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DIGITAL DEAFNESS?The past year has seen broadcastersacross Europe taking major positivesteps into the world of Digital Radio.However, the equipment to receivetheir transmissions remains scarce-ly visible. Music & Media looks intothe mystery and offers an at -a -glance view of the current state ofplay. Pages 8/9

MEET THE POWER PLAYERSIn this issue, M&M introduces anew feature, highlighting the pro-grammers who are breaking hitsat radio across Europe-the PowerPlayers. Page 17

VATH ON 'FUSION' PATHPioneering German DJ

Sven Vath hasreturned to recordingwith his most mature

album to date. Thisweek, he talks toM&M about thenew album andhis new regime.Page 10

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`Tubthumping' Fest totake on creative roleby Christian Lorenz

HAMBURG - Thehead of EMI's Ger-man operations Hel-mut Fest -the manwho helped introduceEurope to the joys ofTubthumping -is stepping down.

"After all these years as MD, Ifelt that now is the time to do

what I enjoy most," saysFest, who has been headingup EMI's German operationssince 1987, "and that isbeing close to the creativeside of the business."

He adds: "I amgrateful to EMIMusic that I nowhave the opportunity

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Leading Portuguese artist Paulo Gonzo (right) receives an award fromSony Music Portugal managing director Carlos Pinto in recognition ofover 160,000 (four times platinum status) domestic sales of his albumQuase Tudo. Gonzo-whose album will shortly be released in Spain-ishoping to become the first Portuguese artist in chart history to reachthe six -times platinum (240,000 units) mark.

Publics' profits attackedby Ed Meza

BERLIN - Germany's commercialbroadcasters have declared them-selves to be outraged at a report whichreveals the full extent of the profitsbeing made by the country's leadingpublic broadcasters.

The report, from federal investigativecommission KEF, shows, for example,that national public broadcaster ARDhad a surplus of DM 975 million($551m) in 1996, while Saxony -basedregional broadcaster MDR raked in prof-its of DM110.7m. Although figures for


Bored Sabotquitting NRJ?by Reim Bouton

PARIS - NRJ group programmingdirector Christophe Sabot handed in hisresignation last week-but the Frenchradio group's management is refusing toaccept it.

Sabot holds a crucil-,1 position withinthe NRJ Group. A member of its boardof directors, he is responsible for theoverall programming strategy of thecompany's three national French net- 0works: NRJ (CHR), Cherie FM(AC) and Rire & Chan-sons (comedy/AC). He isalso responsible for man-aging the programmingpolicy of all the NRJ sub-sidiaries across Europe.

When news of Sabot's resignationcontinued on page 24

Net hat -trick forItaly's Espresso

. by Mark Dezzani

MiAN - Italian publishing groupGruppo L'Espresso has signed a prelimi-nary agreement to acquire a thirdnational radio network.

If successful, the deal to buynews/talk broadcaster Italia Radio fromthe Rosabella Publishing Group willbring Espresso up to the maximum own-ership limits permitted under the Italy'santi-trust laws on radio ownership.

Espresso has owned Milan -basedCHR network Radio Deejay since 1990and last year acquired Milan -based ACnetwork Radio Capital. The Italia Radiodeal is expected to cost it between L10-15 billion ($5.7-8.5 million).

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Upfrontby Emmanuel Legrand, Music & Media editor -in -chief

These days it seems, fingers are increasingly beingpointed at public broadcasters accross Europe.

In this issue of M&M, for example, we report on howGerman commercial stations are highly critical of theirtaxpayer -funded counterparts. Not only, it is claimed, dothe public stations receive favourable treatment in termsof frequency allocations, but-to add insult to injury-theyeat into the advertising market and turn in big profits.

Across the Rhine, Radio France would have never beenable to develop its all -news network France Info at thesame speed had it been a private company. Public broad-casters there get priority allocations of frequencies-andFrance Info got the best out of it.

In the U.K, hardly a single commercial broadcaster cancompete with the BBC on equal terms. A French radio oper-ator (and no, it wasn't NRJ chief Jean -Paul Baudecroux)once said: "Give me a national FM frequency and I'll blowaway BBC Radio 1." Arrogant, yes, but he probably had apoint: what a strange country where national, music -for-matted commercial stations are only allowed to broadcast

on the AM band (save Classic FM).In Austria, the state monopoly is coming to an end in

1998 and the opening up of the airwaves is finally about tostart, amid shambles. Even eastern European countrieswere quicker to change their broadcasting rules after 1989.

The point here is not to say that public broadcasters aredoing a bad job-actually, most of them are fulfilling theirmissions quite well. The argument is that commercial sta-tions need clear and fair rules to put an end to this differ-ence in treatment.

These rules should be drafted at a European level andcould be very simple: public stations should provide a publicservice; public and commercial broadcasters should receiveequal treatment in frequencyallocations; and public subsi-dies are incompatible withadvertising. If governments inthe EU are able to harmonisesuch complex issues as theCommon Agricultural Policy,why shouldn't they be able todo the same for public andcommercial broadcasting?

After all, isn't that whattaxpayers in the communityof Europe pay them to do?

Sky closes Classic FM Swedenby Keith Foster & Robbert Tilli

STOCKHOLM/HILVERSUM - Swedenhas lost its last commercial classicalmusic station following ClassicFM/Stockholm's take-over by theNetherlands' Sky Radio.

Sky Radio 107.5 FM launched inthe Swedish capital at midnight onMarch 3 using the former frequencyof Classic FM. "It's a continuous softAC music station, just like the oneour audience in Holland have come toknow," confirms Martin Banga, SkyRadio's director of public affairs andinternational development.

For the timebeing, the newSwedish stationfor GreaterStockholm (with1.5-2 million potentiallisteners) will be operating fromSky Radio's studios in theNetherlands. But Banga says: "Assoon as we've got our Swedish staffsorted, the operations will be moved

to the Stockholm officewhich used to be occupiedby Classic FM. We'reeagerly anticipating join-ing such a highly competi-tive market."

Classic FM had beenstruggling to maintain ahealthy audience for sometime, and its owner, localbusinessman Sten Rundin,admitted that it had beenimpossible to keep the station afloatwith its audience share of 2.4 percent.Rundin bought the station in June1997 from the British GWR Group

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increasingthe audience to 4 percent, but thatincrease never materialised.

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for Skr8 million ($lm) andsold it to Sky for between Skr10-15m.

Sky's acquisition ofClassic FM introduces twonew elements to the Swedishmedia scene. The first is thestation's policy of broadcast-ing continuous music with-out presenters. This is likelyto cause some debate inSweden, which has a strong

tradition of presenter -based radio.The other significance of the deal is

the arrival of media magnate RupertMurdoch in Sweden for the first time.Sky Radio is 71 percent owned byMurdoch's News International compa-ny, a European subsidiary of his glob-al concern The News Corporation.

Banga says two more Sky Radiostations will be opened "within thenext six months" in countries otherthan Holland and Sweden. Sky Radio programme director TonLathouwers is the subject of thisweek's Open Mike on page 4.

Music Radio '98 agenda shapes upby Mike McGeever

LONDON - The platform for the annu-al U.K forum where the record andradio industries meet toe -to -toe, theRadio Academy's Music RadioConference, is beginning to take shape.

The one -day Music Radio '98 confer-ence will be held in London on April 23at the British Academy (formerlyBafta), and will be sponsored by airplayresearch company Media Research.

This year's conference chairmenare Gary Farrow, vice president ofSony Music Entertainment (U.K.) andTrevor Dann, head of music entertain-ment at public broadcaster the BBC.

"The committee is working to puttogether a Balanced programmedesigned to further help the two indus-

tries understand each otherand to build on the commonground already established,"comments Farrow.

For the first time in its 14year history, Music Radio willprovide a platform for twokeynote speakers-one fromeach industry. They will be JimMoir, controller of public MORstation BBC Radio 2, and JohnKennedy, chairman and CEO ofPolyGram Records.

The day's sessions will include aprogress report on alternative rockstation Xfin/London, and leading U.K.concert promoter Harvey Goldsmithis expected to challenge delegates'commitment to live music. Other par-ticipants will include Gordon -

Jim Moir

McNamee, founder and for-mer managing director ofLondon dance station Kiss100 FM, and his successorat Kiss, Mike Soutar.

Following the day's ses-sions will be the presenta-tion of the RadioAcademy/Music & MediaAward For Outstanding

Contribution To Music Radio. It marksthe fourth consecutive year thatM&M's publishers, the Billboard MusicGroup, have been involved in theaward. The presentation will be held ata party featuring a number of labels'showcase performances. For more information about MusicRadio '98, contact the Radio Academy on(+44) 171 255 2010.

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Opm mikoTon LathouwersManaging direc-tor of Dutch DJ -free soft AC for-matted stationSky Radio 100.7FM, Lathouwershas just seen his company launch

a new station in Sweden(see page 3); Sky has also

celebrated its 10th

anniversary by increasingji its market -leading audi-

ence share in theNetherlands to 16.4 percent.

Q: Why has your format been sosuccessful in the Netherlands?A: Our success is primarily basedon familiarity and consistency. Weplay the music the people love tohear, without being interrupted byself-indulgent DJs. When we playGeorge Michael's Careless Whisper,for instance, you don't need a DJannouncing it-DJs would only berequired with new music. We don'tplay that much new material, but ifwe do, our listeners can fmd otherways to track down the artist'sname. For 10 years now we've beendoing exactly the same things as wedid the day we started. We've neverchanged our winning formula-lesssuccessful stations in Hollandchange their format all the time.Our only concern is not to be behindthe times.

Q: Can a station like Sky"make" hits?A: It's not our main priority. We'rehere to reach as many listeners aspossible; now and then we help tobreak new talent as well, but alwayswithin the limitations of our format.New names have to have a familiarsound, too-we quickly recognisedthe potential, for instance, of LauraPausini and Celine Dion. The lat-ter's breakthrough single ThinkTwice was picked up by us in thevery early stages, and MarcoBorsato also presented us with agold disc, acknowledging our inputin his success.

It might surprise sceptics thatnine out of ten records in the cur-rent [Dutch] Top 10 are playlistedby Sky Radio. That proves we're nctthat old-fashioned.

Q: What's Sky Radio's main asset?A: Providing good music around theclock. We have popularised radio ingeneral. Since we've been broadcast-ing, 10 percent more people are lis-tening to the radio. We're responsiblefor a new style of radio programming.Contrary to what many people think,our format has not been importedfrom the U.S.-we made it up our-selves. Our next challenge is tospread the message abroad, firstlywith our sister station in Sweden.

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`Full recovery' for Spanish marketby Howell Llewellyn

MADRID - "Economic recovery andartistic recuperation" enabled Spain'smusic industry to enjoy a record yearin 1997, with total unit sales up 15percent on 1996.

1997's total of 60.3 million unitsregistered a record -breaking value ofPta 89.6 billion ($586m). This repre-sents a 21 percent increase on the1996 figure of Pta 74.1bn, accordingto information from IFPI-endorsedlabels body AFYVE. Following 1996'simproved figures, it shows theSpanish market fully recovered fromits 1994-95 slump.

AFYVE director Carlos Grandesays: "The boom is down to a generaleconomic recovery with an importantartistic recuperation, especially inSpanish product." Current AFYVEpresident Claudio Conde, also presi-dent of Sony Music Entertainment

Spain, says othersignificant factorswere the "increasingmaturity" of Spain'sdistribution net-work, the expansioninto Spain of Frenchretail chain FNAC,and "the opening ofmore music sectionsby the country'slargest chain ofdepartment stores,El Corte Ingles."

Further good news for the Spanishindustry was that the share of domes-tic repertoire rose for the second yearin a row, to 41.7 percent (5.3 percentup on its 1996 share). This figurewould be even higher if all Spanish -language music was included, asmany latino artists accounted for inthe international category, includingRicky Martin and Luis Miguel, also

sold well last year.Grande said last year's

inauguration of two musicaward ceremonies (April'sPremios de la Miisica andNovember's Premios Amigo)were "crucial" to domesticmusic's rise.

Spanish singer AlejandroSanz, who appeared at thetelevised Premios Amigoawards in November,rewrote the record books by

selling over one million units of hisalbum Mcis (WEA) betweenSeptember 1 -December 31. Other bigdomestic sellers in 1997 wereCatalonian singer Monica Naranjo,with 670,000 sales of her secondalbum Palabra de Mujer (Epic);Jarabe de Palo's debut album LaFlaca (Virgin) (450,000); and indiegroup Dover, who sold 360,000 copiesof Devil Came To Me (Subterfuge).

Larsen fills a Hole at Universal marketingLONDON - Jorgen Larsen, presidentof Universal Music International(UMI), is strengthening his compa-ny's marketing team with the arrivalof founding East West U.K. managingdirector Max Hole.

Based in London, Hole will, fromMay 1, take on a newly -created posi-tion of senior VP, marketing andA&R, in which he will "oversee UMI'sglobal artist marketing activities out-side the U.S., including priority -set-ting, international touring and pro-motion, and domestic A&R pro-grammes," according to a statement.He will also manage UMI's interna-tional marketing team.

Hole has spent the last 16 years atWarner Music U.K., where helaunched the East West label in 1990."Our new creative team headed byMax will greatly accelerate our growthand visibility in the global market-place," predicts Larsen, who praisesHole's skills as " an artist manager,record producer, marketing and A&R

man." Hole himself sayshe is "looking forward toapplying my experiencein the broad arena ofinternational marketingand A&R."

The departure of Holefrom the company hehelped set up withWarner Music U.K chiefexecutive Rob Dickinshas led to speculation onits future, althoughWarner would not com-ment on the issue.Dickins will now assume the day-to-day management of East West.

In a related move, Larsen has alsoappointed Tim Bowen to executivevice president, business affairs anddevelopment, at UMI-a positionwhich includes responsibility for thecompany's expansion programme, aswell as company and catalogues acqui-sition. Bowen was previously seniorVP, business affairs and headed UMI's

international marketing activities.Bowen will also direct UMI's strat-

egy in the areas of new technologyand electronic distribution and willcontinue to represent UMI on theEuropean board executive committeeof the IFPI.

Larsen explains that the split ofduties between Bowen and Holereflects the company's rapid growthover the past four years.

A&R expansion at Dutch labelsby Robbert Tilli

HRATERSUM - With national prod-uct's market share currently standingat an unprecedented 29 percent in theNetherlands, a number of significantnew A&R units specialising in Dutchdomestic product are being set up.

Following Warner Music Benelux'sstart-up of new A&R activities at theend of last year, independentsZomba/Rough Trade and Play It AgainSam (PIAS) are now set to expandtheir A&R horizons during 1998.

Zomba/Rough Trade has lured veter-an A&R manager Ruud van Dulkenraadaway from CNR Music to head up itsnew A&R division. "We have courted

Van Dulkenraadbefore, but to noavail," admitsZomba/Rough Trademanaging directorBenelux Bert Meyer."Now is the time toexplore domesticrepertoire. Theemphasis will be onDutch -languagerepertoire, butEnglish -language crossover product willalso be developed."

Freshly -appointed PIAS Hollandgeneral manager Leo van Schaick saysof his company's A&R venture: 'This issomething our company has been talk -

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ing about for years, but we'refinally doing it. We reckonedthat the moment local producttook a one-third market sharewe wanted to be there to ben-efit. And I can guarantee itwon't harm our regular job ofworking licensed repertoire." Former PIAS Benelux GMWally van Middendorp, 39,is to join Columbia Hollandas general manager. Says

Sony Music Holland MD/VP BeneluxPatrick Decam: "We have chosen VanMiddendorp because of his greattrack record with `indie' repertoire,which will provide us with the flexi-bility to hunt for new talent."

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Swedish Bears follow the Grammiesby Keith Foster

grocKumm - The annual Rock BearAwards seem to have proven that, foronce, the views of Sweden's record -buying public are largely in tune withthose of the music industry "experts."

The Bears, awarded on thestrength of votes cast by the readers ofAftonbladet, Sweden's biggest -sellingtabloid newspaper, tok place a weekafter the Swedish Grammies awards.

The Bears were dominated by thetwo names which had stolen the lime-light at the Grammies (M&M,February 28). Eagle -Eye Cherry,brother of vocalist Neneh, won theRock Bear for Best Male Artist and

Best Song with his bluesy SaveTonight. His haul of three Grammiesand two Rock Bears is a sensation foran artist largely unknown before the1997 release of his album Desireless(Superstudio/BMG).

Another double -Bear winning actwas rock band Kent-Best Band andBest Album, for their album Isola(RCA). The band's urgent, melodicrock sound has won them a huge fol-lowing in Sweden. They are to belaunched internationally shortly.

On the international front, the83,000 newspaper readers who voted inthe poll chose British group The Verveas Best Band and their Urban Hymns(Hut/Virgin) as Best Album. Puff

Daddy scooped Best Artist and BestSong for I'll Be Missing You (Bad Boy).

Music comesto Talk Radioby Mike McGeever

LONDON - National U.K. speech sta-tion Talk Radio is launching a weeklyinterview programme in which listen-ers can put questions direct to artists.

The one -hour slot, "Nicky HomeMeets..." will be airedSunday evenings 18.00-19.00, beginning onMarch 8 when hostHome will be joined byCanadian superstarBryan Adams.

Talk Radio manag-ing director PaulRobinson comments:"The new programmewill enable our listen-

ers to talk directly toleading rock andpop artists. Talk's

listeners are above -averagepurchasersof CDs,and are

active concert goers.They want a chance to talk

about music."Robinson notes that many of the

acts will also give live acoustic perfor-mances during the programme. SaysHome: "Commercial music radio hasbecome very much `soundbite' radio,which frustrates both the artists andlisteners. The programme will giveartists a chance to talk at lengthabout their careers and music."

"Nicky Home Meets..." will bepitched against the last hour of publicCHR net-work BBCRadio l'sU.K. Top 40chart show,and localcommercialradio's rivalsyndicatedcountdownprogramme,the PepsiChart Show.

hand in your headmoney mark, californian keyboard wizard and fourthbeastie boy, releases his incredible new single`hand in your head' across europe in march.

taken from the eagerly -awaited a&m/mowax album`push the button' (out 18/05/98).

6 weeks on bbc radio 1 a -list, heavy rotation onmtv uk and a debut uk top 40 entry.

ive dates throughout europe in april and may.

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C91\I T/ Bi ATEMI STEPS BACK FROM HMVLONDON - The EMI Group is selling a controlling interestin its international retail operation, HMV. The retailer willbe owned by a new joint venture company, HMV MediaGroup plc, in which EMI will continue to have a 40 percentstake. The majority of shares in the new company will beheld by private investment group Advent International.The new grouping will incorporate EMI's U.K.-based bookretail chain Dillons, and the Waterstone's book chain,which is to be purchased from W.H. Smith for £300 million($480m). Waterstone's founder Tim Waterstone will bechairman of HMV Media; current HMV chief executiveStuart McAllister and Waterstone's MD Alan Giles will bejoint chief executives.

RADIO 538 EYES BELGIAN CABLE MARKETHILVERSUM - Following the launch of Flemish cable sta-

tion Radio Flandria in northernBelgium (M&M December 27 1997),there is speculation that DutchCHR broadcaster Radio 538 ispreparing the enter the Belgianmarket for the first time via thecountry's cable radio system. Thestation was invited to present itsplans at the Flemish cable opera-tor's forum on March 5. "We arealways looking for new opportuni-ties," confirms Radio 538 managing

director Erik De Zwart, "but we're merely orienting our-selves-there's nothing official yet."

WARNER INKS RUSSIAN DEALMoscow - Warner Music International has signed a long-term licensing deal for the Russian Federation and Com-monwealth of Independent States with Russia's SoyuzGroup. First releases under the agreement will be the newalbums from Madonna (Ray OfLight) and Eric Clapton (Pilgrim).Says Warner Music Eastern Europepresident Manfred Lappe: "WarnerMusic International has found theideal strategic partner in Soyuz,which is the leading record and dis-tribution company in Russia, to rep-resent it in the exciting and chal-lenging Russian market."

`WIRED' WIRELESS ON THE INCREASENEW YORK - U.S.-based Internet radio service BRSMedia has released statistics showing a record number ofradio stations broadcasting on the Internet. In February,the international total exceeded the 1,100 mark, up fromjust 351 a year ago. According to BRS, the breakdown is:576 U.S. and Canadian stations; 403 non-U.S. broadcast-ers; 91 Internet -only stations and 32 (mainly U.S.) radionetworks. "This is the fastest -growing segment of Web -casting," notes BRS Media president George Bundy.

AUTHORS HEAD FOR BRUSSELSBRUSSELS - Music -makers fromall around Europe will be able topresent their case to Europeanpolicy makers and regulators dur-ing an "Author's Forum" in Brus-sels on March 18 at the Hotel Asto-ria. Organised by professionalbody Gesac, which representsEuropean authors' and composers'societies, the Forum will beopened by Gesac president Jean -Loup Thurnier and concluded by

EU commissioners Marcelino Oreja (audiovisual and cul-ture) and Mario Monti (internal market). There will besessions on topics such as the management of copyright,and the role of the EU in promoting creativity. Partici-pants will include Spanish SGAE president TeddyBautista, French musician Jean -Michel Jarre and Por-tuguese filmmaker Manuel de Oliveira.

Voice contest causes Kaos at P3by Charles Ferro

COPENHAGEN - "Radio wars" inDenmark have resulted inCopenhagen -based commercialCHR station The Voice payingout Dkr140,000 ($20,000) to lis-teners who managed to infiltratethe airwaves of rival public CHRstation, Danmarks Radio P3.

As part of a publicity cam-paign for its new five -manbreakfast show, Kaos Krew, TheVoice promised to pay outDkr2,000 ($300) to any listenerwho could manage to get on airat P3 and say: 'The Voice is Den-mark's No.1 hit radio station."

On the very first day of thepromotion (February 23), aVoice listener successfully gotthrough to P3's mid -morningmusic/talk show Strax anddelivered the required Voicestrap -line.

Strax presenter Niels Christ-ian Lang, who presides over thedaily P3 show, says: "Our themeon Monday was violence againstchildren, and we got a callertelling us about how his neigh-bour was brutally beating hischild. That went on for aroundfour minutes, and all of a suddenhe said, `he Voice is...' "

Lang adds: "We do some seri-ous journalist programmingand this type of stunt under-mines the credibility of the pro-gramme." Three days later, onFebruary 26, Lang decided toget his revenge by urging P3

listeners to call in and recountthe strap -line on air, in order torun up the amount of cash The

Voice would have to pay out."The Voice claimed it was

only the first caller who wouldget paid," says Lang, "but Ihave [the promotion trail] ontape and there's no mention ofthe first or the last [caller]."

