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1 $.99 U.S.) $f.99 (CAN.),.0 (U k.), 8.9 (EUROPE), Y,00 (JAPAN) #BXNCTCC " *` * * * * * * * * * * * *' * * * * * * ** - DIGIT- 9 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIII L Illllllllllil #B_.080# APR0 A0 800 MONTS GREENLY 0 ELM FVE # A LONG BEAC CA 908) -0 THE INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY ON MUSIC, VIDEO AND DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT 0TH YEAR APRIL, 00 HOT SPOTS 'am nil Jubìlee Prmters Hpe T Take Star's Tur T The Bank Lil Jn's Mbile Tne /K RAY WADDELL Lil Jn jumps n the wireless wagn f acts frging mbile- cntent deals utside their label relatinships. 8 Dean's 'Little' Risk Billy Dean rlled the dice and came up a winner with his self- financed album, "Let Them Be Little." f:., `: The U.S.. turirg industry will get a i- carat bclstfrm Neil Diamnd this slmr. er. One f the mast cnsistently bardcahle perfcrmers f the Last,) years, Diamnd will hit the heartland July at the IQwest Center it On-aha, Neb. Nei Diamnnc- Live Wrld Tctr 00 will play at -mst.- cities acrss the United States as p<rt f the series, Sllbara has learned. A EL Lim will prmte the U.S perti-r, h cn - j_mcticn with l-rgtim Diamnd tclr directrs Sal Bnafede ani Jeff Apregan `Neil Diamnd _uting America is gccrl f- the areras, :t's gd f- his fans, and Is and fr tl-.e turing industry," AEG L ve CEO Ranc. Ph Hips says. The tu- will sapprt Diamnd's mw Rick Rubin -prduced album that will a--iive this summer n Clumbia. Dates arv - the bck thrugh Oct.at the Phil-ps Arena in Atlanta. ( Cnfinued r page 9) The Sunds Of Califrnia "The O.C." mastermind Jsh Schwartz discusses the rle that music plays in the tastemaking series. Breaking news arund the clck: billbard.biz 8.99ÚS $8.99CAN " I > N Deal Fr HOB Cncerts BY RAY WADDELL It's déjà -)u fr the Huse f Bl aes. Fr the secnd time in three years, the c )mp my has entertained the sale f its cncert d_visicn, then ultimately stayed intact. In news f rst tipped April n billbcard.biz, Huse f B ues Cncerts i: ante again ff the blck, accrding t CEO G -cg Trjan. "We feel like retaining i- cncert business will generale mre grwth fr H-Ise cf Blues than selling it," Trjan tel -s S'Ilbard. "[Selling] wuld have had t be a situatin where we (nnfnued n page ) 'ivi KFOEGER JHMP- STAFTED _AT[ST HOT FORMAT Radi Des Knw Jack BY PAUL HEINE Radi's playlist liberatin mvement hatched in late 00 at a birthday party in Winnipeg, Manitba. A radi was blasting when Hward Kreger, directr f peratins and prgramming fr CHUM Bradcasting's Winnipeg statins, arrived at his friend's 9th- birthday bash. It was a cmpetitr's classic rck statin, and Kreger used the ccasin t cnduct an infrmal fcus grup amng the partygers, mst in their mid- t late 0s. Whenever Bstn, the Cars, Meatlaf, Super - (Cntinued n page 9)

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3 APROOS Billbard' NO. ON THE CHARTS ARTIST ALBUM PAGE H 0 CENT The Massacre E ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION Lnely Runs Bth Ways a. XB.B. KING The Ultimate Cllectin QVARIOUS ARTISTS WOW #s I O LARRY THE CABLE GUY The Right T Bare Arms MOBY Mtel DONNIE MCCLURKIN CORROSION OF CONFORMITY LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ BECK RAY CHARLES DADDY YANKEE FAITH EVANS VARIOUS ARTISTS CELTIC WOMAN Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Sngs In The Arms Of Gd Crk Juice Guer The Very Best Of Ray Charles Barri Fin The First Lady Chsen Few: El Dcumental Ray Celtic Wman 0 CENT FEAT. OLIVIA Candy Shp GREEN DAY KELLY CLARKSON Bulevard Of Brken Dreams Breakaway Tp f the News Lil Jn and Cldplay ffer wireless carriers exclusive master ringtnes. In a surprising mve, Richard Blackstne is named the new head f Warner /Chappell Music. Music Mudvayne wants fans t draw their wn cnclusins abut its new Epic set, "Lst and Fund." The Beat: Appearances n PBS and NBC help Celtic Wman's self -titled album remain N. n the Tp Wrld Albums chart fr a fifth cnsecutive week. In The Spirit: ASCAP names Jeremy Camp sngwriter f the year during Gspel Music Week. Classical Scre: Cmpser Steve Stucky's Secnd Cncert fr Orchestra wins the 00 Pulitzer Prize fr music. Turing: Jack Jhnsn's new tur fcuses n smaller venues and an ec- friendly executin. R &B: N. albums by the Game and 0 Cent helped frtify APRIL, 00 VOLUME, N. UMVD's reign in R &B market share fr first -quarter Beats & Rhymes: B.G.'s new "Heart f Da Streets "CD arrives n his wn Chpper City label. Latin Ntas: The respnse t Univisin'sTV special "Selena: Vive! "leads EMI Music U.S. Latin t strengthen the prmtin f its accmpanying CD /DVD set. Beat Bx: Venus Hum leaves MCA and synthesizers behind fr a self -released electrnic- acustic album. 8 Cuntry: Gretchen Wilsn wins tw fan -vted awards at this year's CMT Music Awards. 8 Sngwriters & Publishers: Music industry figures search fr talent during pen- micthursdays at Nicklas Ashfrd and Valerie Simpsn's Sugar Bar restaurant/ nightclub. 8 Ntable News: Publishers wnder why every label is nt paying full statutry rates fr dwnlads. Marketplace Sales decline, digital tracks skyrcket and UMVD keeps its lead in U.S. market share at the end f first -quarter 00. The Indies: Fire Recrds asks acts t write a sng that includes a passage f James Jyce's pem "Chamber Music." Retail Track: BMG Music Services plarizes retailers with its Web site that sells CDs fr $.99. Digital Entertainment: The "Wh Owns Culture?" event fcused n the subject f intellectual- prperty rights in music. Glbal 9 The Ech Awards ceremny marked the revival f dmestic repertire in the German market. Glbal Pulse: Anthny Cal - lea's expsure n "Australian Idl" bsts his self -titled Sny BMG set. Prgramming Tuned In: Radi: Terrestrial rivals AOL and XM wrk tgether t develp new prgrams and services fr nline and satellite. Features Bxscre Billbard Picks 0 Hits f the Wrld Classifieds The Billbard BackBeat Executive Turntable 9 Charts 9 Chart Beat 9 Market Watch The Last Wrd KENNY CHESNEY ANNA VISSI KELLY CLARKSON THE POSTAL SERVICE WEEZER JUANES Anything But Here Call Me Since U Been Gne We Will Becme Silhuettes Beverly Hills La Camisa Negra QUOTE OF THE WEEK -'''` If nbdy wants t bk yu and bdy wants t sign yu, what d yu d? G n "The Surreal Life "?, DEAN ON TAKING ONE LAST CHANCE AT A MUSIC CAREER Page 8 AU DIOS LAVE Be Yurself KELLY CLARKSON Since U Been Gne THE GAME FEAT. 0 CENT Hate It Or Lve It THE GAME FEAT. 0 CENT Hate It Or Lve It 0 CENT FEAT. OLIVIA Candy Shp THE INCREDIBLES (WIDESCREEN) AC /DC: FAMILY JEWELS,0-YO'JiA'HES.KROAD CSE.'SLE _ JOSH GROBAN Clser CHRIS BOTTI When I Fall In Lve VARIOUS ARTISTS Verve //Remixed KIDZ BOP KIDS SECRET GARDEN Kid/ Bp Earthsngs 0 CENT FEAT. OLIVIA Candy Shp Artist Alanis Mrissette Anna Nalick Anthny Callea B.G. Billy Dean Celtic Wman Cldplay Fatty K Gretchen Wilsn Jack Jhnsn Jeremy Camp Lil Jn Megadeth Mudvayne Olga Tañón Paulina Rubi Selena Smkie Nrful Switchft Venus Hum Widespread Panic ZOEgirl ARTIST & COMPANY INDEX (SIGNIFICANT MENTIONS IN THE NEWS) Page(s) 0, 8 8, 0, 8,, Cmpany Page(s) America Online Inc. 8, Black EntertainmentTelevisin Inc., BMG Music Service Capitl Recrds Inc., 8,, Chpper City Recrds Clumbia Recrds Grup, Epic Recrds Grup Fire Recrds Navarre Crp. Pindff Recrd Sales Ltd. Redeye Distributin Inc Sny BMG Music...,,, 8, Starbucks Crp 0, Sugar Bar Inc 8 UMVD,, 8, UnivisinTelevisin Grup Inc. Warner /Chappell Music Inc. 8 William Mrris Agency Inc. 8,, XM Satellite Radi Hldings Inc EVENTS CALENDAR *Heineken Billbärd LATIN AMC <ONFEREN<E & AWARDS 00 April -8 at the Htel Intercntinental, Miami Infrmatin: - -0 Billbard /American Urban Radi Netwrks R &B /Hip -Hp Cnference & Awards Aug. - at the Htel Intercntinental, Atlanta Infrmatin: - -0 Billbard Dance Music Summit Sept. 9 - at the Unin Square Ballrm, New Yrk Infrmatin: - -0 Billbard Turing Cnference & Awards: Radwrk '0 Oct. - at the Rsevelt Htel, NewYrk Infrmatin: - -0 billbardevents.cm BILLBOARD APRIL

4 DISCOVER flfld OOWILORO + THE BRRVERY = 0,000 T WEEK New bands, live perfrmances., tns cf vide play and free dwnlads fr ur audience. Discver and Dwnlad n MTV adds up big fr everyne.

5 :!tt el Music Assn. acclade ',. Richard Blackstne t head up Warner/ Chappell Music Tp OF THE NEWS IFPI Seeks Dialgue With ISPs i f Glastnbury Shws Its Difference BY EMMANUEL LEGRAND and CESCO VAN GOOL LONDON and AMSTERDAM -With a new rund f litigatin under way, the glbal music industry is putting the nus n Internet service prviders t jin in the battle against illegal file sharing. On April, the Internatinal Federatin f the Phngraphic Industry and its natinal trade grup members launched legal cases against 9 individuals in 0 Eurpean cuntries and Japan. This brings the number f cases the trade grups have filed against individuals accused f dwnlading r uplading illegal Internet music files t,. Of that figure, 9,900 cases were brught in the United States. IFPI chairman/ceo Jhn Kennedy describes the latest rund as "the biggest wave f legal actins s far against Internet music file sharers." The suits include cases in fur Eurpean cuntries that had nt previusly been targeted: the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland and Iceland. IFPI grups in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdm began litigatin against file sharers in 00. (Details f the prceedings are available at ifpi.rg.) Als fr the first time, an Asian cuntry has jined the ranks f thse targeting Internet piracy. The Recrding Industry Assn. f Japan launched its first civil prceedings against peer -t -peer users. (Cntinued n page 0) TwTne Deals Lil Jn Makes Pact With Blingtnes BY ANTONY BRUNO Lil Jn's deal with Blingtnes is the latest example f a hitmaking artist frging a mbile -cntent deal utside f his label relatinship. The K =ng f Crunk signed with the mbile label t prduce riginal ringtnes and prvide ber wireless -specific cntent like vicetnes, graphics and a wireless videgame. Other artists wh have frged such deals include Snp Degg, 0 Cent, Ludacris, Q -Tip and Timbaland. (Cntinued n page 0) CldplayDia/s Up Cingular Sunds BY ANTONY BRUNO Capitl Recrds has released a segment f the first tack dplay's much -anticipated "X&Y" album as a master ringtne a week befre the full sprig can be heard cn the radi, and mre than a mnth befre the album's June street date. The 0- secnd clip frm lead single "Speed f Sund" was ffered exclusively thrugh Cingular Wireless beginning April as the debut title fr the wireless carrier's new Cingular Sunds music service. (Cntinued n page ) BY LARS BRANDLE LONDON -The Glastnbury Festival is ging back t its rts. Funder and rganizer Michael Eavis has declared that 00 will be a "fallw" year, in which the icnic event will g n hiatus t allw the grunds where it is held time t regenerate. S the,000 ticket- hlders at this year's festival June - in Smerset, England, shuld be mindful t lap up the experience. "It's perfect fr us, and it gives all the right messages t the rest f the wrld," Eavis says f the year ff. "We dn't d [the festival] because we have t d it, and it's nt tied t cmmercial interests. The crew gets really stimulated, and then we bunce back a year later. It des what it's suppsed t d. It's ne f the things that makes Glastnbury s special." Glastnbury tk similar breaks in 00 and 99. "It's a quirk that we're used t," explains Melvin Benn, managing directr f British prmter Mean Fiddler Music Grup, which has a critical rle in the fest's peratin. "The nature f Ethel Glastnbury Festival allws it t happen. I think ther festivals wuld struggle." The skipped year will mark the end f Mean Fiddler's five -year arrangement with Glastnbury. The cmpany reached terms with Eavis after the 00 event was scrapped. Thrugh that agreement, Mean Fiddler tk an initial 0% stake in the festival, ris- (Cntinued n page 0) KENNEDY: 9 INDIVIDUALS TARGETED Cming NextWeek:The New Billbard The cuntdwn is n! There is just ne mre week until the new Billbard is in yur hands. As yu read this week's issue, we are hard at wrk putting the final tuches n ur cver -t -cver redesign. - Iere's a preview f what yu will see: An entirely new lk: New typefaces. New use f graphics. Mre clr. Redesigned charts. And a new design sensibility that lets Billbard take its place amng tday's best- lking publicatins. Bld new cvers with big, bright artwrk and headlines t pint yu t ur key stries fr the week. N mre "jumps." We are jettisning thse annying "cntinued" lines. N mre flipping arund the magazine t find the rest f a stry. Increased cverage f the tpics that matter mst in the new millennium. We are stepping up ur cverage f brand marketing, digital and mbile, legal and management -all f the areas that are driving tday's market. There's much mre, but we dn't want t give it all away. Check us ut next week. We're sure yu'll be pleased with the new Billbard. BENN: PROMOTER'S DEAL ENDS THIS YEAR BILLBOARD APRIL

6 Upfrnt =. Switchft GMA's Tp Act Gspel Music Assn. Hands Out Dve Awards BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE NASHVILLE -Christian crssver band Switchft tk tp hnrs at the th annual Gspel Music Assn. Music Awards, winning Dve trphies fr artist f the year as well as winning the rck cntemprary sng and shrtfrm vide awards, bth fr "Dare Yu t Mve." The grup als tk the lngfrm music vide acclade fr "Switchft Live in San Dieg." The band's Clumbia/ Sparrw album, "The Beautiful Letdwn," has sld. millin units, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. The Crabb Family als netted fur awards. They were fr Suthern gspel recrded sng ( "He Came Lking fr Me "), cuntry recrded sng ( "Frever "), traditinal gspel recrded sng ( "Thrugh the Fire," featuring Dnnie Mc- Clurkin) and Suthern gspel album ( "Driven "). As a grup, Casting Crwns claimed three hnrs, including grup f the year and inspiratinal recrded sng fr "Vice f Truth." Frntman/principal sngwriter Mark Hall picked up fur awards, including his secnd cnsecutive Dve fr sngwriter f the year and ne fr sng f the year fr "Wh Am I." "Fr a writer and an artist, it's a great encuragement. I'm s blessed that the little gift that I have gets t have an award shw," he tld Billbard, adding that he wished ther Christian vcatins had an pprtunity fr such recgnitin. "They need t have the church bus driver awards and the Vacatin Bible Schl craft lady awards because everybdy needs t be encuraged like that." BEC artist Jeremy Camp wn his secnd cnsecutive Dve in the male vcalist categry. He als tk hme the Dve fr rck recrded sng fr the hit "Stay." Nicle C. Mullen was named female vcalist f the year, an hnr she wn in 00. Her 00 album "Everyday Peple" wn the urban album f the year award. Ed Cash was named pr - ducer f the year. He prduced the praise and wrship album f the year winner, Chris Tm - Iin's "Arriving." Wrd band Building 9 wn in the new artist categry. Israel & New Breed wn in the cntemprary gspel recrded sng (fr "Again I Say Rejice ") and cntemprary gspel album (fr "Live Frm Anther Level ") categries. Music frm Mel Gibsn's CARING CROWNS: PIC KED UP THREE AWARDS film "The Passin f the Christ" was hnred in tw categries. The multi -artist "The Passin f the Christ: Sngs" was named special event album, while "The Passin f the Christ Original Mtin Picture Sundtrack" garnered instrumental album acclades. The awards were held here April at the Grand Ole Opry Huse and cncluded the annual Gspel Music Week cnventin. GMA members vted n the winners. The shw will be televised in syndicatin later this year. Fr a cmplete list f winners, g t billbard.cm/awards. WMG Lking T Add Rap, R&B Juice With Bad By Deal BY BRIAN GARRITY and TAMARA CONNIFF NEW YORK -Sean "P. Diddy" Cmbs' Bad By Entertainment has entered a wrldwide 0-0 jint venture with Warner Music Grup. As part f the agreement, surces say, WMG is acquiring a $0 millin equity stake in Bad By Recrds and its catalg, which includes Cmbs, Mase and the late Ntrius B.I.G. Even thugh WMG nw wns 0% f Bad By, Cmbs tells Billbard he will have the ptin t buy it all back dwn the rad. Hwever, he adds, "Right nw it's like a marriage, and I'm nt lking t get divrced." Cmbs will cntinue in his rle as Bad By CEO, and the New Yrk - based label will be distributed in the United States thrugh Atlantic Recrds, which will als prvide marketing and prmtinal supprt. Cmbs says his interest in WMG was driven by chairman/ceo Edgar Brnfman Jr. and U.S. Recrded Music chairman/ceo Lyr Chen. "We started talking," Cmbs says. "and the visin that they have fr Warners is a similar visin fr what I have fr the future f Bad By. They are als at a time where they need smething hip -hp, urban and specialized." The mve cmes as WMG is gearing up fr a $0 millin initial public ffering. The majr label, which last year saw its market share in rap and R &B slip t less than 0 %, has been lking t build its strength in thse genres. "The Bad By name has nt nly std fr hip -hp music fr mre than a decade, but has evlved int a unique and vital brand," Chen said in a statement. In mving t WMG, Cmbs is buying Bad By ut f a - year -ld distributin pact with Universal Recrds that was scheduled t run thrugh 00. The Bad By/ Universal deal yielded nly ne ntable hit, the "Bad Bys II" sundtrack. Universal declined t cmment. -I:/ 'Mimi' T Debut Over 'Rainbw' BY KEITH CAULFIELD G ahead and call it a cmeback. Mariah Carey is n curse t land her first N. album n The Billbard 00 since 99 -and with her biggest pening week ever. First -day sales f Carey's new "The Emancipatin f Mimi" (Island /IDJMG) suggest that her eighth studi album culd surpass 0,000 units, easily placing it at N. n the big chart. With a busy prmtinal schedule during release week- including visits t "Gd Mrning America," "TRL," "Live With Regis and Kelly" and "Late Shw With David Letterman" -chart prgnsticatrs suggest Carey's number may rise even higher. Her last N., "Butterfly" (Clumbia /Sny Music), bwed with,000 in 99. Her 999 set "Rainbw" (Clumbia/Sny Music) hlds the recrd fr the singer's biggest pening week, having bwed at N. with,000 units. Als heading fr a recrd -high sales week and chart bw is Mud - vayne, as its "Lst and Fund" (Epic /Sny Music) culd d upwards f 0,000 units, ensuring the band its highest debut yet. The act's last album, "The End f All Things t Cme," started at N. with 9,000 units in 00. Garbage's furth effrt, "Bleed Like Me" (Alm Sunds /Geffen), may sell as much as,000 units in its first week. If that number hlds, the grup will earn its first tp 0 album. The set's lead single, "Why D Yu Lve Me," has already gne tp 0 n the Mdern Rck Tracks chart. Jnes, Walsh Jin Billbard Staff The Billbard Infrmatin Grup has filled tw key psitins n the New Yrk editrial team, just in time fr the launch next week f the Billbard redesign (see stry, page ). Ivry Jnes jined the staff April as R &B/hip -hp editr fr Billbard Radi Mnitr and staff writer fr Billbard. On April 8, Chris M. Walsh cmes abard as assciate editr f billbard.biz. Jnes will cver the hip -hp beat fr Mnitr and Billbard and their respective Web sites. She will als authr the biweekly Beats & Rhymes clumn in Billbard and play a key rle in the Billbard R &B /Hip- Hp Cnference & Awards. Jnes reprts t Billbard cexecutive editr Ken Schlager and Mnitr editr -in -chief Sctt McKenzie. Jnes jins frm Rlling Out Urbanstyle Weekly, where she has been manager f the lifestyle and entertainment publicatin's Philadelphia editin since Nvember 00. She jined Rlling Out in June 00 as a senir staff writer at the publicatin's Atlanta headquarters. Jnes' bylines als have appeared n allhiphp.cm and in RIME Magazine, Right On Magazine, The Atlanta Business Jurnal and Atlanta Metr Magazine. She hlds a bachelr's degree in English frm Clark University in Atlanta. Walsh will jin the reprting, editing and prductin team at billbard.biz, Billbard's daily business news site. He will reprt t Billbard cexecutive editr Tamara Cnniff. Walsh cmes t Billbard frm the Verve Music Grup, where he has served as new media and strategic marketing crdinatr since Octber 00. In this rle, he managed Web sites fr the label and its artists and wrte Verve -related news stries. Since Nvember, he als has been a reprter fr US Weekly, cvering celebrity and pp culture events. Befre jining Verve, Walsh was prduct manager /music fr San Francisc -based digital jukebx firm Ecast. He als held a series f administrative psts with Virgin Recrds America, including A &R prductin crdinatr. He hlds a bachelr's degree in business administratin frm Prvidence Cllege in Rhde Island. BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

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8 Upfrnt N.Y. Bradens Cpyright Prtectin T Older Wrks BY SUSAN BUTLER NEW YORK -The prtective arms f the law in this state are embracing recrded music, extending cpyright t lder recrdings made anywhere in the wrld-even if they have fallen int the public dmain verseas. Drawing the legal sptlight away frm the nging battles ver digital distributin and shining it n restratin and reissues, the New Yrk State Curt f Appeals held April that sund recrdings nt cvered by federal cpyright law -thse prduced befre Feb., 9 -are prtected New Yrk law prtects this Edwin Fischer recrded perfrmance frm the 90s. until Feb., 0, by the state's cmmn law (the law created by the curts thrugh legal precedent). As a result, such histrical recrdings as the 90s classical perfrmances f Yehudi Menuhin, Pabl Casals and Edwin Fischer that were made in England cannt be cpied r distributed in New Yrk withut permissin f the cpyright hlder, even when they are public -dmain recrdings in the cuntry where they were recrded. The pinin came nearly three years after Capitl Recrds filed suit in the U.S. District Curt in New Yrk against (Cntinued n page 0) Warner /Chappell Head Named Richard Blackstne Will Replace Departing Les Bider BY SUSAN BUTLER NEW YORK -Warner Music Grup is taking anther step tward reshaping its future, tapping Zmba Music Publishing president Richard Blackstne as the next chairman/ceo f Warner/ Chappell Music. Blackstne will take the reins frm Les Bider, wh annunced Feb. that he will depart when his cntract expires in December (Billbard, Feb. ). As the grup readies its initial public ffering, executives declined t discuss their plans because f the regulatry quiet perid. Many publishers and lawyers tell Billbard they are surprised that lngtime Warner /Chappell president Richard Shemaker was nt elevated t the pst. He weathered many changes during the last year, they say. When WMG's wnership was in play and it was acquired by the Edgar Brnfman Jr. -led grup, it "cut the legs ut frm under the publishing grup," surces say. In cntrast t the ther majr publishers that signed high- prfile deals in the last year, there were n big signings f sngwriters /artists at Warner/ Chappell. The publisher culd nt spend mney t cmpete in the market, surces say, and its staff was cut t the bare bnes. Hiring New Yrk -based Blackstne marks a change, these bservers say. It signals a likely desire by WMG chair - man/ceo Brnfman t shift the publisher's West Cast peratins t New Yrk and t bring in "new bld." `UNIQUE BACKGROUND' Blackstne jined Zmba in 989 (Cntinued n page ) RIM Suits T Hit Students BY BILL HOLLAND WASHINGTON, D.C. -As if the Internet wasn't enugh f a piracy challenge fr the recrd business, nw the Recrding Industry Assn. f America has t turn its attentin t the even mre efficient university netwrk knwn as Internet. The RIM annunced April that it is targeting cllege students wh use Intemet t illegally dwnlad music. In all, 0 students at 8 clleges acrss the cuntry will be slapped with cpyright -infringement lawsuits. Officials said students are using Inter - net's file -sharing applicatin knwn as "ihub" t illegally get music n "a massive scale." "This next generatin f the Internet is an extrardinarily exciting tl fr researchers, technlgists and many thers with valuable legitimate uses," RIM president Cary Sherman said. "Yet, we cannt let this high -speed netwrk becme a zne f lawlessness where the nrmal rules dn't apply." Sherman said the students mistakenly viewed ihub as a safety zne, adding,' We punctured that perceptin." The RIAA said it has evidence f ihub infringement at anther 0 schls in states. While these schls were nt included in the initial rund f lawsuits, Sherman said letters are being sent t each university president. The letters will alert them t the illegal activity ccurring n their campuses n bth Internet and centralized piracy servers ften set up by students n a cllege's lcal area netwrk. Althugh evidence f infringing activity n ihub is extensive, the RIAA is limiting the number f lawsuits t per schl at this time. Accrding t the RIAA, in a ne -time tracking capture in March, the students being sued were sharing mre than. millin ttal files -music, vide, sftware- including mre than 90,000 music files. The RIBA claims that defendants in this latest rund f suits have, n average,,900 illicit files,,00 f which are MP files. (Cntinued n page ) NEWSLINE.. THE WEEK IN BRIEF Island Def Jam Music Grup chairman Antni "LA" Reid annunced April that the cmpany has frmed a 0-0 jint- venture deal with Russell Simmns' latest cmpany, the Russell Simmns Music Grup. Simmns, wh will head RSMG, has named King Shah Prductins /Chclate City Music funder Tny Austin president f the new peratin. Initial signings include Reverend Run (a frmer member f Run- D.M.C. and Simmns' brther) and R&B sister -tri Buddafly; bth have albums slated fr later this year. Since c- funding the riginal Def Jam Recrds tw decades ag, Simmns has branched ut t film, TV, fashin, Bradway and fd/ beverage businesses. MICHAEL PAOLETTA EchStar Cmmunicatins' Dish Netwrk must hnr a cntractual bligatin t carry a new music -vide netwrk frm Vivendi Universal and Universal Music Grup, a U.S. District Curt in New Yrk has ruled. The curt issued a mandatry preliminary injunctin April, rdering EchStar t carry the channel as sn as pssible. Litigatin is still pending. The ruling paves the way fr UMG t be the first music cmpany t launch its wn music vide channel. EchStar is the secnd -largest U.S. satellite TV service, with mre than 0 millin subscribers. BRIAN GARRITY In ne f a series f music divisin prmtins at the William Mrris Agency, David Snyder adds head f music peratins t his previus title f head f the AC department. The Ls Angeles -based -year WMA vet was the architect f the first cmputerized bking system used by an agency t rganize and track natinal cncert turs. The agency als upped tw senir VPs, Marc Geiger and Tny Gldring. Geiger was named head f cntemprary music. The c- creatr f the Lllapalza tur, he c- funded ArtistDirect in 99 befre jining WMA in Ls Angeles in 00. Gldring was named head f the internatinal department. He jined WMAs Ls Angeles ffice in 000. All reprt t WMA Wrldwide head f music Peter Grsslight, wh says he rchestrated this restructuring fllwing the retirement f his lngtime WMA Music partner, Richard Rsenberg, last year. RAY WADDELL MusicNet, the digital music service frmed by several music labels t jump - start the nline -distributin market, has been purchased by New Yrk - based private equity firm Baker Capital. MusicNet prvides the back -end technlgy fr music services run by AOL, Trans Wrld Entertainment, Virgin Entertainment Grup's Virgin Digital and HMV Accrding t Baker Capital, MusicNet will cntinue t prvide services as an independent cmpany. Terms f the deal were nt disclsed. ANTONY BRUNO Frmer Krn member Brian "Head" Welch and actr Stephen Baldwin have frmed Livin' It Recrds. The New Yrk -based label, which is seeking distributin, aims t release Welch's debut sl album later this year. Baldwin will prmte Livin' It thrugh his "extreme sprts ministry" f the same name. The ministry is part f Christian rganizatin Palaufest Prductins. MICHAEL PAOLETTA Federal Cmmunicatins Cmmissiner Jnathan Adelstein keynted a Future f Music Calitin "plicy day" April in Washingtn, D.C., highlighting what he said were new and develping pprtunities fr artists t deliver their music t the public. A digital -radi plicy is ne way the FCC can help, Adelstein said. The relevance t musicians, he said, is that "digital radi gives new pprtunities fr expressin that aren't heard n cmmercial radi." Anther plicy bjective is mre access t the Internet. "The mre bradband pipelines that are ut there," Adelstein said, "the mre musicians can share their wrk." TONY SANDERS Chicag-based rck label Victry Recrds has renewed its cntract with New Yrk -based RED Distributin. Victry had fielded ffers frm nearly every majr distributr. Victry's deal with RED was due t expire at the end f July. The tw have wrked tgether since 99. Surces indicate that the new deal is nt lng term. Victry funder Tny Brummel and a RED representative declined t cmment. TODD MARTENS Wrd Label Grup is relaunching the Myrrh Recrds label. Funded in 9 as a divisin f Wrd Recrds, Myrrh was discntinued in 000. It had been hme t Amy Grant. The resurrected Myrrh will fcus n wrship music and expects t release new prduct later this year. DEBORAH EVANS PRICE BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

