5 should not be con-tinued in its present form;

Four national networks arethe minimum required for the BBCto come near to fulfilling a publicservice in radio;

Even with four servicesthere would be a strong element ofdisenfranchisement among listenerswho feel uncatered to by the com-mercial market;

The retention of all currentservices would nevertheless requirea remodelling of some services tomake them more distinctive;

While not the BBC's fault,public recognition of the public ser-

vice elements of Radio 1 andRadio 2 do not match the effortand imagination that is put into it;and

Existing services should notbe abandoned prematurely.

The reports also recommendthat a 24 -hour news service beestablished on the Radio 4 long -wave frequency by the end of thisyear. The service should be basedon the "news spine" of the network,with Radio 4 -at least at the begin-ning -simulcasting the main news -sequence programmes. Also, thetask force recommends either gold -formatted Radio 2 ornews/talk/sports-formatted Radio 5should be "remodelled as amusic/sports service."

Another sore point with theunion is the task forces' recommen-dation that, starting this year, theBBC should contract 15% of allnetwork radio to independent pro-ducers by 1996. That probably willmean cutting jobs, says theBECTU.

Comments BECTU nationalindustrial officer Roger Bolton,"The independent sector is likely tochange from being a cottage indus-try to one that is dominated byfewer and more powerful compa-nies and conglomerates."

Most of the job losses, BECTUclaims, would stem from recom-

mendations that Radio 5 eliminatecontinuing education programmingand that increased current affairsoutput should be more open toindependent producers, whichcould put more jobs at risk, theunion charges.

BECTU says the recommenda-tions are, in reality, the BBC's"secret agenda." Bolton has calledfor a "proper and public debate onthe future of the BBC, before asmall group of senior managersbring about profound and damag-ing roles as the public servicebroadcaster" in this country.

The union is concerned thatsome of the recommendations -oroptions, as the BBC prefers to callthem -have or will become policyand be implemented before newlyappointed Heritage minister DavidMellor (whose duties includebroadcasting) has a chance to

launch his inquiry into the charterrenewal. "Mr. Mellor will find asmaller BBC before he has his feetunder the desk," predicts Bolton.

BECTU members are currentlybeing balloted for a one -day strikeon May 15 to voice their lack ofconfidence in the corporation's topmanagement and their objections tothe BBC's policy of "producerchoice." That policy gives produc-ers the option of buying technicalservices from the outside.



2,MUSICu*MEDIA

EHR TOP 401W LW WOC Artist/Title Label Total A B Add

C. 1 5 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Human Touch (Columbia) 67 54 5

2 6 ANNIE LENNOX/Why (RCA) 63 46 4

(33 4 8 MR. BIG/To Be With You (Atlantic) 52 38 2

4 3 11 MICHAEL JACKSON/Remember The Time (Epic) 46 35 0

6 4 PRINCE/Money Don't Matter (Paisley Park) 44 32 4

6 5 19 SHANICE WILSON/I Love Your Smile (Motown) 48 36 0

'7'7 7 U2/One (Island) 41 23(4) 8 5 ROXETTE/Church Of Your Heart (EMI) 49 33 4

9 12 TEN SHARP/You (Columbia) 41 30 2

11 4 VANESSA WILLIAMS/Save The Best For Last (Polydor) 42 26 4

11 10 6 LISA STANSFIELD/Time To Make You Mine (Arista) 38 22 0

12 21 2 DEF LEPPARD/Let's Get Rocked (Phonogram) 34 21 7

13 12 5 CROWDED HOUSE/Weather With You (Capitol) 32 23 0

1_4 29 2 SOUL II SOUL/Joy (Ten) 31 19 11

5 22 11 CE CE PENISTON/Finally (A&M) 33 22 4

16 17 3 CURE/High (Fiction/Polydor) 28 17 2

17 14 9 SHAKESPEARS SISTER/Stay (London) 35 20 1

18 16 11 CURTIS STIGERS/I Wonder Why (Arista) 33 24 2

19 25 3 RIGHT SAID FRED/Deeply Dippy (Tug) 32 21 5

20 13 9 TEARS FOR FEARS/Laid So Low...Tears Roll Down (Fontana) 28 21 0

21 15 7 ERIC CLAPTON/Tears In Heaven (Reprise) 32 16 2

22 MI* SWING OUT SISTER/Am I The Same Girl (Fontana) 27 19 12

23 18 14 GENESIS/I Can't Dance (Virgin) 27 15 024 I GENESIS/Hold On My Heart (Virgin) 23 18 7