The Voice agreed to paymoney to all the listeners con-cerned, and payment was made

during a Kaos Krew show broad-cast live from outside DanmarksRadio's Copenhagen headquar-ters. But Voice head of program-ming Eik Frederiksen says themoney paid out to the listenerswas "peanuts" compared to theamount of press and TV cover-age the stunt generated.

Ironically, one of the first toreceive a Dkr2,000 payout fromThe Voice was Lang himself,because he had also uttered themagic words on the air. Howev-er, Lang remains unhappyabout the affair. "The Voice is alocal radio station that tried tolean on us to get some publici-ty," he says. "They will have tofind somebody else to play ballwith in future."

Kaos Brew presenters (l -r) Lille Lars, Happy Hans, UffeHolm, Dennis Johannesson and Allan Kjaergard maketheir payment to P3's Niels Christian Lang (far right).

Compilation boosts Family planningby Marc Maes

BRUSSELS - A compilationalbum is being used to helptranslate the Lighthouse Fami-ly's Belgian airplay success intoalbum sales.

Polydor compilation albumHitclub 98/1 is being sold withan extra free CD featuring theU.K. band's singles Raincloudand High. However, the band'sown album sales in Belgiumhave been disappointing.

Polydor senior product man-

ager Dirk Van der Auweraexplains: "Despite the fact thatRaincloud hasn't left the airplayTop 10 since its release and thatHigh was picked as powerplayby influential stations such asRadio 2, Radio Donna, RadioContact, BEL RTL and Radio 21,it seems the audience haven'tconnected the Lighthouse Fami-ly album with their songs."

Declares Van der Auwera:"We have to make peopleaware of who the LighthouseFamily are." To that end,

alongside extensive liner notesabout the Lighthouse Family,Hitclub 98/1 will also carry apromotional Lighthouse Familysticker on its cover.

"We will position the band asan eye-catcher in the TV cam-paigns for Hitclub," reveals Vander Auwera, "and I believe wewill be able to spread the Light-house Family's U.K. success tothe continent."

Public CHR station RadioDonna, which currently featuresHigh as a "spice" track with over

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Digital radio: is anybodThe merits of digital audiobroadcasting (DAB) are suffi-ciently attractive for broad-casters to have instigatedstrong digital developmentprojects across Europe. Butwithout a sizable audiencewith digital receivers, theexercise clearly remainscommercially unsound.Those sets are still few and farbetween-and very expen-sive-on the High Street.M&M programming editorMike McGeever asks why.

Prototypes of Digital Radio

receivers with colour screens

At IFA-the broadcastingand manufacturing tradeshow-in Berlin lastautumn, over a dozenelectronics manufactur-

ers unveiled a range of digital radioreceivers. At the time it was confi-dently predicted that sets would soonbe available to consumers. Nowspring is just around the corner, butjust who is listening-if anyone can-to Digital Radio?

As the new broadcast technology isrolled out across Europe, the broad-casters who are investing public andprivate money in the technology areincreasingly concerned that the man-ufacturers of digital radio receiversare dragging their feet in making thesets available at the retail level.

In an upcoming edition of theWorld Digital Audio Broadcasting(DAB) Newsletter, Michael McEwen,president of the World DAB Forum,warns: "We are now at a critical pointfor a successful (digital radio) rolloutto the market. There has been a greatdeal of testing, demonstrations andpublicity about digital radio, but weare beginning to look less credible thelonger we wait to get affordablereceivers to market, and the broad-cast system up and running."

The forum is an internationalumbrella organisation of more than 80public and private broadcasters, audio-visual hardware manufacturers, regu-latory bodies and transmissionproviders. DAB is capable of beingbroadcast terrestrially (digital radio,the Internet), or via satellite.

Manufacturers, however, appearhesitant to provide retailers with cur-rent technology digital radio receiversets. According to sources, this isbecause as soon as they are on theshelves, new and more advancedsets-with added features such ascolour screens carrying artists'images and information on the musicbeing broadcast, and traffic and infor-mation text streams-will be readyfor the production line.

Taking the plungeMcEwen insists that both broadcast-ers and manufacturers must agree on

a starting point. "Itis always temptingnot to bring a prod-uct to market,when with just afew more months'work you can bringadded value to thatproduct, and there-fore added value tothe consumer. (But)at this stage ofreceiver develop-ment, that would

"We are beginning to look less credible the longerwe wait to get affordable receivers to market."

Michael McEwen, World DAB Forum

be a mistake," he says."We must focus on the core busi-

ness, and for radio, that is qualityaudio. Manufacturers now havereceivers that deliver the kind of[audio] quality we all expect, with afew value added services [such as textscreens]. I urge the manufacturers tobring the receivers to the market insufficient numbers that they areaffordable and have presence.

"These receivers," McEwen contin-ues, "will evolve over the years, andthey should, but that evolution maynever happen if we don't exploit thecurrent technology and bring to thelistening public the initial benefits ofdigital radio.

"DAB [using certain technology]was a European development,"McEwen adds. "As we take the technol-ogy globally, the world still looks toEurope for leadership. A successful roll-out of receivers and distribution of ser-vices would confirm that leadership,and point the way for other countries."

Low numbers, high costThe current cost of an in -car digitalradio set (which research indicateswill be, initially, the most attractive toconsumers next to portable "boom -box" units), ranges from about$2,000-$2,700.

But such receivers are rarely seen inEurope's electronic goods retailers-

The digital revolutionacross Europe

BelgiumBy January 1 1998, Flemish public broadcasting company VRT had 11 DABtransmitters in operation, covering about 4 million people. Further exten-sion is planned for 1998, and by early 1999 nearly the whole population ofFlanders (6 million) will have the opportunity to listen to DAB. RTBF, thepublic broadcaster for the French-speaking population, has signed a part-nership agreement with the Walloon Ministry of Equipment and Transport,under which the Ministry will contribute 160m Belgian francs to digitalradio development. A start on the first part of this network is expected in thelast quarter of 1998.

DenmarkDenmark is committed to introducing DAB, and the transmitter network isbeing extended. In the first few months of 1998 a project set up by DanishRadio-with government support-will see 500 test receivers made by Bang& Olufsen distributed to consumers for market research purposes.

FinlandIn Finland, DAB frequency blocks for national and regional networks havebeen agreed. Public broadcaster YLE will build up the transmitter networkand rent facilities and channels to private broadcasters. There were 32 appli-cations for national and regional DAB licences at a February 1998 deadline.

FrancePublic broadcaster TDF is currently running a digital service of eight publicradio programming strands and a commercial service with five programmingstrands. Commercial radio group NRJ has one digital service carrying fiveradio programming strands. In Paris, six transmitters currently cover 10 mil-lion people (17 percent of the population).

GermanyBecause of the size of its potential market, Germany is an important ter-ritory for the success of DAB. The first pilots started in 1995, and nowpilot services are running in 10 of the Federal states (Lander).

Already, more than 200 DAB transmitters are operating all overGermany. Approximately 37 percent of the population (around 30 millionpeople) is already covered. Federal and Lander governments are prepar-ing for the scheduled July 1, 1998 launch of operational services in thefirst Lander (Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hessen), soon to be followedby others.

HungaryPublic broadcaster Magyar Radio began experimental DAB transmissionsin Budapest on December 1, 1995 with a multiplex (a "bundle" of servicescapable of supplying multiple digital channels) comprising three maindomestic programming strands and one special high -quality strand. Threemillion people are served by this service. Over the past year or so, work hasbeen concentrated on DAB service planning, satellite distribution of a DABensemble and its relay in major cities.

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y out there?even at those highprices. Mostly, they haveto be ordered from man-ufacturers such asGrundig andBosch/Blaupunkt. PCusers can also purchasea smart card whichgives access to digitalradio for about $750.

Meanwhile, somebroadcasters argue thatthe broadcasting indus-try should be providingthe impetus and confidence for manu-facturers to mass produce digitalradio receivers. "The manufacturersare waiting for a lead," says Peter

Leutner, managingdirector of Europeansatellite audio broad-caster European KlassicRock, which launched inOctober 1997 and will bebidding for a nationaldigital multiplex licencein the U.K..

"We have been talk-ing to a few major manu-facturers who are readyto push the productionline button, but they

need to be convinced that they shouldbegin volume production. The con-vincing has to come from the serviceproviders and the regulators.

"The regulators have actually giventhe lead in countries such as the U.K.and Sweden. There has been muchmore development done on the manu-facturers' side than you can possiblyimagine," he says.

How soon is now?The BBC is regarded as a globalleader in the development and pro-motion of digital radio services. GlynJones, BBC Digital Radio managingeditor, claims that manufacturers canproduce a receiver that would be com-patible as a component with con-sumers' in -home music systems (aswith the first CD players)-and coulddo it now.

"Our estimate," he says, "is thatyou could manufacture it and get it tothe factory gate for about $160. Itwould then probably sell for about$320 at retail level." He adds: "Wehave passed along this information,and nobody has challenged us and told

us this was not possible. So we arepursuing this with the manufacturers.

"We hoped," Jones continues, "thatsets would be available sooner. Andalthough we are frustrated, it is notwith any one manufacturer. It ismuch more that their business worksin a different way. They don't under-stand broadcasting inside out, andI'm certainly not arrogant enough tosay that I understand manufacturinginside out."

Jones is a member of a team fromthe BBC, which will also representsome of the interests of members ofthe World DAB Forum, due to hold aseries of meetings with several manu-facturers in Tokyo this March.

The purpose of the trip is to under-line broadcasters' commitment to thetechnology, and to encourage manu-facturers to continue to develop sets,while at the same time discussinghow the sets which are available canbe rolled out to the market place.

IsraelBezeq, the Israeli Telecomm-unications Corporation, has beenpiloting DAB transmissions since1996. There are currently two trans-mitters, covering about 70 percent ofthe population, and a third isplanned. Bezeq sponsored an inter-national conference in Tel Aviv inMay 1997 to communicate the bene-fits of DAB to governmental andbusiness organisations.

ItalyThe Italian Parliament recentlyapproved a new telecommunications/broadcasting law which, among otherthings, provides a basic regulatoryframework for the introduction ofDAB. Licences will be given free dur-ing a 10 -year period, in order to pro-mote its development. Public broadcaster RAI, which has been carrying out DABtest transmissions for several years, is to provide 172 transmitters by 1999, reach-ing some 60 percent of the population. The main commercial broadcasters, havingformed Club DAB Italia, have set up a corporation to develop the commercial net-work. and are collaborating with RAI on delivery and research.

The NetherlandsA single national multiplex, operated by the Dutch DAB Pilot Association, cur-rently covers 45 perdent of the population via three transmitters. It carrieseight audio channels, plus a 24 -hour news, weather and stockmarket datacast.DAB licensing has also begun in the Netherlands in the form of a pre -tenderphase, in which the government is formally inviting submission of ideas frominterested parties. This "ideas" phase runs until April 9. A few months later,the tender phase will begin, taking into account the ideas submitted.

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NorwayThree transmitters cover the Oslo area,covering about 32 percent of the nationalpopulation of 4.2 million. The governmentis expected to announce the future policyframiwork for DAB by the end of 1998 Inthe meantime, the Norwegian JABGroup is planning further coverage, firstalong the corridor between Oslo andTrondheim, and then along the coast fromOslo to Bergen, covering 60 percent of thepopulation by the end of 1998.

PortugalThe Portuguese Government recentlygranted DAB network operations to thePortuguese National Radio, RDP.

carrying out experimental trans-missions since October 1997 tocover the central part of Slovenia,including the capital city ofLjubljana. About half a million peo-ple are potentially able to receive aDAB signal.

SpainThe Spanish DAB Association(Asociacion Foro de la RadioDigital), comprising both privateand national broadcasters, electedits board of management at theend of January 1998, and set upthree working groups (technical,commercial and legal). Spain's firstdigital broadcasts are to begin onApril 1, 1998 in Madrid, Barcelonaand Valencia. It is expected that,by the end of 1998, 95 percent of

Catalonia (some 5.8 million) will be potentially able to receive a DAB signal.

SwedenSwedish Radio and Teracom began DAB services in Stockholm in autumn1995. Since the end of 1996, the national digital service has grown to cover 45percent and regional services 35 percent of the population respectively, on atotal of 17 transmitters. By early 1998, the national service will reach 75 per-cent, and the regional services 55 percent of the population. At that timethere will be both commercial and public services in the regional digital pack-ages. The Swedish government recently approved a Swedish Radio project toprovide a Finnish language service on DAB from January 1, 1998.

SwitzerlandPublic and private broadcasters, other content providers and Swiss Telecomare co-operating in a number of pilots. In one project, "Bern -Oberland," thearea is covered by fifteen transmitters, and about 200 receivers are being

supplied to members of the public formarket research. A further pilot was setup at the end of 1997 in the Basle area.

United KingdomThe U.K. Government set the frame-work for the development of DAB in the1996 Broadcasting Act. Public broad-caster the BBC began an operationalDAB service in September 1995 in theGreater London area, and is now build-ing up its transmitter network so that60 percent of the UK population will becovered by mid -1998. A number ofpilots involving commercial stationsare now operating.

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ARTISTS & WI(Mature With gets in shape with Fusionby Christian Arndt

Sven Vath, arguably Germany's best-known DJ export, has been getting backinto shape during the last few months.

Known for marathonsets of 8-10 hours onthe decks (and a historyof colourful guises andbizarre hairstyles) Vathhas changed his lifestylein order to be able todelay a feared burn -out."I've lost weight, evenquit smoking and drink-ing-at least for the timebeing," says Vath.

On March 2, the new,mature Vath delivered hismost uncompromising albumto date, the aptly titled Fusion(Virgin). His musical vision isa mixture of past, present andfuture. "We have come full cir-cle," says Vath. "Electro, hiphop and breakdance are com-ing back [to the clubs].

"These styles, he continues,give a DJ more freedom towork with. Unfortunately,most DJs have become specialistsnowadays and are stuck in their par-ticular niche. I have always tried toplay a mix of different styles, even inthe early days, from salsa to electro,

from pop to samba."Unlike its 1995 predecessor, The

Harlequin, The Robot And The BalletDancer (Eye-Q/WEA), Fusion is not a

concept album. Composedand produced together with

"I like to take people ona musical trip and get

feedback from myaudience"

Vath's studio partner RalfHildenbeutel, the 10 tracks on thealbum race from Latin percussion tofunky brass sections atop boppingbasslines. Vath has used his experience

as a club DJ-he owns and is residentDJ at Frankfurt's Omen club-to pro-vide first-rate turntable food.

"Fusion can stand for total confusion,too," says Vath with a smile. "Fusionstyles can be quite chaotic sometimes."

Apart from the obvioustechno/trance roots, Vathand Hildenbeutel alsoacknowledge traces ofdub, house and big beat."This is the music thathas influenced me,"admits Vath "and itshows that you can dodifferent things in a tech -no context."

Last year, Vath splitup with his businesspartners MatthiasHoffmann and HeinzRoth and abandonedthe Berlin -based labelsEye -Q and Harthouse,which were mutuallyowned by all three. Freeto release his album

Sven Vath'i elsewhere, he thensigned with Munich -based Virgin Records.

He lists a number of reasons forthe move, foremost being the tiesbetween his manager MatthiasMartinssohn and the label.Martinssohn, a co-founder of techno

label Logic Records, also managesVirgin -signed rock act Base Onkelz.

"Then there are the records[Virgin] has released over the pastfew years," adds Vath. "[Artists like]Massive Attack, Daft Punk and theChemical Brothers create a nice con-text for my music." Finally, Virginguaranteed Vath a simultaneousrelease in Germany, the U.K. andmost other European countries.

The U.K. is important to Vath,because he admires the broad-mind-edness of the British music scene."What we are lacking in Germany, issomething like the Tribal Gathering[dance festival], where a Beastie Boysfan can meet a Detroit Techno fan. InGermany, clubbing appears to be aprivilege for young people, while inLondon, the guy standing next to youin a club can be a forty years -old."

Asked about his own future as aDJ/performer, the 34 year -old, who isbooked until well into 1999, says: "Ilike to take people on a musical tripand get feedback from my audience. Iguess I am addicted to that."

More recently, Vath has alsofounded his own DJ booking agency,Cocoon, which aims to push localnewcomers like Toni Rios and FrankLorber and bring international topnames like Carl Cox and RichieHawtin to Germany.

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Plaid stretchedacross Europe

by Gary Smith

Plaid is back in fashion on the Europeandance scene.

Six months on from the release of Plaid's sec-ond, long-awaited album Not For Threes(Warp)-featuring guest artists Bjork, Nicoletteand Mara Carlyle-it has sold 25,000 units. Acasual observer might see that as less than daz-zling, but, given the overpopulated state of thedance music market, that figure constitutes agenuine result for an act with an approach as low-key as Plaid's.

The duo of Ed Hanley and Andy Turner saythey have never expected to compete with theCeline Dion or Mariah Carey for a chart topspot. "The main thing is we manage to make aliving from our music," says Hanley. "We've justmoved into our first real studio after years ofworking from home and we've been able to say`no more remixes' [for other artists] until thenext album is finished."

In something of a departure from their nor-mal working methods, the band-who took noless than six years between their first and sec-ond long-player-are already well into theirthird, as yet untitled, album, "We're workingfaster and more instinctively, trying not to losethe initial thrill," comments Hanley.

"On the last album, we often ended upgoing back to the demo versions because we'dlost something. While we've never been thetype of group to pile up the overdubs the nextalbum will definitely be more about clarity."

While Hanley admits that being seen aspart of what is often loosely described as theleft -field electronic scene' is harder than everdue to the sheer volume of releases, Plaid willremain where they feel most at home, on thecutting edge.

"It's a bit frustrating that the 'rock atti-tude'-by which I mean the need to make bold,

obvious statements-is back with a vengeance,"says Hanley, referring to the success of the BigBeat genre and acts like The Prodigy. "But we'renot into being flash. It's the subtleties thatinterest us. lb justify ourselves, it's importantthat we continue being innovative."

Despite their "no remix" policy the duo arecurrently engineering and producing SecretHandshake, the debut album by U.K. hip -hopact Kushti (Octopus Records).

With live dates in Holland and Italy laterthis month plus one-off concerts around Europethroughout the year, Plaid's very special brandof unassuming music is on the brink of attract-ing the level of attention that it truly deserves.

Luc Ternil's obsession pays offby C&ile Tesseyre

There may be no limits toinspiration, but songwriterLuc Boisseau could be gettingclose... Boisseau wrote LeBruit (The Noise), the debutsingle for his group LucTernil, after his wife, a nurse,told him about a man whohad taken an axe tohis head because hebelieved he had thesun in his skull.

"I mixed the story with one I saw on TVabout a man who could not live withoutearplugs after destroying his hearing systemat a concert," says Boisseau. Set to a pop/rocktune, Le Bruit gained some buzz mostlythanks to Parisian rock station Oui FM earli-er this year.

In February Luc Ternil released their firstalbum Les Normales Saisonnieres on EdenRock/Touchstone Records. Although the albumis a debut, Boisseau and two other members ofthe Nantes -based quintet are no newcomers inthe music business.

Seven years ago the trio topped the Frenchcharts with upbeat pop act Elmer Food Beat."Today our music is so different, we don't feel

we should refer to ourpast," adds Boisseau.Formed two yearsago, Luc Ternil arebreaking into a mar-ket flooded with boybands and hip -hopwith a more 'tradi-tional' pop album.

"The challenge,"says Boisseau, was toto write pop tunes with

lyrics that differ from the traditional 'boy-meets-girl' themes."

Le Bruit deals with obsession. "A littleobsession is what the group needed to make asucessful comeback," laughs Boisseau. "Ourdemos were turned down by all major recordlabels, so we decided to finance the album our-selves." Les Normales was originally releasedby the 'band in September 1996; Luc Ternil'sfortune started to change for the better whenEden Rock's A&R department found thealbum and offered the band a deal and a dis-tribution contract with Touchstone.

Currently touring around Nantes, the groupis already writing fresh material. "Since we didLes Norrnales, our music has evolved and wenow favour a tougher sound," says Boisseau. "Weare now ready to start a new record."

EDcincegroovesby Gary Smith

SNACK ATTACK"Slow builder of the week" is Jens Mahlstedt's DubSnack (Superstition/Germany). Clocking in at 7:22, thetrack seems to go nowhere for the first couple of minutesuntil a battery of big, dramatic chords comes to the res-cue. From there Dub Snack asserts itself as a slightlybrutish but classic dancefloor number with a FrenchKiss-remember Lil' Louis?-electro-funk backbeat.

HUMANS FROM SPAINLatest track from the Spanish underground to dent theGerman dance charts is Luis Junior & Kike Boy's TheHuman Dream (Quality/Spain). Reminiscent of Energy 52'sclassic Cafe Del Mar with a soft techno feel, the track hassome charming melodic keyboard touches and a couple ofdecent breakdowns. Not original but undoubtedly effective.

FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHTWith a thumping rock/funk groove, clattering breaksand guitar loops, Fight The Fight by Pmff (Wildlife/U.K.)is a stormer. Dynamically, the track goes straight for thethroat. Subtleties, it seems, are not part of the Pmffagenda. But despite all the noise and sloganeering onFight, Pmff are a lot more than merely bombasticranters. The track comes in a radio edit too. Try it!

A BRAND NEW BAG(PIPE)Infernal's Sorti De L'Enfer (Flex Club/Denmark) is utter-ly bizarre. What else can you say about a track whichtakes a nu-NRG beat and puts a bagpipe -led tune overthe top? And that's not all-Sorti then comes over likeKraftwerk with sultry vocoder voices and adds a bit ofbatucada drumming for good measure. Finally there's asecond radio edit with a harmonica as the lead instru-ment. An outrageous concept from the same label thatproduced No Tengo Dinero.

TECHNO'S OLYMPIAN EFFORTWhether or not you heard KenIshii's Opening And ClosingThemes (R&S/Belgium) proba-bly depends on which countryyou watched the 1998 WinterOlympics in on TV.

The fact that a techno musi-cian was asked to provide thescore for the animated opening andclosing sequences of the TV coverage of the recently heldgames is a first for the genre. Ishii's sophisticated mix ofelectronic strings, assorted soundbites and percussion wasa surprising but enlightened choice.

Since his initial R&S release in 1993, he has been her-alded "the most inventive Japanese musician since YellowMagic Orchestra." His 1995 debut album Jelly Tones con-solidated that reputation while the video clip for Extra,directed by "Manga" cartoon designer Katsuhiro Otomo isstill an MTV/Viva staple.