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10 OpininEditrials /Cmmentary / Leiters Dueling DRM Des Nt Help Digital Market Stp Thrwing Stnes Apple Cmputer recently has been waging a back -and -frth battle with the hackers wh created PyMusique, a slutin that strips Apple's FairPlay digital- rights- management technlgy frm any track bught frm itunes. But just this past February, Steve Jbs cntacted majr recrd labels directing them t a blg cntaining a hack methd fr the new Napster t G service. That Jbs wuld make a pint f highlighting a cmpetitr's security weakness is puzzling, given the shaky DRM grund n which Apple stands. The PyMusique slutin is hardly the first sht at cracking Apple's DRM cde. Several existing free slutins similarly strip the FairPlay DRM prtectin frm itunes- purchased files, such as that fund at hymn -prject.rg. Additinally, there are several ways fr ipd wners t swap entire music libraries frm ipd t ipd in a fractin f the time it wuld take t dwnlad them. The digital music industry remains in its frmative stages, generating excitement and innvatin frm the music and technlgy industries alike and engaging a grwing number f cnsumers. Fr every DRM slutin created, there is smene wrking t defeat it. And as interest in digital music grws, Apple can expect additinal hackers t target the clsed itunes /ipd Fr every DRM slutin created, there is smene wrking t defeat it. system. Initiatives like PyMusique and hymn -prject.rg exist nt because f a desire t steal music, but rather because cnsumers demand the ability t play legally purchased music n any device r system they want, just like they can with CDs. S lng as the flexibility f authrized Letters digital music is inhibited, sme cnsumers will nt have any qualms using ther technlgies t break that prtectin t exercise what they cnsider their usage rights. What is it they say abut peple wh live in glass huses? This is nt the time t pint fingers at yur cmpetitrs' security hles when they culd be better used plugging yur wn. Sure, Napster has taken a sht at Apple with its "D the Math" advertising campaign tuting the benefits f a subscriptin service ver the pay -per- dwnlad mdel. But that is a legitimate debate n an emerging issue that is being discussed thrughut the industry. By all means, highlight and cmpete n the differences in yur user interface, yur music discvery capabilities, yur value prpsitin, even the devices yu supprt. But trying t cmpete n wh has the best prtectin nly serves t cast the entire digital music industry in a negative light. -Antny Brun Indie Retail Vs. Starbucks:Anther Vice I am mystified by the naive remarks in Michael TenBrink's letter in the April issue regarding Maverick Recrds' decisin t give Starbucks an exclusive n the Alanis Mrissette album. In his letter, TenBrink calls Jerry Kamiler f Trans Wrld Entertainment "petty and unwise" fr deciding nt t stck the new album and pulling lder prduct. Let me assure yu that Trans Wrld Entertainment is nt alne in its decisin t pull all prduct by artists wh enter exclusive sales ventures. We are an independent music retailer servicing the nrtheast crner f Clrad. We have managed t find success fr almst years nw, but there are artists yu will never find in ur stre. If yu are lking fr a Rlling Stnes r Eltn Jhn CD, fr example, yu will have t lk elsewhere. TenBrink seems t sum up ur actins as thse f a "sre lser n the schl playgrund." Well, he has ne thing right: We are sre abut such blatant arrgance frm recrd cmpanies that have frgtten hw much f an impact "regular retail" (t qute Guy Oseary) has n album sales. In a time when albums are packaged with ne, maybe tw great singles, it is the music retailer wh encurages and secures the sale f an album. What an unfrtunate time we have stumbled upn when the cmpanies whse prduct we are prmting n lnger have cnfidence in us t sell their prduct. Is the barista at Starbucks ging t tell yu which tracks are really great r why that album is wrth every penny f its price tag? As fr TenBrink's implicatin that by pulling prduct we are ignring the wants f ur custmers, I assure him that ur custmers and their wishes are at the heart f every decisin we make. We take the time t infrm custmers as t why we dn't carry certain prducts. Every custmer we have talked t supprts ur decisin. Yu see, the clsest Starbucks is a tw -hur drive frm ur stre, and it's a little lnger than that t the nearest Best Buy. Our staff and custmers are ffended by the ntin that the nly peple buying CDs live in select bigger cities. In respnse t TenBrink's cmment that stres are giving up revenue, I fail t see that. When we infrm custmers why we dn't carry certain CDs, 99% f the time they leave the stre with a CD frm a different artist. Our custmers dn't want t wait six weeks fr prduct, and the truth f the matter is that in six weeks they will prbably be interested in smene else anyway. As far as cming up with "fresh" and "creative" ways t prmte albums, we are cnstantly wrking t better urselves. TenBrink suggest that we "unhappy retailers... partner with labels and artists" t get ur wn exclusives. Well, Michael, we are ne f hundreds f thusands f sle independent music retailers in the cuntry. D yu think there is a recrd cmpany that wuld be interested in an exclusive with us? One stre in the middle f the cuntry? It seems like every week we read abut anther music stre thrwing in the twel. We hpe t be in this business fr many years t cme. Here at KC's Tapes and CDs, we have a great lve and respect fr the artists and recrd cmpanies that have supprted us. We are nt "getting beat at ur wn game," we are simply fighting fr ur chance t play the game. Celeste Delgad -Peltn Partner /manager, KC'sTapes and CDs Sterling, Cl. Let yur clleagues knw what's n yur mind. Send letters t Ken Schlager, Executive Editr, Billbard, 0 Bradway, th Flr, New Yrk, N.Y., 000, r t Include name, title, address and phne number fr verificatin. Letters shuld be cncise and may be edited. All submissins published shall becme the sle prperly f Billbard, which shall wn the cpyright in whle r part, fr publicatin. 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Chris Wds; Cpy Editrs: Jackie McCarthy, Wayne Rbins Art Directr. Jeff Nisbet Editrial Assistant Sarah Han (N.Y.) - -0 Cntributrs: Fred Brnsn, Ramir Bun, Rashaun Hall, Catherine Applefeld Olsn, Dan Ouellette, ChuckTaylr, ChristaTdus, SteveTraiman, AnastasiaTsiukas GLOBAL Lndn: Emmanuel Legrand (Bureau Chief/Glbal Editr) + (0) 0-0 -; Tm Fergusn (Deputy Glbal Editr) + (0) ; Lars Brandie (Glbal News Editr) + (0) Bureau Chiefs: Christie Dieter (Australasia), Larry LeBlanc (Canada), Steve McClure (Asia),Wlfgang Spahr ( Germany) Cnhibuutrs: Sam Andrews, Juliana Kranteng, Paul Sextn CHARTS Directr f Charts /Senir Analyst: GEOFF MAYFIELD (LA.) Chart Managers: Bb Men (Fl mvre, Nashville), Keith Caulfield (Pp Catalg, Sundtracks, Prductin Credit, LA), Anthny Clmb (Mainstream Rds, Mdem Rds, Sptlight Recaps), Ricard Cmpanini ( Dance, Latin, Classical), Mary DeCrce (Kid Audi, Blues, Nashville), Wade lessen (Bluegrass, Cuntry, Christian, Gspel, Nashville), Geff Mayfield (The Billbard 00, Heatseekers, LA), Patrick McGwan (Adult Cntemprary, AdufTp 0,Vxe, LA), Grdn Murray (Billbard Research, Dectrk, Jazz, New Age, Wrld Musk), Minal Patel (R&B/Hip Hp, Reggae), Silvi Pietmlung (Ht 00, by 00, Ht Digital Sngs), Paul Pmfret Bits f the Wrld, Lndn) Chart Prductin Manager. Michael Cussn Assciate Chart Prductin Manager. AlexVitulis Archive Research: - - INTEGRATED SALES, EVENTS & BRAND MARKETING Vice President, Integrated Sales: JOSEPH GUERRIERO Assciate Publisher /Internatinal: GENE SMITH Advertising Diredrs Eurpe/U.K.: Frederic Fenucd + (0) Asia- Pacific/Australia: Linda Malich -90 -, Fax: Japan: Aki Kanek Latin America/htiaed: Marcia Oliva! , Fax: Mexic/West Cast Latin: Daisy Ducret -8-0 Caribbean: Betty Ward , Nashville: Cynthia Mellw (Turing) East Cast Advertising Directr: AlannaVelasquez - -9 Advertising Directr New Yrk: Jhnna Jhnsn - -0 Midwest Advertising Directr. Sctt Fwler -8-9 West Cast Advertising Directr. LA.: Aki Kanek - -99, Nashville Lee Ann Phtgl - -9 Inside Sales Manager. 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Rbert Berner Cradatn Manager (Grup): Michele Larsen Assistant Circulatin Manages: Marline Hazzard Internatinal Circulatin Marketing Directr. Ben Eva (Lndn) Internatinal Subscriptins Marketing Manage: Karen Griffith (Lndn) Internatinal Circulatin Marketing: Paul Brigden (Lndn) Subscriptins: (U.S.) (Outside US.) PRODUCTION Prductin Directr: TERRENCE C. SANDERS Advertising Prductin Directr. Lydia Mikulk Advertising Prductin Manager. Chris Dexter Editrial Prductin Supervisa /QPS Administratr: AnthnyT. Stallings Specials Prductin Editr: Marc Giaquint Systems/Technlgy Supervisa: Barry Bishin Senir Cmpsitin Tehnkian: Susan Chirla Cmpsitin Technician: Rdger Lenard Advertising Graphic Artist Ray Carlsn Directries Prductin Manager. Len Durham (Nashville) ADMINISTRATION Vice President/General Manager. P. ANDREW BILBAO Distributin Directr. Lu Bradfield Billing: Liza Perez Credit: Shawn Nrtn Assistant t the Publisher: KristinaTunzi PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER: JOHN KILCULLEN BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

11 Cmpser Steve Stucky is a 00 Pulitzer Prize winner Music POP / ROCK / COUNTRY / R &B / HIP -HOP / LATIN / DANCE / TOURING Olga Tañón makes her label debut n Sny BMG with 'Una Nueva Mujer' Celtic Wman's A Sphisticated Lady "Celtic Wman," the self- titled cllectin frm fur female Irish singers and a vilinist, is the latest nntraditinal music ffering t capture peple's attentin. The album tps the Billbard Tp Wrld Albums chart fr the fifth cnsecutive week. Driven by repeated airings f a 90- minute PBS special and the grup's appearance n NBC's "Tday" n St. Patrick's Day, the title has sld 0,000 cpies, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. Similar t such prjects as the Brwns and II Div, Celtic Wman appeals t an lder fan base that learns abut new music thrugh press and TV mre than frm radi. "Celtic Wman," which features ensemble and sl perfrmances f traditinal Irish and cntemprary meldies, streeted March in the United States n EMI/Manhattan Recrds. In a deal similar t the ne EMI made with Rbbie Williams, the label participates in all revenue streams, including CD, DVD, ticket and merchandise sales. EMI vice chairman David Munns struck the The Beat Olk By Melinda Newman mnewman@billbard.cm jint venture with Irish indie label Celtic Cllectins. Celtic Wman will launch the first leg f a summer tur July 0 in Cleveland. It is presented by Clear (Cntinued n page ) Nalick's 'Day' Has Cme BY MARGO WHITMIRE Mre than a year in the making, the bravely emtinal' Wreck f the Day" by Clumbia newcmer Anna Nalick hits stres April 9. The - year -ld has steadily tured since the album's cmpletin, hlding her wn alngside such artists as Gavin DeGraw and labelmate Ari Hest with a resnant vice and lyrics wise beynd her years. "Fr me, music has diminished the intimidatin factr in meeting anybdy," Nalick says. "I've learned that anybdy really is apprachable because we've all experienced falling in lve and lve gne bad." The album was riginally slated fr (Cntinued n page ) NEWFOUND ACCEPTANCE Mudvayne Stirs Brader Reactin At Rck Radi BY CHRISTA TITUS During a telephne cnversatin with Billbard, Mudvaym drummer Matt McDnugh makes this prnuncement: "I have t file my fficial disclaimer," he says. "At sme pint in this interview, and it's prbably already happened, I have tld yu at least ne lie." McDnugh's cmment isn't as straightfrward as it seems, and that's exactly his pint. "It's imprtant t remember that there are n rules," he explains. "There is n right answer t a questin in an interview. There's n right way t write a sng. There's n rules fr what we're ding. As an artist, I think it's exciting fr us as a band t explre and t have the freedm t g int the space, t turn the lights n and t lk arund." Indeed, the metal band prefers keeping things pen -ended s peple can draw their wn cnclusins abut its music n its new Epic set, "Lst and Fund," which streeted April. (A DualDisc f the album was released simultaneusly.) Even thugh such plain- spken lyrics as "There's n vice in freedm" r "Turn ff the radi /turn ff the TV" seem t be direct mandates, McDnugh and vcalist Chad Gray say that isn't the case. "We dn't want t tell peple what anything's abut, really. I think it takes smething away frm the listener," Gray says. "Like handing yu a bx wrapped up and telling yu what's in it befre yu pen it." McDnugh adds, "We have enugh respect fr ur audience t give them the pprtunity t think fr themselves. We've never wanted t think f urselves as being arrgant enugh t knw r t think that we culd tell peple what they shuld be thinking abut r what they shuld assume sngs are abut. We leave it ambiguus." "Lst and Fund," prduced by the band and Dave Frtman (Evanescence, Super Jint Ritual), already has a slid single at radi, "Happy?" It is N. n the Mainstream Rck Tracks chart and N. n Mdem Rck Tracks. (Cntinued n page ) BILLBOARD APRIL,

12 Bk Páß pprtunitie Reach yur target audience thrn h Billbard feature Repris In -depth and timely cverage f the music and entertainment industries' mst imprtant tpics. May issue DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT: E Games Exp Preview AD CLOSE: APRIL TOURING: Summer Preview AD CLOSE: APRIL May 8 issue LUXURY LIFE: Music & Beauty AD CLOSE: MA: BILLBOARD STARS: Ls Temeraris AD CLOSE: MAY June issue BILLBOARD STARS: Marn AD CLOSE: MAY 0 June issue SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME AD CLOSE: MAY POWER PLAYERS: Wmen in Music AD CLOSE: MAY BILLBOARD.COM Bibard BILLBOARD.BIZ NIW lis AIMS NA KAU IINIIN ' "..... Music Gspel Music Week Of Awards One f the highlights f Gspel Music Week was the ASCAP awards dinner that hnred its tp sngwriters and publishers April at Nashville's Richland Cuntry Club. Jeremy Camp was named Christian sngwriter f the year. The Matthew West hit "Mre," penned by West and Jasn Huser, was named sng f the year. It was published by Westies Music Publishing, WB Music, Wrd Music and Extreme Writers Music. EMI CMG Music Publishing garnered the hnr fr Christian publisher f the year. The cmpany had a banner year with such hits as "(There's Gtta Be) Mre t Life," "All I Need," "Dare Yu t Mve," "It Is Yu," "King," "Open Skies" and "Presence." HIM was presented with a special award in recgnitin f its th anniversary and vast cllectin f hits. During their tenure tgether, grup members Mark Harris, Marty Magehee, Kirk Sullivan and Andy Chrisman have churned ut such classics as "Basics f Life," "Center f the Mark" and "Fr Future Generatins." In an industry where persnnel changes are a cmmn ccurrence, HIM's Dve Award- winning lineup has remained cnsistent. ASCAP assistant VP Dan Keen praises the grup fr supprting the Christian sngwriting cmmunity by recrding utside material in additin t supplying its wn hit tunes. During the evening's festivities, West and Nichle Nrdeman intrduced sngs frm their new prjects. Nrdeman's "Brave" bws May. West is still in the studi wrking n the fllw -up t his Universal Suth debut, "Happy." Earlier that day, the Gspel Music Assn. presented its annual GMA Special Awards at the Mnday Mrning Live membership meeting. Cmpassin Internatinal and Wrld Visin shared the Impact Award. Cmpassin is a child develpment rganizatin that began partnering with Christian artists in 90 t prvide infrmatin during cncerts that has spurred peple t spnsr children in cuntries. Wrld Visin riginated in the 90s t help children rphaned in the Krean War. In additin t child spnsrship prgrams, it aids cmmunities with water prgrams, health care educatin and agricultural and ecnmic develpment. The Lifetime Achievement Award was presented t the Stellar Awards. Funded by Dn Jacksn, CEO fr years f Central City Prductins, the annual TV special hnrs the tp artists in gspel music. The Grady Nutt Humr Award was presented t lark.news.cm. Launched by Jel Kilpatrick in 00, the site is cnsidered t be the leading surce f Christian satire. The Outstanding Mainstream Cntributin t Gspel Music Award hnred Mel Gibsn and "The Passin f the Christ." The epic film that depicts the last hurs f Jesus' life was released Feb., 00, and has grssed mre than $ millin. T'un Hughes received the Internatinal Award. Hughes is a wrship leader with the rganizatin Sul Survivr, and has penned such ppular wrship sngs as "Here I Am t Wrship," "Beautiful One" and "Jesus Yu Alne." The Sctt Campbell Radi Award was pre- sented t Jhn Hull, VP f peratins at KSBJ Hustn, a three -time recipient f the GMAs large- market radi statin f the year acclade. The Rb Gregry Award was presented t Jim Hge, president/gm f WPOZ Orland, Fla. CATCHING UP WITH SMOKIE: In tw shrt years, Smkie Nrful has becme ne f the tp artists in gspel music and ne f the mst visible artists in any genre. The Grammy Award winner chsted the Gspel Music Assn.'s GMA Music Awards April, was recently featured n BET's "Celebratin f Gspel" and perfrmed at the Trumpet Awards and NAACP Image Awards -nt t mentin that he has been all ver gspel radi with his current hit "I Understand." His new DVD, "Nthing Withut Yu," streets June. Hw des Nrful feel abut all this? "I literally wasn't surprised, because I've learned t expect great things frm Gd," says Nrful, a preacher's kid wh grew up playing music in church. "Of curse, n the first g- rund, it blew my mind. It was abslutely verwhelming the favr that he has shwn n my ministry. [The success f] that first CD and the secnd ne was equally as verwhelming and exciting. By the time we gt t this third release, I just said, `Gd, keep NORFUL: HIS DVD IS 'A MINISTRY EXPERIENCE' ding what yu d.' " Nrful's 00 debut, "I Need Yu Nw," has sld mre than,000 units, accrding t Nielsen Sund - Scan. The fllw -up EP, "Limited Editin," has scanned 9,000. Current effrt "Nthing Withut Yu" has sld 9,000 since its Octber release. In The By Debrah Evans Price Retailers are expecting brisk sales frm Nrful's DVD, and he is excited abut its release. "Peple that weren't there that night [f the recrding] will see Smkie Nrful live, up clse and persnal," he says f the DVD. "It wasn't a cncert -it was a ministry experience, and that's what they are ging t see." Nrful praises EMI Gspel fr the cutting -edge quality f the DVD and says it elevates the message he tried t cnvey n the audi release. "Peple get the CD and it mves peple and ministers t peple... and shares the wrd f Gd thrugh my sngs," he says. "But what really, really excites me is fr them t be able t visually experience Gd withut encumbrance." Unlike music recrded fr CD in which there is much mre structure, Nrful says a live DVD ffers mre freedm. "Time limitatins and restraints, thse were lifted; it literally was, `Let's wrship and enjy Gd!' I'm excited abut sharing this with the wrld." Nrful recently launched a prductin venture, Triune, based in Chicag. The first release by Darrel Petties is due in July and will cme thrugh EMI Gspel. Nrful prduced the prject. He says f Petties, "He has a phenmenally aninted chir ut f Memphis, and he's a minister as well as a vcalist." Anther prject Nrful is excited abut is the church he is starting in Chicag. "We'll actually start in June having Bible fellwship n Tuesday nights, and the name f the church will be Victry Cathedral," says Nr - ful, wh plans t hld the church's fficial grand pening next January. "I was a preacher lng befre I was an artist," says Nrful, wh plans t cntinue his music career. "That was ne f the things I wrestled with. I dn't want t give up the music, it's a passin. I lve this. I can't breathe withut this, and then I dn't want t give up the wrd, because that is the reasn fr the music." BILLBOARD APRIL. 00

13 Music Cmpser Stucky Wins Pulitzer Plaudit The winner f the 00 Pulitzer Prize fr music, annunced earlier this mnth, is - year -ld Kansas native Steve Stucky, whse Secnd Cncert fr Orchestra was premiered in March 00 by the Ls Angeles Philharmnic and music directr Esa- Pekka Salnen. The winning wrk, cmmissined by the LAP, is in three mvements. "The first mvement is titled `Overture (With Friends),' " Stucky says fndly. "The names f Frank Gehry, Esa -Pekka and ther friends, as well as thse f cmpser clleagues dead and alive, are embedded in the mvement in cde. It really represents an artistic family tree fr me," he bserves. "I have a feeling f cnnecting with tradi- STUCKY: HOPES HIS OVERTURE WILL BE RECORDED tin that's becme mre and mre satisfying t me as I grw lder. "In that way," Stucky cntinues, "This wrk means mre t me than ther things I've written. It's very nice, then, t have this piece in particular be recgnized by the Pulitzer jury." Stucky has had a clse relatinship with the LAP fr years; he currently serves as the rchestra's cnsulting cmpser fr new music. "The wrk with Esa -Pekka and the LAP is s satisfying," Stucky says. "I've been listening t them evlve as an ensemble, and hearing Esa- Pekka's style n the pdium prgress, fr many years. Althugh I certainly enjy wrking with ther rchestras, the Ls Angeles players are the mdel that I carry in my head. They're part f my artistic persnality." While cntinuing his wrk in Ls Angeles and frequently cnducting the LAP New Music Grup as well as his wn Ensemble X, Stucky has taught at Crnell University in Ithaca, N.Y., since 980. Stucky ntes, "As f nw, there aren't plans t recrd the Secnd Cncert fr Orchestra," adding that despite the financial challenges f recrding an rchestral piece in the United States in this era, he hpes that the Pulitzer win prvides impetus fr such a prject. Recent recrdings f Stucky's wrk include a cllectin f his chamber music played by the Cassatt String Quartet and Ensemble X, released by Albany Recrds in 00. The vcal ensemble Chanticleer included his Cradle Sngs n its Grammy Award- winning album "Clrs f Lve," released by Teldec in 000. Classical Scre. By Anastasia Tsiulcas Althugh this was the first year that jazz, film scres and musical theater wrks were eligible, the ther Pulitzer finalists were familiar names: Ellit Carter, fr his piece "Dialgues," and Steve Reich, fr "Yu Are (Variatins)." Nnesuch is recrding Reich's piece with the Ls Angeles Master Chrale, t be released this summer. HErHERWICK'S BIG PLANS: Earlier this mnth, Sny BMG annunced details abut the emerging face f its recently frmed classical divisin. Led by president Gilbert Het- herwick, it is called Sny BMG Masterwrks. The label's name hlds great resnance fr classical music aficinads: It recalls CBS' belved classical music label that was flded int Sny in 99. This histrical resnance is intentinal; Hetherwick ntes that the new divisin will have a renewed cmmitment t cre classical music. "We want t reach as brad a market as pssible," he says, "but we are ging t fcus n real, traditinal, classical music." He adds, hwever, that his cmpany will cntinue t prduce sme crssver recrdings "that make sense," citing cellist Y -Y Ma's "Obrigad Brazil" albums as a successful mdel. Sny BMG Masterwrks will als be respnsible fr Bradway reissues, as well as new recrdings f cast albums and rchestral film scres. Hetherwick describes the cmpany's current artist -rster bjectives as selective. "We're aggressively lking fr new artists," he bserves, "but we're nt aggressively signing." Where Hetherwick plans t be mre expansive is n the reissues side f the business. He als envisins making at least part f Sny BMG Masterwrks' archives available fr dwnlad. "That's the future f the catalg," he says. "The current situatin, in which there are s many wnderful recrdings in the vaults that are unavailable t music lvers, is a real shame." Study Music Business Online `v'th Berklee music.cm extensin schl Berkleemusic is the nline extensin schl f Berklee Cllege f Music. Online music business curses and prgrams at Berkleemusic allw industry prfessinals the pprtunity t expand their knwledge and gain a cmpetitive edge n their wn time, frm anywhere in the wrld. Create and perate yur wn publishing cmpany, and learn hw t effectively prmte and place yur sngs int incme- generating pprtunities. Build yur music career with an understanding f the legal issues that are cf special cncern t musicians and sngwriters. Music Business & Technlgy Certificate Prgram This 8- curse prgram cvers music prductin and the music business in.great detail with a fcus n the future f the evlving music industry. e Visit www. billbard U. crn Financial Aid & Cllege Credit Available BILLBOARD APRIL,

14 Music The Beat Cntinued frm page Channel and PBS. In additin t the Irish cmmunity, Celtic Wman appeals t an lder music fan. "This appeals t the same audience as Sarah Brightman," EMI Classics & Jazz president/ceo Bruce Lundvall says. "It's the sphisticated adult audience. The prject is very musical, but it's nt crny." Manhattan Recrds senir VP /c- GM Ian Ralfini believes the DVD will ultimately be the tp mneymaker frm the varying revenue streams since it allws fans t relive the cncert experience. He adds that shuld "Celtic Wman" becme the phenmenn that "Riverdance" became (the tw share a musical directr), Manhattan and its partners will explre such merchandising ptins as perfume r clthing lines. PBS will air the special again in June and August. Manhattan is supprting the CD and DVD thrugh TV cmmercials and circular ads, and is in discussins with fellw EMI label Narada abut distributing the CD/DVD t lifestyle utlets. The album will cme ut in the rest f the wrld in early 00. GOOD. MORNING: "Gd Mrning America" will kick ff its summer cncert series with U, which will make its first mrning TV appearance. The Irish lads wn't actually be in New Yrk's Bryant Park, where the perfrmances usually take place. Instead, the "GMA" team will travel t a stp n the band's Vertig tur. They will interview the band and select three sngs t air May 0 and tw mre t air May n the weekend editin f "GMA." "U is the biggest act in the Nalick Cntinued frm page release last Octber. Clumbia Recrds Grup chairman Will Btwin says the label decided t delay the recrd and build awareness thrugh Nalick's perfrmances. "We really started ur campaign last summer," he says. 'We've shwcased her in cncert situatins, cnference rms, clubs and t music supervisrs. Wherever she plays, she gets peple n her side." Nalick had written eight f the tracks n the album befre signing t Chimbia. She partnered with prduc- wrld, it's cmpletely viable that we'd d smething different," prducer Mark Bracc says f the decisin t air live cncert ftage rather than have the act perfrm in persn. "Fr [a band] like U, they can break sme f the rules." Other artists cnfirmed fr the series include Shakira, Santana, Missy Ellitt, Clay Aiken, Keith Urban and Avril Lavigne. A LOTTA SOUL: Le Burnett USA has launched an artist -in- residence pr- tin du Christpher Thm and Brad Smith- funding members f Blind Meln -and Tri Ams prducer Eric Rsse t take the tracks frm cnceptin t reality. When she listens t the recrd nw, Nalick says, "it might as well be in my head still, because it sunds exactly like what I imagined." The singer has already built a film and TV presence: First single "Breathe ( A.M.)" was featured in a recent episde f CBS' "Jan f Arcadia." The track can als be heard in the Tuchstne Pictures film "A Lt Like Lve," which pens April. 'We felt [TV and mvie audiences] wuld be her mst likely first fan base," Btwin says. "Yu can't rely n just traditinal radi anymre." gram. On a quarterly basis, the Chicag -based ad agency will bring in musicians, sngwriters and prducers t brainstrm. It has enlisted the help f Ls Angeles -based music publishing cmpany Nrth Star Media t enlist talent. The first act selected fr the prgram was Cllective Sul, which spent three days at the agency, meeting with 0 creative teams fr such clients as Kellgg's and Disney. The idea is that the meetings will generate use f existing catalg frm the But radi is taking ntice f Nalick's building stry. "Breathe" is prving ppular amng adult tp 0 audiences, as it steps -0 n the Billbard Adult Tp 0 chart this issue. Clumbia executive VP f creative marketing and prmtin Charlie Walk says the label cnsiders Nalick a multifrmat artist. Clumbia lked t her strngest airplay markets t frmat a reginal cup -sleeve campaign at high -traffic cffee chains featuring a pht f Nalick and infrmatin abut the album. "It was very rganic," Walk says. 'We have been building up wrd -f -muth strategically since last September. We really wanted a buzz n her ging int the release date." The effrt paid ff. Accrding t act r spur new material fr upcming spts. Cllective Sul is in cntinuing discussins with the agency n prjects. "Le Burnett is giving us the marching rders in terms f the music we bring in, such as smething cutting edge r smething Latin," Nrth Star funder Rn Sbel says. "They'd really like t find high -prfile acts, but the idea is t streamline the prcess, and part f ur mandate is t bring the new and emerging artists as well." Clumbia, there have been mre than,000 prerders ging int the release f Wreck f the Day." 'We're ging t have a very aggressive retail presence with this album," Btwin says. "There's ging t be a very healthy ship ut and price- and -psitining in majr retail accunts." A series f in- stres at Brders Bks & Music lcatins will kick ff April. Nalick will appear n "Live With Regis and Kelly" (April 0) and "The Tnight Shw With Jay Len" (April ). Nalick has drawn cmparisns t artists ranging frm Fina Apple t Paul Simn, and that's fine with her. "I've never been cmpared t anyne I dn't like," she says. "I'm a new artist, and peple need a way t explain my music t ther peple." YEARS Serving the Entertainment Industry DISC Menu Authring & Design - Mtin Graphics - SACD /CD /DVD - Custm Packaging BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