25 23 10 SIMPLY RED/For Your Babies (east west) 25 16 1

26 19 7 BRYAN ADAMS/Thought I'd Died And Gone... (A&M) 24 17 1

27 37 6 RICHARD MARX/Hazard (Capitol) 24 11 2

28 34 5 NIRVANA/Come As You Are (DGC) 19 14 2

29 24 13 WET WET WET/Goodnight Girl (Precious/Phonogram) 22 15 0

3Q IZI* CURTIS STIGERS/You're All That Matters (Arista) 22 13 2

31 27 8 CHIC/Chic Mystique (Warner Brothers) 22 13 1

32 28 3 HAMMER/Do Not Pass Me By (Capitol) 20 12 1

.33 Iral. ERASURE/Breath Of Life (Mute) 21 14 3

34 20 12 PASADENAS/I'm Doing Fine Now (Columbia) 23 16 1

35 30 14 RIGHT SAID FRED/Don't Talk Just Kiss (Tug) 19 14 2

36 26 3 LIGHTNING SEEDS/The Life Of Riley (Virgin) 23 10 0

37 31 2 CHAKA KHAN/Love You All My Lifetime (Warner Brothers) 22 11 0

38 40 4 OPUS III/It's A Fine Day (PWL) 17 11 3

39 35 3 WET WET WET/More Than Love (Precious/Phonogram) 17 11 3

40 33 2 SHAWN CHRISTOPHER/Don't Lose The Magic (Arista) 17 6 2

The EHR Top 40 chart is based on a weighted -scoring system. Songs score points by achieving airplay at M&M's EHR reporting stations. Unlike M&M'sEuropean Airplay Top 50, whichincludes reports from stations serving a general audience, these stations target 12-34 yearold listeners with contemporary music fulltirne or during specific dayparts. Songs in "A" rotation airplayreceive more points than those in "B" rotation or more limited airplay exposure. Stations are weighted by market size and by the number of hours per week committed to the format_

CHARTBOUND RECORDSMARIAH CAREY/Make It Happen (ColumbiaRANDY CRAWFORD/Who's ... (Warner BrothersCHRIS DE BURGH/Separate Tables (A&MKYM SIMS/Take My Advice (AtcoDINAH WASHINGTON/Mad About... (MercuryHOWARD JONES/Lift Me Up (east westZZ TOP/Viva Las Vegas* (Warner BrothersXTC/The Disappointed (VirginCHER/Could've Been You (GeffenPASADENAS/Make It With You (ColumbiaJODY WATLEY/I'm The One... (MCATOM PETTY/HEARTBREAKERS/Too Good... (MCASALT-N-PEPA/Expression (ffrrARMY OF LOVERS/Ride...* (Ton Son TonINNER CITY/Halleluiah '92* (Ten

19/6 DAVID BYRNE/Girls... (Luaka Bop/Warner18/3 LEVEL 42/My Father's Shoes (RCA18/2 SOUP DRAGONS/Divine Thing (Big Life17/4 ROD STEWART/Your Song* (Warner Brothers17/3 SALT-N-PEPA/Do You Want Me (ffrr16/3 CLIVILLES & COLE/A Deeper Love(Columbia15/7 DEL THA FUNKEE H./Mistadobalina (Elektra15/3 GUNS N' ROSES/November Rain (Geffen15/2 JAMES/Ring The Bells* (Fontana14/2 BEAUTIFUL SOUTH/We Are... (Go!Discs13/4 YOTHU YINDI/Treaty (Hollywood13/2 TEXAS/Tired Of Being Alone* (Mercury13/1 EN VOGUE/My Lovin'* (east west12/6 MELISSA ETHERIDGE/Ain't It Heavy* (Island12/4 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS/Under... (Warner Brothers

12/112/012/011/1011/311/211/010/210/210/010/0

MUSIC"NIEDIA

EHR Gets RockedAlthough Annie Lennoxcontinues to score new stations(up from 56 to 63 this week),the gain is not yet enough todethrone Bruce Springsteen,as The Boss also increases hisstation total to 67 from 63 lastweek.