"The music Ken wrote for the Olympics won't bereleased [commercially]," says R&S' Katrien Klausing, "buthis second album [for R&S] is due out in September." WhileIshii's sophomore set, recorded in Edinburgh, London andTokyo, is still something of an unknown quantity. Klausingis sure of only one thing, "now is the time for Ken to evolve,"she says. "He's always been able to make warm, veryhuman electronic music. "Since Jelly Tones, he's travelled a lot so I think we'll see

him and his music going in some surprising directions."

Ken Ishii

All new releases, biographies and photographs for con-sideration for inclusion in the Dance Grooves columnshould be sent direct to: Gary Smith, c/o. Roger deLluria 45 -3° -2, 08009 Barcelona, Spain.


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52 33 16 Various Artists - Chrysalis (EMI)Amen D.S

64 7 Era - Mercury (Elevi I PolyGram)

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04 4° 9 Bamboo - VC Recordings (Peer Music)Petal IRE.UK

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21 19 8 Espen Lind - Universal (PolyGram)Treat Infamy IRE.UK

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Era10 9 19 Era - Mercury

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All Saints11 11 14 All Saints - London

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0 Backstreet Boys RDKF.D.GREIRE.LNL.N.P.E.S.CH.UKHUN13" Backstreet's Back - Jive

Spice Girls ABDKFIN.F.D.GRE.IRE.INL.N.S.CH.UKHUN.CZE®12 18 Spiceworld - Virgin

Andrea Bocelli10 58 Romanza - Sugar/Polydor

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Pur15 16 6 Machtig Viel Theater - Intercord

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1717 Aaron Carter" Aaron Carter - Edel

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CDLara Fabian32 20 Pure - PolydorBY

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0 Bell, Book & Candle27 D Read My Sign - Ariola

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25Florent PagnySavoir Aimer - Mercury

B.F.CH

Chris Rea A.B.FIN.F.D.GRE.NL.CH.UKHUN

23 23 6 The Blue Cafe - East West

Will Smith" " Big Willie Style - Columbia

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0 79 4 Acidoacida - EMIProzac+

Savage Garden0 46 7 Savage Garden - ColumbiaA.D.GRE.N.S.C'H

Soundtrack27 22 8 Comedian Harmonisis - EMIAD.CH

Propellerheads F.D.IRE.NL.CH.UK

26 24 6 Decksandrumsandrockandroll - Wall Of Sound

Anouk29 26 8 Together Alone - Dino

0 Wes36 5 Welenga - Saint George I Columbia

B.DILFINNL.NS

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Lionel RichieTruly The Love Songs - Motown

IRE.NL.P.UK

0 Litfibalabl- P Croce E Delizia - IRA/EMI

0 The Charlatans69 2 Melting Pot - Beggars Banquet

GRE.IREUK

@Bill Whelan59 2 Riverdance - Celtic Heartbeat

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0 Eagle -Eye Cherry84 3 Desireless - Superstudio

N.S

0 Eternal38 19 Greatest Hits - let Avenue I EMI

B.DKNL.N.P.E.S.UK

Veronique Sanson41 21 2 Indestructible - WEA

B.F

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Pooh70 34 13 The Best Of Pooh - CGD

Cornershop IRE.UK

71 44 4 When I Was Born For The 7th Time - Wiiija

72 Sarah Brightman/LSO68 29 Timeless - East WestDKFIN.NS

Soundtrack73 62 6 The Full Monty - RCA VictorIRE.E.UK

Andre Rieu74 60 13 Valses Et Compagnie - Mercury

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Rfidiger Hoffman75 49 2 Asien, Asien - Ariola

Texas43 28 34 White On Blonde - Mercury

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Radiohead45 29 38 OK Computer - Parlophone

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Alejandro Sanz47 25 Mas - WEA

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Eric GaddWV 40 5 Greatest Hits - Strawberry

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John Lennonn 41 18 Lennon Legend- Parlophone

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78 76 7 Rough Tough And Dangerous - The Singles - Edel

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0 Ahnamegrettaail Lingo - Amagrumba

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Lighthouse Family®I Ocean Drive - Wild Card I Polydor

82 75 2 Celine DionFalling Into You - Epic I Columbia

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Wolfgang PetryAlles - Hansa

Pascal Obispo51 48 3 Superflu - EpicB.F.CH

Air52 " 7 Moon Safari - Source/Virgin

F.D.GRE.IRENL.N.CH.UK

The Rolling Stones53 51 23 Bridges To Babylon - Virgin

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KentMb Isola - RCA

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55 45 2 Es en LindRed- Universal

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Sting & The Police ARD.IRENLYE.CH

56 39 16 The Best Of Sting.& The Police - A&M

Emma Shapplin57 50 6 Carmine Meo - EMI

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62 64 6 The Best Of Zucchero - Greatest Hits - Polydor

0 Magnus UgglaKaraoke - Columbia

84 Ocean Colour SceneMarchin' Already - MCA

0 - Guildo Horn Und Die Orthopadischen...Danke! - Spin

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Helmut Lotti77 12 Goes Classic - EMI

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ITALY

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Epic)2 5 Madonna - Frozen (WEA)3 2 Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Wiiija)4 29 Space - Ballad Of Tom Jones (Gut)5 3 Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)6 6 Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply (Columbia)7 9 Shania Twain - You're Still The One (Mercury)8 20 Metallica - Unforgiven II (Mercury)9 8 Robbie Williams - Angels (Chrysalis)10 NE Leann Rimes - How Do I Live (Curb/Hit Label)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony Classical)2 NE Madonna - Ray Of Light (WEA)3 4 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Epic)4 2 The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)5 NE Various - Fantastic 80's (Sony Music TV)6 14 Various - Fantasia Presents British Anthems (Fantasia)

7 7 Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens (Chrysalis)

8 5 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)9 8 Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike (Epic)10 19 The Charlatans - Melting Pot (Beggars Banquet)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Columbia)2 2 Madonna - Frozen (WEA)

3 3 Wes - Alane (Epic)4 5 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (Epic)

5 4 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (RCA)6 7 Young Deenay - Walk On By (WEA)

7 6 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)8 9 Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Tamer - Coss Della Vita (Ariola)

9 8 Backstreet Boys - All I Have To Give (Rough Trade)

10 11 Espen Lind - When Susannah Cries (Universal)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony Classical)2 2 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)3 3 Pur - Machtig Viel Theater (Intercord)4 4 Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (RCA)

5 5 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (Ariola)6 9 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)7 6 Era - Era (Mercury)8 8 Bell, Book & Candle - Read My Sign (Ariola)9 10 Pearl Jam - Yield (Epic)

10 7 Soundtrack - Comedian Harmonisis (EMI)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Columbia)2 2 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)3 3 Andrea Bondi & Helene Segara - Vivo Per Lei (Polydor)

4 5 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (RCA)

5 6 Madonna - Frozen (WEA)6 7 666 - Alarms! (Panic)7 4 Stomy Bugsy - Mon Papa A Moi Est Un Gangster (Columbia)

8 9 Lara Fabian - Je 'FAime (Polydor)9 19 Aqua - My Oh My (Universal)

10 10 Florent Pagny - Savoir Aimer (Mercury)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony Classical)2 NE Madonna - Ray Of Light (WEA)3 5 Lara Fabian - Pure (Polydor)4 4 Florent Pagny - Savoir Aimer (Mercury)5 2 Veronique Sanson - Indestructible (WEA)6 7 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)7 3 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor)8 9 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)9 6 Johnny Hallyday - Ce Que Je Sais (Mercury)10 10 Pascal Obispo - Superflu (Epic)

TW LW SINGLES

1 6 DJ Dado feat. Michelle Weeks - Give Me Love (Time)

2 8 Madonna - Frozen (WEA)

3 4 The Tamperer Feat. Maya - Feel It (Time)

4 3 Blackwood - Peace (A&D)

5 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Columbia)

6 5 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG Ricordi)7 2 Ralphi Rosario - Take Me Up (Time)8 16 Chase - Gotta Lot Of Love (A&D)

9 7 Gala - Come Into My Life (Do It Yourself)10 9 Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun (Universal)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)

2 2 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony Classical)3 12 Prozac+ - Acidoacida (EMI)4 NE Litfiba - Croce E Delizia (EMI)

5 3 Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (BMGRicordi)

6 10 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet's Back (Virgin)

7 11 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)8 5 Pearl Jam - Yield (Epic)9 9 The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)10 4 Pooh - The Best Of Pooh (CGD)

SPAIN HOLLAND BELGIUM SWEDEN

TW LW SINGLES

1 3 Madonna - Frozen (WEA)2 2 Backstreet Boys - All I Have To Give (Virgin)3 1 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (RCA)4 7 Bell, Book & Candle - Rescue Me (Ariola)5 5 Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun (Universal)

6 4 Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (BMG Dance -Net)

7 6 Aqua - My Oh My (Universal)8 8 Midge Ure - Breathe (Ariola)9 9 Marilyn Manson - Remix And Repent (Universal)

10 NE Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Columbia)

TW LW Absums

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony Classical)2 2 Alejandro Sanz - Mas (WEA)3 3 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)

4 4 Monica Naranjo - Palabra De Mujer (Epic)5 7 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)6 6 Eternal - Greatest Hits (EMI)7 10 OBK - Singles 91-98 (Hispavox)8 5 Pearl Jam - Yield (Epic)

- La Placa10 11 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Columbia)

2 5 Madonna - Frozen (Warner)3 2 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)4 7 De Kast - Woorden Zonder Woorden (CNR)5 3 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)6 6 All Saints - Never Ever (Mercury)7 4 Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner Cose Della Vita (BMG)

8 10 Pappa Bear - Cherish (Universal)9 9 Backstreet Boys -A111 Have To Give (Zomba)

10 12 Espen Lind - When Susannah Cries (Universal)TW LW Alaums

1 1 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)2 2 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony Classical)3 3 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Columbia)

4 4 Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (BMG)

5 5 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)6 NE De Kast - Noorderzon (CNR)7 6 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Polydor)8 8 Era - Era (Mercury)9 9 Paul De Leeuw - Lief (Epic)10 10 Anouk - Together Alone (Dino)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Sony)2 3 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)3 2 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)4 5 Steps - 5,6,7,8 (Zomba)5 6 All Saints - Never Ever (PolyGram)6 11 DJ Visage - Formula (Antler -Subway)7 4 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (PIAS)

8 21 Madonna - Frozen (Warner)9 9 Anouk - Nobody's Wife (Dino)10 14 Five - Slain Dunk Da Funk (BMG)TW LW ALBUMS

Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (BMG)Emma Shapplin - Carmine Meo (EMI)

1 1

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3 44 35 NE

6 107 148 59 6

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Madonna - Ray Of LightAqua -AquariumAll Saints - All SaintsEros Ramazzotti - ErosMama's Jasje - HommagesAndrea Bocelli - Romanza

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(BMG)

(Virgin)(PolyGram)

TW LW SINGLES

1 8 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Sony)2 9 Madonna - Frozen (Warner)3 1 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That(MNW)4 2 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)

5 4 All Saints - Never Ever (PolyGram)6 3 Anouk - Nobody's Wife (BMG)

7 6 Backstreet Boys - All I Have To Give(Virgin)8 10 Daze - Tamagotchi (Sony)9 14 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)10 5 Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (BMG)

IV LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)2 13 Eagle -Eye Cherry - Desireless (BMG)

3 2 Eric Gadd - Greatest Hits (Warner)4 12 Bill Whelan - Riverdance (Universal)5 4 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)6 18 Kent - Isola (BMG)

7 11 Magnus Uggla - Karaoke (Sony)8 9 Cornelis Vmeswijk Guldkoni Fin Mister Cem Memoarer Ramer)

9 3 Bob Dylan - The Best Of Bob Dylan (Sony)10 5 Anouk - Together Alone (BMG)

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DENMARK NORWAY FINLAND IRELAND

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (M -D)

2 2 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)3 3 S.O.A.P. - This Is How We Party (Sony)4 4 The Rapsody feat. Warren G. & Sissel Prince Igor (PolyGram)

5 6 All Saints - Never Ever (PolyGram)6 5 Infernal - Sorti De L'Enfer (EMI)7 7 Space Brothers - Forgiven (PolyGram)8 8 Anouk - Nobody's Wife (BMG)9 9 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)

10 NE Madonna - Frozen (Warner)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)2 7 Lars Lillzolt Band - Gi Det Bla Tilbage (CMC)

3 4 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)4 8 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)5 3 Era - Era6 5 Aqua -Aquarium7 6 D.A.D. - Simpatico8 12 All Saints - All Saints9 15 Aaron Carter - Aaron Carter

10 9 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros

(PolyGram)(Universal)

(EMI)(PolyGram)(Edelpitch)

(BMG)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (MNW)2 5 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Sony)3 2 Madonna - Frozen (Warner)4 3 Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (BMG)

5 4 Anouk - Nobody's Wife (BMG)6 9 Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner - Coss Della Vita (BMG)

7 6 Cue - Burnin' (Universal)8 8 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)9 NE Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy With It (Sony)

10 13 Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply (Sony)TW LW

1 1 (BMG)2 2 (Sony)3 NE (EMI)4 3 (PolyGram)5 29 Vamp - Flua PA Veggen (Majorselskap)6 5 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)7 23 Savage Garden - Savage Garden (Sony)8 6 Aaron Carter - Aaron Carter (Edelpitch)9 4 Pearl Jam - Yield (Sony)

10 20 Shania Twain - Come On Over (PolyGram)

ALBUMS

Eros Ramazzotti - ErosSoundtrack - TitanicBel Canto - RushEra - Era

TW LW SINGLES

1 2 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (SMD-Musiiki)

2 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Sony)3 3 Madonna - Frozen (Warner)4 4 Don Huonot - Piildtilankaa (BMG)

5 6 Wildchild - Renegade Master '98 (PolyGram)6 NE Metallica - Unforgiven II (PolyGram)7 5 Nelja Baritonia - Pop-Muslikkia (Poko)8 7 Him - Your Sweet Six Six Six (BMG)9 10 Anouk - Nobody's Wife (BMG)

10 15 Backstreet Boys - All I Have To Give (Virgin)TW LW ALBUMS

1 2 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)2 1 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)3 6 Ultra Bra - Kroketti (Pyramid)4 13 Chris Rea - The Blue Cafe (Warner)5 8 Scooter - Rough Tough And Dangerous - The Singles (K -Tel)

6 3 Era - Era (PolyGram)7 4 Apulanta - Singles 1993 - 1997 (Levy)8 12 Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (BMG)

9 10 Anouk - Together Alone (BMG)10 14 Agents - Agents Is More (EMI)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Epic)2 3 Robbie Williams - Angels (Chrysalis)3 2 Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)4 NE Madonna - Frozen (WEA)

5 5 All Saints - Never Ever (London)6 4 Lighthouse Family - High (Polydor)7 10 Allure feat. 112 - All Cried Out (Epic)8 7 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)9 23 Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Wiiija)

10 8 Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony Classical)2 2 The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)3 4 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Epic)4 3 Lighthouse Family - Postcards From Heaven (Polydor)

5 6 All Saints - All Saints (London)6 7 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (East West)

7 8 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)8 17 Spice Girls - Spiceworld (Virgin)9 10 Robbie Williams - Life Thru A LensJChrysalis)10 9 Radiohead - OK Computer (Parlophone)

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SINGLES

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Sony)Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (Sony)

Madonna - Frozen (Warner)All Saints - Never Ever (PolyGram)Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)Wes - Alane (Sony)Espen Lind - When Susannah Cries (Universal)

Robbie Williams - Angels (EMI)Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner - Cose Della Vita (BMG)

ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)2 2 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)3 4 Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (BMG)

4 5 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)5 3 All Saints - All Saints (PolyGram)6 7 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)

7 8 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)8 6 Pur - Machtig Viel Theater (Musikvertrieb)9 9 Bell, Book & Candle - Read My Sign (BMG)10 12 Savage Garden - Savage Garden (Sony)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Sony)2 3 Wes - Alane (Sony)3 4 Midge Ure - Breathe (BMG)4 2 Madonna - Frozen (Warner)5 5 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That (Sony)

6 9 Two In One - Makeema (EMI)7 7 Mini Bydlinsky - Hermann Maier (BMG)8 6 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)9 8 Janet Jackson - Together Again (Virgin)10 10 Aqua - Doctor Jones (Universal)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)2 3 Falco - Greatest Hits 1 (BMG)3 2 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)4 4 Aqua - Aquarium (Universal)5 5 Al Bano & Carissi - H Concerto Classico (Warner)

6 6 Pearl Jam - Yield (Sony)7 NE Falco - Best Of (BMG)8 NE Falco - Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (BMG)

9 10 Eros Ramazzotti - Eros (BMG)

10 13 Midge Ure - Breathe (BMG)

TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)2 2 Fafa De Belem - Passaro Sonhador (Sony)3 4 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)4 3 Exceso - Eu Sou Aquele (PolyGram)5 5 Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle (BMG)

6 26 Azucar Moreno - Grandes Exitos (Sony)7 8 The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)8 9 Richard Marx - Greatest Hits (EMI)9 7 Daniela Mercury - Feijao Com Arroz (Sony)

10 6 Pearl Jam - Yield (Sony)11 16 Cock Robin - Best Ballads (Sony)12 14 Tcntacao - Xutos & Pontapes (EMI)13 13 Sting & The Police - The Best Of Sting & The Police (PolyGram)

14 15 Vangelis - Greatest Hits (BMG)15 11 Demis Roussos - 34 Titulos (PolyGram)16 10 Bryan Adams - Unplugged (PolyGram)17 21 Joao Pedro Pais - Segredos (VC)18 17 Lionel Richie - Truly The Love Songs (PolyGram)

19 12 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (PolyGram)20 22 Gal Costa - Acustico (BMG)

TW LW SINGLES

1 1 Notis Sfakiakis - Pro Ilia Fimin (EMI)

2 2 Pix Lax - Pix lax (EMI)

3 8 Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies (PolyGram)

4 6 Savage Garden - To The Moon And Back (Sony)

5 4 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (BMG)

6 7 Glykeria - Anapnoie- Anatolie (Sony)7 9 Lidakis Manolis - Aetra Mi Me Malonete (Sony)

8 10 Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand - Tell Him (Sony)

9 3 The Rapsody feat. Warren G. & Sissel Prince Igor (PolyGram)

10 NE Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner - Cose Della Vita (BMG)

TW LW ALaums

1 1 Soundtrack - Titanic (Sony)2 2 Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Sony)3 3 Pearl Jam - Yield (Sony)

4 6 Savage Garden - Savage Garden (Sony)5 9 Craig Armstrong - The Space Between Us (Virgin)

6 4 Radiohead - OK Computer (EMI)7 11 Soundtrack - Tomorrow Never Dies (PolyGram)

8 22 Barbra Streisand - Higher Ground (Sony)9 17 Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating (BMG)

10 19 Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (PolyGram)

Based on the national sales charts from 16 European markets. Information supplied bp ChartTrack (UK); Full chartservice by Media Control GmbH 0049-7221466201 (Germany); SNEP (France); singles) Musica E Discid/

Mario De Luigi, albums: Fimi-Nielsen (Italy); Stichting Mega Top 100 (Holland); Stiehting Promuvi (Belgium); IPSOS/MahmsalFP1 (Hungary); GLF/IFPI (Sweden); IFPI/Nielsen Marketing Research (Denmark); VG (Norway); ALEF MB/AFYVE (Spain);

YLE 2 Hadiomana/IFPI (Finland); IFPI (Ireland); AFP (Portugal); Austria Top 30 (Austria); Full chartservice by Media Control AG 01-260 44 55 (Switzerland); IFPI CR (Czech Republic). Labels listed are the national marketing companies.

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NIROS CON BOMBASNIAIOS CON BOMBASEl Diablo Digital/GritalInternational release date: March 20 (tbc)"Kids with bombs"-and the fusesare lit. The Ninos are threatening toblow up rock music as we know it.

hombx, Hamburg is home to the trio ofChilean -born singer/guitarist Daniel Puente,Brazilian bass player Alex Jose Menck and "local"drummer Norman Jankowski. Operating in a fer-tile no-man's-land between punk, techno and freejazz, the Ninos follow the trail left by bands such asAtari Teenage Riot. Dropped last autumn by Inter -cord's Alternation label, the Ninos found a newhome at Jay Ziskrout's New York -based Grita!Records. In Germany, the album is on the band'sown label (supported by publisher Freibank). Theband supported Einstiirzende Neubauten on a Ger-man tour at the end of 1997 and are due to playmore dates in April.

LIONROCKCITY DELIRIOUSConcrete/DeConstructionInternational release date: March 16Justin Robertson has done his own thing onceagain. The mastermind behind Lionrock hasn'tjumped on the druin'n'bass train, or followed the

lure of the big beat hype; instead, he's delivered adancefloor/lounge album every bit as eclectic as hisown DJ tastes. The obvious hit on this, Lionrock'ssophomore album, is Rude Boy Rock, the first sin-gle released on March 2. Sampled blue beat heroPrince Buster is mixed with a wicked brass riff toelevate the track to "instant classic" status. ZipGun Rumble, with its trashy surf guitar, is anotherpotential crossover hit. More reflective numberslike City Delirious and Wet Roads Glisten-bothfeaturing MC Buzz B on vocals-round off thealbum with an urban, melancholic touch.

WUBBLE-U j 1060;4 sWHERE'S WUBBLE-U? Vi1ebBLV407lndolent/BMGInternational release date: March 9Will the big beat craze last thesummer? Sony's recent acquisi-tion of a stake in Brighton -based label Skint certainly sig-nals that some people can see abright future for the genre. It's probably fair todescribe Big Beat as the '90s equivalent to hardrock-straighforward "fun" music for the lads, andWubble-U take "lad -culture" references to a newlevel. At the bottom of all their jolly antics are somecompetent beats and quirky electronics. Not as uni-versally endearing as '80s Camden nutters Mad-ness, Wubble-U might still find it difficult to crackthe continent.

Please send review copies, information and artistphotographs for consideration as Album Spotlight entries

to: Christian Lorenz. Music Editor, Music & Media,23 Ridgmount Street, London, WC I E 7AH, U.K.

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2 1MY HEART WILL GO ON550 MUSIC CELINE DION

3 3 NICE & SLOWLAFACE/ARISTA USHER

6 NO, NO, NOCOLUMBIA DESTINY'S CHILD

5 5 TRULY MADLY DEEPLYCOLUMBIA SAVAGE GARDEN

CD. 7 SWING MY WAYEASTWEST/EEG K.P. & ENVY!