15 uring Music Jhnsn Plans Biggest Rad Trip Yet BY JILL KIPNIS LOS ANGELES -Jack Jhnsn's career culd easily be summed up with the shipfaring mantra "steady as she ges." First building a fan base by turing small venues, the frmer champin surfer went n t pen fr Ben Harper at theaters and amphitheaters in 00. A shrt headlining tur featuring G. Lve and Dnavn Frankenreiter last year has paved the way fr a large - scale, -date headlining trek that will start Aug. at the Verizn Wireless Theater in Hustn. The tur als features ALO and Matt Csta. "He had sld ver 00,000 albums befre he gt played n the radi," says Tm Chauncey, Jhnsn's bking agent at Partisan Arts. "He's a guy wh writes sngs and plays acustic guitar, and has ultimately develped his wn categry. Nw, this is the largest U.S. tur Jack has dne t date, bth in terms f venue sizes and number f markets played in a cnsecutive time perid." Chauncey expects that a shw withut bells and whistles will have widespread appeal in the packed summer turing seasn. T avid the glut f summer shw n- sales, he says tickets fr mst f the tur stps were available as early as March 0. What will als set the tur apart is its link t envirnmental alliance % fr the Planet. The trek will be rgan- ized s that it will have a minimal impact n the envirnment. All f the tur vehicles will run n bi- diesel fuel, and numerus recycling effrts will be made alng the rute. Other elements are still cming tgether. IT'S ABOUT THE MUSIC Tur rganizers say Jhnsn has maintained a steadily grwing fan base because his turs have fcused n his music. "What Jack des is he speaks t peple abut subjects that they want t knw abut," Chauncey says. "His audience has becme brader than yu wuld think." Jhnsn's 00 tur with Harper grssed $0. millin and drew attendance f mre than 00,000, accrding t Billbard Bxscre. His dates last year grssed $.8 millin and attracted 8,000 peple. Cncurrent with his grwing tur base, Jhnsn has seen increased album sales. His latest album, "In Between Dreams" (Jack Jhnsn /Brushfire/ Universal), is his fastest -selling yet with sales f 0,000 units, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. The set bwed in March n The Billbard 00 at N. and sld 9,000 cpies, his best sales week ever. The album's first single, "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing," has spent three weeks at N. n Billbard Radi Mnitr's Triple -A chart. Jhnsn's last album, "On and On," has sld. millin units, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. It peaked at N. n The Billbard 00. Chauncey says that chsing the right venues fr Jhnsn's new tur, hwever, did nt necessarily equate age demgraphic here that just wants t sit utside n a Friday night, have a drink and listen t Jack." Hchwart ntes that the $ tickets have been selling steadily since the shw's March n -sale, and that JOHNSON: HIS NEW TOLR IS ALIGNED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP % FOR THE PLANET with reaching the mst peple. "Mainly we targeted utdr facilities with a pririty t keep the experience as intimate and special as pssible," he explains. "In certain markets, we purpsely chse smaller venues where the vibe is exceptinal ver larger ptins." Jdie Hchwart, marketing manager fr the,00 -seat Idah Center Amphitheatre in Nampa -hst f Jhnsn's Aug. stp -says that her venue is perfect fr the perfrmer's "laid -back feel. We have a thriving - the date will likely sell ut. Similarly, Bill Hartnett, VP f events and entertainment fr the 8,000 -seat Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, M., says his venue's Aug. date is "n pace t prbably sell ut. He's an artist wh had gd management and tured the right way. He's becme successful by building his audience slwly." Apart frm generating interest thrugh early n- sales, Jhnsn's engagements prir t the tur will bring added attentin t his summer dates. In additin t perfrming April and at the Kkua Festival, a benefit fr the Kkua Hawaii Fundatin, which wrks t preserve Hawaii's natural envirnment, he will appear April 8 at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and April 9 at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis. Jhnsn will als tur Eurpe and Japan in May. He'll return t the States fr a June appearance at the Bn - nar festival in Manchester, Tenn. Tur prmtin has fcused n print and radi advertising, accrding t Dn Strasburg, senir talent buyer fr Chuck Mrris/Bill Graham Presents, and Emmanuel Pattersn, senir talent buyer fr Huse f Blues Cncerts Canada. Strasburg's Aug. date at Red Rcks Amphitheatre in Denver sld ut in three hurs. Pat - tersn's Sept. shw at the Mlsn Amphitheatre in Trnt, the tur finale, is mre than 8% clean. "There wasn't a lt f cmpetitin with ther summer shws when it went up, but I dn't think that had anything t d with these ticket sales," Pattersn says. "Peple just dig a vibey, flly shw." Venues and prmters say that Jhnsn's partnership with % fr the Planet is a bn, rather than a challenge. "That will be appealing," Idah Center's Hchwart says. "Hw can it nt be? We all want ur planet t be in the same frm that it is nw." Widespread Panic's Small-VenueTrekA Big Deal BY RAY WADDELL If there ever was a time fr Widespread Panic, it culd be the summer f 00. The band has just returned t the rad after an 8 -mnth, self -impsed hiatus, and fr the legins f Spread - heads (as its fans are knwn), it has been a welcme return. "We're just glad t be back, glad peple haven't frgtten us," Panic bassist Dave Schls says. As they say in the Suth, "Frget, hell!" Panic's return kicked ff with three selluts March - at the Fx Theatre in Atlanta. The Clear Channel Entertainment -prduced Gergia hmecming fr Panic grssed $8,8 and drew mre than,000 peple. The Fx gigs were the first in a series f multiples by the band at small venues this spring. Panic will then play the Bnnar festival June - in Manchester, Tenn., fllwed by mre summer dates, beginning with three nights June - at Red Rcks Amphitheatre in Mrrisn, Cl. The intensity surrunding the small -venue shws has been high. "I wuld say it's like getting back up n a bucking brnc," says Schls, whse mst ardent fans place themselves squarely in frnt f him in the "Schls zne." "There is n amunt f preparatin yu can d t get back up nstage after this amunt f time and play in frnt f Widespread Panic fans. That first night at the Fx, I've never experienced anything like it." Buck Williams, the band's lngtime c- manager and agent, has been equally impressed. "These shws have been ver the tp," Williams says. "The enthusiasm and excitement f the fans and the band are bth at an all -time high." That is saying smething fr a band knwn fr its fanatical fllwing. Panic has a wrking nstage arsenal f mre than 0 sngs and will nt repeat a tune within a three -cncert span. The band says it has never repeated a set list. "It feels better nw, with this new generatin f the band," Schls bserves. "I think the break did us all a wrld f gd." Gerge McCnnell,. WIDESPREAD PANIC: BACK AFTER AN 8 -MONTH HIATUS a lngtime friend f the band, replaced funding guitarist Michael Huser, wh died in 00. Such nstage flexibility inspires fans t attend multiple shws. "It's nt unusual fr a fan t g t 0 - shws a year," Williams says. And, after mre than a year ff the rad, many fans fund the small capacity f the initial return shws ff -putting. "We had sme backlash in Atlanta because we had abut 90,000 requests fr the first day that we culd nt accmmdate," Williams says. "A lt f peple have asked why we're playing these small venues, and the reasn is twfld," Williams adds. "We did it fr the fans, s they culd get clser t the band. And we did it fr the band, s they culd get their chps back and feed ff the audience." Many f the early shws have been recrded and digitized and are available fr dwnlad at nugs.net fr $0.9. After the Atlanta shws,,000 dwnlads were given away in ne week as a special band prmtin. Panic has released CDs and five DVDs. The "Live at Oak Muntain" DVD n Sanctuary has been certified gld. During the band's hiatus, fur live CDs were released, all n Sanctuary. PROMOTE US OR ELSE The fervr surrunding Panic's return t the rad will prpel it t the tp -grssing year in the band's 8 -year histry, Williams says. "Every single date we're getting int the percentages," he says, adding that the band wrks with a variety f prmters. "We wrk with everyne," Williams says. "But there are a few prmters we wrk with [fr whm] this is their last chance t prve they `get it' with this band." Asked t explain, Williams says there are unique qualities t prmting a Panic shw, mstly abut "knwing hw, when and where t put it n sale. Prmters als need t understand Panic's fans and the crrelatin between the tickets, the fans and the venue. It's nt just abut putting a shw n sale." Williams has little patience fr ckie -cutter prmtins, particularly when it cmes t radi. "Sme peple need t lk at hw they use tickets and dllars t generate mmentum," he says, adding that he puts "zer value" in Web prmtins and ticket giveaways that "have nthing t d with ur shw." Much f the widespread nature f Panic's fllwing is the result f a savvy and sphisticated apprach t marketing, and Williams and his staff pre ver every aspect f a given prmtin. "If a statin desn't play Widespread Panic, I'm nt interested in a [ticket giveaway] prmtin," Williams says. "The prmter can buy a 0- secnd spt we have preprduced." BILLBOARD APRIL,

16 Music GIGANT UR Megadeth Has Big Plans Fr Tur Megadeth funder Dave Mustaine will launch a six-week festival tur in late July basting tw stages f music. Jining Megadeth n the main stage fr Gigantur will be Dream Theater, Fear Factry, Dillinger Escape Plan and Nevermre, with mre bands t be annunced. The Gigantur is prduced by Mustaine, alng with Benchmark Entertainment and the William Mrris Agency. Keith Sarkesian is the respnsible agent. "This tur is Dave's brainchild," says Kevin Gasser, a partner in Benchmark. "The timing is right, and we were able t find sme great artists t cme ut n the rad with us. We wanted it t be a diverse shw musically, rather than ne subgenre." The tur ups the metal qutient n the rad this year, as Gigantur jins such hard music treks as Clear Channel Entertainment -prduced Ozzfest, and the Sunds f the Undergrund tur, prmted by Huse f Blues. There are als several mega -metal fests, including Lcbazka in Fitchburg, Mass., and Luder Harder Faster in Allentwn, Pa. Such a busy metal slate speaks t the vitality f the genre, Gasser says, "but that certainly isn't reflected by radi. Kids find a way t discver this music n their wn, and they're very lyal." Final ruting fr the tur has nt yet been cnfirmed, althugh it is expected t hit amphitheaters and arenas in majr Nrth American markets. Tickets will be abut $. Megadeth will be turing behind its latest Sanctuary album, "The System Has Failed," which debuted last September at N. 8 n The Billbard 00. Dream Theater will utilize Gigantur t supprt its new album, "Octavarium," due June n Atlantic. Varius prmters will wrk with the tur. "We want t wrk with peple that are experts in their markets," Gasser says. "If we can draw,000 peple in a certain city, then we dn't want t play a 0,000 -seat venue. If that means playing indrs, we g indrs." Gasser, a frmer agent at Creative Artists Agency, and frmer Hllywd Recrds A &R guy Jhn Dee frmed Benchmark three years ag in Ls Angeles. Management clients include Maxwell, Eels,... And Yu Will Knw Us by the Trail f Dead, Mark Lanegan, Chris Stills and Caleb Kane. DOUBLE WHAMMY: There are sme great duble bills n tur in 00, OnThe Rad.. 0 By Ray Waddell including Dn Henley /Stevie Nicks, Judas Priest/Queensrÿche and Tm Petty/Black Crwes. Add anther t the list as Ls Lnely Bys will be jined n the Brtherhd tur by Ozmatli, beginning in early May. The tur includes Calexic n its first half, making fr as strng a cntemprary Latin package as will be n the rad in early summer. The uting starts May at the Ddge Arena in Hidalg, Texas, and will include a hmecming shw fr Ls Lnely Bys May in San Angel, Texas, at the RiverStage. Dates are n the bks until Aug. 0 at the Ravinia Festival in Highland, Ill. TRIPLE DOUBLE: Brks & Dunn will jin frces with Big & Rich and the Warren Brthers n the Deuces Wild tur this summer. The -date shed tur launches Aug. in Dallas at the Smimff Music Center and wraps Oct. 0 in West Palm Beach, Fla., at the Sund Advice Amphitheatre. The trek will be prduced by Brian O'Cnnell, Nashville -based VP f Clear Channel Entertainment. Brks & Dunn are managed by Clarence Spalding and bked by the William Mrris Agency. Spalding says the idea f a Brks & Dunn - headlined du tur is smething they have cnsidered fr sme time. "This year seemed the right year t d it," Spalding says. "Big & Rich have sld a cuple millin recrds, and I think they will bring a ttally new audience int ur fan base." Tickets will g n sale in May. APRIL 00 ill ARTIST(S) C BOXS CO R E rlvl CONCERT GROSSES VENUE/ GROSS/ ATTENDANCE/ DATE TICKET PRICE(S) CAPACITY PROMOTER ELTON JOHN The Clsseum at Caesars $,, 0, Caesars Palace, Palace, Las Vegas $0 /$/$00 ten selluts Cncerts West/AEG Live March 9-0, April -,-,8-0 KENNY CHESNEY, GRETCHEN Van Andel Arena, $,,08, Mischell Prductins, WILSON, UNCLE KRACKER Grand Rapids, Mich. $.0 tw selluts Frank Prductins, The March 0 - Messina Grup /AEG Live EAGLES RBC Center, $9,,09 AEG Live, C&C Cncerts Raleigh $/$ sellut March EAGLES Bi -L Center, $,,9.909 AEG Live, C &C Cncerts Greenville, S.C. $/$ sellut March 8 KENNY CHESNEY, GRETCHEN Rupp Arena, Lexingtn, Ky. $,,0 9,8 The Messina Grup/ WILSON, UNCLE KRACKER April 9 $.0/$.0 sellut AEG Live ELTON JOHN American Airlines Center, $,,0,9 Clear Channel Dallas $9/$ sellut Entertainment March EAGLES st Mariner Arena, $,0,,9 AEG Live Baltimre $/ sellut April ELTON JOHN Tyta Center, $,00,0,9 Clear Channel Hustn $9/$ sellut Entertainment March EAGLES Hamptn Cliseum, $,0,8 9,90 AEG Live, C &C Cncerts Hamptn, Va. $/$0 sellut March EAGLES Nrth Charlestn Cliseum, $,0,8, AEG Live, C&C Cncerts Nrth Charlestn, S.C. $/$9.0 sellut March EAGLES Charlestn Civic Center, $99,,8 AEG Live, C&C Cncerts Charlestn, W.Va. $/$ sellut March THE BLACK CROWES & OTHERS Hammerstein Ballrm, $90,,99 Clear Channel New Yrk $/ seven selluts Entertainment March -, -, 9-0 BOB DYLAN, MERLE HAGGARD, Auditrium Theatre, $8,090.8 Jam Prductins AMOS LEE Chicag $.0/$.0/$.0 /.0 five selluts April -, - ELTON JOHN Frd Center, $8,00,0 Clear Channel Oklahma City $/$ 9,0 Entertainment March R.E.M., BRIGHT EYES. LITTLE BIRDY Entertainment Centre, $0,09 Michael Chugg Sydney ($90,8 Australian),98 tw shws Entertainment, March -April $88./$9.0 Jack Utsick Presents KENNY CHESNEY, GRETCHEN Mizzu Arena, $0,00,9 Plice Prductins, WILSON, UNCLE KRACKER Clumbia, M. $/$ sellut The Messina Grup/ April AEG Live KENNY CHESNEY, GRETCHEN Khl Center, $8,9,99 Mischa!! Prductins, WILSON, UNCLE KRACKER Madisn, Wis. $.0/.0 sellut Frank Prductins, The April Messina Grup /AEG Live KENNY CHESNEY, GRETCHEN UI Assembly Hall, $0,8. Mischa!! Prductins, WILSON, UNCLE KRACKER Champaign, Ill. 9.0/$9.0 sellut The Messina Grup/ April 8 AEG Live KENNY CHESNEY, GRETCHEN The Mark f the Quad $8, 0,9 Mre Entertainment WILSON, UNCLE KRACKER Cities, Mline, Ill. $. sellut Grup, The Messina April Grup /AEG Live ALICIA KEYS, JOHN LEGEND Fx Theatre, $89, 8,899 Atlanta Wrldwide Turing Atlanta $8/ 9, tw shws April - R.E.M., BRIGHT EYES, LITTLE BIRDY Rd Laver Arena, $8. 9,00 Michael Chugg Melburne, Australia ($,8 Australian) 0,9 Entertainment April $88.0/$9.9 Jack Utsick Presents JOHN MELLENCAMP, DONOVAN Xcel Energy Center, $0,8,990 Jam Prductins St. Paul $./$. sellut April R.E.M., BRIGHT EYES, THE CHECKS TSB Bwl f Brklands, $,8,9 Michael Chugg New Plymuth, New Zealand ($08,80 New Zealand),8 Entertainment, March $8./$0. Jack Utsick Presents R.E.M., BRIGHT EYES, LITTLE BIRDY Entertainment Centre, $,9. Michael Chugg Brisbane. Australia ($,9 Australian),9 Entertainment, March 9 $88./9. Jack Utsick Presents STRING CHEESE INCIDENT & The Fillmre, $,890 0,8 Clear Channel OTHERS Denver $ 0,800 three shws Entertainment March - tw selluts BOB DYLAN, MERLE HAGGARD, The Fillmre, $,, Clear Channel AMOS LEE Denver $.,00 tw shws Entertainment March 8-9 ne sellut WIDESPREAD PANIC Chicag Theatre, $, 0.9 Jam Prductins Chicag $ three selluts April -9 VELVET REVOLVER, Pacific Cliseum, $.,8 Huse f Blues Canada THREE DAYS GRACE Vancuver ($,8 Canadian), March.8/$9.0/$. DURAN DURAN, IMA ROBOT Pengrwth Saddledme, $,,8 Clear Channel Calgary ($,0 Canadian),9 Entertainment March $./$9.8 MARK KNOPFLER Westpac Centre, $,0, Michael Chugg Christchurch, New Zealand ($,80 New Zealand),90 Entertainment Jack Utsick March $0.9 Presents, Artist Traders Ltd. DURAN DURAN, IMA ROBOT Everett Events Center, $0,,8 Clear Channel Everett, Wash. $//$, Entertainment March 9 R.E.M., BRIGHT EYES, LITTLE BIRDY Burswd Dme, $.,00 Michael Chugg Perth, Australia ($, Australian), Entertainment, April 8 $88.8/$9.0 Jack Utsick Presents DURAN DURAN, IMA ROBOT ipayone Center at the $,09, Viejas Entertainment. Sprts Arena, San Dieg $/$,0 Clear Channel Feb. Entertainment JOSH GROBAN, CHRIS BOTTI Tysn Events Center, $09,8, Clear Channel Siux City, Iwa $/$.0, Entertainment March A TASTE OF CHAOS TOUR: THE Lng Beach Arena, $08,,0 Gldenvice /AEG Live USED & OTHERS Lng Beach, Calif. $/$9.0/$ sellut March Cpyright 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Bxscres shuld be submitted t Bb Allen, Nashville. Phne: Fax: Fr research infrmatin and pricing, call Bb Allen, FOR MORE BOXSCORE RESULTS GO TO BILLBOARD.COM BILLBOARD APRIL. 00

17 U.S. Market Share By Distributr: R &B Albums UMVD Sny BMG Indies 0.9% 9% WEA.% I.% EMM hi 8.% a 8.% 0.% %.% Jan. -Mar. 00 Jan. -Mar. 00 SOURCE: NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN U.S. Market Share By Distributr: Rap Albums UMVD Indies 8.9%.8% Sny BMG.% WEA MI 9.9 i -.% EMM I -.% 9.9'ie 9.%.% 9.% Jan. -Mar. 00 Jan. -Mar. 00M SOURCE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN R&BiH-Hp Music UMVD Rules R &B, Rap BY GAIL MITCHELL Further stretching its lead, Universal Music & Vide Distributin cntinues t significantly utpace its cmpetitrs in the R &B and rap albums arena. UMVD cmmanded a % market share in R &B fr first- quarter 00. That is a gain f nearly eight percentage pints ver the.% share UMVD accumulated during the same perid in 00. The cmpany's rise is even mre impressive n the rap frnt. UMVD jumped percentage pints t 9.% frm.% in 00. (Rap album sales are included in the R &B ttal.) UMVD's perfrmance was n dubt spurred by tw N. releases frm its Interscpe divisin: rap newcmer the Game's debut ( "The Dcumentary") BET Gets Real With Fatty K Fatty K. That clrful mniker belngs t the latest grup f yung talents seeking a music career. The Clumbus, Ohi, quintet's travails in the music business are the subject f a new BET reality prgram, `Blwin' Up!: Fatty K." It is the first riginal series frm the netwrk's prgram -develpment divisin, headed by VP Rbyn Lattaker- Jhnsn. The unscripted, 0- minute drama will unfld in weeks, beginning April at 9:0 p.m. EDT /PDT. It is billed as a chrnicle f real peple cncentrating n their music withut R h the "trappings f shw business -n mega studi, n penthuse, n bling bling." Fatty K's sund blends R &B, hip -hp, jazz, Latin and pp. The grup has a leg up n mst fledgling acts, having signed a cntract with Sny Urban/ DAS /Clumbia Recrds. Its debut album, "Huse f Fatty K," is due July, right after the series finishes. First single "Bgal Beat " -written by grup members Eddie B (0 years ld), Gabrielle (), Valure (0), Marya (8) and Rn () -is the theme fr the 00 NBA playffs. Executive prducers f "Blwin' Up!" include DAS wner and Academy Award winner David Snnenberg ( "When We Were Kings "), S.A. Barn f Orsn Entertainment and Gary Fisher, senir VP f vide prmtin and TV prgram- ming fr Clumbia Recrds. "BET seemed like a natural fit fr the grup and the music they were creating," Fisher says. As fr why this particular reality -based music shw will stand ut frm the crwd, Fisher ffers ne reasn: It is nt manufactured. "This isn't a series created in ó the halls f Clumbia Recrds s a$ with bling and majr prducers," he says. "First and fremst, the t h m lues By Gail Mitchell FATTY K00: STARRING IN BET REALITY SERIES music stands ut. Secnd, these are real, likable peple; it's easy t get sucked int wh they are and what they are abut." "Blwin' Up!" is ne f five riginal series BET intrduced this mnth at the NCTA natinal cable cnventin in San Francisc and at the netwrk's Upfrnt '0 presentatin t ptential advertisers at the Kdak Theatre in Hllywd. Amng the thers is "BET Late Night," a half -hur shw featuring interviews, sketches and musical perfrmances. MUSICAL NOTES: Cngrats t Faith Evans and Capitl Recrds n the success f her set "The First Lady." It ntched her best first -week sales and best chart utings: N. n Tp R &B/ Hip -Hp Albums and N. n The Billbard 00 (see Over the Cunter, page 9). After releasing her first studi album in fur years, the Ls Angeles -based Evans says she has ther prjects n her plate. These include a fitness DVD, an accessries line and a sitcm based lsely n her life. Vaneese Thmas signs with Wrldwide Management in New Yrk. Her album "A Wman's Lve" is available n Segue Recrds. Thmas has wrapped prductin n "Just Because I'm Leavin'," an album f unreleased tracks by her late father, Rufus Thmas. She and siblings Carla and Marvell are crdinating a turing tribute t their dad, set fr a May kickff. A fur -CD retrspective f legendary label Came Parkway will hit shelves May via ABKCO Recrds. "Came Parkway 9-9" celebrates the diverse indie that issued recrds by Chubby Checker, Bbby Rydell, Bb Seger, Patti LaBelle & Her Blue Belles, Dee Dee Sharp, the Five Stairsteps and Bunny Sigler. and 0 Cent's sphmre set ( "The Massacre "). Als under the UMVD banner is Baby Bash, whse "Super Saucy" debuted at N. n Tp R &B/ Hip -Hp Albums. Furth -quarter 00 releases that are still ging strng include Ludacris' "The Red Light District," Eminem's "Encre," Destiny's Child's "Destiny Fulfilled" and Akn's "Truble." Sny BMG earned a % market share in R &B, thanks t albums by Mari, Omarin and Jennifer Lpez - nt t mentin ntable 00 debuts by Jhn Legend, Ciara and Fantasia and Usher's - weeks- and -cunting chart ride. On the rap side, hwever, Sny BMG is furth with a.% share. Independent labels lcked dwn secnd place in rap with an 8.9% share, versus last year's.8 %. Blstering the first -quarter 00 tally were TVT, with Lil Jn & the East Side Byz's 00 sphmre studi album, and Kch, with the Diplmats, Layzie Bne and Bizzy Bne. The indie sectr mved frm 9% t 0.9% in R &B t claim furth place. Hlding dwn third place in R &B (. %) and rap (9.9 %) is WEA. The cmpany remained steady in R &B; { APRIL Z r g Bid, s M HOT amng the artists wh released prduct in the first quarter was Missy Ellitt's prtégée Tweet. Her secnd album, issued March, debuted at N. n Tp R &B/Hip -Hp Albums. In rap, WEA lst three percentage pints. Hwever, its Asylum divisin ntched a tp -five hit n Tp R &B/ Hip -Hp Albums with the Get Bys. Amng WEA's earlier- issued strng sellers were T.I., Trick Daddy and Lil Scrappy/Trillville. WEA's upcming spring/summer slate includes newcmers Leela James and Cruna as well as Ellitt, Juvenile, Ylanda Adams, Sean Paul and Fat Je. EMI Music Marketing was in fifth place in R &B (8. %) and rap (. %). The cmpany stayed even in R &B, with newcmer Brke Valentine debuting at N. with her March album, and the Rev. Al Green crning in at N. 9. Hwever, EMM lst grund in rap, sliding frm a 9.9% market share in 00. Industry bservers will n dubt be keeping an eye n Virgin during the secnd quarter as Jermaine Dupri -newly appinted president f the label's urban divisin -ramps up his release slate. RAP TRACKSTM Airplay mnitred by TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems Artist NUMBER t Week At Number HATE IT OR LOVE IT The Game Featuring 0 Cent cn, AFTERMATH /G- UNIT / INTERSCOPE x CANDY SHOP 0 Cent Featuring Olivia SHADY /AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE SOME CUT Trillville Featuring Cutty ' BME/WARNER BROS. WAIT (THE WHISPER SONG) Ying Yang Twins COLLIPARK/TVT U DON'T KNOW ME T.I. 0 =R GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 9 NUMBER ONE SPOT Ludacris ' OTP /DEF JAM SOUTH /IDJMG DISCO INFERNO SOCent SHADY /AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE 8 HOW WE DO The Game Featuring 0 Cent s' AFTERMATH /G- UNIT /INTERSCO PE 9 8 LOVERS AND FRIENDS Lil Jn & The East Side Byz Featuring Usher & Ludacris BME/TVT JUST A LIL BIT 0 Cent SHADY /AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE BABY I'M BACK Baby Bash Featuring Altn LATIUM /UNIVERSAL/UMRG I'M A HUSTLA Cassidy ^U' FULL SURFACEIJ /RMG 0 DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT Snp Dgg Featuring Pharrell 's DOGGYSTYLE/EFFEN /INTERSCOPE BRING EM OUT T.I. GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC STILL TIPPIN' Mike Jnes Featuring Slim Thug & Paul Wall 9 SWISHAHOUSEIASYLUM/WARNER BROS. I 8 GRIND WITH ME Pretty Rickie ATLANTIC SUGAR (GIMME SOME) Trick Daddy Featuring Ludacris, LiI' Kim & Cee -L 'Y SLIP -N-S LI D E/AT LANT C GIVE ME THAT Webbie Featuring Bun B 9 0 TRILUASYLUM GASOLINA Daddy Yankee z EL CARTEL/VI SO MUCH MORE Fat Je sz TERROR SQUAD /ATLANTIC CAN'T SATISFY HER I Wayne VP MOCKINGBIRD Eminem ' SHADY /AFTERMATH / INTERSCOPE DOWN AND OUT Cam'rn Featuring Kanye West & Syleena Jhnsn ROC- A- FELLNDEF JAM /IDJMG KARMA Llyd Banks Featuring Avant ' G- UNIT / INTERSCOPE TOMA Pitbull Featuring Lil Jn 9 DIAZ BROTHERS/TVT Recrds with the greatest increase in audience impressins. The rap tracks audience is cmpiled frm 8 R&B/Hip-Hp and rhythmic tp 0 statins which are electrnically mnitred hurs a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by number f audience, cmputed by crss -referencing exact times f airplay with Arbitrn listener data.9 Videclip availability. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD APRIL