Def Leppard's Let's GetRocked looks to break into theTop 10 next week, as its stationtotal grew 54% in only oneweek! The same can be said ofSoul II Soul's Joy, whoseacceleration matched DefLeppard. Let's Get Rocked hasscored 64% support in the UK,up from 55% a week ago; otherstrong markets include Italy andScandinavia. Meanwhile, Soul IISoul has an equally good basein the UK; markets such as Italy,Sweden and Denmark aregaining ground, as well.

One of the more recentsurprises on EHR is the renewedactivity on Ce Ce Peniston'sdebut single Finally. The formerMiss Black Arizona and MissGalaxy singer debuted last yearwith this single, which peaked atnumber 29 in the UK CIN chart.

Spurred on by this success, theA&M UK company quicklyreleased the follow-up We GotA Love Thong, while theContinent was only just startingto get Finally promoted to radio.Now the ball is rolling back tothe UK again on Finally, andcurrently 16 UK reportingstations are re-playlisting thesingle.

Right Said Fred areenjoying their third and possiblybiggest EHR single. Currently atnumber 19 due to strongbacking in Denmark, the UKand Holland, the band's earliersingles included I'm Too Sexy(peaking at number 21 in

October '911 and Don't Talk JustKiss (16; March '921.

Highest new entry this weekgoes to Swing Out Sister'sAm I The Same Girl, an originalrecording by Barbara Acklinin 1968 and also covered byDusty Springfield. Comingfrom the new album Get InTouch With Yourself, SOS fareswell in the UK, Italy andSweden.

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MOST ADDEDSWING OUT SISTER/Am I The Same GirlSOUL II SOUL/JoyROD STEWART/Your SongTRACY CHAPMAN/Bang Bang BangDEF LEPPARD/Let's Get RockedGENESIS/Hold On My HeartTEXAS/Tired Of Being AloneZZ TOP/Viva Las Vegas

(Fontana) 12

(Ten) 11

(Warner Brothers) 10(Elektra) 8

(Phonogram) 7(Virgin) 7

(Mercury) 7(Warner Brothers) 7

Most added are those songs which received the highest number of playlist additions during theweek. In the case of a tie, songs are listed alphabetically by artist.

"A" ROTATION LEADERSBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Human TouchANNIE LENNOX/WhyMR. BIG/To Be With YouSHANICE WILSON/I Love Your SmileMICHAEL JACKSON/Remember The Time

(Columbia) 54(RCA) 46

(Atlantic) 38(Motown) 36

(Epic) 35

The "A° Rotation Leaders are those songs which have the highest number of stations playing themin "A" or heavy rotation during the week. Rotation definitions are set by the individual stations. Inthe case of a tie, songs ore listed alphabetically by artist.

"A" ROTATION PERFORMANCE2 UNUMITED/Twilight Zone (PWL Continental)SALT-N-PEPA/You Showed Me (ffrr)

ROD STEWART/Your Song (Warner Brothers)ROZALLA/Are You Ready (Pulse 8)

GENESIS/Hold On My Heart (Virgin)PASADENAS/Make It With You (Columbia)

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81

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"A" Rotation Performance is a listing of those records that /lace achieved the best A rotationpenetration. Records listed are those outside the EHR top 20 and with a total number of reportingstations of at least 10. Songs tied are listed alphabetically by artist.