7 4 TOGETHER AGAINVIRGIN JANET

(i) 9 WHAT YOU WANTBAD BOY/ARISTA MASE (FEATURING TOTAL)

(9) 12 GONE TILL NOVEMBERRUFFHOUSE/COLUMBIA WYCLEF JEAN

10 10 HOW DO I LIVECURB LEANN RIMES

11 8 I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAINSTONECREEK/EPIC UNCLE SAMM 15 DEJA VU [UPTOWN BABY]CODEINE/COLUMBIA LORD TARIQ & PETER GUNZm 17 ARE YOU JIMMY RAY?EPIC JIMMY RAY

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15 11 TOO MUCH.VIRGIN SPICE GIRLS

16 14 BEEN AROUND THE WORLDBAD BOY/ARISTA PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY (FEAT. THE NOTORIOUS 8.11. & MASS

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18 16 HOW'S IT GOING TO BEELEKTRA/EEG THIRD EYE BLIND

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6 6 BACKSTREET BOYSJIVE BACKSTREET BOYS

7 7 MY WAYLAFACE/ARISTA USHER

ICIDI 11 LOVE ALWAYSMCA K -CI &JOJO

9 10 YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOULAVA/ATLANTIC/AG MATCHBOX 20

10 5YIELDEPIC PEARL JAM

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12 8 SPICEWORLDVIRGIN SPICE GIRLS

13 13 COME ON OVERMERCURY (NASHVILLE) SHANIA TWAIN

Cg) 16 BIG WI WE STYLECOLUMBIA WILL SMITH

15 14 HARLEM WORLDBAD BOY/ARISTA MASE

16 15 ANYTIMEMERCURY BRIAN MCKN IG HT

11 19 NO WAY OUTBAD BOY/ARISTA PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY

18 17 THE BOOK OF SECRETSQUINLAN ROAD/WARNER BROS.LOREENA MCKENNITT

19 YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE- INSPIRATIONAL SONGSCURB LEANN RIMES

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Eurochart A/Z IndexesHot 100 singles

5,6,7,8 40 Le Disc -Jockey 59

Ain't That Just The Way 84 Let Me Show You 43

Mane 8 Let's Go Round Again 97

Alarma! 24 Makeema 65

All Cried Out 60 Meet Her At The Love Parade 28

All I Have To Give 9 Mon Papa A Moi Est Un Gangster 26

Ameno 86 Music In My Mind 99

Angels 10 My Father's Eyes 78

As Long As You Love Me 69 My Heart Will Go On 1

Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star 61 My Love Is The Shhh! 100

Ballad Of Tom Jones 17 My Oh My 27

Bamboogie 53 Naked And Sacred 50

Bang Bang 47 Never Ever 7

Barbie Girl 20 Nobody's Wife 30Be Alone No More 46 One Minute 62

Breathe 14 Open Your Eyes 79

Brimful Of Asha 13 Peace 68Casanova 37 Perfect Day 52

Ce Que Je Sais 72 Petal 87

Chanter 89 Planet Love 54

Cherish 74 Prince Igor 29

Cleopatra's Theme 35 Pushed Again 36

Come Into My Life 38 Rescue Me 48

Cose Della Vita 11 Savoir Aimer 33

Crazy Little Party Girl 93 Show Me Love 32

Die Karawane Zieht Weiter 98 Something About/Candle In The Wind 1997 42

Doctor Jones 6 Spente Le Stelle 67

Emmene Moi 49 Tell Him 73

Everything's Gonna Be Alright 19 The Passenger 90

Feel It 56 Together Again 4Frozen 2 Tomorrow Never Dies 91

Gettin' Jiggy With It 15 Too Much 41

Give Me Love 45 Too Much Heaven 51

Hard Times Come Easy 88 Torn 3

Hasty Siempre 58 Treat Infamy 55

Hermann Maier 71 Truly 75

High 39 Truly Madly Deeply 16

History Repeating 80 Unforgiven II 18

How Do I Live 34 Vivo Per Lei 12

I Will Come To You 57 Walk On By 23

I'm Gonna Miss You Forever 66 Welkin' On The Sun 83

If You Want Me 85 When I Need You 64

In My Mind 94 When Susannah Cries 21

It's A Beautiful Thing 82 Who Am I 70

It's Like That 5 Wishing On A Star 92

It's Raining Men...The Sequel 81 Woorden Zonder Woorden 76

Je Sais 77 You Make Me Wanna... 22

Je T'Aime 31 You Won't Forget It 96

Je Zappe Et Je Mate 95 You're Still The One 25

La Fiesta 63 Your Love Gets Sweeter 44

Top. 1 00 crltbumsBryan Adams 37 Madonna 7

Air 52 Richard Marx 68

All Saints 11 Metallica 35

Almamegretta 80 Monica Naranjo 61

Anouk 29 Pascal Obispo 51

Aqua 3 Ocean Colour Scene 84

Louise Attaque 67 Florent Pagny 22

Backstreet Boys 12 Pearl Jam 9

Al Bans & Carissi 91 Petry 50Main Bashung 87 Petry 58

Bel Canto 64 Pooh 70

Bell, Book & Candle 21 Prodigy 88Andrea Bocelli 14 Propellerheads 28Sarah Brightman/LSO 72 Prozac+ 25

Garth Brooks 90 Pur 15

Ian Brown 95 Finley Quaye 36

Aaron Carter 17 Radiohead 45

Tracy Chapman 92 Eros Ramazzotti 5

The Charlatans 33 Rammstein 97

Eagle -Eye Cherry 39 Chris Rea 23

Joe Cocker 63 Lionel Richie 31

Cornershop 71 Andre Rieu 74

The Corrs 34 The Rolling Stones 53

Celine Dion 2 Veronique Sanson 41

Celine Dion 82 Alejandro Sanz 47

DJ Quicksilver 65 Savage Garden 26

Elise 94 Schliimpfe 79

Les Enfoires 1997 96 Scooter 78

Enya 16 Emma Shapplin 57

Era 10 Nina Simone 99

Eternal 40 Will Smith 24

Lary Fabian 19 Soundtrack - Comedian Harmonisis 27

Falco 59 Soundtrack - The Full Monty 73

Eric Gadd 49 Soundtrack - Titanic 1

Guano Apes 42 Spice Girls 13

Johnny Hallyday 46 Stereophonics 48

Hanson 89 Sting & The Police 56

Riidiger Hoffman 75 The Stone Roses 93

Guildo Horn Uod Die Orthopadischen... 85 Texas 43

Natalie Imbruglia 4 Magnus Uggla 83

Janet Jackson 8 Midge Ure 69

Jazzkantine 60 Usher 44Kent 54 Vamp 100

John Lennon 77 The Verve 6

Lighthouse Family 18 Wes 30

Lighthouse Family 81 Wham ! 98

Lars Lilholt Band 66 Bill Whelan 38

Espen Lind 55 Robbie Williams 20

Litfiba 32 Michele Zarrillo 76

Helmut Lotti 86 Zucchero 62


STATION REPORTS

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Mostaddedweek 11 /98Eric Clapton My Father's Ey_e_s

(Reprise) 20Will Smith Gettin' Jiggy With

(Columbia) 19Spice Girls

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Madonna Frozen(Maverick) 17

Verve Sonnet(Hut/Virgin) 15

Cornershop Brimf4Of AshaMugs) 14

Bryan Adams(A&M

I'm Ready) 1

M -People Anoel Street(M People/BMG) 122

Bell Book & Candle Read My Sign(Anola) TO

Sash! La Primavera(Byte Blue) lo

Conner Reeves My Father's Son(Wildstar) 9

Gary Barlow Hang On In There Baby(RCA) 9

Savage Garden Truly MadlDeeply(Columbia) 9

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Most Added are those songs whichreceived the highest number of playlistadditions during the week. In the case of atie, songs are listed alphabetically by artist.

Station Reports include all new additions to the playlist. Some reports will also include "PowerPlay" songs, which receive special emphasis during the week. All Power Play songs are printed,whether they are reported for the first time or not. Some lists include featured new albums, as indi-

cated by the abbreviation "AL." Within each country, stations are grouped by ranking and listedalphabetically. Rankings include: platinum (P), Gold (G), Silver (S) and Bronze (B). All playlists mustbe received by Monday at 13.00 h. CET.

GERMANYEranie Funderbunk - Music EditorPower Play:

Madonna. Frozen

Playlist Additions:Bamboo- Bamboogie

H -Bomb- Playa. Need No Love

Will Smith. Gettin' Jiggy With It

HUNDERT 6/Berlin GAC

Spice Girls- Stop

RADIO GONG/Nuremberg GRock/CHR

Peter "Marc" Stingl Prog DirPlaylist Additions:

Anouk- Nobody's Wife

Bryan Adams- Pm Ready

Genesis- Not About Us

Guano Apes- Open Your Eyes

Finley Quaye- Your Love

Leann Rime.- How Do I Live

M -People- Angel Street

Trickster- Move On Up

Uncle Sam- I Don't Ever Want

Verve- Bitter Sweet Symphony

Will Mellor- When I Need You

ATLANTIC 252/Dublin PCHR

Al Dunne - Prog Dir

FINS LIVE/Cologne PCHR

Jochen Rauscb - Music DirPlayliat Additions:

3P- Licence To Kill

Basis- Ich Liebe Mich

Guild° Horn Guido Hat Euch Lieb

Junglekida Back To The Jungle

Pappa Bear. When The Rain BeginsRainer Gruhn Music Des Power Play:

RADIO NRW/Oberhaueen P Playlist Additions: RADIO REGENBOGEN/Mannheita G Catatonia- Mulder And Scully

AC Chris Rea- Sweet Summer Day CHRiGold Robbie Williams- Angels

Karin Mack Head Of Music Genesis- Not About Us Martin Schwebel Music Dir Space- Avenging Angels

Karsten Hoyer Head Of Music Michael Learns TR- Something Power Play: Usher. You Make Me Wayne

Playlist Additions: Burble Sambora. Hard Times Come Easy Culture Beat- Pay No Mind Verve- Sonnet

Herbert Gronemeyer BIM Alks Anders Savage Garden- Truly Madly Deeply Playlist Additions:

Pearlfishers- Banana Sandwich 2 Ruff. Owner Of A Lonely BBC RADIO 1/London PRADIO 7/Ulm G Bryan Adams. I'm Ready CHR

WDR 2/Cologne P CHR Die Prinzen Jummond Jeff Smith - Head Of Music Policy

AC/CHR Welter Note Head Of Music Enflame- Hold on A List:

Michael Zimmermann Music Director Playlist Additions: Guild° Horn. Guido Hat Euch Web AD Billie Myers- Kiss The Rain

Tom Petersen Music Editor Awesome- Crazy Herbert Granemeyer .131sibt Sites Anders Prince Bunter- Whine & Grine

Playlist Additions: Bryan Adams- Tm Ready Jon Bon Jovi- Ugly Ultra Nate- Found A Cure

All Saints- Never Ever Cleopatra- Cleopatra's Theme La Cross. Save Me B List:

Conner Reeves. My Father's Son Conner Reeves- My Father's Son Total Touch- DIN Be La Dee AD 911. AD I Want

Geoffrey Williams- I Guess I Creme 21- Ich Bleib Heut Wes. Awe Awe Beanie Man- Who Am I

Herbert GrOnemeyer Bleibt Alias Anders G's Incorporated -0n The Nightshift Louise- All That Matters

Kamasutru- Hupp.. Guano Apes- Rain RSH/Kiel Mariah Carey- The Roof

Pearlfishers- Banana Sandwich Sashl- La Primavera CHR Montrose Avenue. Where Do I Stand?

Maffay/Yothu Yindi- Tnbal Spice I- Playa M. Stephan Hampe - Head Of Music Rudd- La Primavera

Shania Twain- Come On Over Steve Wynn- How's My Little Girl Playlist Additions: SkinnyPailure

Spice Girls- Stop Syndrome- Heyo Midge lire- Breathe Travis- More Than Us

Venice- If I Uncle Sam I Don't Ever Want R'N'G- Open Your Transistor -Look WhoShania Twain. You're Still The One Trickster- Move On Up

104.6 RTL BERLIN/Berlin G RADIO ARABELLA/Munich C Something Frr People- Slahh! As featured

CHR National Music Alabama 3- Ain't Going To Goa

Benthard Hiller Head Of Music Matthias Friedrich - Prog Dir RADIO F/Nuremberg S Comer Reeves- Read My Mind

Power Play: Playlist Additions: AC Kristine Blond- Love Shy

Backstreet Boys All I Have To Give Anja Hoffman- Du Und lob Ziggie Hoga - Prog Dir Madonna- Ray Of Light

Madonna. Frozen Fernando Express. Serenata ITAmore Petra Steel - Prog Coord Marcy Playground- Sex & Candy

Playlist Additions: G.G. Anderson- Immer Nur Du Playlist Additions: Morcheeba. Blindfold

Avenell & Shawn- Love Train Mary Roos- Sehnsucht Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go On

Bryan Adams- Cm Ready Roland Kaiser- So Bist Du.. KEY 103/Manchester P

C -Block- Broken Wings RADIO ENERGY/Munich G CHR

Herbert Grimeineyer. Blebt AB. Auden

Paula Cole- Where Have All The

Rock

Georg Hesse - MD UNITED KINGDOMDave Shearer Prog Dir

Mike Bawden - Deputy Prog Dir

95.8 CAPITAL FM/London PSash!- La Primavera Stefan Hoper Prog Dir Playlist Additions:

Savage Garden- Truly Madly DeeplyPlaylist Additions:

CHRAlexia- LA La La

2 Ruff- Owner Of A LonelyPete Simmons Prog Controller

Ether. Watching You

DELTA RADIO/Kiel G 3P- Licence To KillPlaylist Additions: Five- When The Lights

RockPop Creme HI- lob Bleib HeutAll Seeing l Beat Goes On

James- Destiny Calling

Adam Hahne . Prog Dir Guano Apes. Open Your EyesTrans. Insane

MPeople- Angel Street

Frank Wilkat - Head Of Music Herbert Gronemeyer. Bleibt Mks AndesTina Moore- Nobody Better

Montrose Avenue- Where Do I Stand?

Playlist Additions: N.Y.C.C. Fight For Your Right Natalie Imbrvglia. Big Mistake

Beekeepers. Killer Cure Queen Pen- All My Love96.4EMBRIRB/Birmingham P

Robbie Williams. Let Me Entertain

Blur- Walking On The Sun CHRRun DMC- It's Like That

Catch- Dive In RADIO FEN/Hannover GPaul Jackson Prog Controller

Texas & Wu Tang Clan. Say what You Want

Jon Bon Jovi- Ugly CHRRuss Evans Insistent Prog Controller

Tin Tin Out- Here Where

Libido- Overthrown Rainer M. Cabinda Prog DirPlaylist Additions:

Antje Schmidt . Head Of Music911 All I Want

KISS 100 PM/London P

HIT RADIO N I/Nuremberg 0 Playlist Additions:Bernard Butler. Not Alone

Dance

aDance Cornerehop- Brimful Of AshaEric Moto. My Father's Mark Matthews - Prog Dir

Eric Gadd. On My Way Back Simon Sadler Head Of Music

Power Play: A Ellett. BOF Don JuanDerrick Dimitry- Let's Get It On HALLAM FM/Sheffield G RTL COUNTRY 1035/London S Etienne Daho- Le Premier JourTamperer. Feel It CHR Country Finley Sum, lie Great WIlen Were Together

The Al Seeing L Beat Goes On Tony McKenzie - Prog Controller Keith Francis Prog Controller I Am. Petit FrereTin Tin Out- Here Where Chris Straw Head Of Music Playlist Unchanged Johnny Hallyday- DeboutTaint- Sounds Of Wickedness Playlist Additions: Lo' Jo. Sin AmberUltra Nate- Found A Cure Bernard Butler. Not Alone TAY FMOundee S Mario Canonge- Hello LaureenBusts Rhymes- Turn It Up Madonna. Frozen CHO Maurane- Ulla Pour LAutre

Playlist Additions: Robyn- Show Me Love Arthur Ballingall - Prog Dir Smash Mouth- Welkin On The SunBlak Twang- Red Letters Run DMC- ha Like That John Darroch FM Coordinator Sylvain Vanot- EgeneFinley Quays Your Love Spice Girl. Stop Playlist Additions: Towson ffDour. Le Coeur Des Grande

Robyn- Show Me Love Texas Insane 911- Alll WantTina Moore- Nobody Better Bernard Butler- Not Alone FUN RADIO/Paris P

ROCK FIMPreston,Blackpool G Bryan Adams- Cm Ready CHRMETRO FM/Newcastle P CHR Iggy Pop. The Passenger Benoit Sillard GMCHR Andy Roberts - Acting Prog Dir Imani Copolla Legend Of A Cowgirl Playlist UnchangedSean Marley Prog Controller Stuart Baldwin . Head Of Music Karen Ramirez. Troubled GirlLuigi Clark - Head of Music Playliet Additions: Louise- All That Matters IPSOS CHART/Paris PPlaylist Additions: AD Seeing I- Beat Goes On Rialto- Dream CHR

Alexia. LA La La Blade.. Solomon Bites The Worm Sashl- La Primavera Playlist Additions:Carrie. Molly Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go On Third Eye Blind- How it's Going To Be 666- AlarmsEssence- The Promise Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha Tin Tin Out- Here Where Anggun. Au Nom De La LuneFinley Quaye- Your Love Cores- What Can I Do Trickster. Move On Up Clock- That The WayFive- When The Lights Essence. The Promise Davinia- Siempre Di PIG

Robbie Williams Let Me Entertain James. Destiny Calling MORAY FIRTH RADIO/Inverness B Etienne Daho- Le Premier JourSash!. La Primavera Kylie Minogue- Breathe CHR Joe Cocker- TonightShed Seven- She Left Me Madonna- Frozen Thomas Prag Pros Cont/MD

Montrose Avenue- Shore Do 'Stand? Tim McCooey - Head Of Music NOSTALGIE NETWORK/Paris PVIRGIN RADIO/London P Natalie Imbroglio- Big Mismke Playlist Additions: AC

Rock Rest Assured- Treat Infamy Carrie- Molly Christian Savigny - Prog DirGeoff Holland. Prog Dir Robbie Williams. Let Me Entertain Cerra What Can I Do Power Play:Playlist Additions: Run DMC- It's Like That Five- When The Lights Noa- Vivre

Carrie- Melly Sashl- La Primavera lggy Pop- The Passenger Playlist Additions:Texas Insane Space- Ballad Of Tom Jones [meal Comilla- Legend Of A Cowgirl Maurane- Lily Pour L'Autre

Verve. Sonnet James. Destiny Calling Michel Sardou- S'Eefuer Et ApresCITY FM/Liverpool G Kylie Minogue- BreatheCHR CENTURY FM/Gateshead S LL. Cool J- Father NRJ NETWORK/Paris PPaul Jordan Prog Dir CHR Pulp- This Is Hardcore CHRPlaylist Additions: John Myers - Managing Director Ricky Ross. The Undeveloped Max Gumzini Dir

Bernard Butler- Not Alone John Simons - Prog Dir Robbie Williams. Let Me Entertain Playlist Additions:Cores- What C. I Do Playlist Additions: Run DMC- It's Like That Bamboo- BamboomeDannii Minogue- Dumemembrance Spice Girls- Stop Will Mellor. When I Need You Dave Angel- Funk MustsLouise. All That Matters D. Gyneco- Passement De JambesMatchbox 20- Push ESSEX FM/Southend-On-Sea SUNSHINE 855 AM/Ludlow B I Ain- Pent FrereMontrose Avenue. Where Do I Stand? CHR CHR Mariah Carey- My AllRobbie Williams- Let Me Entertain Paul Chantler - Frog Dir Graham Symonds Managing Director Robyn- Show Me LoveSashl- La Primavera Playlist Additions: Mark Edwards Prog Controller Spice Girls- StopTin Tin Out. Here Where Bryan Adam. Ready Playlist Additions:Trickster. Move On Up Conner Reeves- Read My Mind Madonna. Frozen RTL/Paris P

M.People- Angel Street Main Connection- I Hear Music AC

CLYDE 1 FM/Glasgow G Robbie Williams. Let Me Entertain Money Mark. Hand In Your Head Alain Tibolla Head Of ProgCHR Spice Girls- Stop Savage Garden- Truly Madly Deeply Playlist Additions:Ross Macfadgen Head Of Music Texas & Wu Tang the Say Whet You Wmt Anggun- Au Nom De La LunePlaylist Additions: Tin Tin Out- Here Where KIM 104.9/London B Aretha Franklin- A Rose

911 All I Want Alternative Art Garfunkel- The Bright SideCarrie. Molly FOX FM/Oxford S Sammy Jacob - Prog Dir Etienne Daho Le Premier JourLouise- All That Matters CHR Playlist Additions: Johnny Hallyday- DeboutNorth & South -No Sweat .98 Mark Flanagan - Prog Dir Alabama 3- Woke Up Marc Lavoine- J'Habite EnSmiles- Say Something Mark Chives Head Of Music Baby Fox- Dum Dun Baby Jalousie

Playlist Additions: Etienne De Crecy- Prx De Choc Michel Sardou- S'Enfuir EtDOWNTOWN RADIO/Belfast G Another Level. Be Alone No More Grim:biddy- Laughing Stock ApresFull Service Connor Reeves. Read My Mind Libido -Revolving Rebekah- Sin So WellJohn Rosborough Prog Dir Destiny's Child- No, No, No One Minute Silence- A Waste Spice Girls- StopPlaylist Additions: Essence- The Promise Page & Plant- Most High

M.People- Angel Street Janet Jackson- I Get Lonely Skinny- Failure mi. 2/Paris PSpice Girls- Stop Louise -.All That Matters Travis- More Than Us AC

Trisha Yearwood- Perfect Love Lynden David Hall- Do I Qualify Christian Lefebvre - Prog Dir

FORTH FM/Edinburgh GNatalie Imbrue.. Big MistakeRobbie Williams. Let Me Entertain FRANCE

Playlist Additions:Anggun. Au Nom De Le Lune

CHR Sashl- La Primavera Clemence Lhomme. the MolTom Wilson . Music Co-ordinator Space- Ballad Of Tom Jones

EUROPE 2 NETWORK/Paris PShania Twain. You're Still The

Playlist Additions: Texas & Wu Tang Clan Say WM You WantAC

One

911- All I Want Nicol. du Roy - Music Dir

Dandy Warhol- Every Day Should Be KIX 96/Coventry SPlaylist Additions:

SKYROCK NETWORK/Paris PEric Clanton- My Father's CHR

!bark- BacheloretteCHR

Five- When The Lights Chris Brooks . Head Of MusicEtienne Daho- Le Premier Jour

Laurent Bomeau Frog DirJanet Jackson- I Get Lonely Playlist Additions:

Madonna- FrozenPlaylist Unchanged

Louise- All That Menem Duke- So In LoveNative- Les Cotdeurs

Page & Plant- Most High Louise. All That Matters VIBRATION/Orleans G

Pulp- This Is Hardcore Sashl- La PrimaveraFRANCE INTER/Paris P

CHRShed Seven- She Left Me Space. Ballad Of Tom Jones

ACMaxime Caubel - Prog Coord

Tin Tin Out- Here Where Uncle Sam- I Don't Ever WantMare Garcia - Music Dir

Playlist Additions:Playlist Addition.:

WILL SMITHGETTIN' JIGGY WITH ITColumbiaProducer: Poke And TonePublisher: Various

airborneMusician -cum -actor Smith seems tohave an infallible knack for simply irre-sistible poppy R&B. This time around, Sis-ter Sledge's much -loved 1979 discosmash He's The Greatest Dancer serves as the foundation for his third sure-fire hit in a row (after Men In Black and Just Cruisin'). At public CHR/Rockbroadcaster Radio 21/Brussels, which covers the French-speaking parts ofBelgium, head of music Christine Goor seems happy to be Gellin Jiggywith Smith on a regular basis. "It is a nice song by a very amusing guy,which suits our programming quite well," Goor suggests. "Undoubtedly,"she continues, "the track has benefitted from an excellent video clip anddanceable, unpretentious, 'fun' tracks are quite fashionable here." Gooradds that, with an average of 10 spins a week, "it isn't the most playedtrack on the station by any means but it is a regular nonetheless."