18 I Music APRIL 00 Bilbard HOT T B.G. Is All Heart On Upcming Set This issue's clumn was written by Rhnda Baraka in Atlanta. Frmer Cash Mney mainstay B.G. says he always keeps an ear t the grund. He sets ut t prve that with his latest CD, "Heart f Da Streets," due May n his wn Chpper City Recrds, distributed by Kch. First single is "Where Da At." "I wanted t reach the same peple whm I've always reached ut fr," B.G. says. "My fan base is mainly the streets. As lng as I make the streets happy, I'm happy. "It's like I say in ne f my sngs: 'A bdy can't perate withut a heart.' S I feel like I'm the heart f the streets. I keep the streets bumping with my music. If I stp, then the streets are ging t stp bumping." B.G. (riginally knwn as Baby Gangsta) grew up in the Uptwn sectin f New Orleans. Befre he had reached his teens, he caught the attentin f brthers Rnald "Slim" Williams and Bryan "Baby" Williams, wh signed him t their fledgling Cash Mney label. Often credited with launching the Cash Mney Millinaires, B.G. first drew natinal attentin with his 999 single "Bling Bling." B.G.:GIVING FANS A'HOT STREET ALBUM' B.G.'s albums include 99's "True Stry" (rereleased in 999), and the 99 releases "Chpper City," "It's All n U, Vlume " and "It's All n U, Vlume." The prlific rapper was als a member f Ht Bys with Juvenile, Lil Wayne and Yung Turk. The grup's albums include "Get It Hw U Live" (99) and "Guerrilla Warfare" (999). B.G.'s 999 album "Chpper City in the Ghett" debuted at N. 9 n The Billbard 00 and N. n Tp R &B/Hip -Hp Albums. It was blstered by first single "Cash Mney Is an Army," but it was "Bling Bling" that sent the set saring. After releasing his sixth sl album, "Checkmate," in 000, B.G. parted cmpany with Cash Mney. He resurfaced in 00 with the Kch release "Livin' Legend," fllwed by 00's "Life After Cash Mney." While recrding "Heart f Da Streets," B.G. did nt venture t far frm the Chpper City family. "I didn't get any featured guests because I really wanted t push my wn artists and make sure I set them up prperly," he explains. "I basically feature my Chpper City bys: my little brther Hakim, Sniper and th Ward Weebie. I just gt in the lab and made a ht street album." Beats& Rhymes.. CROOKED I SEES STRAIGHT: Frmer Death Rw rapper Crked I has been hunkered dwn in the studi with prducer Sctt Strch (Beynd, Fat Je, Mari), wrking n an album set t drp July. "B.O.S.S. Music (Beginning f Smething Serius)" will cme ut thrugh Treacherus/Univer - sal Recrds. The rapper is als readying a tell - all DVD, "Life After Death Rw." It will be released in cnjunctin with the new CD and a mix tape, "Yung Bss, Vl.." SIRIUS ABOUT MUSIC: Sirius Satellite Radi has kicked ff a weekly mix shw hsted by legendary DJ Grandmaster Flash -the man best - knwn fr blending rck, pp, jazz, blues and R &B in his ht mixes. The "Flash Mash" will air Saturdays frm p.m. t 9 p.m. EDT n channel, beginning April. Grandmaster Flash says his shw will mirrr the style he pineered in the early '0s. He will als kick in sme music histry. "I'll be talking abut the use f samples," he says, "as well as what certain sngs mean, where they came frm and playing what I feel. I'm calling ut t all the labels thrughut the wrld t send me their stuff because this is ging t be an amazing mix." NELLY SCHOLARS: Nelly and Fillmre Street Brewery (manufacturers f the nncarbnated energy drink Pimp Juice) have annunced the winners f the PIMP (Psitive Intellectual Mtivated Persn) Schlars Prgram ( "Beats & Rhymes," Billbard, April 9). Hward University student Bryan Hughes and St. Luis University's Jyce Jacksn each wn a $,000 schlarship. Jl n = TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL) O. NUMBER I tr' Hate It Or Lve It MEGMIRATfCENl WIERMANG UNITRRERSCORI :WW N W E W lij TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL) i- - Girl ea DESTINY'S CHILD (COLUMBIA/SUM) itr Truth Is 0 Just A LiI Bit FANTASIA (J/RMG) IA 0 CENT ISHADY /AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPEI PI Candy Shp Cater U 0 CENT FEAT OUVIA ISHADY /AFTORMATHANTERSCOPH. a DESTINY'S CHILD(COLUMBINSUM) Thing 9 Bring Em Out - AMERIE (RISFJCOLUMBINSUM) TI (GRAND HUSTWATLANTICI Ordinary Peple JOHN LEGEND (G.O..D/COLUMBIA/SUM),, (0 Can't Satisfy Her 0 WAYNE (API U Dn't Knw Me Free Yurself TI. (GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC( PA FANTASIA (J/HMG) Number One Spt We Belng Tgether 9 0 LUDACRIS IDTP/DEF JAM SOUTH /IDJMG) MARIAH CAREY IISLAND/IDJMGI A Slw Dwn Give Me That m 0 BOBBY VALENTINO (DTP/DEF JAWIDJMG( WEBBIE FEATURING BUN B ITRI WASYLUM) 9 Wait (The Whisper Sng) m 8 S What The Fuss m a HING YANG TWINS (COLLIPARK/TVT) STEVIE WONDER IMOTOWNNMRGI U Already Knw Everytime Yu G Away -.. FEATURING FOXY BROWN(DEF SOULADJMG( ï. (ÿ I BRIAN MCKNIGHT(MOTOWNUMRG( i 8 Sme Cut m All Because Of Yu - TRILLVILLE FEAT. CURS IBME/WARNER BROS.) MARQUES HOUSTON n.u.gj L,t Oh is, I Can't Stp Lving Yu MI CIARA RAT. LUDACRIS ISHO'NUFFMUSICUNEAAFACE0MBAI MI HEM IMOTOWNNMRG) Let Me Lve Yu 8 9 Frever, Fr Always, Fr Lve CEO - MARIO (RD STREET /J/HMG( AM LALAH HATHAWAY (GRPNERVE) ': 0 9 In The Kitchen 8 - (MARION (T.U.G/EPIC /SUM) 'dl I'm A Hustle 0 CASSIDY (FULL SURFACE/JAIMGI R KELLY (JIVE/ZOMBA) 0, Step CIARA ISHO'NUFF- MUSICLINETAFACFOMBA) lal, UJ r^ Q CD Disc Infern Itr m Grind With Me 0 0 CENT ISHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE) PRETTY RICKIE (ATLANTIC) PI Again It's Like That CE. FAITH EVANS (CAPITOL) It MARIAH CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG) itr 9 Girlfight 8 Caught Up 8 * BROOKE VALENTINE (SUBUMINAINIRGIN) USHER I AFACEOMBA(it Trapped In The Clset (Chapter Of ) 9 9 Lvers And Friends CD - LIL JON& THE EAST SIDE BOYZ (BME/IVT) Itr 0 Hw We D THE GAME FEAT. 0 CENT (AFTERMATWG- UNITANTERSCOPE( 8 Baby Mama 9 FANTASIA (J/RMG) 0 Okay NIVEA (JIVE/ZOMBA) Itr ED Hw Culd Yu 8 8 MARIO (RD STREET /J/RMG) Al Drp It Like It's Ht SNOOP 00GG FEAT PHARRELL IDOGGYSIYU,OEFRWINTSSCOPEI Still Teppin' m MIKE JONES ISWISHAHOUSE /ASYLUMANARNER BROS.) R. KELLY (JIVE/ZOMBA) Whatever ell - JILL SCOTT (HIDDEN BEACH/EPIC/SUM) Dwn And Out CAM'RON (ROC-A- FELLNDEFJAWIOJMG) Turn Da Lights Off D NJEET FEAT. MISSY ELLIOTT (THE GOLDMIND /ATLANTIC) S Much Mre GEO - FAT JOE (TERROR SQUAD /ATLANTIC) Get Right 8 JENNIFER LOPE (EPIC/SUM) Must Be Nice EEO - LOFE JENNINGS (COLUMBIA/SUM) * TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) S What (If Yu Gt A Baby) GERALD LEVERT (ATLANTIC) Sldier DESTINY'S CHILD FEAT T.I. & UL WAYNE ICOLUMBWSUMI dr The Crner COMMON FEAT THE UST POETS IGOA.D/GERENANTFRSCOPEI MVP MARY J. BUGE (GEFFEN /INTERSCOPEI Just A Mment NAS FEAT. (WAN (ILL WIWCOLUMBINSUM) Baby I'm Back BABY BASH FEAT AKON (LATIUM/UNIVERSAUUMRGI Dem Byz BOYZ N DA HOOD (BAD BOY) Set It Off YOUNG GUNZ (ROC- A- FELLANEF JAMADJMGI Like That MEMPHIS BLEEK (ROC-A- FELLA/DEE JAM/IDJMG) ASAP T I. [GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTICI* Lnely AKON ISRC/UNIVERSAWMRGI Icy GUCCI MANE (BIG CAT) Ghett AKON (SRCNNIVERSAWMRGI Sugar (Gimme Sme) TRICK DADDY (SUP- N- SLIDE/ATWNTIC) Sittin Sidewayz PAUL WALL ISWISHAHOUSE/ASYLUMI Mtivatin T.I. (GRAND HUSTLE/ATIANTICI Errtime NEW' (DERRTY/UNIVERSAWMRGI itr Baby FABOLOUS (DESERT STORWATIANTICI itr Gtta G Gtta Leave (Tired) VIVIAN GREEN (COLUMBIA/SUM) Make Her Feel Gd TEAIRRA MARI (ROC- A- FELTNDEFJAMADJMG( Feel It In The Air BEANIE SIGEL (DDMG /CRIMINALBACKGROUNDADJMG Mic Check, JUELZ SANTANA (NO LABEL) The Ptin LUDACRIS (DTP /DEF JAM SOUTH/IDJMG) Obsessin (N Es Amr) FRANKIEJ FEAT. BABY BASH (COLUMBIA/SUM) Dn't Stp BEANIE SIGEL IODMG/CRIMINAL BACKGROUNDAOJMB)* Recrds with the greatest impressins increase. rs' 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Cmpiled frm a natinal sample cf airplay supplied by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems' Radi Track service. B statins are electrnically mnitred hurs a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by grss impressins, cmputed by crss-referencing e act times f airplay with Arbitrn listener data. This data is used t cmpile the Ht R &B/Hip -Hp Singles & Tracks chart. *indicates title earned HitPredictr status in research data prvided by Prmsquad. APRIL 00 R &B /HIP -HOP Billbard'' SINGLES SALESTM TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) BER IR The NtchedGappedl Ile Clse ICSpter0 S R. KELLY (JIVE/ZOMBA) Dn't Cha TORI ALAMAZE (ROCKHILWNIVERSAUUMROI Thing AMERIE (RISE/COLUMBIASUMI City By Wit' It TOM. G (GIGANTIC( Wait (The Whisper Sng) VINO YANG TWINS ICOWPARK/M) We Gt That COO COO CAL (FVS/IN DA TRUNK) 9 Slw Dwn BOBBY VALENTINO (DTP /DEF JAWIDJMG) 0 Everyday Lve MONEY &RIE MCI UOI OHO GLOBAIIBOMMAN S le Get Em Up MAK -V (COOL MILLION) It's Like That MARIAH CAREY (ISLAND /IDJMG( Gtta G Sl PATTI LABELLE FEAT. RON ISLES (DEF SOUL CLSSICS/IDJMGI Gutta Livin G MENACE (GUTTA BOYABOLAMAN'S TALKING DRUM) - Sldier 8 8 DESTINY'S CHILD FEAT. T.I. & UL WAYNE (COLUMBIA/SUM) Like That MEMPHIS BLEEK IROC-A- FELINDEFJAM/IOJMG) S Much Mre FATJOE (TERROR SQUAD / ATLANTICI I'm A Hustle CASSIDY (FULL SURFACEJJARMG) U Already Knw (DEFSOUL/IDJMG) Girlfight BROOKE VALENTINE (SUBLIMINAL/VIRGIN) Guess Wh Lves Yu Mre Set It Off 8 î RAHEEM DEVAUGHN (JIVE/ZOMBA) YOUNG GUNZ (ROC- A- FELLA/DEFJAM/IDJMG) CCIIARA FEAT LUDACRIS Disc Infern ISHO'NUFF- MUSICUNE/LAFACE/ZOMBA 0 CENT ISHADY /AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPEI I Changed My Mind KEYSHIA COLE FEAT SHYNE 0 East C -DASH (ZENRA) Get Right JENNIFER LOPEZ (EPIC/SUM) IA&M /INTERSCOPEI Recrds with the greatest sales gains VNU Business Media, E.-ad Nlelse SudScan. Inc. NI rights reserved. Cmpiled by Nelsen..nrtìcan frm a natinal subset panel f cre R&B/Hip-Hp s res. This data.ec t cmpile the Ht R &B/Hip -Hp Singles Si Tracks chart. APRIL 0 RHYTHMIC tt Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) NUMBER( Candy Shp UCEMRAT BMA ISHEGSGRHPMET NNIFAS0ARI Hate It Or Lve It Vr Wukti THE GAME FEAT 0 CENT IAFTERMATSVG-UNTANTERSCOPEI Obsessin (N Es Amr) FRANKIE J FEAT BABY BASH ICOLUMBINSUMI Sme Cut TRILLVILLE FEAT. CUTTY (BME/WARNER BROS I Lnely AKON (SRCAINIVERSAL/UMRGI Baby I'm Back BABY BASH FEAT. AKON IIATSUMIUNIVERSAWMRGI Wait (The Whisper Sng) PING YANG TWINS (COWPARK/M) Disc Infern 0 CENT ISHADY)AFTERMATHANTERSCOPEI Gin' Crazy NATALIE ILATIUM/UNIVERSAWMRGI Slw Dwn BOBBY VALENTINO (DTP /DEFJAM/IDJMG) Hw We D THE GAME FEAT. 0 CENT (AETERMATWO-UNIT/INTERSCOPEI CIARA (SHO'NUFF-MUSICLINEMFACE/ZDMBAI * Girlfight BROOKE VALENTINE ()MARION ITU.GhPIC/SUMI itr Let Me Lve Yu MARIO (RDSTREET/JAMG) (SUBLIMINAL /VIRGIN( itr U Dn't Knw Me T I (GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC) Okay NIVEA FEAT LILJON &YOUNGBL00D IJIVE/ZOMBAI itr Sugar (Gimme Sme) TRICK DADDY ISLIP- N- SLIDE/ATLANTIC) Thing AMERIE (RISE/COLUMBIA/SUM) We Belng Tgether 0. MARIAH CAREY IISLAND/IDJMGI + Cmpiled frm a n tinal sample f data supplied by Nielsen Bradcast Data Sy tems. rhythmic airplay statins are electrnically mnitred hurs a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by number f detechns.alsngs shwing an increase in detectins ver the prey us week, regardless f chart mvement. A sng which has been n the chart fr mre than 0 weeks will generally nt receive a bullet, even if it registers an increase in detectins. The rhythmic airplay chart runs at a deeper length in Airplay Mnitr, Billbard Infrmatin Netwrk, and billbard.cm. *indicates title earned HitPredictr status in NEW RELEASES WITH TOP 0 CALLOUT POTENTIAL LYFE JENNINGS Must Be Nice SUM BEANIE SIGEL W Dn't Stp IDJMG IFCENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH TOP 0 CALLOUT POTENTIAL MARIO Hw Culd Yu RMG FAITH EVANS Again CAPITOL MARQUES HOUSTON All Because Yu T.U.G. MARIAH CAREY We Belng Tgether IDJMG 0 CENT Just LII Bit INTERSCOPE PRETTY RICKIE Grind With Me ATLANTIC NELLY Errtime UMRG T.I. 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19 . VIIl.ml,a.y a in Music UMVD Claims Half Of Latin Marketplace BY LEILA COBO Universal Music & Vide Distributin went frm being the third- largest distributr f Latin music in 00 t the tp distributr in 00. It nw accunts fr mre than half f all Latin music sld in the United States. Accrding t first- quarter figures released by Nielsen SundScan, UMVD had a.% market share f all Latin albums distributed in the United States. That is up frm.% fr the same time perid in 00, and mre than duble the market share f its clsest cmpetitr, Sny BMG, which had %. Independent labels are third with.8 %. EMI Music Marketing fllws with 8. %, and fifth -place WEA had.8 %. UMVD's numbers are the cntinuatin f its market -share grwth that began in 00, thanks t a distributin deal with Univisin Music Grup. When distributin f Univisin's Fnvisa Recrds fell under UMVD in 00, the distributr sht t the tp f the Latin market. UMVD's first- quarter perfrmance accmpanies new leadership f its Latin peratin. Earlier this year, UMVD VP f Latin sales and marketing Gustav López left the cmpany t helm Machete U.S. Market Share By Distributr: Latin Albums UMVD - Sny BMG %.9% Indies.8P/.% WEA 8.% ME 9.% - EMM.8%.8%.%.% Jan. -Mar. 00 is Jan. -Mar. 00 L SOURCE: NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN Music, an urban music label launched by Universal Music Grup. His duties at UMVD were split between Nydia Laner, senir directr f Latin sales, and Jesús Naranj, directr f Latin sales. Laner is supervising all whlesale and retail accunts, while Naranj versees ne -stp accunts, which are mstly Latin. The split wrks, Laner says, "because it gives mre cncentratin in each class f trade, and, when there is smebdy fcusing just n thse accunts, it helps maximize the pprtunities." The split is particularly ntewrthy in the Latin market, she adds, because ne -stp accunts make up a substantial prtin f the business. Naranj says UMVD's Latin grwth "has been parallel, bth in the mainstream and ne -stp accunts. Our structure is set up fr bth." Fueling that grwth is Univisin's dminatin f the Latin marketplace and the reggaetón and duranguense mvements, which cntinue t see a rise in sales that first started last year. UMVD has largely handled distributin f bth genres. The tp -selling reggaetón Selena's Appeal Still Strng Prpelled by the huge success f the Univisin TV netwrk special "Selena Vive!," EMI Music U.S. Latin has put an increased push behind the CD and DVD releases f the shw. Accrding t Nielsen, "Selena Vive!," which aired live April, garnered a.9 Hispanic Televisin index rating, which translates int.9 millin viewing husehlds. It is the highest rating ever fr a Spanish -language TV special. The three -hur shw included an intrductin by Jennifer Lpez, wh played the lead rle in the film "Selena," and perfrmances by Thalia. Banda El Recd and Paulina Rubi. "The demand frm custmers and buyers has been great," says Jrge Pin, president/chairman f EMI Music U.S. Latin. The CD will be released May 0, the DVD in June. A TV campaign kicks ff May. The album has tracks, including tw previusly released Selena sngs. Mexican singer Ana Gabriel perfrms the first single, "Tú Sól Tú." The album will be available as a sl CD and as part f a CD/DVD cmb. Latin Ntas.. By Leila Cb Icb@billbard.cm It will be the last in a series f recrdings released this year t cmmemrate the 0th anniversary f Selena's death. This issue, there are five Selena titles n the Billbard Tp Latin Albums chart, including "Unfrgettable," a fur -disc CD/DVD bxed set that debuted at N. 8. An C'mbricl 'n G.rean Luceia Neks Symek ö Fey Ind., &Barri Byss Pele AsMdillAle wdr Guzman In additin, five Selena tracks are amng EMI's tp 0 dwnlads fr the week ending April 9. Accrding t Pin, tw sngs, "Dreaming f Yu" and "I Culd Fall in Lve," are the label's tp -selling dwnlads fr first- quarter 00 as well as year -t -date (which cvers the perid between April, 00, and March, 00). Fr the week ending April 9, thse tw sngs cntinue t head the list. "The Selena legacy cntinues unabated," Pin says. "And what we were able t see in the cncert is that her fan base is made up f lder and yunger peple." RUBIO ON THE ROAD: Pp artist Paulina Rubi will launch the U.S. leg f her Pau -Latina tur with an April 9 cncert at the Nkia Theater in Dallas. S far n the trek, Rubi has played mre than 0 cities in Mexic and Central and Suth America In the United States, cncert dates are planned fr the six -week arena and theater run. East Cast dates are expected t be annunced in the cming weeks United Talent Agency is bking the tur. "Pau- Latina" (Universal Music Latin) was released mre than a year ag, but it cntinues t prduce singles, the mst recent being "Mía." (Cntinued n page ) album s far this year is Daddy Yankee's "Barri Fin" (El CartelNI Music), which UMVD distributes. "The year befre, reggaetón was n the map, but it wasn't embraced by a lt f the dmestic accunts," Laney says. "And little by little, ne by ne they've been pening up t it. Whereas befre it was just n the East Cast, nw it's all ver the West Cast, and big accunts have cme frth. I think this year will mark the big explsin f reggaetón at retail, and als cntinue with" duranguense. Laner als predicts a strng year fr música de tierra caliente, anther reginal Mexican subgenre, and fr Latin music DVDs. UMVD's big releases fr the secnd quarter include new albums by Banda El Recd (Fnvisa) and Akwid (Uni - visin) and a greatest -hits set by Marc Antni Slis (Fnvisa). Tañón A 'New Wman' BY LEILA COBO After recrding fr Warner Music Latina fr mre than 0 years, merengue/pp star Olga Tañón is placing her bets n a new label. The artist's new album, "Una Nueva Mujer," is her first under Sny BMG. It will be released April 9. Tañón says the title -which means "A New Wman" in English- represents mre than just her new label deal. "I'm als the first artist signed by Sny BMG's Latin arm," Tañón says during a phne interview frm Puert Ric. "I'm a new wman because I've been writing, and I tk n the task f learning new things as a mther." Tañón, wh hails frm Puert Ric, has als pened a recrding studi in Miami, Nstra Musa. It is a partnership with prducer Jsé Luis Mrín, wh c -wrte tw tracks n "Una Nueva Mujer" with Tañón and prduced seven f the album's sngs. All f these elements have raised expectatins fr the album. It is Tañón's first studi recrding since 00's "Sbrevivir," which has sld,000 cpies, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. That was fllwed by 00's "Pur Fueg," which mstly featured new versins f lder material. It has sld 0,000 units. But thse sales figures weren't nearly as rbust as thse f previus albums by the fur -time Grammy Award winner, wh is widely cnsid- ered t be the queen f merengue with mre than millin albums sld wrldwide, accrding t her label - and the first merengue star t delve successfully int pp. This time arund, hpes are high fr Tañón t reclaim her status as a tp -selling artist. "When they are slid artists with an imprtant track recrd, [they] always have gd prspects," says Angel Car - rasc, Sny BMG senir VP f A&R fr the Latin American regin. Because Tañón has been ut f the sptlight fr sme time, she is mre heavily invlved with prmting the prject than in the past. "I'll be in everything," Tañón says. Mst recently, the artist tk part in the Univisin netwrk's cncert hmage t Selena April, which delivered the highest ratings ever fr a Spanish -language TV special. Meanwhile, Tañón's first single, "Bandler," enters the Billbard Ht Latin Tracks chart this issue at N. 8. The track is uptemp pp /fusin, and the album includes a merengue versin. TANON: HAS A NEW DEAL WITH SONY BMG "Almst all the tracks are danceable," Tañón says. "As Latins, we have the virtue f cming frm a mix f peple -Indian, Spanish and African. It's a mix f drums, guitars and flute. We wanted t jin these elements and have an album f fusin." "Una Nueva Mujer" is als deeply persnal t Tañón. She wrte "Dime Si Tu Me Queires Querer" fr her husband. In "Cuand Llegaste a Mí," she sings with her 8- year -ld daughter, Gabriella. And' Abre Tu Crazón" talks abut the recent murders f scres f wmen in Juárez, Mexic. "We wanted t make an album f cmmercial sngs, but I've always liked t have messages in my sngs, t," says Tañón, wh is invlved with wmen's rights in Puert Ric. Sny BMG is nt alne in its expectatins fr Tañón. On March 9, Warner released "Cm Olvidar... L Mejr de Olga Tañón," a CD/DVD greatest -hits cmpilatin. BILLBOARD APRIL,

20 Cnéctate Mejr MúsIca Latina! ( a r': _-P CHAYANNE presented by Heineken ASCAP Acustic Shwcase Mari Damm Facund Mnty Ry Tavaré Reggaetön Nights with perfrmances by Lcs Pr Juana, Lunytunes, Queenie, La Sinfnia & Suci CTV Pm Launch Preview Party MTV Españl Welcme Ccktail Receptin JD Natasha Mntersa Si Señr rd Annual Billbard Bash presentatins & perfrmances by Billbard Latin Music Awards finalists vy Queen Crked Stil Grup Climax Natalia Villaveces RB Recrds Shwc.: Jrge Bernal C Rim Q&A Fernand Trueba Prductin in Mtin: A.B. Quintanilla & Cruz Martinez Hw labels, artists & publishers can take advantage and earn revenue ff the ringtne frenzy. Wh is making mney nline with music dwnlads? What s Next? Everything yu need f knw abut Billbard Latin charts. What they listen t, where they listen t it and if & where they buy it frm. A walk thrugh the art f the deal -- every step and every segment f the industry. Heman Gamba Sacha Nairbi Heineken Happy Hur Glry, Rayit and... El Guap Eduard Osri Cuba Viva JO-L Ma Pana Plus... David Trrens mre! Sirius Satellite Radi, Bking & Prducing the Latin American Tur, & The new Reginal iexican Buyer, Music Chice, Radi, Reginal Mexican Marketing, Urban Music, Retail, Latin Grammys 0 plus.. Vz Latina! Marketing t Hispanics Cnference Adweek's Marketing Y Medis, The Hllywd Reprter & Billbard T register nline & fr mre inf r call.a AEI mss music Nielsen OO MASCAP rr papanl *palm eitety..sa sak

21 April -8 Bill *Heineked PRESENTS r (T, LTllN MUSIC CONFERENCE & AWARDS 00 Wrllds Apart - East Meets West Urban Reginal & Reggaetón Panel Al wid Un +isin, -Is e Hectr E Barp Gld Star /U iiversal Latin ir Dieg Aguilar Nielsei Entertainment Ramn Arias Peer lu lusic Jerry lair The Fu erte Grup Neste - Casnu EMI Music Publishing Leila l;b Billba rd Ricarc Cmpanini BillbOE rd Jhn I:chevarria Univer sal Music Latinc Abbe Frank Nielsei Entertainment Regla Gnzalez Music Chice Eddy I.aca Univer sal Music Latina Crked Styl Fnwisa Ivy Queen Perelma ct igeluíners Sergi(' Lpes EMI Music Latin America Shirley Maldnad Sirius Satellite Radi Geff Mayfield Billba rd Marys Meyer LARAf al Latn Flavin Mrales Mun Brad Navin The Orchard Daddy Yankee Fl Car!dJVI P"itbult Diaz Waled nrí Mayna Nevarez Nevarez Cmmunicatins Gregg Ogrzelec Napsier Carls Perez Sny BMG Music Alfns Perez St Warner Music Susan Rberts UMVD Luis Samra Wireless Latin Entertainment Miguel Sierralta emusiclatin.cm Mark Stllman Stllman & Grubn n Nancy Wagner Nielsen Entertainment Les Watkins Music Reprts Ytuel Orish s and mre! Billbard Latin Music wards with... Red Carpet Arri Sizzling Live Perfrm Star -studded Cerem VIP After -Party Marc Anthny Juan Luis r. Guerra Christian Castr Cnjunt Primavera TELEMUNOd] with Natinal simulcast n OWVISIOI Daddy Yankee Kumbia Kings Aleks Syntek Marc Antni Salis Akwid, Franc De Vinta, Juanes, Paulina Rubi Olga Tatin, Thalia Fr artist inf & this year's awards finalists RUDY EEZ R!!!NTR NORTH BEACH.: mse Latin '* M=i<U%<*letwrk R SpeiC Recu Bjllbare! L a t i n AZTeC,A"AMERICA THE REPORTER