TOP RECURRENTS Total StationsDES'REE/Feel So High (Sony Soho Square) 20G. MICHAEL/E. JOHN/Don't Let The Sun Go Down... (Epic) 18

KYUE MINOGUE/Give Me Just A Little More Time (PWL) 17GARY MOORE/Cold Day In Hell (Virgin) 16

ROZALLA/Are You Ready (Pulse 8) 15

SIMPLY RED/Stars (east west) 15Top Recurrents are former EHR lop 20 records that have fallen off the chart but are still receivingsignificant airplay. In case of a tie, records ore listed alphabetically by artist.

NEW TOP 20 CONTENDERSTotal Stations

ZZ TOP/Viva Las Vegas (Warner Brothers) 15

9/7 ARMY OF LOVERS/Ride The Bullet (Ton Son Ton) 12

INNER CITY/Hallelujah '92 (Ten) 12

EN VOGUE/My Lovin' (east west) 9

- MELISSA ETHERIDGE/Ain't It Heavy (Island) 9

TEXAS/Tired Of Being Alone (Mercury) 9

TRACY CHAPMAN/Bang Bang Bang (Elektra) 8

New Top 20 Contenders ore those artists that have not yet had an EHR top 20 hit and appear onthis page for the first time with this single. Artists are listed by total number of stations. In case of atie, records are listed alphabetically by artist.

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The EHR "chartbound" chart lists the total member of EHR reporting stations playing newer songs that do not yet have enough airplay points to rank among the EHRTop 40. The second number represents how many stations reported it to M&M for the first time. Songs which have received no new airplay for two consecutive weeks will bedeleted from this chart, but may reappear with new airplay. In the case of a tie, songs are listed by new adds. Asterisks indicate new entries in Chartbound.



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CHRIS DE BURGH

Power of Ten


CONGRATULATIONS

Rondor Music (London) Limited


1 Lt CHRIS DE BURGH

Ten original studio albums is a landmark achievement few musicians can lay claim to. CHRIS DE BURGHhas arrived at the elusive milestone with the release, on April 27, of POWER OF TEN, his first collection of newsongs in four years and the follow-up to his multi -platinum set Flying Colours. INTERVIEWS BY MIKE HRANO

AN ENDURINGSUCCESS STORY

Dower Of Ten is much more thansimply an admirable statistic in an

enduring success story. According toHoward .Berman, MANAGINGDIRECTOR OF A&M UK, it's also thestrongest album yet from De Burgh -who is now the longest -serving signingto the UK label. "There's not manyartists who, after ten studio albums withthe same label - plus compilationalbums, plus a live album - can actuallygenuinely claim to be at the peak oftheir career," he says. "Chris can, and Ireally think this album is going toconsolidate and build on the successesthat he has had in his key markets. I alsothink it's going to give the perfectopportunity for some of the lesssuccessful territories to really establishhim once and for all."

In his nine years at A&M, Berman haswatched De Burgh's career build andflourish to the point where "his positionin the core market place is stronger nowthan it's ever been. His last two studio

FROM STRENGTHTO STRENGTH

For Dave Margereson ofMISMANAGEMENT, the central

support line running through DeBurgh's longevity can be simply summedup in three words: talent, tenacity andteamwork.

His vocal and performing talent has beenthere from day one. Throughout hislong career he has displayed an amazingtenacity and desire to succeed, but neverat any cost. I think this explains themutual loyalty evident in theinfrastructures around him, the onerecord label, A&M, - Mismanagement

albums have gone double platinum inthe UK, and I would be very, verysurprised if Power Of Ten doesn't achieveat least that. Chris and his producerRupert Hine have provided us with amagnificent album that I'm really,genuinely enthused and excited by."

Lucie Avery, A&M'S INTERNATIONALDIRECTOR UK REPERTOIRE, is equallydelighted with the prospects created bysuch a dynamic record. "We havealready had an outstanding promotionaltool in the form of an incrediblypowerful and moving first single inSeparate Tables - which heralded therelease of Power Of Ten in the mostforceful way possible," she explains.