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STATION REPORTS

CHICO DEBARGEIGGIN' MEKedar/UniversalProducers: Chico DeBarge/El DeBargePublishers: Joseph's Dream/Kedar/Multisongs BMG/EI Music

airborneAfter a rather "bumpy" start to his career a few yearsago, followed by a string of personal problems, thisartist is definitely fulfilling his potential as a bona fideR&B singer with this surprisingly rootsy ballad. At Londondance station Kiss 100 FM, head of music Simon Sadlerhas been a long-time supporter of lggin' Me, which isfirmly in the Maxwell/D'Angelo "neotradiltionalist"mould, "Actually," he says, "we first played this excel-lent track from an excellent album on September 15last year and we have been playing it at least once aday on average ever since, even though it wasn't for-

mally playlisted at the time."Sadler continues: "We feltthat the record companydidn't quite know what todo with this project, but wefelt that it was a clear win-ner and Chris Phillips, whodoes our lunch hour showhas been championing itsince day one."

Anggun- Au Nom De La Lune

Louise- Let's Go Round

Melville. Qu Imports

Native- Lee Couleurs

WIT FM/Bordeaux GCHR

Gerard Babu Prog DiePlayliat Additions:

Aqua- My Oh My

Doc Gyneco- Passement De Jambes

Eddy Mitchell- Ce Qui Ne Va Pee

Etienne Dabo- Le Premier Jour

Maurine- UUn Pour L'AutreSpice Girls- Stop

Zazie- TOo, De, .Angel

ISABELLE FM/focane Saint Apre BCHR

Patrick Lapeyronnie Frog DirPlaylist Additions:

All Saints- Never Ever

Byron Stingily- You Make Me Feel

Larage & Shurik'n- La Garde...

Regina. Close The Door

Sheila -Spacer

RADIO FRANCE LE MOUrToulouse B

Alternative

Gilles Seydoux - Read Of Programming

Playlist Additions:Catalan FC- Ligne Claire

Crystal Method- Keep Hope Alive

Dalcan- LAI, De !lien

Madonna- ShantilAshbangi

Robyn Loau- Sick With Love

Sven \filth. Fusion

Sylk 130- The Reason

Westboro- Hard Times

ITALY

ITALIA NETWORK:

LOS CUARENTA, Bologna P

Dance

Michele Menegon Frog DirPlaylist Additions:

Byron Stingily -You Make Me Feel

Camisra. Let Me

Live Tropical Fish- Time Is Moving

Madonna. Frozen

ITALIA NETWORK:

MUSIC FM/Bologna P

CHR

Michele Menegon Prog Dir

Playlist Additions:

Alex Baroni- Sei Tu 0 Lei

Antonella Ruggiero Amore lentaroseme

Black Connection. Goo Me Rhythm

Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha

Dion Junky.- What Time Is IV

Five. Slam Dunk Da Funk

God Lives Underwater. From Your Mouth

Lisa Loeb- I Do

Luciferme- II Soffio

Mago & Zenima. Luce

Natalie Imbroglio- Big Mistake

Niccolo' Fabi- Lasciarsi Un...

Paola & Chiara- Per Te

Paola Toni- Solo Come Me

Peach- On My Own

Percentonetto- Come II Sole

Serena C- Quante Voile Sei

Silvia Salemi- Pathos

Solid Harmonic- I'll Be There

KISS KISS NETWORK/Naples PAC Dance

Davide Niespoli Head Of ProgrammingPlaylist Additions:

AD Saints -Never Ever

Baby Bird- You're Gorgeous

Delacy- All I Need

DJ Dado- Give Me Love

Gary Barlow- Hang On

Luciferme- B Soffio

Michele Zarillo- &mama D'Argento

Niccolo' Fabi- Lasciarsi


Paola Turci- Solo Come Me

Pizzicato 5- It's A Beautiful Day

Rest Assured- Treat Infamy

Shola Anna Much Love

Sylk 130- The Reason

Taglia 42- Con II Naso In Su

RADIO 103/Milan P

CHR

Angelo De Roberti. Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:

Adam F- The Tree Knows Everything

Cornershop- Brimful Of Aston

DJ Dade- Give Me Love

RADIO DEEJAY NETWORK/Milan P

CHRDance

Dario Usuelli Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:

Bell Book & Candle. Read My Sign

Pearl Jam. Wiehlist

Reel Amured- Treat Infamy

Simple Minds- Ghtterball

Smash Mouth- Why Can't We

Verve -Sonnet

RTL 102.6 . HIT RADIO/

Cologne Monleae (MI) PCHR

Luca Viseardi - Program Director

Paolo Ravitei - Music DirectorPlaylist Additions:

Alex Baroni- Sei Tu 0 Lei

Andrea Mingardi Canto Per Te.Annalisa Sena Te 0 Con Te

Baby Bird. You're Gorgeous

Eramo & Passavanti. Sena Confun

Lisa. Sempre

Luca Sepe- Do Po' Di Te

Mango- Luce

NCCP- Sotto II Vela

Niccolo' Fabi- Lasciarsi Un...


Paola Falb- Ascoltami

Percentonetto- Come II Sole

Piece!. Orch.. Dormi E Sogna

Sergio Caputo- Flamingo


Spagna- E Che Mai Sara'

Taglia 42- Con 1112aso In Su

Umbrelloa Na Tengo

RV1 FM/Turin GCHR

Max Desiato - Head Of MusicPower Play:

Antonella Ruggiero- Solo TuPlaylist Additiona:

Andrea Mingardi- Canto Per Te

Eramo & Passavanti- Senza Confini

Enke Ramazxotti. Aurora Un Minute

Luciferme- II Soffio


Madonna. Frozen

Niccolo' Pahl- Lasciarsi

Sergio Caputo- Flamingo

Silvia Salami- Pathos

Taglia 42- Con 11 Nam In Su

RADIO SOUND STEREO/Ferrara S

CHR

Sandro Alberghini - Prog DirPower Play:

Backstreet Boys- .Ali I Have To Give

Madonna. Frozen

Shania Twain. You're Still The One

Playlist Additions:

Alessandro Piton Dimnd DoteAnnalim Minetti, Senn Te 0 Con Te

Antonella Ruggiero- Amore Lontanissimo

Lim Sempre

Luca Sepe- Un Po' Di Te


Piccola Orch-- Dormi E Sogna

Ron- Un Porto Nel Vento


Taglia 42- Con II Nano In Su

ROCK FM/Milan S

Rock

Marco Garavelli - Head Of Music

Playlist Additions:Blink 182- Dammn

God Lives Underwater -From Your Mouth

Droop Dogdrill- Jackie 0Pearl Jam- Wishlist

SPAINCADENA 100/Madrid PRock/CHR

Carlos Finely - Prog DirPower Play:

Garth Brooks- Longneck Bottle

Playlist Additions:

Ani Di Franco- Little Plastic

Babyface/Wonder- Row Co.,, Ron Long

Banbury- Planets Sur

Burning- En Especial

Cafe Quijano- Loco De Amor

Irene Y Chelo- Cara 0 Cruz

Jewel. Who Will Save

Matt Bianco- River

Macon- El Club

Will Smith- Retain' Jiggy With It

CADENA 40 PRINCWALEWMadrid P

CHR

Luis Merino - MDIlead Of MusicSandra d'Angeli - Prog DirPower Play:

Gala. Come Into

Playlist Additions:

Arm:guides nehmen- Quitame Este Velo

BabyfaceWonder. Now Come, How Long

Elastics -2.1

Irene I' Chelo- Cara 0 Cruz

Mecano- El Club

Pablo Bich.- Las Cosa. Llegan

Will Smith- Gettin Jiggy With It

PORTUGALRF1M/Liabon P

CHR

Pedro Tojal Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:

Corn. I Never Loved You

GNR- Saliva

Savage Garden -Truly Madly Deeply

Simple Minds- Glitterball

IRELANDTIPP FM/Clonmel BAC/CHR

Michael Brett - Head Of MusicPower Play:

Backstreet Boys- All I Have To Give

Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On

Lisa Loeb- I Do


Savage Garden- Truly Madly Deeply

Shania Twain- You're Still The One

Playlist Additiona:

Allure- All Cried Out

Bryan Adams- I'm Ready

Jinn Arden. The Sound Of

Matchbox 20- Push


Richie Sambore. Hard Tunes Caw Easy

HOLLANDAMUCK NETBERLANDSHilvennun P

Playlist Additions:Alexia. II La LaDaze -Superhero

Destiny's Child. No. No, No

Eagle -Eye Cherry- Save Tonight

Emma Shapplin- Spaniels Stolle

Lighthouse Family- High

NPS KORT EN KLIJN/Hilversum PCHR

Tom Blomberg - DJ/ProducerCome Klijn - DJ/Producer

Playlist Additions:

Alexia- Uh La La

Blot Liefs IJit Londen

Chumbawamba- Amnesia

Dandy Warhole- Not If You Were

De Kast. Nachtvlinder

Destiny's Child. No, No, No

Eric Clapton- My Father's

Etienne De Crecy. Prx De Choc

K's Choice- Believe

Outhere Brothers -Pas The Toilet Paper

Peter Andre- All Night, All Right

Popeie- Single

Romeo- Coming Home

TherapyT- Church Of NOM

RADIO 2/Hilversum PAC

Ron Stceltie

Playlist Additions:

Gerard Joliag- CryVleugels- B'E'D

RADIO 3/Hilversum PCHR

Paul van der Lugt CoordPower Play:


Playlist Additions:

Cleopatra. Cleopatra 's Theme

Memllica- The Unforgiven II

Sven Vith- Fusion

RADIO 538/Hilvermun P

CHR

Erik de Zwart - MD

Playlist Additions:Daze. Super Hero

Destiny's Child- No, No, No

Eagle -Eye Cherry. Save Tonight

Matchbox 20- Push

Pulp Victim- Dreams Last For Long

Romeo- Coming Home

RADIO NOORDZEE

NATIONAAL/Naarden PNational MusidAC

Ron Sterrenburg Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:

Me Halleium

Aria Ribbons. De Echte Ouderwetse

Arno liolenbrander. gat Ik Nodig Reb

Blof- Liefs Uit London

Deurzakken- Vemieren

Frank Boeijen- Cowboys Van Hal

Frans Bauer. Wat Ik je Zeggen Wil

Gino Politi- 24.000 Baci

Havenzangers- Vandaag

Jorisl- Laat Me Hint Gaan

Karst & Hadley- &aerate Lives

Mach 4. The Beginning

Mieke. Voor Altijd

Roland Verstappen.Dat Mottle Niet

Bowmen Hera- Helium .Amorous

Sandra Kim. Un Jour. Une Femme

Tsai Tsai- De Alpen Exprea

Vnder Abraham- Montanacen

SKY RADIO 100.7FM/Bussom P

AC

Too Lathoutvers MD

Playlist Additions:

Emma Shapplin- Spemele &elle

James Horner- Rose/Titanic

TROS RADIO 3/MEGA TOP 100/

Hilversum PCHR

Maas Samplortios - Head Of Mimic

Playlist Additions:

Boysone- Baby Can I Hold

Cleopatra- Cleopatra's Theme

Daze- Superhero

Dusty Springfield- Little By LittleK's Choice- Believe

Lighthouse Family. High

Mavericks- Dance The Night Away

Natalie Cardona- Haste Siempre

Popsie- Single

Romeo Coming Home

Skik- Hoe Hari Dot Nou


Venga Boy,- Up

RADIO 10 GOLD/Amsterdam G

Gold

Tom Mulder - Prog Dir

Playlist Unchanged

LOVE RADIO/Amsterdam BAC

Play]. Unchanged

BELGIUMBRTN RADIO DONNA/Brussele PCHR

Jan van Hoorickx Head Of MusicMarc Pinto ProgrammerPower Play:

Touch Of Joy- Wild

Playlist Additions:Absolom. Secret

Aqua. My 0/1 My

Eagle -Eye Cherry- Save Tonight


Hinds Rieke. If You Want Me

L.L. Cool J- Dear Mallika

Moutiek- Jou Aileen

Ricky Martin. La Cope De La Vida

BRTN STUDIO BRUSSEL/Brussele P

Rock,CHR

Jan HauMkiet - Producer

Playlist Addition.:Bluetones- Solomon &tea The Worm

Etienne De Crecy- Pnx De Choc

Gorki- Wle Zal Er Voor

Lilys- A Nanny In Manhattan

Metallica- The Unforgiven II

Money Mark- Hand In Your Head

Neon Judgement- Jazzbox

RADIO 21/Brussels PCHRRock

Christine Goor - Head Of Music

Mare Francart/Pierre Dubois - HOMPlaylist Additions:

Alabama 3- Woke Up

Brand New Heavies. Shelter

Echo/Bunnymen- Evergreen

Etienne De Crecy- Pnx De Choc

Gus Gus- Polyesterday

Huff And Herb- Feeling

JJacques Goldman- Quaid Tu Dense,

Miossec. Salot Les Antoureux

Money Mark. Hand In Your Head


Paul Curti.- It's True

Rappers Delight. Rappers Delight

Silk 130- The Reason

RADIO CONTACT F/Brusaele P

CHR

Jean Lou Bertin - Prog Dir

Playlist Additions:

Alliage- Je Sam

Betty Goes Green. The Well

Close II You. Baby Don't Go

Gary Barlow. Hang On

J.Jacques Goldman. Quaid Tu Dames

Lana Fabian -Humana

M.People- Angel Street

Madonna -Frozen


Ricky Martin. La Cope De La Vida

Simple Minds- GlitterballSpice Girls. Stop

Tribal Jam- Quand Tu Souns

RADIO CONTACT N/Brinaels PCHR

Danny de Bruyn - Prog Dir

Playlist Additions:

Bamboo. Bamboogie

Byron Stingily- You Make Me Feel

Daze -Superhero


Lighthouse Family- HighRob de Nijs- Geloof Me

Touch Of Joy- Wild

Ultimate Koos- Casanova

Vanema Mae- I Feel Love

Will Smith. Gettin' Jiggy With It

Format: RockService area: Bavaria (Germany)Playlist Meeting: Thursday 11:00Group/owner: Public broadcaster

Playlist additionsAvenell & Shawn/Love Train (2)Conner Reeves/My Father's Son (3)Da Vinci/Jesamine (2)Jon Bon Jovi/Ugly (4)Prince Buster/Whine & Grine (2)

Walter SchmichMusic director

also: Inn ampsonMusic director

Format: CHRService area: National (U.K.)Playlist Meeting: Monday 10:30Group/owner: CLT-UFA

Playlist additionsBryan Adams/I'm Ready (7)Cornershop/Brimful Of Asha (55)Finlley Quaye/Your Love Gets Sweeter (7)Leann Rimes/How Do I Live (7)Space/Ballad Of Tom Jones (35)Trickster/Move On Up (7)

Al DunneProgramme director

Format: DanceService area: East Anglia (U.K.)Playlist Meeting: Tuesday 14:00Group/owner: Essex Radio Group/DMG

Playlist additionsConner Reeves/Read My Mind (25)Funky Chaod/The Ultimate (9)Juice/Best Days (8)Lionrock/Rude Boy Rock (8)Sash!/La Primavera (25)

Paul ChantlerGroup programme director

Format: CHRService area: Nord-Hordaland (Norway)Playlist Meeting: Tuesday 10:30Group/owner: Radio 102 A/S

Playlist additionsThe Coors/What Can I Do (10-12)Bang/Theme From Shower Show (10-12)Robertson/Unbound (10-12)Spice Girls/Stop (10-12)The Verve/Sonnet (10-12)Richie Sambora/Hard Times (10-12)Tuesday/It's Up To You (10-12)

Egil HouelandHead of music

RAD1O2


OUT OF THE DARK

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BEL-RTL,Brussels GCHR

Serge Jonekers - Prog DirPlaylist Additions:

Clone II You- Baby Don't Go

Helene Segara- Loin Du Froid

JJampies Goldman- gland Tu Doses

Patricia Haas- Je Me Souviens

Ricky Marti. La Cope De La Vida

RADIO 2.1/Zurich CCHR

Deni Richiger - Head Of MusicPower Play:

All Saints. Never Ever

Celine Dill. My Heart Will Go On

Janet Jackson. Together

Playlist Additions:Corrs- What Can I Do

One For The Road- Clone

'CMG- Open Your

Ruback FeaL Gray -Tell Me Why

Solid Harmonie. I Warn You To

Verve- Sonnet

RADIO LAC/Geneva S

CHR

'HR

Duilio Parietti Prog DirAndrea Di Franco - Head Of MusicPlaylist Additions:

Cornershop- Brimful Of As).Elise- A Feast For Me

Espen Lind. When Susannah Cnes


Kylie Minogue- Breathe

Spacehog- Carry

Wildchild- Renegade Master

Wilmer X- For Dum For Pop

RADIO STOCK110131/Stockholm G

CHR

Robert Sehlberg - Music DirectorPlaylist Additions:

AIR Saints 1975- If You Want

Artificial Joy Club- Silk Sod Beautiful

Dawn- Superman

Headswi. TourniquetHigh Llamas- Sun Beats Down

PM Dawn & Ky-Mani- Gotta Be

Queens Of Sheeba- Unj.riceRic Runge- Sway

Shirtsville- Inconvenience

Sorten Muld- Venelite

Playlist Additions:Inside/Whale- Hoar Er Tiden DerK-Ci & JoJo- All My Life

Nana- Too Much

Noble Savages- Can We Talk

Popaie- Singie

1110110- Untouchable

Shirtsville- Inconvenience

Hans -Otto Bisgaard Prog DirJan Brodde - Music CoordPlaylist Additions:

Aqua- Turn Back

Corrs. What Can I Do

Hanson- Weird

RADIO HOLDEK/HolbaeckSpice Girls- Stop Gatto Pancieri- Le Tue Mani Jacky Sanders - Prog Dir La Pina- Questa Fly Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign RADIO MOJNAabenraa S CHR

Savage Garden- Truly Madly Deeply Playlist Additions: MPeople- Angel Street Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On THE VOICE/Copenhagen P Non AC Jacob Dainkjaer - Prog DirBRTN RADIO 2 -EAST Spice Girls- Stop Allan Theo- Emmene Men Rest Assured -Treat Infamy Cleopatra. Cleopatra's Theme CHR C Playlist Additions:FLANDERS Cent Anggun- Au Nom De La Lune Tamperer. Feel It Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha Eik Frederiksen - Prog Dir Additions:Nielsen-H0MPlaylist Ba-Bu-Loo- X Marks The SpotCHR

Johan Van Achte - ProducerRADIO BASILISK/Basel G

AC

Bambi Cruz- Ouvre Les Ye.

Cultured Pearls- Just To Let You Know

Texas & Be Tang Clan Soy What Too WI, Fred. Barely Half Shoe


Playlist Additions:Aqua. Turn Back

Down Low -Johnny B

Eagle -Eye Cherry When MermaidsC.