22 CONTRA - - LOS TRACKS. T O APRIL Y Y W V +- O u Bllbaid HOT LATIN c Airplay mnitred by, Nielsen a Bradcast Data ri Systems TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) LA CAMISA NEGRA `; SANTAOLALLA,JUANES (JUANES) i AIRE C FLORES (J.LROSAS,J.E.CONTRERASI HOY COMO AYER J GUILLEN (C.VILLALOBOSI LA SORPRESA LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE IR.E.TOSCANO) OBSESION (NO ES AMOR) -.s H.PEREZ IA. ROMEO SANTOS) gtrf NUMBER >g< GREATEST GAINER Q$ Artist IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL Weeks AtNumber Juanes 9 SURCO /UNIVERSAL LATINO Intcable 9 EMI LATIN Cnjunt Primavera 9 FONOVISA Ls Tigres Del Nrte FONOVISA Frankie J Featuring Baby Bash COLUMBIA /SONY DISCOS COMO PUDISTE Obie Bermudez s KRYS,J.SOMEILLAN (O.BERMUOEZ,J.C.PEREZ SOTO) VOLVERE K -PAZ OE LA SIERRA IC.NATILI.M.RAMOINO,C.POLIZZYI 8 ALGO ESTA CAMBIANDO C. SOROKIN,J.VENEGAS IJ.VENEGAS,C.SOROKINI ADIOS AMOR TE VAS &RAMIREZ CORRAL IJ.GABRIELI PORQUE ES TAN CRUEL EL AMOR - R. ARJONA,C.CABRAL'JUNIOR IR.ARJONA) a, 9 - VOLVERTE A VER = G.SANTAOLALLA,JUANES (JUANES)? SI LA QUIERES HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO IA.BOUINTANILLA III,R.VELAI at '- VIENTOS Y MAREAS - : RUDER() (FOE VITA) AMOR DEL BUENO DOMM,R.BARBA (R.BARBAI 0 9 TE BUSCARLA T. PEREZ (C.CASTRO,O.IRIBARREN,D.MONTES) 8 I QUE LASTIMA ABAQUEIRO IJ.FLORESI _ - ESTA LLORANDO MI CORAZON ; GARCIA (C.GONZALEZ) OTRA VEZ A.JAEN(YMARRUFO,S.PRIMERA) 9 9 LLEVAME I s KRYS,SORAYAISORAYA) TOCANDO FONDO MDOMM IM.DOMM,E.GUECHA) 9 VIVEME 8 ESTA AUSENCIA K SANTANDER,B.OSSA (K.SANTANDER) 0 NO ME QUEDA MAS PALOMO (R.VEIAI 0 9 EL AUTOBUS PAGUILAR,M.CAZARES (FATO) I O. PARISINI IJ.BADIA,LPAUSINI,B ANTONACCI) EMI LATIN K -Paz De La Sierra 9 UNIVISION Julieta Venegas 9 ARIOLA /BMG LATIN Grup Mntez De Durang 9 OISA Ricard Arjna 9 SONY DISCOS Juanes 9 SURCO /UNIVERSAL LATINO Ls Hrscpes De Durang 9 PROCAN /RISA Cheyenne 9 SONY DISCOS Reyli 9 SONY DISCOS Christian Castr 9 ARIOLA /BMG LATIN Alejandr Fernandez 9 SONY DISCOS Bete Y Sus Canaris 9 OISA MDO 9 OLE Sraya 9 EMI LATIN Kalimba 9 SONY DISCOS Laura Pausini WARNER LATINA David Bisbal 9 VALE /UNIVERSAL LATINO Palm DISA Pepe Aguilar 9 SONY DISCOS 8 8 EN EL MISMO TREN Marc Antni Slis M A.SOLIS IM.A.SOUS) FONOVISA SI YO ME VUELVO A ENAMORAR Jennifer Pena 0 R.PEREZ,J.PENA (R.PEREZ) UNIVISION 0 - _ EN SOLEDAD Jimena 9. E.ESTEFAN JR. (J.GALLEGO,S*CLAYTON' BECERRILI UNIVISION CD) 9 E LO MEJOR FUE PERDERTE Juli Preciad Y Su Banda Perla Del Pacific 9 0 J.PRECIADO E.DE LA MORA) 0 MI MAYOR SACRIFICIO MA.SOLIS IM.A.SOLISI ßf - -. YO ME QUEDE SIN NADIE S. VALTIERREZ, J. 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ESTERAN JR.,S.KRVS,A.CASTRO,C.VIVES IC VIVES) EL VIRUS DEL AMOR MQUINTERO LARA IM.QUINTERO LANAI 0 - BESO A BESO E.PENA IA.FLORESI 8 TU PONTE EN MI LUGAR LOS HURACANES DEL NORTE (J AVALOSI PRECISAMENTE AHORA PPINILLkO DE MARIA )D.DE MARIAI NEW Q ALGO MAS A.AVILA (AAVILA,N.JIMENEZI LO QUE PASO, PASO 0 LUNYTUNES,E.UNO IRAYALA,J.ORTIZ) 0 ERES DIVINA A.RAMIREZ CORRAL IJ.GABRIELI 9 9 a Y TE VI CON EL 0 R.SAENZ QUIROZ (R.GONZALEZ MORA) 8 SIN MIEDO A NADA J.N.GOMEZ IA.UBAGO) J: -- HOT SHOT DEBUT =F SONY DISCOS Marc Antni Slis 9 FONOVISA La Autridad De La Sierra 9 DISA Carls Vives 9 EMI LATIN Ls Tucanes De Tijuana 9 UNIVERSAL LATINO Ls Huracanes Del Nrte UNIVISION David De Maria WARNER LATINA Ezequiel Pena FONOVISA La A Estacin SONY DISCOS Daddy Yankee EL CARTEL NI Patrulla 8 DISA Cnjunt Atardecer MUSIMEX /UNIVERSAL LATINO Alex Ubag WARNER LATINA EL SOL NO REGRESA La A Estacin 9 A.AVILA (A.REYERO PONTES,PDOMINGUEZ VILLARRUBIAI ARIOLA/BMG LATIN NEW MAYOR QUE YO Baby Ranks, Daddy Yankee, Tnny Tun Tun, Wisin, Yandel & Hectr LUNYTUNES ILUNYTUNES,R.AYALA,WISIN,YANDELH.'EL BAMBINO') MAS ROW /UNIVERSAL LATINO RE.EYTRY T UNA LIMOSNA Adlf Urias Y Su Lb Nrten 0 A.URIAS II.RAMIREI PLATINO / FONOVISA ALMA EN LIBERTAD Paulina Rubi M.AZEVEDO (J.VILLAMIZAR,J.C.PEREZ SOTO) UNIVERSAL LATINO - S ENSENAME A VIVIR SIN TI Gilbert Santa Rsa 9 J.M.LUGO IO.POVEDA,E.ENDERI SONY DISCOS RE -ENTRY MANANA QUE YA NO ESTES Grup Innvacin GRUPO INNOVACION (M.FLORES) GARMEX/FONOVISA LA ULTIMA CANCION Grup Bryndis 9 0 GRUPO BRYNDIS IC.R.NASCIMIENTO) DISA BANDOLERO Olga Tenn 9 :_- J. L. MORIN, O. TANON,M.TEJADAIO.TANON,J.LMORINI SONY DISCOS CD VEN TU GEOIW.BRAZOBANI DAME ESTA NOCHE TTORRES (TTORRESA.JIMENEZ) Dmenic M 9 JON Tmmy Trres OLE a. a á ó a Cmpiled frm a natin sample f airplay supplied by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems' Radi Track service. A panel f 98 statins (9 Latin Pp, Trpical, Reginal Mexican) are electrnically mnitred hrs. a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by Audience Impressins. M Recrds shwing an increase in audience ver the previus week, regardless f chart mvement A recrd which has been n the chart fr mre than 0 weeks will generally nt receive a bullet, even if it registers an increase in audience. Greatest Gainer indicates sng with largest audience grwth. If tw recrds are tied in audience size, the recrd being played n mre statins is placed first. Recrds belw the tp 0 are remved frm the chart after weeks. Videclip avaliability. 000, VNU Business Media, Inc. 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FEATURING DADDY YANKEE, NINA SKY GESTAR &BIG MATO ROC- A- FELUVDEF JAM RDJMG O HASTA EL RN MONCHY &ALEXANDRA 0 JON ' TODO ES MENTIRA FRANKIENEGRON SGZ O AMOR PERFECTO EL GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO SONY DISCOS B REGGAETON LATINO DON OMAR CHOSEN FEW EMERALD /URBAN BOX OFFICE O - NO DOY ME TRUCO JOSE PENA SUAZD Y LA BANDA GORDA M.P. 0 RESISTIRE TONO ROSARIO UNIVERSAL LATINO Y W _- - rnh-- w O Y _ t ÿ W n TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL SE ESFUMA TU AMOR SONY DISCOS VEN DEVORAME OTRA VEZ SGZ VIDA ES IA SOLO FUE UNA NOCHE SONY DISCOS TRAIGO FUEGO M.P. 9 PARA TI VENE /UNIVERSAL LATINO 8 ENSENAME AVIAR SIN SONY DISCOS 8 SE ESCAMAN EMI LATIN LLAMR ENTO /J 0 AN Q - MACHETE EL CARTEL /VI 8 BANDOLERO SONY DISCOS TU QUIERES DURO NEW ERA /UNIVERSAL LATINO ' COMO LE HABLAS A UN ANGEL CANDLELIGHT 8 LAPOPOLA VI HAY OUEBUENO CINCO POR CINCO ELLA SE LLEVO MI VIDA JON - DUE IRONIA LATINRAVA.8 9 TU PUM PUM DIAMOND /SONY DISCOS - HOY LATINRAVA Q' HIELO LATINUM REGIONAL MEXICAN Airplay mnitred by {s: Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL HOY COMO AYER FONOVISA AIRE EMI LATIN LA SORPRESA FONOVISA VOLVERE UNIVISION ADIOS AMOR TE VAS DISA O SI LA QUIERES PROCAN /DISA ARTIST Y = - W _ ' AIRPLAY TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA 8 PERDONA MIS ERRORES ' UNIVISION INTOCABLE 9 Y LAS MARIPOSAS Q MUSART/BALBOA LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE. MI PRIMER AMOR FONOVISA K -PAZ DE IA SIERRA NO POORESOBREVMR FONOVISA GRUPO MONTE DE DURANGO Q ELLA ES UNA DIOSA UNIVISION LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO ENTUBASURA DISA T B ESTA LLORANDO MI CORAZON RETO Y SUS CANARIOS 9 OUIEROSABER DELI DISA DISH '8 8 NO ME QUEDA MAS PALOMO SI POR MI RIERA DISA Q EMI LATIN O LO MEJOR FUE PERDERTE JUUO PRECIADO Y SU BANDA PERLA DEL PACIFICO.9 0 BIENVENIDO AL AMOR SONY DISCOS UNIVISION YO ME QUEDE SIN NADIE LA AUTORIDAD DE LA SIERRA '0 YA SOY FEW O DISA FONOVISA 9 TU PONTE EN MI LUGAR LOS HURACANES DEL NORTE TE APUESTO LO DUE QUIERAS UNIVISION WFAMEKNNARNER LATINA BESO A BESO 0 EZEDUIR PENA 0 TENGO A MI LUPE FONOVISA EMI LATIN 0 ELVIRUS DEL AMOR Q LOS TUCANES DE TIJUANA - FANTASIA UNIVERSAL LATINO WEAMEXEWARNER LATINA ERES DIANA PATRULLA 8 SI ME VAS A DEJAR O DISA DISA Y TE VI CON EL clumn ATARDECER. MUSIMIXNNIVERSAL COMO OLVIOAR LATINO MUSARTBALBOA 8 UNA mmosna ADOLFO URIAS Y SU LOBO NORIENO ROSAS PLATINO/FONOVISA MUSIMEX /UNIVERSAL LATINO O MANANA QUE YA NO ESTES GRUPOINNOVACION ABEJA REINA GARMEX /FONOVISA UNIVERSALLATINO 8 LA ULTIMA CANCION DISA 9 A USTED DISA :0 0 SENOR MESERO FONOVISA O ARTIST LA A ESTACION CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA JENNIFER PENA DAVID DE MARIA ALEXUBAGO MARCO ANTONIO SOUS LA A ESTACION MONCHY & ALEXANDRA MARC ANTHONY PAUUNA RUBIO TOMMY TORRES RICARDO ARJONA HECTOR MONTANER ANTONIO OROZCO FEY PARIR CHRISTIAN CASTRO JUUETAVENEGAS DOMENICM JENNIFER PENA ARTIST MARC ANTHONY CHARLIE CRUZ VICTOR MANUELLE NG JOSE PENA SUAZO Y LA BANDA GORDA JUAN LUIS GUERRA GILBERTO SAMA ROSA VICO C FEATURING EDDIE DEE AMARFIS Y LA BANDA DE DADDY YANKEE OLGA TANON HECTOR 'EL BAMBINO' MIKE DEVITO EUR NOTCH DOMENICM ANDY ANDY JOHNNY PREZ LOA FEATURING CHEKA WILLYCHIRINO ARTIST EL COYOTE Y SU BANDA TIERRA SANTA PANCHO BARRAZA POLO URIAS Y SUMADUINANORIENA ZAINO CONTROL EL PODER DEL NORTE GRUPO MONTE DE DURANGO LOS INVASORES DE NUEVO LEON DUELO BANDAR RECODO PESADO VOCES DEL RANCHO COSTUMBRE LALO MORA JOAN SEBASTIAN DIANA REYES LA ORIGINAL BANDA EL UMON IMAN CARDENALES DE NUEVO LEON VICENTEFERNANDE BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

23 - VI - FONOVISA w E!- Áf00 X00 TOP W g Billbard `) L ALBUMS.. Sales data cmpiled by GI --C Nielsen ti SundScan ARTIST Title S IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL V NUMBER Weeks At Number DADDY YANKEE Barri Fin EL CARTEL CDI LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Direct Al Crazm - FONOVISA 0NG (.98 CO) '[8 x,.,., VARIOUS ARTISTS CHOSEN FEW EMERALD I0/URBAN BOX OFFICE (9.98 CO /DVDI Chsen Few: El Dcumental LUNYTUNES & BABY RANKS Mas Flw MAS FLOW 000/UNIVERSAL LATINO.W CD) L VICENTE FERNANDEZ Mis Crrids Cnsentids SONY DISCOS 9 (98 ED COI IN] 8 B JUANES A Mi Sangre -.. SURC000/UNIVERSAL LATINO.98 CD) 9 ANA BARBARA/JENNIFER PENA Cnfesines FONOVISA 9/U0 W CO) [N] GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Y Sigue La Mata Dand DISH CD) CHAYANNE Desde Siempre SONY DISCOS ED CDI 0 8 LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO Y Seguims Cn Duranguense!!! VISA 0098 CDBVDI 0 - _,. VARIOUS ARTISTS The Hitmakers Of Reggaetn CD /DVDI - - A.B. QUINTANILLA iii PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS Duets EMI LATIN 0 (.98 CD) B INTOCABLE X EMI LATIN CO) DADDY YANKEE Ahra Le Tca AI Cangri! Live VI CDI ' DON OMAR A The Last Dn VI 08 (.98 CD) [N]?; VARIOUS ARTISTS Reggaetn Club Anthems MAS FLOW /MACHETE 9000/UNIVERSAL LATINO.98 CDBVDI - ` GREATEST GAINER '$ GO SELENA Unfrgettable: The Studi Album ; EMI LATIN.m CD) ìj` HOT SHOT DEBUT ìi: SELENA Unfrgettable: Special Editin EMI LATIN 0 (.98 CD) LOS TEMERARIOS La Mejr...Cleccin DISA CD) 0 8 DON OMAR A The Last Dn: Live, Vl. V) ROWER (.98 CD) [N] 9.0 CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA Hy Cm Ayer - FONOVISA /U 0.98 CD) GRUPO EXTERMINADOR El Hij De Mexic FONOVISA 9NG ).98 CO) [NI 8 LOS CAMINANTES Tesrs De Cleccin: L Rmantic De Ls Caminantes SONY DISCOS 9 (9.98 ED CD) [N] 8 JULIETA VENEGAS Si ARIOLA BMG LATIN.98 CD) Z W á á, y e a á ti a u ARTIST Title JS IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL 9 K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA 0 Pensand En Ti UNIVISION 08/ÚG.98 COI [N] -- h'.,0 JUAN LUIS GUERRA A Para Ti VENE 00UNIVERSAL LATINO (.98 CD) [N] 8 CARDENALES DE NUEVO LEON La Mejr...Cleccin DISH 0 (898 CD) IN] 8 8 GRUPO MOJADO /INDUSTRIA DEL AMOR/LOS ACOSTA 0 Recuerds UNIVISION 0 /U(.98 CD) LOS ANGELES DE CHARLY /AROMA Greatest Hits FONOVISA 8/ÚG(.98CD) H] 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS El Mvimient De Hip Hp En Espanl Vl... UNIVISION 0NG - (.98 CD) E. FITO OLIVARES 0 Exits Inlvidables Vl. UNIVISION 0/0 (.98 CD) 0 0 GRUPO HANYAK Duranguence A Td L Que Da MADACY LATINO 0 /MADACY ).98 CD) 0 9 BRONCO /LOS BUKIS Crnica De Ds Grandes: Recuerds Cn Amr 0/ÚG.98 CD) 9 8 EL COYOTE Y SU BANDA TIERRA SANTA Suspirs UNIVISION 0/ÚG (.98 CD) 9 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Razn De Sbra FONOVISA 8NG (.98 CD) 0 0 ` JAVIER SOLIS Tesrs De Cleccin SONY DISCOS ED CD) [N] BE -ENTRY.. SELENA Selena Remembered: Her Life, Her Music, Her Dream EMI LATIN.98 CD) 8 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Mexic Recuerda A Selena UNIVISION 00/ÚG.98 CD) PAULINA RUBIO A Pau- Latina UNIVERSAL LATINO 000 (.98 CD) 9 LOS CAMINANTES Tesrs De Cleccin: Puras Rancheras SONY DISCOS 900 (9.98 EQ CD) [N] IIO RICARDO ARJONA Sl SONY DISCOS 980 (8.98 EQ CD /OVO) [N] s. LOS BUKIS JyasMusicales 0 FONOVISA 089NG9.98/.90/[N] NIA OLGA TANON Cm Olvidar. L Mejr De Olga Tann WARNER LATINA 9 (98 CD) 8 RE -ENTRY LOS CADETES DE LINARES 0Recuerds UNIVISION 0/ÚG (.98 CD) 9 LOS TEMERARIOS Regal De Amr FONOVISA 0/UG.9 CD) 0 SIN BANDERA De Viaje SONY DISCOS 0 (.98 ES CD) [N] 8 TONO Y FREDDY Recuerds De Una Nche DISA CD) RE -ENTRY 8 LOS TERRIBLES DEL NORTE Antlgia De Jefes FREDDIE 00 (.98 CD) CHALINO SANCHEZ Cleccin De Or MUSART /BALBOA 9.98 CD) 9 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Agarrn Duranguense DISA CD /DVD) 8 LUNYTUNES Mas Flw: Platinum Editin MAS FLOW 0008 /UNIVERSAL LATINO (.98 CD /DVDI [N] Z á ó =a LUIS MIGUEL Mexic En La Piel LATINA9(.98 WARNER `D) ` PACESETTER e SELENA Unfrgettable: The Live Album _+ EMI LATIN 98 C DI S LA AUTORIDAD DE LA SIERRA 00% Autridad Duranguense DISA 09 (.98 CD) [N] 8 LOS TEMERARIOS Tesrs De Cleccin SONY DISCOS 99 (98 EEL COI 0 LATIN POP ALBUMS TROPICAL ALBUMS REGIONAL MEXICAN ALBUMS JUANES DADDY YANKEE LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE MI SANGRE ISURCONN)VERSALIATINO) BARRIO FINO IEL CARTELN)) DIRECTO AL CORAZON IFONOVISANG) CHAYANNE VARIOUS ARTISTS VICENTE FERNANDEZ SIEMPRE (SONY EL (CHOSEN DESDE DISCOS) CHOSEN FEW: DOCUMENTAL FEWEMERALD/URBAN BOX OFFICE MIS CORRIDOS CONSENTIDOS )SONY DISCOS) A.B. QUINTANILLA III PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS LUNYTUNES & BABY RANKS ANABARBARNJENNIFER PENA DUETOS (EMI LATINI MAS FLOW )MAS FLOW/UNIVERSAL LATINO) CONFESIONES IFONOVISANG) - REYLI En La Luna SONY DISCOS 9.98 EQ CD) 0 VICENTE FERNANDEZ Tesrs De Cleccin SONY DISCOS ED CDI [N] 0 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Musica Urbana: L Mejr De Hip Hp En Espanl FONOVISA ÁG(.98 CD)?8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Duranguenses De Crazn DISA 088 (.98 CD) RAMON AYALA Y SUS BRAVOS DEL NORTE Antlgia De Un Rey FREDDIE CD) [N]? MANA Eclipse WARNER LATINA 0 (898 CO) ELIEL El Que Habla Cn Las Mans VI 0 (.98 CD) [N] :9 VICTOR MANUELLE En Viv Desde Carnegie Hall SONY DISCOS EO CD) 9 LUNYTUNES La Trayectria MAS FLOW8000/UNIVERSAL LATINO (8.98 CD) [N] RBD Rebelde EMI LATIN 8 (.98 CD) 9 GRUPO EXTERMINADOR 0 Recuerds FONOVISA /ÚG.98 C0 [N] 0 k. VICO C Desahg EMI LATIN CDBVDI [NI 8 LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH A L Que Te Cnte Mientras Te Hacías La Drmida SONY DISCOS 0.9 ED CDI [N] A.B. QUINTANILLA III PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS Fueg EMI ÁN90.98 CD) 8 PALOMO En Cnciert DISA (.98 CBVOI [N] 9 0 GRUPO CLIMAX Za Za Za MUSART 09/BALBOA (.98 CD) [NI 0 MONCHY & ALEXANDRA JAN 9/SONY DISCOS 098 EO CD) [N] Hasta El Fin CD RE -ENTRY SELENA Mments Intims EMI LATIN 988 (.W CD) 0 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Reggaetn Super Hits NEW RECORDS 00/UNIVERSAL LATINO CDBVDI VARIOUS ARTISTS Ls Super Hits Del An DISA 89 (I.98 CD) JUUETA VENEGAS VARIOUSARTSTS GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO SI (ARIOLABMG LATIN) THE HITMAKERS OF REGGAETON (VII Y SIGUE LA MATA DANDO MGM 8 REVU DADDY YANKEE LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO EN LA LUNA (SONY DISCOS) AHORA LE TOCA AL CANO RI! LIVE (VII Y SEGUIMOS CON OURANGUENSEIII MA) g wallw ARTISTS MUSICA URBANA, LO MEJOR DE HIP HOP EN ESPANOL MANA ECLIPSE (WARNER LATINA) ROD REBELDE )EM) LATIN) LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH LO DUETECONTE MIENTRAS TE HACIAS LA DORMIDA IFONOVISANGI 0 A.B. QUINTANILLA III PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS FUEGO (EMI LATIN) (SONY DISCOS} S DON OMAR THE LAST DON (VI) VARIOUS ARTISTS REGGAETON CLUB ANTHEMS (MAS FLOWIMACHETENNIVERSALIAONO) 8 DON OMAR THE LAST DON: LIVE, VOL 9 ELIEL WI) EL QUE HABLA CON LAS MANOS VII 0 VICTOR MANUEILE EN VIVO DESDE CARNEGIE HALL (SONY DISCOS) INTOCABLE X SELENA )EMI LATIN) UNFORGETTABLE: THE STUDIO ALBUM EMI LATINI 8 SELENA UNFORGETTABLE: SPECIAL EDITION 9 Ls TEMERARIOS LA MEJOR...COLECCION IOISAI 0 CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA HOY COMO AYER (FONOVISA/UG) MARCO ANTONIO SOUS LUNYTUNES GRUPO EXTERMINADOR RAZONDESOBRA (FONOVISANGI LA TRAYECTORIA )MAS FLOW/UNIVERSAL LATINO) EL HIJO DE MEXICO IFONOVISANG) SELENA n LOS CAMINANTES EMI LATIN) SELENA REMEMBERED: HER LIFE HER MUSIC, HER DREAM )EMI LATINI DESAHOGO (EMI LATIN) TESOROS DECOLECCION 90 RDMOVÌCO DE LOS CAMINANTES ISONYDISCOSI PAULINA RUBIO MONCHY& ALEXANDRA LUIS MIGUEL PAU- LATINA (UNIVERSAL LATINO) HASTA EL FIN IAN/SONY DISCOS) MEXICO EN LA FIEL WARNER LATINA) RICARDO ARJONA VARIOUS ARTISTS SELENA SOLO MONO DISCOS) REGGAETON SUPER HITS NEW RECORDS /UNIVERSAL LATNOI UNFORGETTABLE: THE LIVE ALBUM TIM LATIN) SIN BANDERA JUAN LUIS GUERRA LA AUTORIDAD DE LA SIERRA DE VIAJE (SONY DISCOS) PARA TI (VENE/UNIVERSAL LATINO) 00 % AUTORIDAD DURANGUENSE IMISAI FEY OLGA TANON LOS TEMERARIOS LA FUERZA DEL DESTINO (EMI LATIN) COMO OLVIDAR:LDMEJOR DE OLGA TANON (WARNERLATINAI TESOROS OECOLECCION (SONY DISCOS) JOSE MARIA NAPOLEON LUNYTUNES VICENTE FERNANDEZ SERIE MAX (IM) MAS FLOW PLATINUM EDITION )MAS FLOWNNIVERSAL LATINO) TESOROS OE COLECCION (SONY DISCOS) 8 LED DAN 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS 9 SERIE MAX HM) LOS PATRONES DEL REGGAETON IUNIVISIONNGI DURANGUENSES DE CORAZON IDISA) MARCO ANTONIO SOUS 9 MARC ANTHONY 9 RAMON AYALA Y SUS BRAVOS DEL NORTE LA HISTORIA CONTINUA... (FONOVISNSS) VALIO LA PENA (SONY DISCOS) ANTOLOGIA DE UN REY FFREDDIE) 0 ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ 0 IVY QUEEN 0 GRUPO EXTERMINADOR A CORAZON ABIERTO (SONY DISCOS) DIVA PLATINUM EDITION (PERFECT IMAGE/UNIVERSALLATINO) 0 RECUERDOS (FONOVISNUD),wA)bums with the greatest sales gains this week Recrding Industry Assn. DI America(RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units (Gld). RIM certificatin fr net shipment fimillin units (Platinum). R AA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numera fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's multi -platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble 0 albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre. the RIAA multiplies shipments by the number f discs and/r tapes. RIAA Latin awards: O Certificatin fr net shipment f I00,000 units (Or). Certifica - Om f 00,000 units (Planni ' Cerdfaatn f 00,000 units (Multi-Platinl'Asterisk indicates LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CD prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices madced ES. and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices. which are pr ected frm whlesale prices. Greatest Gainer shws chart's largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage grwth. H pewee_, Imnarl,hnwc allnmmmd frn,h =anee kprc rnlc wppk indicates na0nrnrecnru Heateenlert) 00tß UNII RIiness Media.Inc and Nielsen Snundcan. Inc. All rihrs reserved. BILLBOARD APRIL,

24 Music Latin Ntas Cntinued frm page In ther Rubi news, inspired by the success f the feather -adrned skirt she wre fr her duet with Pit- bull at the MTV Latin America Awards last Octber, Rubi and her persnal designer have designed a "tutu Pau" skirt. The artist has already wrn different versins f the plumed tutu n three natinal TV perfrmances. The clthing is scheduled t g n sale this summer and initially will be sld via PITBULL, LEFT, AND RUBIO: HER TOUR COMES TO THE STATES APRIL 9 Rubi's Web site, paupwer.cm. OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Frmer Universal Music Latin natinal TV manager Mnica Escbar has launched her wn PR and prductin cmpany. Miami -based Palenke Entertainment is a partnership amng Escbar, publicist Eliana Niet and sund engineer /prducer Carls "Xkk" Sánchez Palenke will fcus n develping and implementing marketing campaigns and branding alliances. Elite Management Grup, a new management, bking and PR firm, has pened ffices in Miami. Elite is headed by Mexican entrepreneur Jrge Reyns and run in Miami by Jsué Rivas and Rbert Smza. Rivas is a Puert Rican jurnalist with PR experience and has wrked with numerus artists and prmters, including Ednita Nazari and Henry Cárdenas. Smza, frmerly with Estefan Enterprises and the Crssver Agency, has wrked with Thalia, Juli Iglesias, Paulina Rubi and Shalim. ance Venus Hum Sings Sme New 'Sngs' Venus Hum is still humming alng ludly, thank yu very much. Fllwing the release f its 00 majr -label debut, "Big Beautiful Sky," the Nashville electrnic tri parted ways with MCA. These days, the grup - Annette Strean, Tny Miracle and Kip Kubin -is turing in supprt f its self -released EP, "Sngs fr Superheres" (Mn-Fi Music). YOU CAN DANCE: In Octber, Reprise/ Warner Brs. artist Esther tpped the Billbard Ht Dance Club Play chart with "O.G. Bitch," which went tp 0 n the Ht Dance Singles Sales tally. Nw, the label is readying remixes f the Canadian artist's "Fastlane" (featuring Jemeni and Jeleestne), which in its riginal versin inter- Gardel Awards Shine A Little Brighter BY MARCELO FERNANDEZ BITAS BUENOS AIRES -The Gardel Awards, Argentina's annual celebratin f its reginal music, entered its seventh year with revamped rules and newfund credibility and respect thrughut the music cmmunity. Organized by the Chamber f Recrd Prducers (CAPIF), the April awards, which tk place at the Gran Rex Theater, hnred artists in 0 categries, including tw new fields: music DVD and recrding engineer. The evening's big winner was Vicentic, with fur awards, including sng f the year fr "Ls Camins de la Vida." Pp artist Dieg Trres and rck grup Bersuit Vergarabat each wn tw awards, the latter taking hme album f the year and the Glden Gardel Award fr "La Argentinidad al Pal." Trres was als presented with the persnality f the year award, a special hnr given fr the first time last year and vted upn by a special cmmittee. Apart frm the winners, the Gardels' sustained success underline their imprtance as a marketing and sales tl, and as a reflectin f a healthier music cmmunity. Plus, the awards' vting prcess has given them a newfund credibility. "Fr the past tw years, the vting cmmittee has been truly independent frm the recrd cmpanies, whse staffs can n lnger vte," CAPIF executive directr Gabriel Salced says. "There are nw,00 vters that include artists, prducers and jurnalists f every musical genre. The result was clearly reflected last year, where many winners were signed t small independent labels and mre than 80% f the nminees attended the ceremny -an unheard -f prprtin in [the awards] histry." In their early years, the Gardels were perceived merely as pat -n- the -back prizes frm the industry t its favrite, best -selling artists. Tday, the cnsensus f artists and audiences is that the Gardels are the mst imprtant prize in the cuntry's music business. Prir t the Gardels, a grup f jurnalists tried t rganize a music awards shw with the ACE Awards, but the experience lasted nly a cuple f years. Later, natinal newspaper Clarín rganized its wn awards hnring the entertainment business, but nthing was dedicated expressly t music. Althugh the awards previusly aired live n Canal, Argentina's sec - nd- largesttv netwrk, this year they aired live n Telefe, the cuntry's mst - watched netwrk. Accrding t Jsé Luis Lmbard, marketing directr f Warner Music Argentina, artists' supprt fr the awards has grwn each year. "Leaving the recrd cmpanies utside f the vting prcess has given true transparency and left n suspicins f hidden agendas," Lmbard says. "They still have t understand that it is necessary t attend withut knwing if they win r nt." Lmbard adds that he received dzens f calls frm artists interested in perfrming live r knwing the results befrehand. But finding ut the winners is impssible, because vting takes place thrugh a secure page n CAPIF's Web site. The last day t cast vtes was April, but vtes are tallied up until the day befre the awards. IMPACT ON RECORD SALES Argentina's ecnmic wes make it difficult t measure the awards' affect n sales, but Salced and Lmbard agree that it is mre clearly evidenced in the rising ppularity f new artists, such as pp act Airbag and electrnic tang grup Baj Fnd Tang Club. "Acts such as Bersuit Vergarabat have already reached multiplatinum status," Salced says. "But sales f many tang recrdings n independent labels, like EPSA, have sared." Bth the nminatins and the awards are used as marketing and prmtin tls. llwv years ag, many albums were emblazned with a sticker nting they were award winners, but the cuntry's recent recessins make it impssible t detect any reflectin n sales. This year, many radi statins rganized cntests and gave increased airplay t nminated sngs. "The cnstant [striving] fr perfectin in these awards has nly ne final gal," Salced says. "And that is t shw that these are the true awards f the music cmmunity in Argentina, and nt the recrd industry." VENUS HUM: MAKING ELECTRONIC SOUNDS WITH ACOUSTIC SOURCES Available at the band's Web site (venushum.cm) and Apple Cmputer's itunes Music Stre, "Superheres" includes "Fighting fr Lve," a sng the threesme wrte with JJ Abrams, the creatr f hit TV shws "Lst" and "Alias." "Fighting fr Lve" first appeared n the 00 DVD "Alias -The Cmplete Third Seasn." Accrding t Strean, "Superheres" is the perfect bridge "between ur first album and ur next ne. It takes ff where `Big Beautiful Sky' left ff." Beat Bx.. By Michael Palelta The band has cmpleted a handful f tracks fr the new album, which Miracle calls an electrnic - acustic album. Miracle tells Billbard that he and his bandmates are striving fr an electrnic -sunding recrd using all acustic surces. "N scillatrs r strict synthesizer patches in the studi," he says. "Just guitars and human sunds, like a hand hitting a table." Strean adds, "It's like that ld - schl cking cncept: Use what's in yur cupbard." Venus Hum will self -release the album later this year -that is, if a larger label desn't cme alng and snatch it up. twines drum'n'bass and hip -hp. Sure, we wuld lve t hear the riginal versin in clubs -where it wuld ffer sme much -needed respite frm huse and trance music -but that is nt likely t happen any day sn. S, the label has tapped Richard Mrel, Cttnbelly and Chris Brann t recnstruct the track fr danceflrs. "Fastlane" ffers a first peek int Esther's much anticipated sphmre album, "Wikked Lil' Grrrls," due early next mnth (Billbard, March ). In ther Warner Brs. news, remixes f "Express Yurself" by Charles Wright & the Watts 0rd Street Rhythm Band-culled frm the "What Is Hip?" remix cmpilatin -will sn be ' delivered t club DJs. Remixers include Supreme Beings f Leisure, Dave Hernandez and Philip Steir. And in case yu haven't heard, Victr Calderne has dne a new remix f Madnna's "Bedtime Stry," while Tracy Yung has dne the same t "Easy Ride," the clsing track n the singer's last studi album, "American Life." While a cmmercial release f Calderne's remix has yet t be cnfirmed, Yung's "Easy Ride" will appear n the Miami DJ's mix -CD, "Dance Culture." Yung's label, Fersh Recrds, will release the cllectin in early summer. Als included n the set is Yung's remix f Chaka Khan's "I Believe," which is frm the artist's latest album, "ClassiKhan." BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