"He has tremendous songwritingability, great vocals and has nevertaken his fans for granted"

- Howard Berman

Berman is under no illusions abokit whathas made it possible for De Burgh to sellso many records for so long. "Firstly, he'san immensely talented artist. Secondly,he obviously was able to create his ownmarket place and, thirdly, he just toured

for 14 years, promoters in Europe arethe same team as always. His band hasplayed a vital role in his career - thelongest serving member has been withhim for 14 years, and even the 'new boy'has been around for ten. There is a greatfeeling of teamwork and permanancewhich makes the work so rewarding.

"He's the consummate artist"- Dave Margereson

"Live performance is the bedrock of hiscareer, and Chris has been able to buildup that live profile because, for him andhis band, it's been like playing with abunch of friends. It really has been anenjoyable thing, and Chris likens it to agreat adventure; charging through

and toured in the early days. Way beforeI joined A&M, he was just going out onstage with a guitar and gradually buildingup a following. It was just about word ofmouth and, once again, that proved tome that whatever form of marketingtechniques one uses, there is ultimatelyno substitute for talent and word ofmouth."

For all that, it took a while for De Burghto break out from being a 'well -keptsecret' to being a fully fledgedinternational success. "The main hurdlewe felt we had to overcome in the earlydays was to actually increase his fan basewithout alienating the core that healready had," Berman recalls."Collectively, we were all dressed upand just waiting for a really big hit singleto give us somewhere to go - and LadyIn Red obviously provided thatopportunity.

"But the important thing is that, becauseof the years preceding that song andbecause of the strength of his fan basewhich already existed, when Lady In Redhappened it was the icing on the cake -rather than actually being the cake itself.

Europe and other parts of the worldwith these guys that we've known for solong. It's all these various aspects ofcontinuity which has made it work."

It was Margereson who, 17 years agoand then Head of A&R at A&M signedDe Burgh and, after all this time, hisadmiration for the ornan remains fullyintact. "I find it amazing that he's stillgoing from strength to strength - and hestill stays fresh. He's become a realcraftsman and yet still has the ability tosurprise you with an innermost feeling.He's the consummate artist and manythings to many people. His is a hard actto do but, he manages to do it all; hekeeps the youth and he keeps the olderpeople.

It meant that rather than just having aone-off, phenomenal hit, we wereactually able to use the single to takeChris to a much, much wider marketplace. In turn, that meant that the threealbums whch followed the single all wentdouble -platinum in the UK."

Despite such eventual success, Bermanbelieves that De Burgh has always beenpossessed of the constituent ingredientsfor the lasting career he has enjoyed. "Hehas a tremendous songwriting ability, hehas great vocals and, perhaps mostimportantly, he has seen his audiencegrow with him. He has not lost that base;he has never alienated his fans or takenthem for granted.

"In addition, he has also benefitted frombeing with the same management teamfrom the start - Dave Margereson andKenny Thomson of Mismanagement -which is one of the best managementteams I've ever worked with. For me,these are the key reasons for what hasbeen, by music industry standards, a very,very enduring success story. And,through all of this, Chris has been anabsolute joy to work with."

"And he's been a gentleman to workwith. So, my comment on the release ofhis tenth studio album - which is a realreason to celebrate - is 'Well done. Morepower to you."

Flying Colours L.P. debuts at No. 1 .

Left to right - Glenn Morrow, Chris, Jeff Phillips,

Danny McBride, Ian Kojima, Dave Margereson, Al Mamie

A MUSIC & MEDIA ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT APRIL 25 1992


10 CHRIS DE BURGH

FROM 80 PEOPLETO 80,000

The forthcoming Power Of Ten WorldTour schedule is far removed from

Chris' itinerary and crowd -pullingpotential in the early days, as is wellremembered by Marcel Avram ofMAMA CONCERTS - which will bepromoting the German dates on thetour as well as co-ordinating theEuropean shows in general.

Avram first came across Chris in themid -'70s, when he was almost totallyunknown on the continent. "I met himoriginally when he was the opening actfor Supertramp," he says. "He wasperforming by himself, without a band,and his manager was running throughthe hall putting up his posters. I wasamazed that day when I saw him aloneon stage - when nobody even knewwho he was because he had only beenannounced on the bill on the day of theconcert - and startled at how muchenergy and personality he gave out withhis presence and his music. I thought hewas a wonderful artist and got reallyinvolved right away. I wanted to seehow far things could go."