Backstreet Boys -.All I Have To Give

Dawn- SupermanPlaylist Additions: Nick Schulz Head Of Music Double Pact. Si jAvais Du Cash WORLD RADIO GENEVA BRG-FM 88.4 - Madonna- The Power Of Goodbye PM Dawn- Gotta Be Regina- Day By Day Ester Brohus- If You Don't Love Me

Boysband- Heel Mn Wereld Playlist Additions: Eric Clanton- My Father's Geneva El Reber'. Tarnqvist- I Let Mine Go Total Touch- Do, Be La Dee Total Touch Doo Be La Dee Frances Ruffen.- Jennifer's GardenMadonna -Frozen Conner Reeves- My Father's San Hanson- Weird Savage Garden Truly Madly Deeply Gary Barlow- Hang OnShe -No- lk Weet Niel Waarom Madorma Frozen J -M Lacorbiere. Amanda Andrew Pettit - Music Director Ultimate Rao.- Casanova ARHUS NERRADIORADIO COLOMBO/ RADIO STLEEBORG/Silkeborg S Lois- Take A Dive With Me

Lora Fahien- Humana Playlist Additions: Verve- Sonnet Arhus G AC/CHR Plasma. Getting MarriedHIT -FM 108.1fflasselt B RADIO EXTRA BERN/Bern C Leann Rime. How Do I Live Belinda Carlisle- I Wan'f Say Will Smith- Galin' Jiggy With It CHR Michael Jorgensen - HOM Popsie- SingleCHR AC One For The Road- Clone Colin Hay- Don't Believe Jesper Raab - Music Director Playlist Additions: TV 2- Der Gar Min KlasseltererAndre Hemeryck - Prog Dir Pierre Barbesal - Heed Of Music Patti LaBelle- Someone Like Eric Clanton. My Father's HIT FM 94.2/Bromma S Playlist Additions: Billie Myers- Kiss The RainPlaylist Additions: Power Play: Saisai- La Rime Pale Fleetwood Mac. Landslide Dance Conner Reeves- My Father's Son Bryan Adams. Fm Ready

NORWAYCornershop- Brimful Of Asha Back.street Boys- All I Have To Give Genesis- Not About Us Jocke Bring - Frog Dir Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha Down Low- Johnny BDiana King - Cmieen Anderson. Maybe fm Amazed RADIO 3 IIIMendrisio B Hall & Oates- Promue Ana Enough Playlist Additions: InsideWhale. Boor Er Tiden Der K-Ci & JoJo- All My LifePaul MichieLs- One Day At A Tune Daniels Simmons- Vorrm CHR Madonna- Frozen Mortal, Kinky Fishy Janet JaCIMOn- I Get Lonely Nana- Too Much

105 FILAneby

Puff Daddy/Family- Ito All About Eric Clap.. My Father's Boris Piffaretti Prog Doe Fade- No Resolve K-Ci & JoJ. All My Life Noble Savages- Can We TelkCHR

Sarah. True Love Is Tough RamaszottiTurner. Cose Della Vita Riccardo Pellegrini - Head Of Music Fire Island/141.Ra- Shout To The Top Lois- Take A Dive With Me PM Dawn. Gotta BeKim N. Jorgensen - Head Of Music

AUSTRIATouch Of Joy- Wild Playlist Additions Power Play: Flea- (live Yo'self Verve- Sonnet Verve- SonnetPlaylist Additions:

Colin Hay. Don't Behove Jimmy Ray. Goin' To Vegas Grooveyard- Mary Go WildDuncan Sheik- Wishful Thinking

RADIO MOUMol B Falco- Out Of The Dark Madonna- FrozenVVienna P

Hibee Nation- Life Of Dance RADIO ABC/Randera G THE WAVE RADIO 89.111elsingor SHindu Hicks- If You Want Me

CHR Fleetwood Mac- Silver Spnngs Alex Bartn- Quello Che VoglioCHR

Joneetount- Sweet CHR CHRMariah Carey- The Roof

Soeju Celeu - Producer Herbert Gronemeyer BINH Mks .Anders Niecolo' Fabi- Lasci.siAlfred Rosenauer - Head Of Music

Junkie XL- Saturday Kent Kordt Roder - Prog Dir Dany Vicente Fobian Head OfVerve- Sonnet

Power Play: Merfen Orange- Chuchi Smoke City- With YouPlaylist Additions:

Lox- If You Think Power Play: MusicEric Clanton- My Father's One For The Road- Clone Playlist Additions:

Caught In The Act- Baby Come BackS -J- I Feel Divine K-Ci 8, JoJo. All My Life Playlist Additions:

RADIO 1 NORD/Strommen S

Playlist Additions: Solid Harmonie- I Want You To Aretha Franklin- A Re.Herbert Gronemeyer Bleibt Alles Anders

Playlist Additions: B.B.E. DesireCHR

Madonna- Frozen Bell Book & Candle- Rescue MeR.A.R- I Want To Know

MICK 102/Umea Catatonia- Mulder And Scully Cornershop- Brimful Of AslmTommEspen Kroken - Prog Dir

Richie Sambas -Hord Tines Come Easy RADIO FRAMBOISEJ Lewis/Marx- At The Beginning ('HR Ednaswan Torn Culture Beat- Pay No MindEspen LiHees


Spice Ghia StopLausanne-Crissier GCHR

Elton John- Recover Your Soul

Eramo & Passovanti- Seam ConfiniSWEDEN Loose Magnusson - Prog Dir

Playlist Additions:PM Dawn- Gotta Be

Verve- Sonnet

Lewis/Mars. At The BeginningIntani Copoila- Legend DTA Cowgirl

Playlist Additions:

CC Cowboys- Er del Ikke Typisk

Jean Luc Zwickert Prog Dir Falco- Out Of The Dark Chris Rea- Square Peg Jazzkantine- Kein BockMaarja- First In LineMIX MEGAPOLStockhohn P

Playlist Additions:An Sloop- In My Mind

Five- Slam Dunk Da Funk

Flabby- Mambo Italian° 58Fjeld- The Emigrants

Louise- Let's Go Round

RADIO UPTOWN,Coperdiagen

CHR

Melgmove- Apoca Arrive

Will Smith- Gettin*Jigm With It

Peach- On My Own

PropellerbeadBassey- /linen RepeatingSWITZERLAND Fredrik Severin - Music DirectorBamboo- Bamboogie Hanson- Weird Playlist Additions: Mary J. Blige- Seven Days Jan Brodde - Music Coord Young Deenay- Walk On By

Queen Pen -All My LoveCOULEUR 3/Latmanne 0

Black Attack- Heartless Natalie Imbroglio- Big Mistake M -People- Fantasy Island Puff Daddy/Family- Its All About Playlist Additions:Spice Girls- Stop

ROCKPeter Andre- All Night, All Right OTT- The Story Of Love Queen Pee- All My love Aqua -Turn Back VLR/Vejle S

TorgeiriEjendisene. RabbagastThierry Catherine - Head Of Music

Stomy Buggy- Man Papa A Mai Page & Plant- Most High SVERIGES RADIO P3: Sash:- Co My Life Moreno & Roupe- Haide Lague CHRTuesdays -Right By

Power Play:Robbie Robertson- Unbound MEST SPELADE/ Stockholm P Spice Girls- Stop Bryan Adams. I'm Ready Jon Kristiansen - Prog Dir/Head OfMiss kittin/Hacker- 1982

Pulp. This lo HardoureRADIO PILATUS 104.9/Luzern C Shania Twain. You're Still The One CHR Ultimate Koos- Casanova Green Day- Time For Your Life Music FINLAND

PlaylistCHR Sheryl Crow -Home Mats Grimberg - Producer Janet Jackson- I Get Lonely Playlist Additions:

Bath.rsh & Shri- The Au I BreatheRalf Tschuppert - Music Dir

Philippe Unterschiits - Head Of Music

Spice Girl. Stop Playlist Additions:Backstreet Boys- All I Have To Give


PM Dawn- Gotta Be

Bernard Butler- Not Alone

Moreno & Hoop& Bride LagneFINNISH AIRPLAY TOP 30/Tampere P

CHRDENMARKBlur Death Of A Party

Playlist Additions: RADIO RHONESion B Cleopatra- Cleopatra's Theme See Fenger- lnderst lode Janet Jackson- I Get Lonely Pentti Teravainen - DirectorCuba- HavanaCleopatra, Cleopatra's Theme AC Magnus Uggla- Pom Pom

DANMARKS RADIO P3/Copenhagen PVerve- Sonnet K-Ci & JoJo- All My Life Playlist Additions:Daft Punk- Revolution 909

Gary Barlow, Hang On Joel Perrier Prog Dir Magnus Johansson- Ta Mig TilbakaCHR

Nana- Too Much Agents- PawnsGod Lives liderwMer From Your MouthHerbert Gronemever. Bki OMks Anders Playlist Additions: Michelle Weeks- Don't Give

Morten Rindholt - Playlist Co-ord.RADIO VIBOTIGNiborg Sas Fenger Inderst Inds Eden -.Jena

Roni SizeReprasent- Watdimg WindowsHinds Hick. [(You Want Me Eric Clanton- MI, Father's Peter LeMarc. Nio Bronco Vag

Power Play:CHR Verve- Sonnet !main Coppola - Legend Of A CowgrlSven Vath Fusion

Hurricane- Only The Strongest Rebekah- Sm So WellInsideWhale- Byer Er Tiden Der

Pout Foged - Operations Manager Jeri Sillanpfia- Valkeaa UnehnaaTherapy?- Church Of NoiseJann Arden- The Sound Of RADIO TICINO/Locarno B Robbie Robertson. Unbound

Playlist Additions:Jan Thulstrup Head Of Music RADIO 2/Copenhagen B Kent- Saker Man Ser

3EB- Losing A Whole Year


Rebekah- Sm So Well Black Attack. Heartless Madonna. Frozen Lightning Seeds- What You Say RADIO ESKA NORD/Gdynia S Andru Donald. Beautiful Fnday Page & Pb...- Most High Taboo. Ni. Must.Spire Girls- Stop Budka Suflera- Glad. Page & Plant- Most High Lisa Loeb- I Do AC Matchbox 20- Push Paul Carrack. Perfect Love Total Touch- Doo Be La Dm

Capes- Ever, Step Save Ferris- Come On Eileen IrN.C.- Open Your Piotm Patter - Head Of Music Soda Pare Chwill Vivid- We Gave Touche- I Give YouYLE1TLADIOMAFIA/Helsinki PCHR

Conner Reeves- My Father's Son

De Su. Imago Mundi

Sex Appeal. Dirty Talk

Unbelievable Truth -Higher Then Reason

Roachford. How Could P lloateurity,

Will Smith- Gettin* Jiffy With ItPower Play:

Eric Clanton- My Father's KATOLICKIE RADIO PODLASIA/Will Smith. Gettin' Jiggy With It

CZECH REPUBLICLeena Pakkanen - Prod Dir Deni Hines- Delicious Meath., Crash Course Playlist Additions: Siedlce RADIO LELIWAITarnobrzeg BJukka Hamm. - Head Of Music Edyta Gorniak- Anything Will Smith- Getun' Jiggy With It RADIO SZCZECIN/Szczecin C Bob Dylan. Not Dark Yet AC Hot ACPlaylist Addition. Gonska's Boys- Niesmialosc CHR Jackson/Warwick- IfILet Myself Go Grsegors Skwarek Head Of Music Rafid Freyer Head Of Music

CITY 93.7 FM/Prague

Aaron Carter- Miss You Joe Satriani- Ceremony RADIO OLSZTYN/Olsztyn G Piotr Rokicki Head Of Music Conner Reeves- My Father's Son Power Play: Iwona Kutyna Music ('oordinatorCHR

Absoluuttinen NoHaab.. Kaat. Baba Sienkievricz. Wydaj Mi Spone CHF:Rock Playlist Additions: Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha Barbra Streisand- If I Could Playlist Additions:Peter Kral Prog Dir

Ism° Alanko- Kakis. On Rama Sane Leonard- Slodkie Zyme Jacek Hopfer Head Of Music Bell Book & Candle. Read My Sign D. Clark. The Godfather Edyta Gonna& .Anything Bryan .Adams- I'm ReadyDavid Beck Head Of Music

KaartamoRethusenala. Kama.. M -People. Angel Street Pleylist Additions: Bob Dylan- Not Dark Yet Devine So Good Emma Shapplin. Spentele Stella Erie Clanton. My Father'sPlaylist Additions:

Maarid Nem, Ja Yhoppil. Page & Plant. Most High Ambersunshower- Walter T Brad- The Day Brings De Su Imago Mandl Play -list Additions: Natalia Kuktdska- Cry Ona JestEspen Lind- When Susannah Cries

Prince Buster- Whme & Grine Paul Carrack- Perfect Love Andre Donalds- Beautiful Fnday Batik. Sutlers- Glodny Donny Osmond- The Echo Of Your Babyface Wonder- Gone Ton Soon Will Smith- Getun Jiggv With ItLucie Trouba

Rammstein. Da, Modell Spire Girls- Stop Artificial Joy OoL Sick And Beautiful De Su. Imago Munch Edyta Gornialt.Anything Backstreet Boys- Ail I Have To GiveLutricia McNeal- My Side Of Town

Ricky Martin- la Cope De La Vida Sweetboa Don't Go Away Bryan Adams- Um Ready Edyta Gorniek- -Anything James Ike- Be Strong Now Celine Dion- My. Heart Will Go On RADIO TORLTirionin BWill Smith. Cettin' Jiggy With It

Shaine Twain. You're Still The One Tin Tin Out. Here Where Cecil- Hostage In A Frock Ether- Watching You Janis lan. Honor Them All Chris De Burgh -Separate Ways ,F1RSw.tbox. Don't Go Away Verve -Sonnet Chieftains & Costello b eg Ammer Nome Everclear Everything KA.S.A.Piasek- Bye Tu I Term De Mono- Mon. To 0 Nas Pa wel Pensko Head Of Music

FREKVENCE IPrague C

Vallave K&&pib Melodic Will Smith- Gettin' Jim, With It Chris Rea- Thinking Of You James flua- Be Strong Now Kobe Sienkiewica Wydaj Mi Spone Elton John. Recover Your Soul Power PlayAC

Verve- Sonnet Daze- Toy Boy Kobe Sienkiewics. Wydaibh Stone Morcheeba The Sea Hanson- Weird Bell Book & Candle. Read My- Sig.Rene Hnilicka - Music Manager

Will Smith- Gettin. Jiggy With It RADIO LUBLIN/Lublin G El Paso Matador Page & Plant- Most High Pete Belem.- All In My Mind Jerzy Grunwald- Dla Ciebie Raba Sienkiewica. Wydaj Mi SponePlaylist Additions:

Rock Emma Shapplin. Spaniels &elle Paul Carrack- Perfect lave Will Smith Gettin' Jim. With It Kelly Family- One More Song Myth,. Addition. Lucie BiM- Trouha

KISS FM/Helsinki G Wiktor Jachecz DJ/Producer Everclear- Everything Sw.tbox- Don't Go Away Krzystof Antkowiek Kiedy Chet Odapc Artur Gadowski- Na KredytMadonna- Frozen

CHR Power Play: Family Free Of Love- Days Like These RADIO ESKA WROCLAWNroclaw S LO. 27- Twoje Marmnia Bob Dylan- Vol Dark YetMage Vainio Prog Dir Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign Headswim. Tourniquet RADIO ZACHOWZielona Gore G CHR Louise. Let, Go Round Budka Glodny

RADIO ALFA/Pregue

Playlist Addition: De Stu Imago Munch Illusion- Tr, Plain CHO Piotr Weir DJ Producer Maria Montell- And Sone Story Celt.- Eon StopAC

LL Cool J- Dear Mall ika Playlist Addition. Jimmy Ray- Gm' To Vegas Eugenio. Banachowi. HOM Power Play: Michael Maros TR. to Goma Manned Comer Reeves My Father's SonDusan Rotors - Head Of Music

PmpellerbeadBaney. notary hepesung Ambersunshower- Walter T Kasia N.owska- Zod Power Play: Edyta Gorniak- Anything Natalia Kukulska- Cay OnaJnat Edda Gorniak..knythtngPlaylist Addition.

Ricky Martin. La Cope De la Vida Bob Dylan Not Dark Yet Lisa Loeb- I rk, Edyta Gornials Anything Eric Clanton- My Father's New Life Music- Twoja Milne Eric Clayton- My Father'sLucie Bila Trouha

Precedens. La la LaUncle Sam- I Don't Ever Want Edyta Gorniak Anything Mark Clement. West End Playlist Additions: Page & Plant. Most High Savage Garden- Truly Madly Deeply Homo Twist. Irma Tine VonVerve -.Sonnet Eric (lepton. My Father's Matchbox 20. Push Art ur Gadowski. Na Kredyt Playlist Additions: S. Soyka- Tango Memento Vitae Byc Tu I Teraz

James lha. Be Strong Now Photek- Mod. Operand] Barbra Streisand. Ill Could Bell Book & Candle- Read My- Sign Varius Manx. Pilnincie Marten Page & Plant- Most HighRADIO DRAGONI(arlovy Very S

Kobe Sienkiewice Wydaj Id] Spone Rakim- Guess Who's Back Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign Black Attack. Heartless Paul Carrack Perfect LoveCHB

POLAND Matchbox 20. Push Shola Asa- Much Love Bob Dylan- Vol Dark Yet Bob Dylan- Vol Dark Yet RADIO .1/Inowroclaw B Sex Appeal. Dirty TalkZdenek Parhovsky Music Manager

Page & Plant. Most High Vitro- Sei It Down 1)e Su- Imago Mundt Budke Glodny CHR Sw.tbox Don't Go AwayPlaylist Addition,:

RADIO GDANSK/Gdansk GPaul Carrack Perfect Love Eric Clanton. My Father's Every Sop Wojciech Deluge Producer Will Smith- Gettin. Jiggy With It

Lisa Loeb- I IS

COERADIO PLCS,Gdaitek G Joe Satriani Ceremony De Su Imago Munch Power Play:

Martens. 111 Be ThereMack Cegiebiki Head Of Music

RADIO MERKGRYPoznan G AC K-ASA.Piasek. Bo< Tu I Term Baba Sienkiewica Wyk MI Spann Edala GOrniak- Anything RADIO VICTORLsoLowics BPower Play:AC Piotr Felgentreu - Head Of Music Kobe Sieekiewirs. Wydaj Mn Spam Paul Carrack- Perfect Love Eric Clamor, My Father's CHB

RADIO FM PLUSPiliten SEdyta Gorniak. Anything

Ryszard Gloger Head Of Musk Power Play: Morcheeba- The Sea Sweetboa Don't Go Away KA.SA-Piasek. Byc Tu I Term Hubert Kucinski . Head Of MusicAC

Playlist Additions:Power Play: Verve- Sonnet Page & Plant. Mon High Will Smith. Gettin' Jim With 11 Playlist Additions: Power Ploy-

Jan Hanowek Head Of MusicArtur Gadowski- Na Kredyt

Bob Dylan. Not Dark Yet Playlist Additions: She Moves. Brealun' Ankh. W Gncie Krola Gor Bell Book & Candle- Read yty SimPlaylist Addition.

Bell Book & Candle -Read My SignEdyta lioroiok- Anything Chris Rea- Thinking Of You Sweet box- Don't Go Away RADIO PULSGliwice S Artur Gadowski- Na Kredyt Lisa Loeb I IV

Rikie Saiebora Hard Tunes Caw EasyBlack Attack- Heartless

Playlist Additions: Henson. Weird Will Smith. Getup' Jiggy With It AC Barbra Streimnd- If I Could Playlist Additions:Shania Twain- You're Still The One

Bob Dylan- Not Dark Yet10.000 Maniacs- Rainy Day Kenny G- My Heart Will Go On Derek Kapturski Head Of Music Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign Anna Maria Jopek Nu PrzychodzorCatatonia. Mulder And ScullyAaron Carter Miss You Lisa Loeb- I Do RADIO BIALYSTOKBialystok S Playlist Additions: Black Attack- Heartless Bachleda Josef Band- Milicia

RADIO PROFILPardubice SKA.S.A.Pimek- Bye Tu I Teraz

Ambersunshower. Walter T CHR Bob Dylan. Not Dark Yet Bob Dylan- Not Dark Yet Blue System- Loon W111 DriveAC

Kobe Sienkiewicz. Wydn Mi SpamArtur Gadowski Na Kredyt RADIO POMORTA I KUJAW.73ydgoszez G Tomsk Wolski - Head Of Music Chieftains &CosteBo. lane Journey Home Celtus. Every Step Celine Dion. My Hean Will Go On

Michel Holy Head Of 111YlifPage & Plant- Most High

Bell Book & Candle- Read My Sign CHR:Ruck Power Play: De Mono- Maze To 0 Nas Conner Reeves- My Father's Son Green Day. Time For Your LifePower Play:

RING- Open YourBlasi- Biss's Party Zdzislaw Pajak Head Of Music Edyta Gorniak. Anything Lightning Seeds- What You Say D. Clark. The Godfather Hannon. Weird

Backstreet Boys. All I Have To Give

Blue System- Lave Will Dn. Power Play: Eric Clanton. My Father's Simon & Garfunkel. Blues For The Game Devine- So Good Justyna Stecskowska. Za KarePlaylist Additions:

RADIO KOSZAIJN/Koszalin GBush. Mouth Emma Shapplin- Spaniels Stella Playlist Adding.: Smoke City..kguas De Marco De Su. Imago Month Kasia Nosowska. loll

Nana To:: MuchCHB Rork

Przeroydas. Mrocsek - DJ/ProducerCleopatra- Cleopat.'s Theme Playlist Additions: Barbra Streiaand- If I Could Deni Bin.- Delicious Kenny G. My Heart Will Go CM

RADIO RELAXIDadno _Power Play:

Devine. So Good Bryan Adams. Fm Ready Budka Sullen. Glodny RADIO BTU's( Lublin S Erykah Badu- Tyrone KrzystolAalkowiek Kiedy Cl.. OdepcCHR

Eric Clapton. M, Father'sDeni Hines. Delido. Chieftains. Ling Journey Horne Celt.- Every Step CHRR Ether- Watching You Madonna- Frozen

Aldan Harms Head Of ProgrammingK-A.S.A.Piesek- Byv Tu I Teraz

Eric Clanton My Father, El Paso- Matador Raba Sieskiewics. Wydsj Mn Spone Wojtek Zasada Head Of Music Jam. (ha- Be Strong Now Michael Leann TB fn Goma be ArvindPlaylist Additions:

Playlist Addition..kretha Franklin. A Rose

Erykah Rada- Tyrone

James lha- Be Strong Now

Firebirds. TrapH111200- Woad

Page & Phint. Moat High

Paul Carrack. Perfect Loon

Poise, Play: Kenny G- My Heart Will Go On

Chris Rea- Thinking Of You Kobe Sienkiewicz- Wydaj So,Odd.] Zamkniety. bieJestemSmetna

Sixteen- Obud We Mine MenusEspen Lind. When Susannah Cne,

Maarja- First In LineGadowski- Na Kredyt

Joe Satriani- Ceremony Kasia Noeowska. Zoil Will Smith. Collin Jiggy With It LO. 27- Tao, Marzema Molests- Wiidilacern Soda. Pare ChwillNatalie Imbroglio- Bon Mistake.Amur

Bernard Butler. Not AloneK.A.S.A./Piaok. Byc Tu I Teraz Lo. 27- Twoje Marzenia Playlist Addition. Morcheeba- The Sea Sweetbox. Don't Go Away

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Rehm Sambora- Bard Times Come Easy

Robyn. Show Me Love

Shmia Twain- You're Still The One

Sweetbox. DI Die For You

Unique 2- Dance All night

RUSSIARADIO MAXIMUM/

Moscow/St Petersburg PCHR

Mikhail Korareff Prog DirPower Play:

Eric Clanton. My Father's

Usher- You Make Me Wm.