25 ' BILLB BARD APRIL ALBUMS.. Billbard W il ;' W I- có <, ó t vi '9 l'' [r] ß.t_ * Sales data cmpiled by TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL Nielsen SundScan Artist et- NUMBER let 9 Weeks At Number i WE WILL BECOME SILHOUETTES subp0p08 O U The Pstal Service ^a DON'T SAY YOU LOVE ME Erasure MUTE98 O GET RóGHTSCL.óEGA REM IX) Jennifer Lpez rt EPIC _ 9 TEMPTEEDTO TOUCH (REMIXES) Rupee.9 9 THE DISTRICT SLEEPS ALONE TONIGHT The Pstal Service ^a SUB POP 0p O - EVERYTHING Kaskade O E APRIL 00 Billbard W '' W g I` RADIO AIRPLAYTM Airplay cmpiled by TITLE IMPRINT & PROMOTION LABEL Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems Artist NUMBER e` Weeks At Number SINCE U BEEN GONE RCA/RMG Kelly Clarksn LALL THIS TIME Jnathan Peters Presents Sylver Lgan Sharp ULTRA lllet ME LOVE YOU Mari Q RD STREET /J/RMG li, STEP Ciara Featuring Missy Ellitt H 0' N UFF- MUSICLIN EJLAFACE/ZOMBA Q 8 CALL ME Anna Vissi Q. VANILLA/MODA IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW Aubrey BOBBINS Q ONE WORD Kelly Osburne 'SANCTUARY.I BELIEVE IN YOU Kylie Mingue CAPITOL 8.LISTEN TO YOUR HEART D.H.T. ROBBINS Q a) 0 IT'S LIKE THAT Mariah Carey ISLAND /IDJMG APRIL 00 Billbard W W Li i g z ß ARTIST TOP ELECTRONIC Sales data cmpiled by Ill, Nielsen SundScan Title IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL NUMBER ;fit- Weeks At Number l MOBY Htel V IONEW FISCHERSPOONER Odyssey CAPITOL 989V [Ir] NEW VARIOUS ARTISTS Verve //Remixed -: VERVE 0DI'NG IIVARIOUS ARTISTS Fired Up! IITHIEVERY CORPORATION Csmic Game UM 0 EIGHTEENTH STREET LOUNGE 008 E 8 THE BWONDEROOFF IT A LL Kristine W SCISSOR SISTERS Scissr Sisters 8 r` SOLDERRLJOSHUAREMII LOSEMY MATH IP..RAUHOfIRIM.SHUAMIXES) klie'silildhil.tl &blyyrx9 COLUMBIA 0/SONY MUSIC O O UNIVERSAL 00' /UMRG N_ NEW THE CRYSTAL METHOD CmmunityService ULTRA 8' SOUND OF THE DRUM Suzanne Palmer 9 STAR99 O 0 DAFT PUNK Human After All VIRGIN ' 0 9 GALVANIZE The Chemical Brthers Featuring (-Tip.9 FREESTYLE DUST 99 /ASTRALWERKS O O a). LOUIE DEVITO Trance Sessins II DEE VEE 00/MUSICRAMA 0 IT'S ALL GOOD (SCUMFROG & N. SKATEN MIXES) Fantasia COME RAIN COME SHINE Jenn Cunene 9 THE J0/RMG O CHEMICAL BROTHERS Push The Buttn ULTRA YOU ARE EVERYTHING Vanessa Williams LAVA90/AG O PUT 'EM HIGH Stnebridge Featuring Therese FREESTYLE DUST 8' /ASTRALWERKS - I RAVIN & DAVID VISAN Buddha -Bar VII ULTRA GEORGE V 0 NU NU (YEAH YEAH) Fannypack 9 RICH GIRL Gwen Stefani Featuring Eve 8 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Brazilian Girls TOMMY BOY 0 O INTERSCOPE VERVE FORECAST 009'NG M BREATHE Erasure 9 HOW WOULD U FEEL David Mrales With Lea -Lrien MUTE 99 O 0 THE RIDDLER & VIC LATINO Ultra.Dance 0 DMl /ULTRA ENJOY THEvSflLENDCE. Depeche Mde ^ MUTE/REPRISE 8 SO MANY TAMES Gadj ULTRA 9 ARMIN VAN BUUREN State Of Trance 00 9 TURN ME ON (REMIXES) Kevin Lyttle 9 ATLANTIC88 /AG O O D SUBLIMINAL ULTRA 8 IRATION Ian Van Dahl MARK FARINA Mushrm Jazz 8` floinspbbins OM 0 ) 0 ' WE MIGHT AS WELL BE STRANGERS Keane Vs. DJ Shadw ail 0 WHEN THE DAWN BREAKS Narctic Thrust INTERSCOPE 00 O a LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Sundsystem YDSHITOSHI /DEEP DISH VIA 9/CAPITOL N 8 HIDEYAFACE Prefuse Featuring Ghstface & EL -P 8 OBSESSION (NO ES AMOR) Frankie J Featuring Baby Bash 8 WARP PREFUSE Surrunded By Silence COLUMBIA WARP 9' [N] DONT STOP Brazilian Girls 9 YOU NEVER KNOW Marly 9 VERVE 0 - ROBBINS JUST BE Tiest Featuring Kirsty Hawkshaw.9 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Fired Up! RAZOR & TIE 890 I'M DONE King Brain Presents N.I.C. 0 BLACK HOLE./NETTWERK O O KING BRAIN /ARTEMIS MEIN. DANNY HOWELLS Glbal Undergrund: Miami GLOBAL UNDERGROUND 0' THE WORLD AROUND ME DJ Micr ED TIME Therese EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Adapt Or Die: Ten Years Of Remixes SYSTEM 0 0 ROBBINS SIRE/ATLANTIC 98/WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING NASTY GIRL Maya Day 9 ' FREE ME Emma 8 DAVID STAR 999 O O WAXMAN Ultra Chilled 0 9 ULTRA 0 _` LEFT OUTSIDE ALONE (J. NEVINS REMIX) Anastacia 9 DAYUGHT/EPIC 0/SONY MUSIC O O ED NEW CAUGHT UP Usher "Mr FRIPP & ENO The Equatrial Stars LAFACE/ZOMBA CO RPEYTRY 8 rclub DISCIPLINE GLOBAL MOBILE 0 SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (REMIXES) The Rlling Stnes e FILTHY GORGEOUS Scissr Sisters ABKC09 O 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Best Of Trance Vlume UNIVERSAL/UMRD ROBBINS 0 B FEVER (A. FREELAND REMIXES) Sarah Vaughan VERVEwiING e O NEW TRUE Ryan Cabrera NEW BEN WATT Buzzin' Fly Vl. E.V.LA. /ATLANTIC ASTRALWERKS 00 receive a bulles, even B it registers an increase in detectins. Tales belw the tp are remved frm the chart after weeks. 00,VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc All rights reserved. ment f I millin units Pladnam). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamrd symbl indicates album's multi- platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble albums with running time f 00 minutes r mre. the RIAA mtplies shipments byte number f discs and /r tapes 'Asterisk indicates LP is available. Mst tape prices. and CD prices WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked Mend all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are prjected frm whlesale vices. [N] indicates pastr present Heatseekerdde. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. APR0I0L Billbard H T DA N E P TM Y W W t W W < AS H TITLE IMPRINT &NUMBER /PROMOTION LABEL Artist F TITLE IMPRINT &NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL Artist Dance Air,lay ales shwing an increase in detectins ver the previus week. regardless f chart mvement_ Cmpiled frm a natinal sample f airplay supplied by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems radi track service. 9 dance statins are electrnically mnitred hurs a day. days a week. Sngs ranked by number f detectins. A title which has been n the chart fr mre than 0 weeks will generally nt Electrnic Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America IRIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album trt(geldfrlaa certificatin fr net shipfr BMG and s H Ñ 0 òe NUMBER Week At Number EMBALLA (LOUIE VEGA REMIXES)pCIRQUEDUSOLEILIMPORT Elslbella E/ CALL ME VANILLAPROMO /MODA AnnaVissi `-F'= POWER PICK Q?' 9 FILTHY GORGEOUS ATOUCHOFCLASS /UNIVERSAL0NMRG Scissr Sisters WORKOUT (J. VASQJEZ /E. KUPPER /BLUEROOM/J. CARRANO MIXES) RUC00 RuPaul WHATEVER (MR. MIG MIX) HIDDEN BEACH PROMO /EPIC Jill Sctt.R 8 fr PM DONE KING BRAIN 08/ARTEMIS King Brain Presents N.I.C. e 0 SET IT FREE JVM0 Jasn Walker SUPERFLY (LOUIE VEGA REMIX) RHINO PROMO/WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING Curtis Mayfield E 9 NASTY GIRL STAR999 Maya Day 0 ROBOT ROCK VIRGIN PROMO Daft Punk e 0 GET RIGHT (L. VEGA REMIX) EPIC 89 Jennifer Lpez e TIRED OF BEING SORRY (DUMMIES /PHOTEK REMIXES) FLAWLESS PROMO /GEFFEN Ringside I 8 EVERYTHING OM Kaskade ' - LIFT IT UP TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL û/tommyboy Inaya Day 8 WANT MY BODY TWEEKD000 Pier Pressure 9 LEAD GUITAR SUBMENTAUZVI(PROMONVAAKO Axwell Q ) I NEED YOU TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL /TOMMY BOY Friburn &Urik CD 8 YOU ARE EVERYTHING (J. VASQUEZ /FORD /MR. MIG MIXES) LAVA90 Vanessa Williams? 9 MR. BRIGHTSIDE (J. LU CONT /LINDBERGH PALACE MIXES) ISLAN0000 /IDJMG The Killers NU NU (YEAH YEAH) TMMYeyz Fannypack ; LOVE IS A DRUG (CREAMER & K REMIXES) NY LOVE IMPORT Rsk FAIRYTALE RAOIKAL99 The Replacement Featuring Maria Neskvski e 0 HE GIVES MORE (R. MCGOWAN/W. RIGGIM. CRUZ/TWISTED DEE /J. SANTIAGO) Neaacise Raw Deal Feat Tni Ann Bardell 0 I WILL (ORANGE FACTORY MIXES) PULSE PROMO Bryn e ) 0 I'LL BE YOUR FREAK DEFINITIVE00/ESNTION Nrty Ctt Presents Sinsatin! O FEVER (A. FREELAND REMIXES) VERVE0 Sarah Vaughan AVALON ASTRALWERKS09NIRGIN Juliet Q - RAINSONG LIZA00 Dn Philip 8 ' HOW CAN I BE FALLING (D. AUDE /D. TSETTOS /M. RIZZO /PRESTA/RANPAGE) TS PROMO Jennifer Green 0 8 BREATHE MOTE 99 Erasure 9 HERE I AM DMI0/ULTRA David Mrales With Tamra Keenan 9 JUST LET GO CAPITOL00 Fischerspner e RAZOR & TIE 8909 STRESS 'MEEK El 000 Danny "Buddah "Mrales as HOT SHOT DEBUT tas SORROW RADIKAL99n Bbby 0 C NEW I FEEL YOU RAOIKAL99 Schiller Featuring Heppner 9 0 HOME STAR99 Suzanne Palmer METAL TOMMY BOY Afrika Bambaataa Featuring Gary Numan - ITS LIKE THAT (D. MORALES REMIXES) ISLANDPROMO /IDJMG Mariah Carey a 9 STAND UP GOSSIP Lleatta Hllway ITS ALL GOOD (SCUMFROG & N. SKATEN MIXES) J0JRMG Fantasia O NEW i ONE WORD (CHRIS COX REMIXES) SANCTUARY PROMO Kelly Osbume 9 WAITING FOR ALEGRIA TUMMY BUY SILVER LABEL /TOMMYBy Tny Mran & Ric Sena Present Zhana Saunders 0 -. ) RICH GIRL INTERSCOPE D098 Gwen Stefani Featuring Eve e SINCE U BEEN GONE (J. NEVINS REMIXES) RCA PROMO /RMG Kelly Clarksn e 0 NEW CD.M.I.A. XL 8' : DON'T STOP VERVE FORECASTm+99NERVE Brazilian Girls 8 ` -'i LESSONS IN LOVE MIDAS PROMO Angel 8, SHOW IT TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL /TOMMY BOY Friburn &Urik e0 0 MOST PRECIOUS LOVE KING STREET 9 Blaze Presents U.D.A.U.F.L. Featuring Barbara Tucker 9 8 GALVANIZE FREESTYLE DUST 99/ASTRALWERKS The Chemical Brthers Featuring 0 -Tip e f I AM (THE RISING) [J. ROCKS /FRISCIA & LAMBOY /GUISEPPE D /J. BARRINGER MIXES] catrwl Tabrah Titles w th the greatest sales r club play increases this week. Pwer Pick n Club Play is awarded fr the largest pint increase amng singles belw the tp 0. The Club Play chart is cmpiled frm a natinal sample f reprts frm club DJs. 9 Vidéclip availability. Catalg number is fr vinyl maxi- single, r CD maxi- single, r CD single respectively, basen upn availability. On Dance Singles Sales chart: O CD Single available. O Vinyl Maxi -Single available. CD Maxi -Single available. 80. 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26 Music Cuntry Bucking Fr The Buckle BY PHYLLIS STARK Gretchen Wilsn Wins Tw CMT Vide Awards NASHVILLE -Gretchen Wilsn was a tp vte -getter at the 00 CMT Music Awards, held April at the Gaylrd Entertainment Center here. Wilsn tk hme tw f the evening's nine fan -vted awards: breakthrugh vide f the year fr her debut clip, "Redneck Wman," and female vide fr "When I Think Abut Cheatin'." Just ne vide, "Whiskey Lullaby." wn tw awards. That clip earned its perfrmers, Brad Paisley and Alisn Krauss, ne f CMT's distinctive belt -buckle style trphies fr cllabrative vide f the year. Rick Schrder, wh directed and starred in the clip, wn the belt buckle fr vide directr. Keith Urban wn the evening's Lretta Lynn, left, accepts the Jhnny Cash Visinary Award frm Reba McEntire during the CMT Music Awards. tp prize, vide f the year, fr "Days G By." Kenny Chesney wn male vide fr "I G Back." Rascal Flatts and Tim McGraw each wn awards, but weren't n hand t accept them. Rascal Flatts wn the du /grup vide prize fr "Feels Like Tday." McGraw's "Live Like Yu Were Dying" was named mst inspiring vide f the year. Tby Keith's "Whiskey Girl" wn in the categry f httest vide. As previusly annunced, Lretta Lynn was hnred with the Jhnny Cash Visinary Award n the shw, which was telecast live n CMT and hsted by Jeff Fxwrthy. Lynn was lauded live by Reba McEntire, Martina McBride and Wilsn, and n tape by Wynnna. Faith Hill and thers. The evening's perfrmers included Chesney, McEntire, Dierks Bentley, Alan Jacksn, Urban, Keith, Paisley and Big & Rich. One musical highlight: a gathering f three Wilsns as Gretchen Wilsn perfrmed "Crazy n Yu" with its riginatrs, Ann and Nancy Wilsn f the rck grup Heart. And fllwing a lng absence frm the music scene, Trisha Yearwd made a surprise appearance perfrming her new single, "Gergia Rain." Sny BMG Tps Cuntry BY PHYLLIS STARK NASHVILLE -The newly cmbined might f Sny BMG kept the cmpany in the tp market share spt amng distributrs f cuntry albums in the first quarter f this year. In figures prvided by Nielsen SundScan, Sny BMG lands a.8% share, dwn frm what wuld have been a 9.% share had the tw entities been cmbined first- quarter 00. The cmpany was buyed by sales f Kenny Chesney's "Be As Yu Are: Sngs Frm an Old Blue Chair" and Miranda Lambert's "Kersene," as well as cntinuing sales f Gretchen Wilsn's "Here fr the Party." Universal Music & Vide Distributin remains clse in secnd place with a.% share fr the quarter, up slightly frm 0% in the same perid last year. WEA stays in third place but makes healthy gains frm a % market share in first -quarter 00 t.% this year. This was achieved partly n the strength f Big & Rich's duble -platinum "Hrse f a Different Clr." EMI Music Marketing remains stable, with a small dip t 8.% frm 8. %. It will be bsted in the next quarter by sales f Trace Adkins' strng -selling new CD "Sngs Abut Me." The cmbined share fr the independent cuntry distributrs als dips frm last year's 8.% t 8. %. U.S. Market Share By Distributr: Cuntry Albums Sny BMG.8%, 9.% UMVD.% - 0% WEA.% % EMM 8.% 8.% - Indies 8.% 8.% Jan. -Mar. 00 Jan. -Mar. 00 e SOURCE: NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN Life Is A 'Little' Bit Better Fr Billy Dean Befre it became the year's surprise success stry, Billy Dean thught his new album might be his last. A cnsistent hitmaker thrugh much f the '90s, Dean had fallen frm view after his deal with Capitl ended in 998. As his career was tanking, Dean als was grap- pling with persnal demns. Dean had earned fur gld albums, wn awards, acted n TV shws like "Wings" and "One Life t Live," and after a divrce -dated actress Crystal Bernard. When that life dried up, Dean suffered what his bi refers t as "humbling persnal and career breakdwns," as well as financial setbacks and a clse call with a nervus breakdwn. "If nbdy wants t bk yu and nbdy wants t sign yu, what d yu d? G n `The Surreal Life?' " he wndered. During this time, things gt tight financially. Dean, wh had grwn up Nashville Scene 0 By Phyllis Stark pr, dreaded ending up there again. "I had a lt f prperty that I kept selling and selling. It brught back fears f living hw I had t live as a kid... I was staring at that life again thinking, `Gd, hw culd I have dne s well, and nw I'm getting ready t pssibly lse it all?' I didn't want t feel like a failure. It was very nerve -wracking." It had been seven years since his last album and nine since his last radi hit. Faced with uncertainly abut whether his career was ver, but wanting t take anther sht, Dean decided t recrd and prduce the album "Let Them Be Little" n his wn, emptying his bank accunt in the effrt. "I literally bet the farm n this album," he says. "It was really scary, but I didn't knw any ther way t put an exclamatin pint n my career." Dean knew this album wuld either reintrduce him t the cuntry frmat r be his swan sng. But he wanted t shw the wrld "that I still had sme gd music left in me." Then a funny thing happened. As Dean and his manager, Dc Gnzales, hit the rad in an SUV prmting the album t radi by themselves, a grup f statins began playing tracks frm the album. Dean's cver f Jhn Denver's "Thank Gd I'm a Cuntry By" began climbing the Billbard Ht Cuntry Singles & Tracks chart, peaking at N.. That gt the attentin f Curb Recrds, which signed him t a new deal and helped him land a tp 0 hit with "Let Them Be Little." The sng turbed Dean's March 9 release f the same name t a N. 8 debut n Tp Cuntry Albums last issue with first - week sales f mre than 8,000 cpies, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. Meanwhile, Dean has als rebuilt his life, fcusing n being a devted father and finding new lve with a schlteacher, whm he will marry May. He has mved frm a huse he refers t as "the Pndersa" t a mdest Nashville hme. He credits radi fr his cmeback. Like many peple, Dean was under the impressin that radi had gtten t the pint where all playlist DEAN: IN THE MIDST OF A COMEBACK decisins were dictated at the crprate level. "Then I gt ut there and fund [prgrammers] still have the pwer and freedm t play what they want fr their market," he says. The Curb deal, which is fr mre than ne album, surprised him. "I really didn't expect it t get picked up by a recrd label," he says f the album, fr which he had mre md- est expectatins. "I had hped I might be able t get int sme f thse dt - cm business things that were ppping up in Nashville and take a mre grass -rts apprach." Still, he had been waiting fr his chance t get back int the business. "The whle time I've been n the sideline, raising kids and watching the industry like this merry-grund, wndering, `Where and when di jump in?'" Dean has updated his sund, which he describes as "rck'n'rll bluegrass." "I hired a rck drummer, a rck bass player and an electric guitar player, and then I went and gt the virtuss f bluegrass n the wd and wire instruments," he says. Amng the cuts are new versins f sme previus hits, including "Billy the Kid." "It's been abut a seven- r eight - year effrt t try t get my wn huse in rder and myself in rder," he says. "But ding that has changed the quality f my wrk. A gd quality f life results in a gd quality f wrk." Despite the painful times, Dean says the upsht f his recent experiences is that he has grwn clse with his kids and learned "nt t let my career define whether I'm a successful human being." BILLBOARD APRIL. 00