After the Supertramp tour ended, Chrisdid not return to Europe for a couple ofyears - until Avram arranged some low-key solo shows for him in Germany."We decided to give him a try on hisown, so we started to play him in

Germany in halls. The first concert wedid was the Rhein Terrasse in Cologne.We had, I think, 80 people there thefirst night - but it was fantastic. It was amagical concert. Then we played a clubin Munich, where his dressing room wasthe space between where two doorsopened!

"It's like a reunion, like a romance....between him and his audience, it issome kind of love affair.

- Marcel Avram

"But slowly, slowly we worked on him.He was always very thankful foreverything we did on his behalf, and hewas always prepared to listen to what wehad to say. We put him on every TVshow we could as much as possible - andeverything we advised him with respectto TV shows or concerts, he did. He didinterview after interview, he worked dayand night. And we have arrived at asituation where now, in 1992, he is oneof the biggest superstars in Germany."

Phenomenal sales of records aside, Chris'popularity in Germany is also nowmeasured by the tremendousdemand to see his live shows. "He is ableto play multiple dates, between threeand four shows, in the Olympic Halls,"Avram explains. "He is able to playstadiums, like he did in Hockenheimtwo years ago, in front of 100,000people. In Berlin he can play to 50,000people, in Hamburg to 80,000. This isthe same Chris De Burgh who started off

in Germany playing to 80 people... Chrishas become one of the biggest artists ofour time."A further indication of his stature inGermany was his appearance, inOctober, 1990, at the historic publiccelebrations to mark the reunification ofEast and West. At the specific request ofthe German Government and the Mayorof Berlin, Chris was the onlyinternational recording artist invited toperform at the event. He sang his classicballad Borderline - a poignant commenton the moment and a song long helddear by his German fans - watched bytwo million people gathered in theshadow of the Brandenburg Gate and afurther audience of many millions morevia televised coverage worldwide.Despite his early faith in De Burgh,Avram admits that even he has beenamazed at the way in which hispopularity in Germany mushroomed."We never thought things would growto this size," he says. "We knew thatChris had talent, like a piece of diamond,which needed time to grow up - but theexplosion his career has had is justincredible. All we did, as promoters, washelp to give him the possibility andability to play in front of a lot of peoplebut it was up to him and his managementto deliver what they delivered.

"They came up with the stage show andthe music and, when Chris is on stage,then it's up to him. The battle that he hasto do in the halls, that is somethingbetween him and his audience. And, you

know, at the end of the day it's not abattle at all; it's like a reunion, like aromance. He has arrived at the situationin Germany where, between him and hisaudience, it is some kind of love affair."

Avram is confident that the relationshipcan continue indefinitely. "I would alsolike to congratulate Chris and wish him,from the depths of our hearts, all the bestfor his future life as well as for his career.We want to be associated with him for aslong as possible. We were there at thestart of his career - and we want to bethere until he decides not to play anymore."

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19 GREFRATH Icesportshalle 21 DORTMUND Westfalenhalle20 ROTTERDAM Ahoy 23 SAARBRUCKEN Saarlandhalle22 COPENHAGEN Falkoner 27 DUBLIN RDS23 ROSTOCK Cityhalle 28 DUBLIN RDS24 KEIL Ostseehalle26 HANNOVER Eilenriedehalle DECEMBER27 HANNOVER Eilenriedehalle30 STUTTGART Schleyerhalle 2 BELFAST Kings Hall31 STUTTGART Schleyerhalle

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CHRIS DE BURGH

TEN YEARS ON...

power Of Ten renews thecollaboration between De Burgh

and Rupert Hine which first began adecade ago with The Getaway album andsubsequently continued on its follow-up,Man On The Line. The successfulpartnership resumed last year when thepair bumped into each other by chanceat a recording studio - the first time theyhad met since their original involvment.