Playliat Additions:Lewis/Marx- At The Beginning

Run DMC It's Like That

Spice Girls- Stop

RADIO C/Ekaterinburg GAC

Oleg Kblebnikov Prog DirPower Play:

Ramaszottifforner Cose Della Vita

Janet Jackson- TogetherKate- Towansch Serdgant

Sweetbox- Everything's

Chef F. Ne Prospat Bi


Playliat Additions:Era- Ameno

Genesis- Not About Lis


Worlds Apart, Beck

SLOVAKIAFUN RADIO/Bratislava SCHR

P. Grave . Music DirPlayliat Addition.

Bic Runge. SwayBrigita Szelidova- On The Radio

Ce Ce Peniston- Somebody

Gala. Come Into

Jay -Z, Wishmg On

Lightning Seedy- What You Say


Orinoko- Mama Konda

RADIO KOLMAIBratislava S

CHR

Fero Kubac Music DirectorPlayliat Additions:

Celine Dim- My Heart Will Go On

Imani Goodie- Legend Of A Cowgirl

MPmple- Angel StreetPohmcny Beh

Space- Ballad Of Tom Jon.Tuesdays- It's Up To You

TOP RADIO/Kosice S

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Oto Tache Prog DirPlayliat Additions:

Lisa Loeb- I Do

Robyn -Show Me Love

RADIO RAGTIME/Bratislava B

CHRAlmrnauve

Richard Kollar Music ProgrammerPlayliat Additions:

Ben Folds Five- Brick

Brand New Heavies- Shelter

David Holmes- Don't Die Just Yet

Fernanda Abreu. Veneno Da Lam


James- Destiny Caging

JB Kladiv. Na RoomMorcheeba- The Sea

Vibrolush- Bridge Over Me

Wyclef Jean- Gone Till November

HUNGARYDANUBIUS RADIO/Budapest PCHR

Sandor Bum Music DirGabriella Caik Music ProgrammerPlayliat Additions:

Beck II Back- Szerelembomba


Chris Rea- The Blue Cafe

Kimnowak- Hello Szia Szevasz

Madonna- Frozen

HUNGARIAN TOP 20 AIRPLAY

CHART/ Budapest PCHR

Playliat Additions:Amokfutok- Van Salami

Chris Rea- Square Peg


Friderika- FeltarcsartadUnisex- logy Seeress

RADIO BRIDGEBudapest CAC

Orsolya Megyeri Head Of Music

Playliat Additiorui:


Wee. Alone

GREECE

KISS 909 FM/Athens G

CHRDance

Michael Tsaoussopoulos Prog DirPower Play:

Bamboo- Bamboome

Playlist Additions:


TURKEYRADIO 5/latanbulCHR

Tim Verheyen SupervisorFedi Elassi Director Of MusicPlayliat Additions:


Popsie- Single

Run DMC- It's Like That

Savage Garde. Truly Madly Deeply

LIECHTENSTEINRADIO (/Liechtenstein BCHR/AC

Deal Sigel - Prog Dir

Roland Blum - Head Of Music

Playliat Addition.Austria 3- FreundeGary Barlow- Hang On


Marcy Playground- Sex & Candy

Matchbox 20- Push

PEI Value. Cool

Verve- Sonnet

SLOVENIASTUDIO D/Novo Mesto S

CHR

Rasto Boric DJ/ProducerPlayliat Additions:

Another Level- Be Alone No More


Hinds Hicks- If You Want Me

James lha- Be Strong Now

Martyr Bennett- Tongues Of Kali

Natalie Imbruglia- Big MistakePeter AndreCoolio All Right All Right

Randy Crawford- Captain OfShania Twain. You're Still The One

ESTONIARAADIO 2/Tallinn G

CHR

Immo Mihkelmn - Head Of Music

Playliat Additions:

SNY. Finally

Aqua- My Oh My

Black Grape- MarblesCornershop- Brimful Of An.

Ultimo Thule- Tuulemeelne

RADIO KUKU/Iallinn GRock/AC

Jean Riikoja - Head Of MusicPlayliat Additions:

Corm- What Can I Do

Madonna. FrozenPaul Simon- Born In Puerto Rim

Space- Ballad Of Tom Jones

UKRAINEPROSTO RADLO/Kiev/Odessa S '

CHR

Artern Voznyuk GMAndry Dmansky Prog Dir

Power Play:Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go On

Gala. Come Into

Madonna- FrozenPropellerbeedBamey Jimmy Repeating

Rolling Stones- Saint Of Me


Shola Area. You Might Need Somebody

Playliat Additions:Alice- MamaKing/Chapman. The Thrills Is Gone

B.B.E. DesireCatatonia- Mulder And Scully

Masha I Medvedi. LubockkaMae Fadeev- Rya. Sem Guts

LATVIARADIO SV7HfRiga G

AC

J. Sipkevics Prog DirPower Play:

Juliet Roberts- So Good

MPmple- Angel Street

Maria Nayler- Naked And Sacred

Playliat Additions:Club 69- Much Better

Deni Hines- DeliciousReba McEntire. What If to You

Rewire Kaupers- ElpoRobbie Williams- Let Me Entertain

RADIO RIGAI 106,2/Riga B

CHR

Eric Niedra Prog DirPower Play:

Chris Rea. The Blue Cafe


Madonna- Frozen


Usher. You Make Me Wanna

Verve- Sonnet

Playliat Additions:Falco- Out Of The Dark

Janet Jacktion- I Get Lonely

MPeople- Angel Street

Ocean Colour Scene- It's A Beautad Thing

LITHUANIARADIO M-I/Vilnius G

CHR

Ante Gujyte Prog DirPower Play:

Spam- Ballad Of Tom Jones

Playliat Additions:Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha

Imani Copolla. Legend Of A Cowgirl

Jay -Z- Wishing On

Madonna- Frozen

Requiem- Sugrimu Pas Tave

Shed Seven- She Left Me

LUXEMBOURGELDORADIO/Luxembourg SCHR

Luc Melsen Heed Of Music

Playliat Additions:Madonna- Frozen

PROGRAMMESUPPLIERSRFI MUSIQUE/Parie PCHR

Alain Roeei Music ProgrammerEric Francais - Music ProgrammerA ListAD Anakine- Tout Se Paye

Art Menge- Faudnut

B.H.E. Deeper Love

Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On

Dick Rivera La Tralumn Des Mots

Etienne De Crecy- Prix De Ch.Flotont Pagny- Chanter

J.M Cahriniol- Big Band La Some

J.Jaques Goldman .Quaod Tu Doom

Lars Fabien. HumanaLuc De Larochelliere- Pop Desmor

Atkins & Yiparrka- Road Train

Michel Delpech. Cartier- Bresson

Native- Le, Couleurs

Soldat LOW. Le Bagdad

Tayfa- Azekka

Vincent Baguian- So. Souchon

FM RADIO NETWORK/Germany 0CHR

Armin Weis - Prog Die

A Lis.AD Queen Pen- All My Love

Solid Harmonic- I Want You ToWill Smith- Genoa' lodge With It

MUSIC TELEVISION

MGM/Paris PMusic Television

HervE Lemaire - Prog DirCecile Estrade - ProgrammerPower Play:

Mietigri- Envoie-Mot Au Ciel

Cleopatra. Cleopatra 's Theme

Pills- Rock Me

A List:

Ahtin Bashung- La Nuit Je Mens

All Saints- I Know Where It's At

Bembi Cruz. Dorm Les Yeue

Celine Dion -My Heart Will Go On

Daft Punk- Revolution 909

Florent Pagny- Chanter

MC Solar. ParadisiaqueMelgroove. Apnea Arrive

Natalie Imbroglia- Tom

Rolling Stones. Saint Of Me

Texas. Put Your Arms

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AD Charts- Etre HumainRamarzetti/Parner Cose Dela Vita

New Videos

Diana King. L.1 -lies

Etienne De Crecy- Prix De Choc

Jay -Z- Wishing On

PM Dawn- Gotta Be

Queen Pen- All My Love

Sales Majestes- le Sherpa

Spicy Boo- Ololol Some

MTV ITALY/Southern Region P

Music Television

Clive Evan Head Of Music

Heavy RotationGimluca Grignani. Baby Revolution

Giorgio. Un Amore Da Favola

Lighthouse Family- High

Madonna. Frozen

Natalie Imbruglia- Torn

Promo.- Acide

Smash Month -Walling On The Sun

Active RotationAll Saints -Never Ever

Almamegretta- Black Athena


Bamboo- Bamboogie

Comershop- Brimful Of Ashe

Elise- A Feast For Me

Oasis- All Around

PM Dawn- Gotta Be

Propellerhead/Bassey. History Repeating

Simple Minds- Glitterball

Spice Girls- Stop

Buzz Bin

Libya- A Nanny In Manhattan

Mau Mau. El Dorado

Montefiori Coctail- Crazy Beat

Paolo Marcella. Onde Radio Amiche

Subsonica. Cose Che Non Ho

Break OutAnook- Nobody's Wife

Basic Connection- Hablame Luna

Matrilinea Re

Espen Lind- When Susannah Cries

Green Day- Time For Your Life

Jay -Z. Wishing On

Jimmy Ray- Coin' To Vegas

Massimo Di Catiddo- Sole

Shots Ante- Much Love

Ustmamo, Kerniuspiritual

Wyclef Jean- Gone Till November

Breakout ExtraAir. Sexy Boy

Bluvertigo- Cieli Neri

Casino Royale- The Future

Chumbawamha- Amnesia

New Videos

Pulp- This Is Harr/core

Serious Danger -Deeper

MTV U.KJLondon P

Music Television

Heavy RotationAll Saints- Never Ever

Cornershop- Brimful Of Asha

Madonna- Frozen

Robbie Williams- Angels


Spice Girls- Stop

Verve -Lucky

Active RotationAnother Level- Be Alone No More

Janet Jackson- TogetherLighthouse Family- High

Natalie Imbruglia- Big Mistake

Ocean Colour Scene- A Beautiful Thing

Rest Assured- Treat Infamy

Robyn. Show Me Love

Run DMC- Its Like That

Space- Ballad Of Tom Jones

Caere- You Make Me Wanna

Will Smith- Gann' Jiggy With It

Buse BinCarrie- Molly

Marcy Playground- Sex & Candy

Missy Elliott- Beep Me 911

Queen Pen. Men Behind The Music

Tin Tie Out- Here Where

Break OutAdam F- Music

Mammas- Solomon Bites The Worm

Catatonia- Mulder And Scully

Destiny's Child- No, No, No

Lily,- A Nanny In Manhattan

Lutricia McNeal- Ain't That Just

Marion. Miyake Hideaway

Shed Seven- She Left Me

Shola Ama- Much Love

Smiles- Say Something

Wyclef Jean. Gone Till November

Breakout ExtraLynden David Hall- Do I Qualify

NTyce- Telefunkin'

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AIRPLAY CHARTS

On the au-M&M's weekly airplay analysis column

The Ice Queen reigns supreme once more over thisweek's European airplay charts.

At No. 1 on the European Radio Top 50,Madonna's Frozen (Maverick) is being played by arecord -breaking total of 149 stations; formerrecordholder Janet Jackson's Together Again (Vir-gin)-at number 4 this week-reached 143 stationsfive weeks ago. The distance in chart points be-tween Madonna and the current holder of the num-ber 2 slot, Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On(Epic/Columbia) is so big, Celine would need an ice-breaker to overtake Madonna.

Sailing on-wards and up-wards this weekare All Saints, al-ready in their 14thweek on the Top 50with Never Ever(London) and hit-ting number 3.Holding strong in

the U.K., Scandinavia and the G/S/A region, thesong is still developing in France and Italy. In thelatter country, it entered the regional airplay chartin the Major Market Airplay section at number 7.

Further down the chart, we find three new en-tries. The highest, at number 34, is The Verve'sSonnet (Hut/Virgin), is the fourth single fromtheir highly acclaimed Urban Hymns album. Al-though the band claim not to be over happy withhaving too many singles taken off their album,radio is still keen. In the U.K., where the song isonly available on a limited 12 -inch, the track is inthe regional airplay top 10. This week, radio inScandinavia-where the song is likely to be re-leased as a normal CD-single-also began pickingup on the track.

Hotly -tipped U.K. youngsters Cleopatra arenew at 44 with Cleopatra's Theme (WEA), which isproving particularly popular with music television.The original interest in the girls' home country isnow spreading to Sweden and Holland.

Exactly a year ago, there were only four BorderBreakers acts in the European Radio Top 50, thehighest being One & One by Robert Miles(DBX/Discomagic). This week's chart again provesEurope's current interest in European music: 11records marked as Border Breakers can be seen.Two of those are by German export product Bell,Book And Candle. Their previous single, Rescue Me(Ariola), is still holding at 50, due to plays from asfar afield as Spain, Norway and Turkey. CentralEurope is also playing their new single Read MySign (Ariola), in at 40 and a strong gainer inPoland last week.

Bubblingunder andlikely to enternext weekare Treat In-famy by RestAssured(ffrr), SimpleMinds' Glit-terball (Vir-gin), Gary Barlow's Hang On In There, Baby (RCA),Angelstreet by M -People (M People/BMG) and Na-talie Imbruglia's Big Mistake (RCA).

Finally, before they drop out of the chart, let'spay tribute to the staying power of Walkin' On TheSun (Interscope) by Smash Mouth. Due to theircurrent popularity in Italy and Spain the song isstill on the top 50 after 20 weeks. And yet, thetrack never managed to reach the top 20.

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1 5 MADONNA/FROZEN (MAVERICK) 149 17

® 2 7 Celine Dion/My Heart Will Go On (Epic/Columbia) 119 6

® 5 14 All Saints/Never Ever (London) 100 3

4 4 16 Janet Jackson/Together Again (Virgin) 92 0

5 6 6 Backstreet Boys/All I Have To Give (Jive) 101 5

6 3 16 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn (RCA) 83 0

ED ii 8 Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia) 94 19

0 7 11 Lighthouse Family/High (Wild Card/Polydor) 98 3

® 8 5 Eric Clapton/My Father's Eyes (Reprise) 93 20

11 9 15 Robbie Williams/Angels (Chrysalis) 69 0

fl, 15 6 Savage Garden/Truly Madly Deeply * (Columbia) 82 9

13 10 10 Eros Ramazzotti & Tina Turner/Cose Della Vita Welk; (DDD) 64 0

,i,Li,k, 26 3 Cornershop/Brimful Of Asha (Wiiija) 61 14

15 16 6 Espen Lind/When Susannah Cries Mika; (Universal) 62 3

16 19 9 Usher/You Make Me Wanna (LaFace/Arista) 56 0

22 9 Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins/It's Like That (Profile) 57 6

18 12 8 Rolling Stones/Saint Of Me (Virgin) 56 0

19 13 15 Sweetbox/Everything's Gonna Be Alright IIV.Pkr; (RCA) 47 0

(2) 25 8 Robyn/Show Me Love Mikis.. (Ricochet/RCA) 50 5

r-21.',..,, 32 3 Shania Twain/You're Still The One (Mercury) 61 8

22 14 12 Oasis/All Around The World (Creation) . 51 0

23 17 6 Imani Coppolla/Legend Of A Cowgirl (Columbia) ' 57 6

* 27 5 Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey/History Repeating (Wall Of Sound) 37 1

25 28 11 Aqua/Doctor Jones Bleb. (Universal) 47 0

26 31 4 Anouk/Nobody's Wife (Dino) 36 1

27 23 9 Chumbawamba/Amnesia (EMI) 44 1

28 33 4 Louise/Let's Go Round Again (EMI) 37 3

29 20 8 Elton John/Recover Your Soul (Rocket) 53 2

30 30 6 Wes/Alane laithr., (Saint George/Sony) 38 1

31 37 5 Bamboo/Bamboogie (VC Recordings) 36 4

32 35 6 Lisa Loeb/I Do (Geffen) 54 6

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43 39 7 Midge Ure/Breathe (Arista) 23 1

44 ,,- NE Cleopatra/Cleopatra's Theme (WEA) 36 7

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(46) 50 2 Catatonia/Mulder And Scully (Blanco Y Negro) 31 3

47 24 14 Spice Girls/Too Much (Virgin) 31 0

48 48 2 Donna Lewis & Richard Marx/At The Beginning (Atlantic) 34 3

49 41 20 Smash Mouth/Walkin' On The Sun (Interscope) 21 1

50 46 8 Bell Book & Candle/Rescue Me litabk (Ariola) 24 1

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SEWS

Sony scores at Sanremoby Mark Dezzani

SANREMO - Annalisa Minetti haswon the 1998 Sanremo Song Festi-val, extending Sony Music Colum-bia's remarkable record of success inthe event.

Minetti, a finalist in the 1997 MissItalia beauty competition, also wonthe newcomers' award at the festival,held in Sanremo between February24-28. It was the fourth consecutiveyear that a Sony Music Columbia acthad picked up the newcomers award,and the second year in a row the com-pany had won the main event.

It was a good year for femaleartists -Antonella Ruggieri (Univer-sal) and Lisa (PPM/BMG) took sec-ond and third places in the main con-test, which attracted over 15 millionviewers to public TV networkRAIUNO for the Saturday evening

finale.For the

first timethis year, thetop threeacts from thenewcomers'section (vo-ted for onFriday 27),were eligibleto enter themain final

for established stars held on the Sat-urday evening, enabling Minetti tocomplete her unique double.

Minetti's winning song was thetraditional ballad Senza Te 0 Con Te(With You Or Without You). "Annal-isa is definitely this year's big discov-ery and a popular winner with thepublic and professionals alike," saysColumbia managing director FabrizioIntra of the artist, who was blindedby a viral infection two years ago.

Carlo Mancini, music director atnational CHR network Radio Dimen-sione Suono (RDS), agrees that it wasa very popular victory. "Her beautyand her handicap certainly bought outthe `buonismo' [`do -good'] sympathiesof the Italian public, who are generallyvery sentimental," says Mancini, whoadds: "Minetti's song has been put onhigh rotation at RDS, along with nineother songs from the festival."

Voting for the winners at Sanremois carried out through a demographi-cally representative public panel. Aprofessional jury, headed by theBritish composer Michael Nyman,awarded three prizes to ethnic outfitAvion Travel (Sugar/Universal) fortheir song Dormi e Sogna. The profes-sional jury awarded a special prizefor best performance to newcomersEramo & Passavanti (BMG), whoalso won the music critics' award forbest song, with Senza Confini.

Net hat -trick for Italy's Expressowhich is due to be finalised in April,and previews the acquisition of 100percent of the shares in Italia Radiofrom Rosabella publishing," explainsGruppo L'Espresso director of externalrelations, Stefano Mignanego. "Nowthat our phase of acquisition is com-pleted, we will concentrate on the con-solidation and reinforcement of ourthree networks, including the comple-tion of national coverage and seriousinvestment in programming, promo-tion and marketing."

Commenting on rumours that,under the terms of the deal, Espresso

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will not be able to take effective controlof the news/talk network until the endof this year, Mignanego comments:"This is all part of the details whichhave to be clarified by April. Obviouslywe would like to make necessarychanges as and when they are needed."He adds that Italia Radio will retain itsnews/talk format, but that changes toits style and schedule were likely.

Until a management buyout in1996, Italia Radio was owned by thePDS political party. The Rosabella pub-lishing group took control of the net-work in April last.year.

`Bored' Sabot to quit NRJ?came to light last week, it wasassumed the reason was NRJ's recentratings setback in France-in this Jan-uary's Mediametrie sweeep (M&MFebruary 7) its CHR network lost230,000 listeners compared to the pre-vious year and more than 600,000quarter -on -quarter.

Another theory for Sabot's actionsinvolved the recent appointment ofEric Angioletti as NRJ station manag-er and the promotion of MichaelMagnin to NRJ programming manag-er, but it seems that those events arenot reponsible for Sabot's resignation.

"I'm bored," he declares. "I haveprobably the best job you can imag-ine in French radio, and probablythe best in Europe: I'm managing


the programming of three nationalnetworks and more than ten radiostations outside France. This isunique but I feel like a kind of 'sena-tor.' I want to challenge myselfagain." He adds: "I really don't knowwhat will happen."

NRJ's senior management isdetermined that Sabot should stay.NRJ group general manager AlainWeill says: "Nothing is final. Sabot isstill here, and there is a good chanceof him staying."

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NEWS

Public profits slammed1997 have not yet been officiallyreleased, MDR is predicting a surplusof $53m for 1997.

In contrast, a recent report by theInstitute for Economic Research inBerlin shows that commercial televi-sion in Germany suffered losses ofsome DM130 million in 1996.Nonetheless, commercial radio hasbecome the biggest money-makeramong media enterprises in Ger-many, with a total annual profit ofDM100m in 1996.

The German Association of Com-mercial Broadcasters (VPRT) hasused the report's publication to try toincrease public support for its recentcall for a total ban of advertising onpublic broadcasters (M&M, Decem-ber 20 1997).

The move anticipates a state lead-ers' meeting on March 18 which willdiscuss the possibility of allowing more

advertising on public broadcasters."With the surplus the public

broadcasters have made, the ques-tion of more advertising should noteven be brought up," insists VPRTvice-president Alexander Isadi. "Forthe sake of the commercial broad-casters and their financial viability,and in the interests of the [licence]fee -paying public, the governmentmust no longer allow advertising onpublic broadcasters."

According to VPRT estimates for1997, national public broadcasters ARDand ZDF received DM10.8bn in licencefees and DM1.05bn in advertising rev-enues last year, compared to theDM7.5bn made by Germany's commer-cial broadcasters.

ARD chairman Udo Reiter hasresponded to the report by claimingthere will no longer be any surplusesby the year 2000. The left -over funds,


he claims, are a result of "a successfuland efficient programme policy, and weshould not be penalised for it.

"Our budget reforms and cost-cut-ting has resulted in savings ofDM1.4bn, while ARD's total production[output] has increased by more than 28percent in the last four years," he adds.

Meanwhile, in a move which crit-ics see as further evidence of unquali-fied government support for publicbroadcasters, a constitutional courthas ruled that public TV and radiostations can now air the type of shortand concise news summaries commonon commercial stations instead of thelonger, in-depth, news bulletins theywere required to air previously.

Complains VPRT spokesmanHartmut Schultz: "It's getting to thepoint where you simply cannot tellthe difference between public andcommercial broadcasters."

London Music Week '98 postponedby Mark Solomonsinternational editor, Billboard Bulletin

LONDON - The London Music Week'98 convention, which was to havetaken place April 25 -May 1, has been"postponed due to insufficient support,"according to its organiser and venue,the Business Design Centre (BDC).

"Unless we are confident we can puton a first class show that builds on lastyear, which we are not, I do not feel wewill serve the participants well by doingsomething half-hearted," says theBDC's Andrew Morris in a statement.

The show is understood to haveattracted greater support interna-tionally than last year's inaugural

event, but could not achieve targetparticipation from domestic exhib-itors. Sony, BMG, Virgin and Warnerhad all planned promotional or corpo-rate events to coincide with LondonMusic Week, taking place at or nearthe BDC. U.K. labels' body the BPIwas to have sponsored special facili-

ties for indie labels, and the IFPI hadplanned to announce its annualworld sales figures during the event.

A press release anticipating a"three -fold" increase in European dele-gate registration for London MusicWeek had been issued shortly beforethe announcement of the event's cancel-lation. The release noted that over 100European companies were due to par-ticipate in the International Pavilion,which M&M was to have presented.

The BDC says it will make anannouncement about the 1999 LondonMusic Week in September, "following adetailed review." The organisation hadnot returned calls on the subject at timeof going to press.

Letters to the EditorDear Sir,On behalf of the Country Music Asso-ciation, I'd like to thank MikeMcGeever and M&M for the encourag-ing piece about the impact that artistsand songwriters from Nashville canmake with radio listeners in Europe ifgiven the chance [M&M, March 7].Shania Twain, LeAnn Runes and theMavericks are only three currentexamples that demonstrate the viabil-ity of their talent.