27 0 APRIL - - :=, r Billbard TOP COUNT Sales data cmpiled by.. *NI Nielsen z SundScan ARTIST Title á, IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL lï a. LARRY THE CABLE GUY JACK/WARNER BROS. 900/WRN 8.98 CD) '-." NUMBER -V = Weeks At Number l The Right T Bare Arms RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Tday LYRIC STREET 09/HOLLYWOOD (898 CDI GRETCHEN WILSON A Here Fr The Party 0 ' EPIC 990/SONY MUSIC 898 ELI CDI SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY 000/UMGN (98 CD) KENNY CHESNEY BNA 0 /RLG (898 CD) TIM MCGRAW CURB CDI _$, GREATEST GAINER =$ Greatest Hits Be As Yu Are: Sngs Frm An Old Blue Chair Live Like Yu Were Dying VARIOUS ARTISTS Ttally Cuntry Vl. SONY BMG/WENUNIVERSALB /RLG 8.98 CD) 8 KENNY CHESNEY When The Sun Ges Dwn BNA 880 /RLG.98/8.98) KEITH URBAN Be Here CAPITOL 89(8.98CO) SUGARLAND Twice The Speed Of Life MERCURY 00/UMGN 98 CD) [N] t TRACE ADKINS Sngs Abut Me CAPITOL 8.98 CO) 9 TOBY KEITH A Greatest Hits ; j!ill ' DREAMWORKS 00 /UMGN.98 CDI 0 GEORGE STRAIT 0 Number Ones MCA NASHVILLE 0009/UMGN 98 CO) BIG & RICH A Hrse Of A Different Clr WARNER BOOS. 80ANRN (8.98 CD) MIRANDA LAMBERT Kersene EPIC 90/SONY MUSIC (8.98 EO CO) LEE ANN WOMACK There's Mre Where That Came Frm MCA NASHVILLE 000' /UMGN (.98 CD) BRAD PAISLEY A Mud On The Tires ARISTA NASHVILLE 00/RIG (.98/898) MARTINA MCBRIDE Martina - RCA 0 /RLG.98/898 BILLY DEAN Let Them Be Little CURB CDI MONTGOMERY GENTRY Yu D Yur Thing COLUMBIA 908/SONY MUSIC 8.98 EO CD) ) 8 CRAIG MORGAN M Y Kind Of Livin' BROKEN BOW (98 CDI BROOKS & DUNN The Greatest Hits Cllectin II. ] 0 ARISTA NASHVILLE /RLG (898 COI BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. 88ANRN 8.98 CDI BLAINE LARSEN GIANTSLAYER/BNA glg (.98 CO) Blake Sheltn's Barn & Grill Off T Jin The Wrld 0 JOSH GRACIN Jsh Gracin LYRIC F 0/HOLLYWOOD nß.98 CDI JEEFF BATES Rainbw Man RCA 0/RIG.98/.98) [N] ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION Lnely Runs Bth Ways ROUNDER 8 ' 9 LEANN RIMES RES This Wman CURB 889 (8.98 COI WILLIE NELSON Sngs LOST HIGH WAY /HIP -0 /UN 0000 /UME 98 CD). JIMMY BUFFETT License T Chill MAILBOAT/RCA 0/RIG(8.98 CDI TERRI CLARK Greatest Hits MERCURY 0090 /UMGN.98 CD) e, DWIGHT YOAKAM The Ve ry Best Of Dwight g Yak am REPRISE 89 /RHINO 0998 CD) : ALAN JACKSON A Greatest Hits Vlume II ( ARISTA NASHVILLE 80/flLG p8.98 CD) JULIE ROBERTS Julie Rberts MERCURY 0090/UMGN 88/.98 E ANDY GRIGGS This I Gtta See RCA 90/RIG.98 CO) 9 RANDY TRAVIS The Very Best Of Randy Travis WARNER BROS. 899/RHINO (8.98 CD) `.,'. 9. W '' ÿ g < e ALBUMS.. ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL DIERKS BENTLEY Dierks Bentley CAPITOL 98 98/898) ; LEANN RIMES Greatest Hits CURB 889 (8.98 CO) 9 SHOOTER JENNINGS Put The 0 Back In Cuntry UNIVERSAL SOUTH 0 8 JAMIE O'NEAL Brave CAPITOL 989(8.98 CO) ANNE MURRAY All Of Me STRAIGHTWAY.98 CDI 9 8 REBA MCENTIRE Rm T Breathe O MCA NASHVILLE 000 /UMGN (8.98/.98) LEE ANN WOMACK MCA NASHVILLE W8 PHIL VASSAR 8/UMGN.98 CDI ARISTA NASHVILLE 9/RLG.98 CD) DIXIE CHICKS MONUMENT /COLUMBIA9D9 /SONY MUSIC 98 ES CO) Title Greatest Hits Shaken Nt Stirred Tp Of The Wrld Tur Live 8 TOB TKEITmH Shck'n Y'All ua n9a e.9s ' SARA EVANS Restless RCA úm /RLG.90!8.98 ALAN JACKSON ARISTA NASHVILLE 0 RLS 8.98 CDI TRACE ADKINS CAPITOL 0.98/8.98) What l D Cmin' On Strng 0 0 LONESTAR Frm There T Here: Greatest Hits BNA 0/RLG (.98/898 8 JO DEE MESSINA Greatest Hits CURB CO) LONESTAR Let's Be Us Again BNA 9/RLG 8.98 CO) 9 SHEDAISY Sweet Right Here LYRIC STREET 0 /HOLLYWOOD (8.98 C0) TRACE ADKINS Greatest Hits Cllectin, Vlume I CAPITOL /8.98) RHONDA VINCENT AND THE RAGE ROUNDER 0.98 CD) - S - r;rca MCA NASHVILLE D00 /UMGN 8.98/ /SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 8.98 CDI Ragin' Live GARY ALLAN See If I Care 9 ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis: Ultimate Gspel ": 8 JEFF FOXWORTHY WARNER BROS. 90/RHIN0898 CD/DVD) z 0 W c a d The Best Of Jeff Fxwrthy: Duble Wide, Single Minded 0 9 ` 0 LORETTA LYNN Van Lear Rse INTERSCOPE 00 (.98 CD) i. ;- 8 < - BILL ENGVALL A Decade Of Laughs JACK/WARNER BROS. 88/WRN.98 CDI SOUNDTRACK JACK/WARNER BROS. 890NVRN 898 CDI DEANA CARTER VANGUARD 9.98 CO) Blue Cllar Cmedy Tur Rides Again The Stry Of My Life TRACY BYRD Greatest Hits BNA 8/RIG (8.98 CD) DARRYL WORLEY Darryl Wrley DREAMWORKS 00/UMGN (.98 CD) 0 CHELY WRIGHT The Metrplitan Htel PAINTED RED 00JODALTDNE.98 CD) 8 JOE NICHOLS Revelatin UNIVERSAL SOUTH CO) 9 ALABAMA RCA GSTRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 0.90CD) Ultimate Alabama: ÍI # Hits 0 8 CONWAY TWITTY Number Ones MCA NASHVILLE/UN 0008/UME (.98 CD) 9 RON WHITE Drunk In Public PARALLEIJHIP- 0008/UME 98 CD) [N] 0 - WAYLON JENNINGS Ultimate Wayln Jennings RCA /BMG HERITAGE 8.98 CD) - JOSHHTU DER Lng Black Train esa9se [NI CA 0 RODNEY CARRINGTON Greatest Hits ; 0 CAPITOL CD) TRAVIS TRITT My Hnky Tnk Histry COLUMBIA 908/SONY MUSIC 8.98 EO CDI TOBY KEITHsvuMEUZSa có)he Best Of Tby Keith: 0th Century Masters The Millennium Cllectin 9 GEORGE JONES 0 Years Of Hits BANDIT 0.98 CDI Albums e i h the greate t sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units (Gld). RIM certificatn fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album' multi platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the number f discs and /r tapes. RIAA Latin awards: OCertificatinfr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or). Certificatin f 00,000 units (Platin). Certificatin f 00,000 units (Multi- Platine) "Asterisk indicates LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CD prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ, and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are prjected frm whlesale prices. Greatest Gainer shws chart's largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage grwth. ieatseeker Impact shws albums remved frm Heatseekers this week. [N] indicates past r present Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. APRIÓ gil, TOP COUNTRY CATALOG ALBUMS.. ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Sales data cmpiled by VD Nielsen SundScan Title w á I_ Ne Y V. T ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL NUMBER,, 8TteeksAt Number KEITH URBAN KENNY CHESNEY 8BNA08/ßL0(.98/8.98 N Shes. N Shirt. N Prblems CAPITOL 9s0.98/8.98). Glden Rad Q al RASCAL FLATTS LYRIC STREET 0 /HOLLYWOOD8.98/.98)[N] Rascal Flatts 9 TIM MCGRAW CURB 98 (.98/8.98) Greatest Hits 9 JOHNNY CASH AMERICAN 09 ' / LOST HIGHWAY ((98CO) American IV: The Man Cmes Arund K KENNY CHESNEY BNA 9/RLG(.98/8sa) Greatest Hits JOHNNY CASH LEGACY /COLUMBIA9 9 /SONY MUSIC.98E0/.98) Biggest Hits '' ELVIS PRESLEY A RCA 809' /ßM0.98/9.98 Elvis. 0 # Hits HANK WILLIAMS JR. CURB 8.98/9.98 Greatest Hits, Vl. MARTINA MCBRIDE RCA 0/RLG (.98/8.98) Greatest Hits GARTH BROOKS CAPITOL 99.98/.98 Duble Live 8 CHRIS LEDOUX CAPITOL /.98 0 Greatest Hits SOUNDTRACK A CURB 80.98/98 Cyte Ugly 9 C RASCAL FLATTS AD LYRIC STREET 0/HOLLYWOOD (.98/8.98 Melt 8 JOHN DENVER MADACY0.98/9.98 The Best Of Jhn Denver y0 8 ', SOUNDTRACK A LOST HIGHWAY/MERCURY 009/UMGN 8.98/98) 0 Brther. Where Art Thu? ) SHANIA TWAIN 0 MERCURY 00/UMGN 8.98/.98) Cme On Over 8 9 LARRY THE CABLE GUY PARALLEUHIP- 0 /UME08.9CO) Lrd, I Aplgize 9 MONTGOMERY GENTRY COLUMBIA 90 /SONY MUSIC (um EN.98 My Twn 0 0 ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION ROUNDEF 0 (9.98 CD) Live 9 DIXIE CHICKS MONUMENT 89 /SONY MUSIC 0.98 Ea/.9BI[N] Wide Open Spaces i TIM MCGRAW CURB 8 (.98/8.99) Set This Circus Dwn 8 BROOKS & DUNN A ARISTA NASHVILLE 88/HLG.98/8.98) The Greatest Hits Cllectin 8 9 SOUNDTRACK WARNER BROS. 8ANRN8.98CD) Blue Cllar Cmedy Tur. The Mvie 0 FP - ANNE MURRAY SBK8 /CAPITOL 0.98/.) TheBest...SFar sialbums wit the greatest sales gains this week. Catalg albums are -yiar-ld ntles that have fallen belw N.00 n The Billbard 00 r reissues f lder albums. Ttal Chart Weeks clumn reflects cmbi ed weeks ntle has appeared n Tp Curitn/ Albums and Tp untry Catalg Recrding Industry Assn. Of Amenca (RIAA) certificabn fr net shipment f 00,000 album unrts (Gld). RIAF certificatin fr net shipment f I millin units (Platinum). RIM certificatin f- net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's multl- platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre, the RIM multiplies shipments by the number f discs and /r tapes. `Asterisk indicates LP is mailable. Mst tape prices, and CD prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EU, and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are prjected frm whlesale prices. [N] indicates past Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScen, Inc. All rights reserved. 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28 F Y ru APRIL 00 W - rn g c. a.: ;. I I Leltklii, Airplay mnitred by Nielsen Bradcast Data TITLE Systems Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL ANYTHING BUT MINE it f,annon,k.chesnev IS.CARUSOEI NUMBER THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SUNDAY C MORGAN,P.O'DONNELL (A.DORSEYM.NARMORE) IT'S GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME K. BROOKS,RDUNN,M.WRIGHT IR.BOWMAN,D.000K) GONE J.STEELE (B. DIPIERO,J.STEELE) MY GIVE A DAMN'S BUSTED B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (J.OIFFIE,T.SHAPIRO,T.MARTINI BABY GIRL GFUNOIS( K.BUSH,K.HALLJ.NETTLES,T.BLESERI 9 HOMEWRECKER M.WRIGHTJ.SCAIFE (G WILSON,R.RUTHERFORO,G.TEREN) 9 IF HEAVEN 0 R.SCRUGGS (G.PETERSI HONKY TONK U J.STROUD,T.KEITH IT.KEITHI WHAT'S A GUY GOTTA DO B ROWAN IJ.NICHOLS,K.LOVELACE,D.SAMPSONI 8 NOTHIN' TO LOSE M WILLIAMS IK.SAVIGAR,M.CHAGNONI 8 BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD M BRIGHTM.WILLIAMS,RASCAL FLATTS (M.HUMMON,B.E.BOYO,J.HANNAI SONGS ABOUT ME S HENDRICKS (S.SMITH,E.HILL) DRUGS OR JESUS 8 LOT OF LEAVIN' LEFT TO DO B. BEAVERS IB.BEAVERS,O.RUITAN,D.BENTLEY). 9 GOD'S WILL B. GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW,D. SMITH(B.JAMES,A. MAYO,T.VERGES,GLINDSEYI M. MCBRIDE,P.WORLEY n.d000las,b.dean) Q` GREATEST GAINER _. í TM I,.! I Y W g u W Q O F vi - y Y TITLE + Artist á i S PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT & NUMBER /PROMOTION LABEL Week At Number THE TALKIN' SONG REPAIR BLUES Alan Jacksn I. STEGALL ID,LINDEI O ARISTA NASHVILLE Kenny Chesney z BABY DOLL Pat Green OO BNA [, GERMAN IP.SREEN,R.THOMASI O REPUBLIC /UNIVERSAL/MERCURY Craig Mrgan.9 0 I SEE ME Travis Tritt v tf J WALKER,JR.,T.TRITT (C.BEATHARD,C.MOHR) BROKEN BOW Brks& Dunn O ARISTA NASHVILLE Mntgmery Gentry 9 O O COLUMBIA J Dee Messina Est CURB Sugarland O O MERCURY Gretchen Wilsn O O EPIC /EMN Andy Griggs 9 O RCA Tby Keith m O OREAMWORKS Je Nichls 9 O UNIVERSAL SOUTH Jsh Gracin.9 O LYRIC STREET Rascal Flatts 9 O LYRIC STREET Trace Adkins m' O CAPITOL Tim McGraw z O CURB Dierks Bentley asp O CAPITOL Martina McBride =m O "':B O COLUMBIA CD 9 HELP SOMEBODY Van Zant 0 M WRIGHT,J.SCAIFE (K.RAINES,J.STEELE) O COLUMBIA ITS A HEARTACHE Trick Pny C. HOWARD (R.SCOTTS WOLFEI ASYLUM -CURB E 8 IF SHE WERE ANY OTHER WOMAN Buddy Jewell.9 G.FUNDIS IB. BEAVERS,K.LOVELACE,C.HARRINGTON) O O COLUMBIA 0 9 MY SISTER Reba McEntire RMCENTIRE,B.CANNON,N.WILSON IR.DEAN,B.BAKERA.OALLEY) O MCA NASHVILLE ED 9 - SOMETHING MORE Sugarland G FUNOIS IK.HALLJ.NETTLES,K.BUSHI OO MERCURY CD SKIN RASCAL FLATTS,M.BRIGHT,M.WILLIAMS ID.JOHNSON,J.HENRY Rascal Flatts O LYRIC STREET 9 CD PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE THIS WAY LeAnn Rimes 0 ' D. HUFF IJ.KENNEOYT.KIDDI O ASYLUM -CURB 8 0 THE GOOD LIFE Trent Willmn F ROGERS(T.WILLMON,B.PINSONI O COLUMBIA 0 WAITIN' ON THE WONDERFUL Aarn Lines '9 C. LINOSEY,T.VERGES IANGELO,D.BERG,H.LINOSEY) O BNA SOMETHING LIKE A BROKEN HEART Hanna -McEuen J STROUD,J.HANNA,J.MCEUEN IJ.HANNA.R,REVNOLOS,A.MILLERI O MCA NASHVILLE THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Brian McCmas L. REYNOLDS (B.M000MASI LYRIC STREET ONE BELIEVER Diamnd Ri M.D.CLUTEDIAMOND RIO( M.BEESON,O.PFRIMMER,M. REID) ARISTA NASHVILLE 0 SOMEBODY'S HERO Jamie O'Neal K.STEGALLIJ.O'NEALS.SMITH,E.HILL) O CAPITOL _. 9 MY NAME Gerge Canyn ^a T.OUBOIS,S.MANDILE IG.CANVON,G.SAMPSONI O UNIVERSAL SOUTH HILLBILLIES Ht ApplePie Y LANDIS.G.MCDOWELL IB.SEALS,K.PLUSM,G.M000WELL) O SREAMWORKS 0 MAKING MEMORIES OF US Keith Urban ^a 0 HUFF,K.URBAN IR.CROWELLI O CAPITOL M.MCCLURE,CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED IC. CANADA.T.ROBERSONI O 0 UNIVERSAL SOUTH 9 CLASS REUNION (THAT USED TO BE US) Lnestar 8 D. HUFF I R.MCDDNALD,FJ.MYERS,D.PFRIMMERI O BNA I 8 0 HOW DO YOU GET THAT LONELY Blaine Larsen Y LFEEK,TJOHNSON IR.LFEEK,J.TEACHENORI OO BNA I'LL TAKE THAT AS A YES (THE HOT TUB SONG) -tairpower PhilVassarç 0 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN TEXAS AND MEXICO Pat Green FBOGERS,P.VASSAR IJ MCELROVVMEIAMEDI OO ARISTA NASHVILLE DUERMAN ITSUMMAR,I.KELLEY) OO REPUBLIC /UNIVERSAVMEflCUflY 0 YOU'LL BE THERE Gerge Strait 8 T.BROWNIC.MAYO) O p - BRING ME DOWN Miranda Lambert F. MCA NASHVILLE LIDDELLM.WRUCKE IM.LAMBERTTHOWAROI Cl EPIC/EMN m LONG, SLOW KISSES Jeff Bates - DREAM BIG Ryan Shupe & The Rubber Band B.CHANCEY,K.BEARD,D.MALLOY IJ.BATES,G.BRADBERRYB.HAYSLIPI O RCA JDEERE IR.SHUPEI O CAPITOL FAST CARS AND FREEDOM Rascal Flans J HOT SHOT DEBUT ',r; M BRIGHTM.WILLIAMS,RASCAL RATTS (G.LEVOX,N.THRASHER,W.MOBLEY) O LYRIC STREET HICKTOWN Jasn Aldean BIG TIME Big & Rich M.KNOX IVMCGEHE,J.RICH,B.KENNYI BROKEN BOW B KENNY,J.RICH,PWORLEY IB.KENNYJ.RICHAAPARDI O WARNER BROS/WRN IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN Darryl Wrley 9 THAT SUMMER SONG Blue Cunty ROGERS IJ.BROWN,O.TURNBULLODEMAYI O DREAMWORKS D,HUFFD.JOHNSON IB.E.NASH,S.LEWIS,T.LEAH) O ASYLUM -CURB 9 GOODBYE TIME WHAT YOU AIN'T GONNA GET Lauren Lucas WATSON IM.HUMMON,T.SHAPIRO) O WARNER BROSJWRN B. BRADDOCK IR.MURRAH,J.D.HICKSI 8 8 DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW J. SCAIFE,B.PINSON (B.PINSON,B.BUTLER,B.JONESI 0 9 PICKIN' WILDFLOWERS J.STEELE IK.ANOERSON,J.RICH,K.WILLIAMS) DON'T WORRY 'BOUT A THING D HUFFSHEOAISY (K.OSBORN,J.DEERE) 0 DON'T! APRIL 00 LL w = r ÿ g O J.LANGE (S.TWAIN,R J.IANGEI Billbard,a, ARTIST IMPRINT &NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL Blake Sheltn 9 O WARNER BROS./WRN - Bbby Pinsn. O RCA Keith Andersn V O ARISTA NASHVILLE SheDaisy 9 O LYRIC STREET Shania Twain 9 OO MERCURY TOP BLUEGRASS ALBUMS. Sales data cmpiled by +0. Nielsen SundScan _H' NUMBER ift; 0 Weeks At Number ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION ROUNDER 0 Lnely Runs Bth Ways Q RHONDA VINCENT AND THE RAGE ROUNDER 0 Begin' Live OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW NETIWERK09 O.C.M.S. O RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER SKAGGS FAMILY/LYRIC STREET 9000/HOLLYWOOD Brand New Strings_ ) COYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER ROUNDER 0 Yu Gtta Dig A Little Deeper CO 8 SOUNDTRACK OUALTONE00 The Appalachians VARIOUS ARTISTS CMH 8 Pickin' On Vince Gill: A Bluegrass Tribute SIEVE IVEY MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 8/MADACY 0 Best Of Bluegrass Gspel S 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS GAITHER MUSIC GROUP 9 Bill Gaither Presents: A Gspel Bluegrass Hmecming Vlume One 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS GAITHER MUSIC GROUP 0 Bill Gaither Presents: A Gspel Bluegrass Hmecming Vlume Tw 0 CHARLIE DANIELS BLUE HAT 98/KOCH A Gspel Bluegrass Cllectin: Sngs Frm The Lngleaf Pine S NATALIE MACMASTER ROUNDER 0 Blueprint VARIOUS ARTISTS ROUNDER 00 Mdy Bluegrass: A Nashville Tribute T The Mdy Blues LARRY SPARKS REBEL It 0, THE STANLEY BROTHERS KING 00 Greatest Hits CD ALABAMA Crss Canadian Ragweed z 8 NOT ME Keni Thmas Feat. Vince Gill And Emmylu Harris 9 B. MAHER, M. SELBY (K.THOMAS,B.MONTANA,B.MAHER) MORAINE 8 0 TONIGHT'S NOT THE NIGHT Randy Rgers Band YFOOTER IR.RUAERS,fl.FOSTER) OO SMITH ENTERTAINMENT 8 NO ONE'LL EVER LOVE ME Rebecca Lynn Hward B. CANNON (C.BAKERTS.BAKER,K.SHIVER) ARISTA NASHVILLE TH OF JULY COBB,T.BROWN (S.JENNINGSI Shter Jennings Featuring Gerge Jnes O UNIVERSAL SOUTH I PLAY CHICKEN WITH THE TRAIN Cwby Try 'm 8 B KENNY,J.RICH,P.WORLEY ITCOLEMAN,J.RICH,A.APAROI O RAYBAW/WARNER BROS./WAN al Recrds shwing an inc ease in audience impressins ver the previus week, regardless f chart mvement Cmpiled frm a natinal sample f airplay supplied by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems' adi track service. 8 Cuntry Statins are electrnically mnitred hurs a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by number f grs harescmputed by crss -referencing exact times f airplay with Arbitrn listener data. Airpwer awarded t sngs appearing in the tp 0 n bth the BDS Airplay and Audience chats frche first Dle wnh increases In bth detecoans and audlence. Greatest Garner awarded t the sng wnh the largest increase In audlence. Titles belwthe tp are remved tram the chart after 0 weeks. iy Videclip availability. Catalg number is fr CD Single, r Vinyl Single if CD Single is unavailable. Title O CD Single available. 0 DVD Single available. CD Maxi-Single available. Cassette Single available. O Vinyl Maxi -Single available. O Vinyl Single available. O Cassette Maxi -Single available. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rightsreserved. AP00 - RIL Billbard c HOT COUNTRY SINGLES SALES TM I-, TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL Sales data cmpiled by IF SHE WERE ANY OTHER WOMAN COLUMBIA 0/SONY MUSIC Nielsen SundScan x- d a Artist.fft : NUMBER sue_ Weeks At Number Buddy Jewell - BABY GIRL MERCURY00/UMW. Sugarland RESTLESS ROUNDER8 Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin 9 VIVA LAS VEGAS ROUNDER The Grascals With Special Guest Dlly Partn S THE BUMPER OF MY S.U.V. PAINTED RED 00 Chely Wright HURT AMERICAN 0090'/LOST HIGHWAY Jhnny Cash YOU DON'T LIE HERE ANYMORE COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC Shelly Fairchild =i GETAWAY CAR CAPITOLS The Jenkins - PHOTOGRAPH ROUNDER Malibu Strm C - WILD WEST SHOW WARNER BROS. /WRN %crds with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIM) certificatin fr net shipment f00, 0M album units r,000 DOB single units (Gld). A RAA certificatin fr et shipment f millin units r0,000dvo single units ( Platinum), with mudmillin tides indicated bya numeral fllwing the symbl IN] indicates past r present Heasseeker title. :00 JNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved BILLBOARD APRIL, 00 Big &Rich

29 illbard dicks Music ALBUMS Edited by Michael Paletta NEW & NOTEWORTHY MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Martha Wainwright PRODUCERS: Martha Wainwright, Brad Alberta Zë /Runder 0 RELEASE DATE: April On her self -titled, full- length debut, Martha Wainwright succeeds where s many baby- viced female singers have failed. Thugh accenting the vulnerability her vcals naturally pssess, she manages wrld -weary hnesty and summned strength rather than cntrived sentimentality. Acrss these sngs, she prves she is a vibrant and creative member f a frmidable musical family that includes brther Rufus (wh duets with her n "The Maker "), mther Kate McGarrigle and father Luden III. While Luden's drubbing n "B.M.F.A." (shrt fr "bldy mtherfucking asshle" - uch!) will likely draw the mst initial reactin fr its explsive spiritual release, the rest f Martha's Jn Brin- inflected meldic flk is equally ripe with wry emtin that simmers ( "These Flwers," "Wh Was I Kidding?") and ccasinally bils ver ( "Ball and Chain," "Factry"). -BM POP /ROCK MUDVAYNE Lst and Fund PRODUCERS: Dave Frtman, Mudvayne Epic EK 908 RELEASE DATE: April Mudvayne has prved t be ne f the mre successful metal bands f the new millennium, racking up gld recrds fr its previus tw releases. The band was initially lumped in with Slipknt because f bth grups' prpensities fr wearing cstumes and makeup. Hwever, fr this g- rund, Mudvayne has drpped the makeup and nicknames t prve it can stand n its wn withut the gimmicks. Guess what? Mudvayne remains standing. In fact, lead single "Happy?" is its highest - charting rck track t date. Unfrtunately, while dnning a fresh image, the band has made its mst generic album yet. Mudvayne is undeniably talented and has a distinguishable sund -thanks t Chad Gray's vcals and the band's cmplex rhythms - but there's little t distinguish "Lst and Fund" frm past effrts. Lead track "Determined" sunds like a retread f its first hit, "Dig," and shrt f "Frget t Remember" and the meldic "Fall Int Sleep," the album is, while nt terrible, nt very memrable, either. -BT Or. LISA MARIE PRESLEY Nw What PRODUCER: Eric Rsse Capitl 09 RELEASE DATE: April It's telling that the first single frm Lisa Marie Presley's sphmre set is a E S S E N T I A L R E V I E W S nit sta T \P, l r aman ini_ =IrRRO IPI II RIfl YO -YO MA & THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE Silk Rad Jurneys: Beynd the Hrizn PRODUCER: Steven Epstein Sny Classical K 99 RELEASE DATE: April Five years ag, superstar cellist Y -Y Ma began bringing tgether master musicians frm acrss Asia t create the Silk Rad Ensemble, a grup that explres and celebrates the intercnnected and yet unique musical traditins f the cuntries alng the ancient trade rute knwn as the Silk Rad. In their third recrding cllabratin, these virtuss present a beguiling array f new wrks and arrangements f traditinal music. Each piece is s vividly realized in bright clrs and finely textured details that they are nearly cinematic in themselves. Particularly wnderful are the piquant imprvisatin "Oasis," led by Chinese musicians Wu Tng and Wu Man; the epic, rmantic sweep f Persian kemencheh player Kayhan Kalhr's "Muntains Are Far Away"; and the yearning, haunting sund f Azerbaijani vcalist Alim Qasimv in "Kr Arab. " -AT cver: "Dirty Laundry" was a hit fr Dn Henley in 98. As a hidden bnus track, she als remakes the Ramnes' "Here Tday, Gne Tmrrw." Smehw, she manages t prduce lackluster versins f bth. Despite hitmaker Linda Perry c- writing half f the album's riginal tracks, smething is missing. "Nw What" is well -prduced and ften catchy ( "I'll Figure It Out "), but there's nthing distinctive abut it. If Elvis' daughter is pndering her next career mve, perhaps she shuld cnsider a new directin. -KK R&B/HIP-HOP 0. SOUNDTRACK Diary f a Mad Black Wman PRODUCERS: varius Rwdy Entertainment /Mtwn B000 RELEASE DATE: April 9 Tyler Perry's "Diary f a Mad Black Wman" scred N. bx -ffice kuds. Judging by the mesmerizing perfrmances here, the mvie's sundtrack deserves t d equally as well. It's filled t the brim with diva -licius stylings that will have yu frequently punching the repeat -play buttn. India.Arie, Mnica, Natalie Cle and ther mar- ROB THOMAS Smething t Be PRODUCER: Matt Serletic Melisma /Atlantic 8 RELEASE DATE: April 9 Much has been made f Rb Thmas' sl debut -particularly that it shwcases different musical sides f the Grammy Award -winning Matchbx Twenty frntman. Already, lead single "Lnely N Mre" is a certified pp hit. In this issue, the ultra catchy, Justin Timberlake- shaded track, which peaked at N. n the Adult Tp 0 chart, hits the tp 0 f The Billbard Ht 00. It is ne f many highlights n "Smething t Be," which gets ff t a rllicking start with "This Is Hw a Heart Breaks." "I Am an Illusin" (featuring a Bessie Jnes sample and Rbert Randlph n lap steel) sunds tailr -made fr Sting; it shuld be cnsidered fr a single. Equally feisty is the title track. Cnversely, "When the Heartache Ends" is warm and tender. The anthemic "Streetcrner Symphny" has what it takes t becme a highlight f Thmas' live shw. MP quee names frm the wrlds f R &B, pp and gspel cut lse n a cgent cllectin that unleashes a maelstrm f emtins. Arie's sulful "Purify Me" pens the prceedings. Her mving delivery is eched at varius turns by fellw cntempraries Angie Stne ( "Different Directins "), Tamia ( "Things I Cllected ") and Heather Headley ( "Ain't It Funny "). Meanwhile, R &B /pp vets Cle ( "I Wanna Lve Again ") and Patti LaBelle ( " Wanna Be Free ") nearly steal the shw. Nt t be cunted ut is frmer R &B hitmaker Cheryl Pepsii Riley n the illuminating "What If Gd Was One f Us. " -GM DANCE/ELECTRONIC 0. BEN WATT Buzzin' Fly Vlume : Replenishing Music fr the Mdern Sul PRODUCERS: varius Astralwerks ASW 00 RELEASE DATE: April Tw years ag, Everything but the Girl's Ben Watt established Buzzin' Fly Recrds s he culd release huse music he deemed ntewrthy. Judging by the label's success in undergrund clubs, DJs and enthusiasts appreciate NOTHOiHEATELEVATOR HOT HOT HEAT Elevatr PRODUCER: D. Sardy Sire 8988 RELEASE DATE: April Fllwing its prmising 00 Sub Pp debut, "Make Up the Breakdwn," Ht Ht Heat has graduated t the majrs with its integrity intact. It isn't like the band had a tn f indie cred befre just a knack fr crafting catchy retr sngs like tp 0 mdern rck hit "Bandages." "Elevatr" cntinues that trend, mixing the band's '80s influences with clever lyrics that lift it abve the "garage band" tag it was initially saddled with. Mstly fun and upbeat, "Elevatr" features tracks in slightly mre than minutes, with many sngs (including lead single "Gdnight Gdnight ") clcking in at rughly tw minutes. Sng titles like "Yu Owe Me an IOU" and lyrics like "Maybe I'm a little slw r just cnsistently incnsistent" shw ff Ht Ht Heat's wit, while "Middle f Nwhere," "Jingle Jangle" and the title track shwcase the band's meldy. Fans f retr rck and pwer pp shuld take "Elevatr" fr a ride. -BT what Watt is discvering -the latest f which is his sublime cllabratin with British MC Estelle, "Pp a Cap in Y' Ass," included here. Fr his secnd Buzzin' Fly DJ -mix, Watt blends the ld and the new. Highlights include fferings frm Justin Martin ( "Le Bm "), Man & Françisa ( "Five Seasns ") and Unity ( "I Lve Yu "). This CD's subtitle indeed sums up the set best. -MP WORLD * NIYAZ Niyaz PRODUCERS: Azam Ali, Lga Ramin Trkian, Carmen Rizz Six Degrees 0 0 RELEASE DATE: April 9 Niyaz is the meeting f three majr artists -Azam Ali, the sublime vcalist f Vas; multi -instrumentalist Lga Ramin Trkian f Axim f Chice; and prducer /remix savant Carmen Rizz. The 0 sngs n their self -titled prject are based n Sufi mystical petry. Ali sings in Farsi and Urdu, and the Farsi pems were taken frm the wrk f the fabled Jalaluddin Rumi. Sufi petry-and the cntemprary music that draws n it -is knwn fr its ecstatic quality, but the arrangements here have a greater snic density than, say, the recrdings f legendary Sufi vcalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and the emphasis is n grve rather than prlnged jams. The Niyaz vibe is an alluring cmbinatin f medieval Persian and Indian exticism and beats that are state f the art. Ali's vcals are whlly evcative f anther wrld and anther time, which creates a wnderful tensin with Trkian and Rizz's inspired instrumental textures. -PVV JAZZ DIANE SCHUUR Schuur Fire PRODUCER: Oscar Castr -Neves Cncrd Picante RELEASE DATE: April Grammy Award- winning vcalist Diane Schuur steers int a new directin n her latest album, "Schuur Fire." The cl- meets -cmbustive cllectin f Latin- tinged tunes with the Caribbean Jazz Prject features leader Dave Samuels n vibes /marimbas and Dieg Urcla n trumpet/flugelhrn. Brazilian guitarist Oscar Castr -Neves prduces and perfrms. While the cncept f the Latinizatin f Schuur initially seems suspect, verall the experiment succeeds. Rather than d straight cvers f new standards like James Taylr's "Dn't Let Me Be Lnely Tnight" and Stevie Wnder's "As," Castr -Neves kindles the sessin with percussive arrangements that cmplement Schuur and CJP's strengths. The mst unusual sng selectin is Schuur's buyant renditin f Duran Duran's "Ordinary Wrld," while the sunniest track is her samba -flavred take n Sergi Mendes' "Lk Arund." Less effective are the deliveries f Ivan Lins' "Cnfessins" and Cle Prter's "S in Lve." While Schuur's in strng vice thrughut, it's a stretch t dub her the first lady f jazz, as her label bi basts. -DO * CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET Jumping the Creek PRODUCERS: Charles Llyd, Drthy Darr ECM B000 RELEASE DATE: April Reeds man Charles Llyd's spirituality - infused music has a meditative, quiet side and a riling, ecstatic manner f expressin. On his latest excursin, playfully titled "Jumping the Creek," Llyd and his tp- drawer quartet f pianist Geri Allen and bass /drum team Rbert Hurst and Eric Harland cmmune in a reflective zne as well as launch int jaunty jurneys f imprvisatin. The three extended numbers are full -length, passin - driven perfrmances highlighted by the pckets f Llyd's bld, lyrical blwing. Of nte are the tenr sax's jyful /slemn cver f Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and the free -frall "Gergia Bright Suite." The seven smaller pieces are mre like shrt films that capture a mment, whether it's the frlic f the title tune, the lighthearted bunce f "Ken Katta Ma Om (Bright Sun Upn (Cntinued n page ) CONTRIBUTORS. Jim Bessman, Keith Caulfield, Grdn Ely, Debrah Evans Price, Barry A. Jeckell, Katy Krll, Gail Mitchell, Dan Ouellette, Michael Paletta, Bram Teitelman, Christa L Titus, Anastasia Tsiulcas, Philip van Vleck, Ray Waddell. ESSENTIALS: Releases deemed by the review editrs t deserve special attentin n the basis f musical merit and/r Billbard chart ptential.vital REISSUES: Rereleased albums f special artistic, archival and cmmercial interest and utstanding cllectins f wrks by ne r mre artists. PICKS *: New releases predicted t hit the tp half f the chart in the crrespnding frmat. CRITICS' CHOICES ( *): New releases, regardless f chart ptential, highly recmmended because f their musical merit. All albums cmmercially available in the United States are eligible. Send album review cpies and singles review cpies t Michael Paletta (Billbard, 0 Bradway, th flr, NewYrk, N.Y. 000) r t the writers in the apprpriate bureaus. BILLBOARD APRIL,