"When I first joined up with Rupert, hehad seen something in me which othershadn't; the excitement of the liveperformer," Chris recalls. "That's whathe set out to capture on our earlierrecords, and it certainly gave me a visionin terms of relating my albums to that.We approached Power Of Ten with atremendous confidence in theknowledge that the partnership hadworked well in the past, and that therewas no reason why it shouldn't workwell this time around. My only criteriawith this new album, right from thestart, was that every time I got into asong I thought 'How could we do thislive? Will it be strong enough to besupported by performance?' The onlysongs I decided to record were those Ifelt could be."

Hine witnessed this philosophy in theearly stages of pre -production for thealbum. "Chris went to great lengths toknock the songs into shape - I'd saymore so than most artists would - to the

point of getting his live band in andthrowing it all around with them. Notjust in a kind of sitting around, noodlingrehearsal situation, but in a real standingup and playing the songs out to animaginary audience live kind of way. Hefelt that was a very necessary stage toprove whether a song had the right toexist or not; by seeing how exciting itseemed to him at that time. Howevercrude and however dissimilar those earlydemo arrangements might have been tothe eventual version, it was still just aconcrete affirmation for him that theywere performable live - even at thatlevel. So long as I could improve onthose ideas from a record point of view,then it was a confident beginning."

"I wanted to make this album moreorganic...more lively, moresubstantial - with a real feeling thatthere was muscle behind it..."

- Rupert Hine

Hine sees a distinct parallel between hisearlier and current involvement with DeBurgh. "I would say that the point ofdoing Power Of Ten was very much, tenyears later, an equivalent to the pointbehind our combining efforts in 1981for The Getaway album," he says. "Atthat time, Chris' albums had alwayssounded to me a bit on the folky side,and I had somehow got a picture of himbeing a bit of a balladeer - in the .classicfolk song sense of the word. It was whenhe got me to see him at a concert inStockholm, of all places, that I changedmy view.

"I saw this incredibly romping, rockyshow that was nothing like myimpression of his albums at all. I wentbackstage and chatted to him afterwardsand said 'How come this is such a rockyshow? It's so unlike your albums.' Andhe said 'You tell me - you're the bloodyrecord producer!' So it was completelythrowing down the gauntlet since, bythat very comment, he was obviouslyimplying that he'd never intended hisalbums to sound like that; he'd alwayswanted them to sound more like he didlive. So that was a very clear challenge tome then, and I enjoyed trying to get thatto happen.

"Similarly, here we were ten years laterwhere, partly because of the phenomenalsuccess of 'that single' and therepercussions it had in terms of people'sperception of him, he was no longerseen as folky. Instead, he was perceivedas this rather soft, dare I say it, kind ofcroony singer. People who may havebeen totally unaware of him prior toLady In Red would certainly have thatkind of impression. I think, in a way,Chris was beginning to feel that the songwas a bit of a millstone and wanted tobreak away from that, too - as fabulousas the track had been for his popularity.

"And, of course, the breakaway wasinevitably back to the more passionate,more direct and more rocky side of hislive show. So it's strange, really, but thebrief was perhaps a very similar one -albeit ten years later with a lot of waterunder a lot of different bridges. The

approach would obviously have to bedifferent from a recording point of view,and yet the point, perhaps, was strangelysimilar all those years later."

Despite the obvious advances inrecording technology from oneproduction commission to the next,Hine was keen to push machines into thebackground and human involvement tothe fore in his treatment of the songs onPower Of Ten. "I wanted to make thisalbum more...organic. Much more lively,more substantial - chunkier, with a realfeeling that there was muscle behind itand it wasn't just electronic trickery.Anyone and everyone, with no skill ortalent, uses that these days to make arecord out of a whole pile of machinery.Anyone can do that."

More important was utilising the fact thatDe Burgh was a real singer of real songs."I honestly believe that the simpleanswer to why he has lasted so long isbecause, ultimately, Chris writes foreveryman," says Hine. "He is somebodywho can write a song with ingredientsthat are all familiar, by which I mean itcan be immediately communicative. Andhis songs can have this extra emotionalaspect that Chris at his best lets flowthrough his voice very easily. I think thevocal on Separate Tables is a fabulousexample of it.

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