Since opening its first overseas officein London in 1982, the CMA has strivednot so much to break "Country Music"outside North America, but rather tohelp the development of individualartists-one by one-who have theambition, support and commitment tothe international market.

We are extremely appreciative ofthe growing interest, acceptance andenthusiasm for Nashville's artists andrepertoire from radio, press and televi-sion. This progress would also not bepossible without the hard work ofcountless executives on both sides ofthe Atlantic and loyal fan support.There is significant business that canbe done, and we are now beginning tosee the results.

All of us in Nashville are confidentthat, with continued efforts from theartists, labels, management and media,our industry can deliver success storiesto the bottom line for everyone.Kindest regards,Jeff GreenSenior director, international & new busi-ness development,Country Music AssociationNashville, Tenn.U.S.A.

Dear editor,I was most put out when I read the"Talk Radio" column (M&M, March 7).

Country Music Radio has beenbroadcasting via the Astra satellitesince May 1993, slowly building a verylarge audience of country music fansacross Europe. We have a healthy atti-tude towards country music and coverall the various forms of what is avail-able from the U.S. plus Irish, U.K andEuropean artists.

We have very knowledgeable pre-senters who are allowed their ownchoice [of tracks] to support a nicheaudience. We don't expect to competewith (commercial) pop stations, but dohave a large listener base.

I suppose what .I'm looking for isacknowledgement from the trade thatCMR is providing a very professional

service for European country musicfans. We don't try to be like a U.Scountry station, rather we are awarewe are in Europe and our audienceneeds more than endless drivel of U.S.only material.Kind regards,Lee Williams,MD, Country Music Radio,Alton, Hampshire, U.K.

Dear Sir,Thank you very much for publishinga commentary on Nutuk in your Airborne section [M&M, January 17]. Itwas a great honour for us to be inyour magazine with our first project[Number One FM has recently set upits own record label].

Also, congratulations on publishing such an informative and well-exe.cuted magazine which has become aweekly Bible for us. We have beensubscribing to Music & Media for thepast three years, and it helps us indetermining our playlists.Kind regards,Omer KaracanMusic DirectorNumber One FM, Istanbul, Turkey

M&M welcomes letters from readersPlease note that, for reasons of spaceletters may be edited

Fest opts for creative rolecontinued from page 1

to take on this exciting role."That "exciting" role sees Fest-

with 30 years at the company underhis belt-moving on to take a newposition of senior VP, artist acquisi-tion, reporting directly to EMI MusicEurope president and CEO RupertPerry. With effect from March 31,Fest will quit as managing directorof EMI Electrola in Cologne, and aspresident of EMI in Germany/Switzerland/Austria.

Rirdiger Fleige, cur-rently executive VPand deputy managingdirector at EMI Elec-trola, will take chargeof the company until areplacement for Festis appointed.

Among Fest's recentA&R successes are U.Kband Chumbawamba,who have made aninternational break-through with the single,Tubthumping. He signed the veteranindie act directly to his German com-pany after being alerted to theirpotential by EMI Europe presidentRupert Perry.

In his new role, Fest will operateon an international basis with theaim of bringing already establishedartists into EMI Music Europe'sfamily of labels. An EMI sourceclose to Fest predicts "he isn't goingto schlep through dingy venues tofind young hopefuls."

Sources say it is unlikely Festwill continue to be based at EMIElectrola's Cologne headquarters-it is anticipated the executive willeventually be based in Switzerland.In the immediate future, however,Fest says he anticipates working"mainly on the road."

According to Perry, acts signed byFest could appear on his ownimprint. Perry says he and Fest havebeen discussing his move for "a cou-ple of months," explaining that Festwants to bring his A&R experienceand skills to the creative side of thebusiness. "We've created an opportu-nity for him. It's good for him and it'sgood for us."

Fest's move follows a late 1997reorganisation at EMI Electrola,when the company consolidated itsoperations from four divisions to two.This coincided with Fleige beinggiven responsibilities for their day-to-day running, in addition to super-vision of distribution and sales.

Fest's track record includes timespent at Capitol Records in LosAngeles; he has also established areputation for breaking non -Ger-man acts in Germany, notably JoeCocker and Chumbawamba. He hasalso been prominent outside theEMI fold. He was a co-founder ofthe German Phono Academy, whichorganises the country's EchoAwards, and is a past chairman ofthe German group of the Interna-tional Federation of the Phono-graphic Industry.Additional reporting by Jeff Clark -Meads,Adam White and Wolfgang Spahr

MUSIC & MEDIA ®MARCH 14, 1998


AIRPLAY CHARTSweek 11/98 Border Breakers

Mainland European records breaking out of their country of signing

©Billboard Music Group

TW LW WOC Artist/Title Original LabelCountry(ifs

Signing TS

1 1 14 EROS RAMAllOTTI & TINA TURNER/COSE DELLA VITA (DDD) ITALY 62

2 3 15 Espen Lind/When Susannah Cries (Universal) NORWAY 58

3 4 16 Robyn/Show Me Love (Ricochet/RCA) SWEDEN 49

4 2 14 Sweetbox/Everything's Gonna Be Alright (RCA) GERMANY 40

5 5 13 Aqua/Doctor Jones (Universal) DENMARK 47

6 6 35 Wes/Alane (Saint George/Sony) FRANCE 40

7 7 7 Anouk/Nobody's Wife (Dino) HOLLAND 33

8 8 17 Warren G & Sissel/Prince Igor (Mercury) GERMANY 27

9 9 8 Air/Sexy Boy (Source/Virgin) FRANCE 24

10 11 5 Close II You/Baby Don't Go (Epic) HOLLAND 25

11 10 13 Bell Book & Candle/Rescue Me (Ariola) GERMANY 19

12 12 51 Lutricia McNeal/Ain't That Just The Way (Siljemark/CNR) SWEDEN 21

13 13 5 Solid Harmonie/I'll Be There For You (Jive)

mJP/

HOLLAND 17

21 2 (DWA/Dance Pool)Alexia/Uh La La''

ITALY 17

15 14 15 Era/Ameno (Mercury) FRANCE 16

16 > NE Sash!/La Primavera (Byte Blue) BELGIUM 16

17" > NE Bell Book & Candle/Read My Sign (Ariola) GERMANY 22

18 18 16 Gala/Come Into My Life (Do It Yourself) ITALY 14

19 15 19 Robert Miles/Freedom (DBX/Deconstruction) ITALY 15

'0' 25 2 Aqua/My Oh My (MCA) DENMARK 7

21' >- NE Eagle -Eye Cherry/Save Tonight (BMG) SWEDEN 10

22 19 26 Sash!/Stay (Byte Blue) BELGIUM 8

43 > NE Emma Shapplin/Spente Le Stelle (EMI) FRANCE 14

"24 > NE Total Touch/Doo Be La Dee (RCA) HOLLAND 13

'25 > RE Da Hool/Meet Her At The Love Parade (Kosmo) GERMANY 7

TW = This Week, LW = Last Week, WOC = Weeks On Chart, TS = Total Stations, NE = New Entry, RE = Re -Entry. Titles registering a significant point gain are awarded a bullet.

yr: indicates the Road Runner award, assigned to the single with the biggest Increase In chart points.

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Off the recordEdited by Christian Lorenz

Shortly before going to press just prior toGermany's Echo awards on March 5, the EchoAcademy announced its three professionalawards for 1998. Klaus Grabner, chief publish-er of the Bravo group, was named MediaPersonality of the year. Petra Husemann,product manager at PolyGram's Motor sub-sidiary, picked up the Marketing Campaignaward for her work on Rammstein's Sehnsuchtalbum; the Retailer of the year award was col-lected by Uwe Imhoff, MD of the Seign retailchain. More Echo news next week.

Luxembourg -based media giantCLT-UFA is steadfastly denying

recent press reports that it islooking to sell its interests inU.K. commercial radio. Those

interests include Talk Radio,Atlantic 252 and a small stake in

London's Xfm. A source at theLuxembourg headquarters tells OTR. "Nothinghas changed, or will change (in the U.K.). Wewill continue to deny these stories."

Sony Music Entertainment Europe hasmoved to replace Martin Brem, vice presidentmarketing responsible for Epic, SINE and S2repertoire, who last year transferred to SonyGermany as managing director of Columbia.Reporting directly to Richard Ogden, seniorvice president, SME Europe, the new incumbentis Frank Stroeble, who joins from UniversalMusic Germany, where he was marketing man-ager. Stroeble's previous music industry careerincludes spells at Intercord and Roadrunner.

A new independent analysis of the U.K. com-mercial radio industry-the first of its kind inmore than a decade-says current regulationand licencing procedures for U.K. commercialradio are blocking the industry's growth and theadvance of Digital Radio. The study, conductedby National Economics Research Associatesand commissioned by the Commercial RadioCompanies Association, also suggests thegovernment should consider privatising publicbroadcasters BBC Radios 1 and 2. Full detailsin next week's M&M.

Sir George Martin may be walking awayfrom the producer's chair this year, but his suc-cessor as EMI Studios Group vicepresident is going the other way-after only nine months in the job,Alan Parsons will quit at the end ofMarch. Parsons, who replaced Martinlast July, is to concentrate on hiscareer as a musician and producer;he will remain a creative consultantand associate producer for the group, whichincludes the U.K.'s Abbey Road, Town House,Olympic and Manor Mobile studios. Noreplacement for Parsons has yet been named.

OTR hears that Germany's biggest retailerWorld Of Music (WOM) has finally joined thesales panel which supplies data to the country'sofficial IFPI-endorsed sales charts. WOM accountsfor around 25 percent of German record sales.

Congratulations to Classic FM in the U.K.,which scooped the Radio Award at the recentannual awards of trade magazine MarketingWeek. The GWR-owned national station beatoff competition from Capital Radio and theBBC for "achieving outstanding success in pro-moting the radio industry" in the U.K.

In Parsons

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The most aired songs in Europe's leading radio marketsTW=This Week, LW=Last Week, WOC=Weeks On Chart, TS=Total Stations

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©Billboard Music Group

FRANCETW LW WOC Ants/role Original Label TS TW LW WOC Artier/role Original Label TS TW LW WOC

1

23

1

916

634

CORNERSHOP/BRIMFUL OF ASHA (WIIIJA)Madonna/Frozen (Maverick)Robyn/Show Me Love (Ricochet/RCA)

242219

1

23

1

2

3

587

MADONNA/FROZENCeline Dion/My Heart Will Go OnAll Saints/Never Ever

(MAVERICK)(Columbia)

(London)

322722

1234

1284

1512813

4 10 2 Spice Girls/Stop (Virgin) 20 4 5 13 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn (RCA) 22 5 11 55

67

14>7

2NE

2

Another Level/Be Alone No More (Northwestside)M-People/Angel Street (M People/BMG)Savage Garden/Truly Madly Deeply (Columbia)

222121

567

679

853

Robbie Williams/AngelsBackstreet Boys/All I Have To GiveEric Clapton/My Father's Eyes

(Chrysalis)(Jive)

(Reprise)

2221

23

6789

38135

13468

8 2 3 Ocean Colour Scene/It's A Beautiful Thing (MCA) 19 8 8 8 Wes/Alane (Saint George/Columbia) 17 10 9 59

1011

11

812

35

17

Rest Assured/ Treat InfamyVerve/SonnetAll Saints/Never Ever

(ffrr)(Hut/Virgin)

(London)

191922

91011

144

10

2158

Spice Girls/Stop (Virgin)Janet Jackson/Together Again (Virgin)Espen Lind/When Susannah Cries (Universal)

19

2020

11121314

10121423

815613

12 6 15 Janet Jackson/Together Again (Virgin) 22 12 12 9 Bell Book & Candle/Read My Sign (Ariola) 17 15 29 513 13 14 Robbie Williams/Angels (Chrysalis) 20 13 11 5 Ramazzottiffurner/Cose Della Vita (DDD) 17 16 18 1514 19 8 Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia) 19 14 18 2 Culture Beat/Pay No Mind (Dance Pool) 12 17

162019

71415 15 2 Hinda Hicks/If You Want Me (Island) 20 15 13 2 Corrs/What Can I Do (Lava/Atlantic) 14 19 21 13

16 17 14 Lighthouse Family/High (Wild Card) 20 16 17 6 Young Deenay/Walk On By (WEA) 13 20 7 817 20 2 Natalie Imbruglia/Big Mistake (RCA) 17 17 15 4 Rolling Stones/Saint Of Me (Virgin) 15 21 39 61819

3>

7NE

Backstreet Boys/All I Have To GiveFinley Quaye/Your Love Gets Sweeter

(Jive)(Epic)

2015

1819

NERE

Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With ItLighthouse Family/High

(Columbia)(Wild Card)

1516

222324

153024

135

1520 18 3 Celine Dion/My Heart Will Go On (Epic) 19 20 19 2 Midge Ure/Breathe (Arista) 15 25 28 20

Compiled by M&M on the basis of playlist reports, using a weighted -scoring system,based on audience size.


TW LW WOC Artiat/Titl

EllIII

Original Label TS TW LW WOC

THE NETHERLANDSr-Arnab'l itle Onginal Label

1

21

35 MADONNA/FROZEN (MAVERICK)5 Eric Clapton/My Father's Eyes (Reprise)

2118

1

231

716

CELINE DION/MY HEART WILL GO ONJanet Jackson/Together Again

(COLUMBIA)gin)(Vir

3

485

5 Imani Coppola/Legend Of A Cowgirl (Columbia)5 Backstreet Boys/All I Have To Give (Jive)

1416

345

2610

1377

Natalie Imbruglia/TornDe Kast/Woorden Zonder WoordenEspen Lind/When Susanna Cries

(RCA) (CNR)

(Universal)5 18 2 Spice Girls/Stop (Virgin) 15 6 5 13 Ramazzottifl'ina Turner/Cose Della Vita (DDD)6 15 3 Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia) 13 7 4 19 Close II You/Baby Don't Go (Epic)7 2 7 Lighthouse Family/High (Wild Card) 16

89

1214

56

Backstreet Boys/All I Have To GiveMadonna/Frozen

(Jive)(Maverick)8 12 3 Celine Dion/My Heart Will Go On (Columbia) 14 10 9 7 Nina Simone/Ain't Got No__, I Got Life (RCA)

9 6 7 All Saints/Never Ever (London) 14 11 19 8 Will Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With It (Columbia)10 17 2 Run DMC/It's Like That (Profile) 10 12 7 7 Blof/Liefs Uit London (EMI)11

12413

14 Natalie Imbruglia/Torn (RCA)3 Aretha Franklin/A Rose (Arista)

1011

131415

631311

61723

Eagle -Eye Cherry/Save TonightAll Saints/Never EverSolid Harmonie/111 Be There For You

(Polydor)(Mercury)

(Jive)13 16 3 Savage Garden/Truly Madly Deeply (Columbia) 10 16 16 22 JeweFFoolish Games (Atlantic)141516

71114

8 Lisa Loeb/I Do (Geffen)15 Janet Jackson/Together Again (Virgin)4 Popsie/Single (EMI -Medley)

131012

17181920

15172095

1717207

Robbie Williams/AngelsRobyn/Show Me LoveSFTP/My Love Is The Shhh!Emma napplin/Spente Le Stelle

(Chrysalis)(Ariola)

(Warner Brothers)(EMI)

17 9 8 Anouk/Nobody's Wife (Dino) 9 21 18 26 Allure & 112/All Cried Out (Crave/E_pic)1819

> NE20

Cornershop/Brimful Of Asha (Wiiija)2 Zindy/Round N 'Round (EMI)

812

222324

28238

8375

Usher/Nice & SlowWes/AlaneEric Clapton/My Father's Eyes

(BMG)(Saint George/Epic)

(Reprise)20 10 14 Sweetbox/Everything's (RCA) 10 25 37 17 AlexiaaTh La La La (Dance Pool)


SPAINTW LW WOC Artistfltitie

2345

67

891011

121314151617

181920

1)nginal Label TS

GARTH BROOKS/LONGNECK BOTTLE (LIBERTY)Irene Y Chelo/Cara 0 CruzMadonna/FrozenLewis/Marx/At The BeginningAriel Rot/Baile De IlusionesWarren G & Sissel/Prince IgorImani Copolla/Legend Of A CowgirlOcean Colour Scene/Better DayFinley Quaye/Even After AllWorld Party/She's The OneGreen Day/Time For Your LifeLouise/Let's Go Round AgainLa Union/Mal KarmaRolling Stones/Saint Of MeRahsaan Patterson/My Sweet HeartSavage Garden/ rely Madly DeeplyBell Book & Candle/Rescue MeJorge Drexler/AntesPresuntos Implicados/Nunca Es ParaEspen Lind/When Susannah Cries .

(Mercury)(Maverick)

(Atlantic)(DRO)

(Mercury)(Columbia)

(MCA)(Epic)

(Ensign/EMI)(Reprise)

(EMI)(WEA)

(Virgin)(Universal)(Columbia)

(Ariola)

(Virgin)(WEA)

(Universal)

Data supplied by Aircheck Nederland from an electronically monitored panel of national (8) andregional stations (8). Songs are ranked by number of plays and weighted by audience

POLANDTW LW WOC Artlab'Ibtle ehapnal Labe IS

2 1 1 3 JUSTYNA STECZKOWSKA/ZA KARE2 2 17 2 Lisa Loeb/I Do2 3 3 4 Natalia Kukulska/Czy Ona Jest2 4 11 2 Madonna/Frozen2 5 6 5 F.N. Schabuf/Da Da Da2 6 19 2 Bryan Adams./I'm Ready2 7 n NE Lightning Seeds/What You Say2 8 16 4 S. SoykafTango Memento Vitae2 9 8 2 Espen Lind/When Susannah Cries2 10 2 4 Richie Sambora/Hard Times Come Easy2 11 5 3 Imani Coppola/Legend Of A Cowgirl2 12 9 7 Celine Dion/My Heart Will Go On2 13 4 2 Zdrowa Woda/Nie Boj Sie Milosci2 14 > NE Hanson/Weird2 15 10 3 Savage Garden/Truly Madly Deeply2 16 13 5 Genesis/Not About Us2 17 12 2 Piasek/Jeszcze Blizej2 18 > RE Rolling Stones/Saint Of Me2 19 15 4 Firebirds/Trans2 20 14 2 No Doubt/Sunday Morning


ArtaaTitle

NATALIE IMBRUGLIAITORNJanet Jackson/Together ainJean -Jacques Goldman/ nand l'u DansesStomyhl on Papa A ofMadonna/FrozenMC Solaar/ParadisiaqueCeline Dion/My Heart Will Go OnSweet Box/Everything's Gonna Be AlrightWill Smith/Getttn' Jigger With ItRamazzotti & Turner/Cofie Della VitaDebatcha'zz/Le Grand PardonWarren G & Sissel/Prince IgorFlorent Pagny/ChanterUsher/You Make Me WannaNnative/Les Couleurs De UAmourBambi Cruz/Ouvre Les YeuxQueen Pen/All My LoveVeronique Sanson/Un Etre IdealAlain Bashung/La Nuit Je MensI Know Where It's At/All SaintsSexy Boy/AirThe Corrs/Only When I SleepRobyn/Show Me LoveThe Verve/The Drugs Don't WorkPascal Obispo & Zazie/Les Meilleurs Ennemis

Local Label

(RCA)(Virgin)

(Columbia)(Columbia

EA))(Polydor)

(Columbia)(RCA)

(Columbia)(Ariola)

(EMI)(Island)

(Mercury)(Ariola)(Ariola)

(East West)(Universal)

(WEA)(Barclay)(Barclay)

(Source)(East West)

(RCA)(Delabel)

(Epic)

Data supplied by SNEP/IPSOS from an electronically monitored panel of national andregional stations. Songs are ranked by number of plays and weighted by audience.

TW LW WOC Antst/Title

1 6 5

2 2 63 7 3

4 8 145 1 166 > NE7 5 88 n NE9 3 4

10 4 2

11 11 212 10 7

13 12 514 13 1115 17 316 n NE17 > NE18 19 219 n NE20 20 2

Original Label TS

MADONNA/FROZEN (MAVERICK)Chumbawamba/Amnesia (EM)Propellerheads/Bassey/History Repeating (Wall Of Sound)Janet Jackson/Together AgainNatalie Imbruglia/TornSimple Minds/GlitterballVerve/Lucky ManAll Saints/Never EverBackstreet Boys/All I Have To GiveCeline Dion/My Heart Will Go OnEspen Lind/When Susannah CriesLighthouse Family/HighPeter Andre/All Night, All RightWill Smith/Gettin' Jiggy With ItProzac+/AcideCornershop/Brimful Of AshaFive/Slam Dunk Da FunkMissy Elliott/Sock It 2 MeAdam F/The Tree Knows EverythingGala/Come Into My Life

98

(Virgin) 7

(RCA) 7

(Virgin) 8

(Hut) 7

(London) 6

(Jive) 7

(Columbia) 7

(Universal) 7

(Wild Card) 7

(Mushroom) 6(Columbia) 6

(EMI) 8(Wilija) 6

(RCA) 5

(Elektra) 5

(Positive) 4(Do It Yourself) 5


HUNGARY1/V LW Wart' Arun/Title

(POMATON) 18 1

(Geffen) 15 2 3(Mercury) 15 3 5

(Maverick) 15 4 9(EMI) 13 5

(A&M) 13 6 10(Epic) 12 7 1

(Ariola) 13 8 13(Universal) 13 9 4(Mercury) 12 10

(Columbia) 9 11

(Columbia) 14 12(Columbia) 10 13 2(Mercury) 12 14 17

(Columbia) 13 15 12

(Virgin) 10 16(Zic Zac) 13 17(Virgin) 9 18

(Izabelin Studio) 11 19(Trauma/Interscope) 9 20


SHYGYS/HELLOM-People/Fantasy IslandLutricia McNeal/Ain't That JustRamazzotti/Turner/Cose Della VitaAmokfutok/Van ValamiC'Est La Vie/AkaromLighthouse Family/HighHanson/I Will Come To YouAll Saints/Never EverUniserJUgy SzeressRobert Miles/FreedomLilla/Miert Visz El?Bryan Adams/Back To YouSweetbox/Everything'sDario G/SunchymeChris Rea/Square PegEric Clapton/My Father's EyesFriderika/Feltarcsaztad A SzivemChumbawamba/AmnesiaHevesi 'famtsNigyazz Ram

Original Label

(Warner)(M People/BMG)(Sinemark/CNR)

(DDD)(Magneoton)

(Sony)(Wild Card)

(Mercury)(London)

(Sony)(DM/Deconstruction)

(Self)(A&M)(RCA)

(Eternal/WEA)(Warner)(Reprise)

(EMI)(EMI)

(Magneoton)

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