30 Music J pl ; illbard icks (Cntinued frm page ) Yu)" r the exticism f "The Sufi's Tears." Allen stars thrughut with her elliptical and whimsical runs that spur n Llyd's muses and gusts. -DO GOSPEL 0. THE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY In the Huse f the Lrd... Live in Hustn PRODUCER: Sanchez Harley EMI Gspel 8 RELEASE DATE: April After years and albums, the Mighty Cluds f Jy- undeniably ne f gspel's greatest fursmes- resurface with a new label, a hit prducer, strng material and the steady rlling, ften rcking quartet grve that they have had a definitive hand in shaping. Funding member and lead singer Je Lign's vcals and presence are as cmmanding as ever. "Been Gd t Me" and the title sng rck with authrity, and a remake f the grup's N. disc smash, "Mighty High" (nw titled "Ride the Mighty High "), kicks with the same exuberance it did 0 years ag. Add yet anther gld star t ne f the lngest winning streaks in mdern music. -GE VITAL REISSUES BILLIE HOLIDAY The Ultimate Clledin PRODUCERS: varius Hip -O /Verve /Decca/UME 0 RELEASE DATE: April Bb Marley, Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King have been prfiled by Universal Music Enterprises' "Deluxe Sund +Visin" series. Jining that illustrius lineup is jazz legend Billie Hliday, wh wuld have turned 90 this year. This duble - CD retrspective and DVD prvides an intriguing and cmprehensive lk at the wman nicknamed "Lady Day" by saxphnist Lester Yung. CD -wise, the package includes aural highlights f the singer /sngwriter's career that have already been featured in earlier cllectins: "Strange Fruit," "Gd Bless the Child," "Dn't Explain" and "My Man (Mn Hmme)." Still stellar in their wn right, these sngs becme even mre cmpelling thanks t the accmpanying DVD sptlighting Hliday's unique and influential stylings in film and TV clips. Lng befre the superstar pairing f Usher and Alicia Keys, there was Hliday with the legendary Duke Ellingtn in the 9 vide shrt "Symphny in Black: A Rhapsdy f Negr Life" and with the inimitable Luis Armstrng n "I Cver the Waterfrnt." In ne audi excerpt, Hliday ntes that the blues "is srt f a mixed -up thing. Yu just have t feel it." And thanks t Hliday, we d. -GM THE ROLLING STONES Sucking in the Seventies PRODUCERS: the Glimmer Twins Virgin 8 - RELEASE DATE: April We all knw that the Rlling Stnes didn't really suck in the '0s. And as the mre interesting f a brace f new Stnes cmpilatin reissues (including 9 disc "Made in the Shade "), "Sucking in the Seventies" prves that the band was just hitting its creative stride in its secnd decade f being the Wrld's Greatest. Beynd the inclusin f such fearless and brilliant cuts as "Shattered" and "Fl t Cry," "Sucking" basts B- sides like "Everything Is Turning t Gld," a frenetic live versin f "When the Whip Cmes Dwn" frm 98 and funky prm cut "If I Was a Dancer (Dance Pt. )." Other highlights include the live "Mannish By" frm "Lve Yu Live," the greasy "Crazy Mama" and the sul- drenched "Beast f Burden." All bands shuld suck like this. -RW HERB ALPERT'S TIJUANA BRASS Whipped Cream & Other Delights PRODUCERS: Herb Alpert, Jerry Mss Shut Factry DK 88 RELEASE DATE: April 9 Originally released in 9, "Whipped Cream Si Other Delights," Herb Alpert's faux Tijuana jazz -pp fare, prved t be the right music fr the time, strangely rubbing shulders n the charts with the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and the Supremes. Alpert's lyrical trumpet lines and full - brass bb quickly became camp, but 0 years later they sund bth retrschmaltz and mindlessly fun, like a party sundtrack at a wedding receptin r high schl reunin. The band's mammth hit, "A Taste f Hney," still savrs sweet, thugh viewers f '0s and '0s TV may want t skip the title track that became the saccharin theme fr "The Dating Game." The treats include a striptease take n Jerry Leiber /Mike Stller's "Lve Ptin #9," a lvely drift thrugh Tts Thieleman's "Ladyfingers," a Dixieland -like swing thrugh "Butterball" and an mpah plka step t "Peanuts." Plus, tw previusly unissued meldic Alpert cmpsitins frm the riginal sessins shuld have, in retrspect, been keepers. -DO DVD ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS Club Date -Live in Memphis Eagle Visin EV0 RELEASE DATE: April 9 Eagle Rck Entertainment's debut release in its "Club Date" DVD series is a dzy. It stars Elvis Cstell & the Impsters, with special guest Emmylu Harris, and was recrded live befre 0 fans at the Hi Tne Cafe in Memphis. The knckut live set cntains tunes frm Cstell's latest album, "The Delivery Man," and cncert staples like "Radi Radi" and "Alisn," the latter paired with "Suspicius Minds" in a tacit nd t Memphis' ther Elvis. Harris, wh appears n the new album, shines n several duets, mst ntably a tender versin f Jhnny Cash's "I Still Miss Smene." Bnus material includes mre Harris duets and a fascinating rad trip dcumentary featuring Cstell and lngtime drummer Pete Thmas in the back f a 9 Cadillac rlling thrugh Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. l8 Billbard,cm Varius artists, "Bnnar 00" (Sanctuary) Fg, "0th Avenue Freakut" (LEX) Isis, "Oceanic: Remixes /Reinterpretatins" (Hydra Head) SINGLES Edited by Michael Paletta POP NIKKA COSTA Til I Get T Yu (:) PRODUCERS: Justin Stanley, Nikka Csta WRITERS: J. Stanley, N. Csta, C. Rss PUBLISHERS: Littlescreama Music (ASCAP); Mushrm Music; Spacesup Music (ASCAP); Wigged Music (BMI) Virgin 98 (CD prm) It has been quite sme time since we last heard frm the ultra funky Nikka Csta. Her last album, the critically admired "Everybdy Gt Their Smething," has shifted a mdest 0,000 units in the United States since its 00 release, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. Sales were mstly attributed t Csta's fiery live act and strng wrd -f- muth. (The artist received scant radi and TV expsure.) "Til I Get t Yu" is the first prper single frm the pint -sized pwerhuse's frthcming album, "can'tneverdidnthin'," ut May. The track is a stmping funk number with a fun singalng chrus and clever alphabet - inspired verses ( "My lver A was abslutely alright/but my lver B wuld bump my tunes in his ride "). Thugh Csta has never been an easy fit at frmat -specific radi, "Til I Get t Yu" just might wrk at adult tp 0 and mdern AC, as well as at rck and tp 0 statins. KC UR/HIP-HOP TEAIRRA MARÍ Make a Girl Feel (:9) PRODUCERS: Sean Garrett & the C -Stars WRITERS: varius PUBLISHERS: varius Rc -a- Fella /Def Jam DEFR (CD prm) R &B newcmer Teairra Marl is already being tuted as "the yung princess f the Rc." The - year -ld Detrit native is als ne f the first signings under the Shawn "Jay -Z" Carter -helmed Def Jam. Over a pulsating, engaging beat -a Jay -Z hallmark -Mari cnfidently lays ut just what a wman wants emtinally while simultaneusly challenging ptential suitrs t step up t the plate. Her vcal delivery will likely draw cmparisns t Ashanti and Ciara. Still, this yung princess makes a lasting first impressin and piques curisity fr the rllut f her debut Rc -a -Fella album, scheduled fr June. -GM MODERN ROCK MUSE Stckhlm Syndrme (:0) PRODUCERS: Muse, Rick Cstey, Safta Jaffery, Dennis Smith WRITERS: M. Bellamy, C. Wlstenhlme, D. Hward PUBLISHER:Taste Music Warner Brs. 0 (CD prm) Warner Brs. is giving English tri Muse anther push with "Stckhlm Syndrme," a cut frm 00 album "Abslutin," which cntained such favrites as "Hysteria (I Want It Nw)" and "Time Is Running Out." ( "Abslutin" wasn't released until March 00 in the United States.) "Stckhlm Syndrme" will likely capture sme ESSENTIAL REVIEWS THE BLACK EYED PEAS Dn't Phunk With My Heart (:0) PRODUCER: Will.I.Am WRITERS: varius PUBLISHERS: varius A &M AMRR- 0 -NO (CD prm) During the past tw years, the Grammy Award -winning Black Eyed Peas have rde a wave f success with such hits as "Where Is the Lve?" and "Hey Mama." Nw, here cmes "Dn't Phunk With My Heart," the first single frm the grup's new album, "Mnkey Business," due June. The erratic snic md swings f "Phunk" cmbine grvy hip -hp beats, kinetic rhythms, Indian meldies and a nd t the 0- year -ld hit "I Wnder If I Take Yu Hme" by Lisa Lisa Si Cult Jam With Full Frce. Surprisingly, such disparate elements wrk well. Once again, the Peas have created a track that is pised t heat up radi airwaves and danceflrs. With the added bst f Fergie's sexy vcals, this sng shuld scale the charts in n time. All bdes well fr "Mnkey Business," which features a cl cast f guests, including James Brwn, Justin Timberlake and Jack Jhnsn. -KK mre fans fr the grup. Its driving guitar brders n speed metal, dminating the track, and the sng's terrific finale is a headbanger's delight. But at the chrus Muse thrws in a time change and sftens things a bit with a cuple f pian ntes and a bubbly rgan. Matt Bellamy's blurred vcals make the lyrics difficult t discern. Chalk it up t the depressing wrds he sings: "Lk t the stars /Let hpe burn in yur eyes /And we'll lve /And we'll hate /And we'll die /All t n avail. " -CLT COUNTRY SUGARLAND Smething Mre (:) PRODUCER: Garth Fundis WRITERS: K. Hall, J. Nettles, K. Bush PUBLISHERS: Greater Gd Sngs; Jennifer Nettles Publishing (ASCAP); Dirkpit Music (BMI) Mercury MRN -09 (CD prm) This talented tri burst n the scene with its debut hit, "Baby Girl," and this stunning fllw -up prves that success was n fluke. Prpelled by the pwerhuse vcals f Jennifer Nettles, "Smething Mre" perclates with an infectius energy that's impssible t ignre. Penned by Nettles and bandmates Kristian Bush and Kristen Hall, the lyric cnveys the yearning fr a better life and the feisty attitude that's necessary t achieve it. It's the kind f tune that DAVE MATTHEWS BAND American Baby (:) PRODUCER: Mark Batsn WRITERS: D. Matthews, B.Tinsley, M. Batsn PUBLISHERS: Clden Grey (ASCAP);Tinc Publishing (ASCAP); Bat Future Music RCA (CD prm) "American Baby" made its debut last mnth via AOL Music's First Listen initiative. Since then, it has becme a hit at adult tp 0 radi. Nw it's time fr the catchy jam t crss ver t ther frmats. While it desn't necessarily break new musical grund, "American Baby" des shwcase a grup that is very aware f the here and nw. "Nbdy's laughing nw /Gd's grace lst/and the devil is prud," Matthews sings in the secnd verse. Of curse, such ptent lyrics will mean different things t different peple. Sme will hear a lve sng, while thers will hear a plitically charged pp -rck tune. The chice is yurs. Either way, "American Baby" is paving the way fr a strng debut fr the band's new album, "Stand Up," which arrives May 0. -MP really lets Nettles shine. She has a big, passinate vice that is full f sass and sul. She knws hw t belt, but als hw t demnstrate enugh restraint that she never ges ver the tp. These fine musicians are a breath f fresh air in the cuntry frmat and are well - pised fr a slid future. -DEP DANCE PLUMMET 0 Ways t Leave Yur Lver (:) PRODUCERS: Shawn "Shaka" Schulte, Eric B. Muniz WRITER: P. Simn PUBLISHER: Paul Simn Music (BMI) REMIXERS Jhnny Budz, MacQ, DJ Russ Harris Big Recrds (CD prm) Paul Simn scred a N. pp smash 0 years ag with "0 Ways t Leave Yur Lver." While it is unlikely that Plummet's techn- charged cver will repeat the prcess, dance radi and mainstream club DJs wh can't get enugh f such cntemprary retreads just might embrace it. That said, thse that champined the act's previus club hits ( "Damaged" and a cver f Sade's "Cherish the Day ") may scff at this track's truly pp sensibility, which intertwines elements f breaks, trance and electr. As fr Cheramy Burgess' vcal delivery, well, she culd nt sund mre detached r emtinless if she tried. Next. -MP BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

31 Market RETAIL / DISTRIBUTION / DIGIT UMVD Still On BY ED CHRISTMAN NEW YORK- Pwered by a strng release slate and its cntrversial JumpStart prgram, Universal Music & Vide Distributin held a crnmanding lead in U.S. market share at the end f the first quarter. Fr the three mnths ending April, UMVD garnered a.8% share f ttal album sales, up mre _han five percentage pints frm its share in the crrespn. ding perid last year, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. In the current -albums market, its leac is an even mre impressive.% vershadwing Sny BMG Music Entertainment Sales by mre than nine percentage pints. UMVD.: als captured the lead in the R &B, fi " rap and Latin albums categries, while Sny BMG snared the largest share f cuntry albums (see stries, pages, and 8). If the first- quarter Nielsen Sund - Scan data are any indicatin, the U.S. music industry this year will give back all f Ls gains frm 00; U.S. album sales were dwn 8.% cmpared with first- quarter 00. Hwever, the Nielsen SundScan Web site presens a "cmparative weekly and cumulative ales" table that shws album sales dwn.8 %. That f.gure (Cntinued n pr_ ) 0 Cents `The Massacre' is Universal Music Grup's bel- selling album fr the year s far. ace ERTAINMENT / DVD Yamaha turns the player pian int a WiFi- enabled media center / MOBILE / WIRELESS DVDs Get Más Ppular With Latins BY JILL KIPNIS LOS ANGELES -N ne is denying the sizzling ptential f the Latin market fr DVDs. T reach this fast- grwing ppulatin, hwever, hme vide cmpanies must make a cncerted effrt t release mre quality prduct, create targeted marketing campaigns and cmmunicate mre clsely with retailers, participants said at the DVD en Espanl cnference, held April at the Wyndham Bel Age Htel here. "The categry is still at an early stage," said Juli Nriega, film divisin manager fr Venevisin Internatinal Films. "We need effrts t grw the categry. There's a lack f knwledge abut what is available, and we may have lst sme f ur cnsumer base due t titles f pr quality." Participants said ther challenges include knwing when it is apprpriate t subtitle r dub DVDs and hw t market mainstream titles t the Latin audience. After much trial and errr, a base f knwledge is starting t emerge amng studis and retailers. AMAZING NUMBERS Accrding t Adriana Olivarez, directr f media research fr Univisin Televisin Grup, the Hispanic ppulatin in the United States grew 8% between 990 and 000. This year, it will reach 0. millin, and it is prjected t grw t. millin in 00,. millin in 0 and. millin in 00. DVD -player penetratin amng Latins wh speak Spanish is 8%; abut 8 millin Spanish -speaking husehlds wn DVD players. Of particular nte is the number f DVDs Latins purchase and rent cmpared t the rest f the ppulatin. In the last three mnths, Olivarez said, n average Hispanics purchased. DVDs and rented 0, while nn -Hispanics purchased. DVDs and rented 8.. Representatives frm majr studis, including Buena Vista Hme Entertainment and Warner Hme Vide, said Latins cmprise 0 % -% f DVD purchasers. T reach this entertainment -hungry ppulatin, a targeted marketing campaign is key. "The Latin market is nt a niche, but a cuntry within a cuntry," said Cncepcin Lara, senir VP f Ventura Distributin's Studi Latin. "We've cmmitted resurces t help retailers mve the categry frward. We g t cnferences, d TV and radi prms and ffer cnsulting expertise." Warner Hme Vide VP f multicultural sales Antni Ssa said retailers need t have mre Spanish signage and expand their selectin f Latin- riented prduct in the apprpriate markets. Nriega added that studis and retailers need t cnsider the differences in the Latin ppulatin frm ne regin t the next. "Yu can't just put the cntent n any shelf," he said. "Sme titles that aren't as strng are being brught (Cntinued n page ) BILLBOARD APRIL,

32 Marketplace Redeye Lights Up Deal With Fire Recrds Fire Recrds is ne f the latest signings in a busy 00 fr Redeye Distributin. The U.K. label launched in 98 but had fallen under the radar by the mid -'90s. Its catalg includes releases frm such acts as Pulp, Blue Aerplanes and Televisin Persnalities. Fire is in the midst f a massive, multi -artist prject that culd be ne f the mre fascinating cmpilatins f the year -r a clssal, pretentius failure. The label asked acts t create a sng using a prtin f James Jyce's pem "Chamber Music." Amng the participants are Mercury Rev, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Mike Watt, members f Snic Yuth. Willy Masn, Jessica Bailiff, Alan Licht and Mary Lrsn. Label manager James Nichls says the idea fr the cmpilatin came t him as he was reading the pem. "I thught it wuld be a gd idea t get bands t turn each part f the pem int a sng," he recalls. "Label cmpilatins are s weak that we thught we'd d smething interesting, and as we dn't have bands n the rster, we just started asking all f ur favrite bands. We tried t get as many peple nbard influenced by Jyce as we culd." Nichls says Fire is wrking with the Jyce estate. The prject des nt yet have a release date. Fire's rster includes psychedelic flk du Puert Muert, ambient rck act Bark Psychsis and pp ddity War Against Sleep. Fr the United Kingdm nly, the label will reissue Neutral Milk Htel's "On Avery Island" album. In additin t picking up Fire, Redeye recently btained exclusive U.S. distributin fr Ls Angeles -based pp label Eenie Meanie, Philadelphia rck imprint Steel Cage, Chicag dance label Pulseback and Seattle's spirituality /wrld music - riented Anja Recrds. Eenie Meanie, which has released albums frm Apples in Stere side prjects Ulysses and the High Water Marks, is planning a tribute t electrnic act Dimensin dubbed "Dimensin Mix." Beck, Sterelab and eels are amng thse slated t participate. In additin, Redeye reached an agreement with prducer Daniel Lanis t distribute his debut album, "Acadie," and the previusly Internet -nly "Rckets" cllectin f uttakes and live cuts. NEW AT NAVARRE: New Hpe, Minn. -based Navarre recently signed a handful f labels, led by New Yrk -based Tmat Music, which has the rights t a number f early Twnes Van Zandt releases. The label is planning t issue the sundtrack t the dcumentary "Be Here t Lve Me: A Film Abut Twnes Van Zandt." Additinally, Navarre picked up hip -hp labels 8 Ways Entertainment, wned by veteran Memphis rapper 8 Ball, and San Francisc - based Get Lw Entertainment, run by JT the Bigga Figga. Navarre als signed San Francisc urban The Indies. By Tdd Martens label the Mint. hme t ppular Bay Area du Christin. Others in the distributr's latest crp include Sunrise, Fla. -based grve label Neurdisc, rck label Papse and Sacrament, Calif. - based Digital Musicwrks Internatinal, previusly an nline - nly peratin. Navarre Entertainment Media VP /GM Bb Freese says his cmpany is nt dne making deals. "We've geared up and staffed up here, frm cllege reps t a direct -sales frce, and we've intrduced full marketing services t all f ur labels. That's helping us with the labels we're talking t. Peple need mre than just a distributr these days. It's very clear that we're grwing, and we want mre labels." ETC.: Ls Angeles -based Granite Recrds has reached a distributin agreement with Universal Music & Vide Distributin's indie arm, Fntana. The label, frmed by veteran A&R exec Dave Austin and drummer Phil Ehart f Kansas, will issue its first album in June frm Prtland, Ore. -based singer/ sngwriter Geff Byrd. A release frm Caribbean -influenced tri Trinidad will fllw. Never lacking in prmtins t entice indie music fans, retailer insund.cm launched a -inch series this mnth. The first -inch features unreleased tracks frm Vice /Atlantic recrding act Panthers and Dmin Recrds band Sns & Daughters. Insund funder Matt Wishnw says his New Yrk -based cmpany pressed,000 - inches and sent half f them t the 00 custmers wh spent the mst during the past six mnths. UMVD Cntinued frm page reflects an adjustment fr the weeks in 00. The extra week skews cmparisns between 00 and 00, as the first quarter f 00 ended March 8, and this year's first quarter ended April. But gd news is n the hrizn in the frm f digital tracks, which scanned. millin units in the first quarter, up 0% frm the millin scanned in the same perid last year. Mrever, the categry is shwing accelerated grwth, as almst every week the track ttal increases. Catalg sales, dwn nly.% fr the first quarter, are perfrming better than current -album sales, which were dwn 0. %. Within retail categries, mass merchants cntinue t grw despite the decline f album sales. That stre sectr enjyed a.% gain in sales cmpared with first -quarter 00. Meanwhile, sales at chain stres, which include traditinal music retail as well as cnsumer -electrnics and bk chains, are dwn. %. The chains have nt suffered a large batch f stre clsings since 00, s executives speculate that their sales declines stem frm a lss f market share in the wake f aggressive pricing by mass merchants and a reduced music SKU cunt as chains bring in ther prduct lines. White Plains, N.Y. -based Nielsen SundScan determines market - share rankings based n pint -fsale infrmatin. It cllects the data fr all frmats and cnfiguratins frm retailers, rack accunts and ther merchants, including mail - rder cmpanies and nline stres. The accunts surveyed generate 8% f U.S. music sales. Based n this data, Nielsen SundScan estimates ttals fr the full market. Nielsen SundScan calculates current- album market share by cunting sales ccurring in the first 8 mnths f an album's release ( mnths fr classical and jazz titles), except fr thse that remain in the tp half f The Billbard 00. BACK TO THE NUMBERS UMVD scanned. millin units in the United States in the first quarter, up frm millin units in the crrespnding perid last year. Sme bservers credit the strng release schedule f Universal Music Grup, which has the best -selling album year -t -date, 0 Cent's "The Massacre," with.8 millin scanned. Its ther best sellers include the Game's "The Dcumentary," which has mved.8 millin t rank N., and Eminem's "Encre," which ranks furth. Others say UMVD's grwth stems frm its JumpStart prgram -which reduced whlesale prices n frnt -line albums frm $.0 t $9.9 r $0. - gaining favr with merchants. "I definitely think that JumpStart is helping them," Trans Wrld Entertainment chairman/ceo Bb Higgins says. "But in general UMVD has dne a much better jb with new releases than sme f the ther labels have dne ver the last few mnths." Hastings Entertainment chairman/ UMVD Ttal U.S. Album Market Share By Distributr Sny BMG Indies WEA EMM 9.% 8.%.%.9%.% 0.8%.8%.% % 0.% Jan. -Mar. 00 Jan. -Mar. 00 SOURCE: NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN president/ceo Jhn Marmaduke has a similar explanatin fr UMVD's success. "It's an equal weighting f their rster and their [JumpStart] prgram," he says. While UMVD's cmpetitrs cncede privately that JumpStart is driving gains in market share, they cntinue t questin its prfitability. The recently merged Sny BMG Ttal Current U.S. Album Market Share By Distributr UMVD Sny BMG Indies.% _.% WEA.8%.8% EMM IN.% MI 0.8% 8.%.%.%.% Jan. -Mar. 00 Li Jan. -Mar. 00D SOURCE: NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN placed secnd with a % share, dwn significantly frm the tw cmpanies' cmbined first -quarter 00 share f 0. %. Sny BMG has five f the tp 0 sellers s far this year, including Jhn Legend's "Get Lifted," which has scanned 900,000 units, and Kelly Clarksn's "Breakaway" (80,000). The indie sectr picked up market share, finishing the first quarter with 8. %, cmpared with.% fr the same perid last year. WEA -which had the quarter's N. album, Green Day's "American Idit" -saw its share decline slightly, while EMI Music Marketing drpped frm 0.8% t 9.%. In the current -albums market, UMVD made a big mve, finishing the quarter with. %, versus 8.% in first -quarter 00. Sny BMG's.% share is dwn frm the cmbined.% the cmpanies had last year. In crprate market share fr ttal album sales, UMG's.8% will sn be affected by Fntana, the independent distributin cmpany it launched in March. Sny BMG Music Sales Enterprise finishes secnd with.% when scans frm RED, its independent distributin arm, are added. Likewise, Warner Music Grup's share grws cnsiderably -t.% - when Alternative Distributin Alliance is added. EMM's share grws t 0.% when Carline's scans are included. Withut RED, ADA and Carline, the indie sectr's share falls t. %. BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

33 Marketplace New Recrd Club Site Is Retailers' Friend /Fe BMG Music Service, the recrd - club cmpnent f Bertelsmann's BeMusic divisin, recently launched yurmusic.cm, which sells CDs fr $.99. Music retailers dn't knw whether t be furius r ecstatic. Jhn Timmns, wner f Luisville, Ky.'s Ear X- Tàcy -a member f the Calitin f Independent Music Stres -says he has spent thusands f dllars n the site, rutinely rdering 0 r even 0 cpies f titles. Using the site as a supplier pleases Timmns greatly, because three f the majrs charge merchants $.0 -$.0 fr frnt -line titles, and the furth, Universal Music & Vide Distributin, sells mst f its tp titles at $0. under its JumpStart prgram. Prices are even higher fr retailers that have t buy frm ne -stps. Clearly, Timmns is getting a bargain when he buys frm the site, especially because it includes free shipping -and he is nt the nly merchant taking advantage f the fantastic ffer. One executive at a large chain that buys direct frm the majrs tells Retail Track, "We might have t rethink ur replenishment mechanisms." But mst music retailers -Timmns included -are furius abut the ffer, saying it devalues the CD in the eyes f cnsumers. Timmns went a step further and publicized the ffer in an e -mail that has made its way arund the industry. While sme merchants wish he had kept his muth shut, they are nt as annyed as BMG Music Service (which, by the way, was nt part f the Sny -BMG merger). The labels nw have their eyes n BMG's recrd club, which has mved t limit sales t three cpies per title, surces say. Meanwhile, Timmns finds himself persna nn grata at yurmusic.cm, which has clsed his accunts -at least the nes it can trace back t him. Recrd clubs license albums, which is why their pricing structure is much lwer than that f traditinal retail. Billbard estimates that each CD sld thrugh yurmusic.cm csts BMG Music Service $- $., including shipping, which is why the site can affrd t sell it fr $.99. Executives at the majrs questin the legality f yurmusic.cm, because recrd clubs are suppsed t functin as mail -rder huses. Operating as a whlesaler r an nline retailer is viewed as a licensing vilatin. Surces say the BMG club's $.99 ffer is nly available nline and has nt been advertised in natinal magazines, the traditinal recrd -club vehicle. They say this ffer is wrse than the nepricecd.cm ffer f $9.99 per CD that BMG tried a cuple f years ag. BMG Music Service declined t cmment. But surces familiar with yurmusic.cm pint ut that it is a subscriptin service like NetFlix rather than a typical nline stre. Subscribers receive ne CD a mnth frm a ranked list they supply. They pay $.99 mnthly, even if they have nt supplied a list r have already purchased all the titles n their list These surces als defend yurmusic.cm against the charge that it is perating as a whlesaler, pinting t an nsite ntice that CDs purchased frm it are "intended fr persnal use nly and nt fr resale r any ther cmmercial purpse." In additin, ne surce says, the cmpany has a weekly meeting where it pulls pssible fraudulent rders t investigate. "They are trying t stp peple frm reselling albums," the "BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS THAT LAST FOREVER" surce insists. But retailers and majr -label execs questin the effectiveness f such effrts. A senir distributin executive at ne f the majrs says he recently rdered 0 cpies f an album frm Retail Track.. By Ed Christman ne f the BeMusic recrd clubs, and it fulfilled his rder. One merchant says he prefers the regular ffer fr BMG Music Service members anyway: When they buy ne album at full price, they can get ther titles fr $.99 each. On the general club site, bmgmusicservice.cm, the ffer des nt appear t have a quantity limit Given the shipping charge f $.9 a unit, if a member buys 0 albums, the unit cst cmes t $.0, the merchant reprts. "I have heard that the majrs are lking int the legality" f the peratin, the merchant says. But a surce familiar with BMG Music Service says the cmpany ntified the majr labels befre rlling ut its subscriptin site. That surce says yurmusic.cm had a sft launch abut five mnths ag, and then the cmpany started spreading the wrd nline tw mnths ag. While executives at sme f the majrs say they are cnsidering whether t pursue litigatin t remedy the yurmusic.cm situatin, thers believe recrd clubs are t small t be a threat. "I dn't think the recrd clubs are the lightning rds they nce were fr retailers," ne label executive says. But a senir distributin executive has a different take: "My candid thughts are that the majrs have t figure ut hw we can get ff f the herin f re- upping fr the large recrd -club advances." And what abut the retailer whse e -mail helped prd the cntrversy? "Ultimately," Timmns says, "I think this yurmusic.cm ffer is a really bad thing fr the industry, but as lng as this is ut there, I wuld be a fl nt t be taking advantage f it." DVDs Cntinued frm page in in larger quantities than they shuld be." WHAT'S WORKING The mst sught -after DVD categries fr the Latin market include children's, actin/hrrr and classic Spanish- language films. Grwing areas include TV n DVD (mainly telenvelas) and music. T succeed in the market, Xenn Pictures president Leigh Savidge said, "yu need t have a brad ffering f feature film, TV, dcumentaries and mre." Many studis try t sell these categries t retailers as ptential stck fr a designated Latin r freign sectin. Hwever, a number f retailers have yet t set aside such a space. "A stre -within -a -stre cncept wuld be great," Ventura Entertainment executive VP /GM Chris Lynch said. The decisin t include subtitles r dubbing depends n the genre, participants said. Lri MacPhersn, VP f brand marketing and prduct managing fr Buena Vista Hme Entertainment, said that fr her cmpany's mainly family- riented prjects, dubbing makes mre sense. But with feature films, accrding t Warner Hme Vide VP f multicultural marketing Eva Davis, "Hispanics want t hear the mvie in the language it was prduced in." She added that Warner is devting time this year t clarifying the subtitle ptins n its packages. When it cmes t prmting mainstream titles t the Latin audience, Davis and MacPhersn agreed, campaigns n Spanish -language TV and radi are best. Such effrts yielded surprisingly gd sales amng Hispanics fr "Mystic River," Davis said, and she expects a similar respnse when "Millin Dllar Baby" reaches DVD. The DVD en Españl cnference was hsted by Hme Media Retailing in cnjunctin with the Digital Entertainment Grup and The Hllywd Reprter. FAN BUSINESS! URBAN RETAIL BREAKIN' ARTISTS NATIONWIDE New Accunts Call: Fax: 9-0- Urban Sales & Marketing: ext. 9 Fax: Retailers Htline: i r visit us n the web at BILLBOARD APRIL,

34 N0.: Dave Matthews Bani lands in the tp 0 f the audi streams list with the AOL debut f its new single "American Baby." AOL Music: Ttal Mnthly Streams TOP AUDIO NATAUE Gin crazy UNIVERSAL,8,0 AKON Lnely UNIVERSAL,88,00 0 CENT Candy Shp TMt INTERSCOPE,0,9 EMINEM Mckingbird INTERSCOPE,,90 THE GAME Hate It Or Lve It NTERSCOPE,, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND American Baby * RCA 8, 0 CENT Disc Infern INTERSCOPE 80, 8 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Devils & Dust * COLUMBIA,0 9 MARIO Let Me Lve Yu TM' I RECORDS 0,9 0 R. KELLY Trapped InThe Clset (Chapter f ) ' WE, TOP VIDEO 0 CENT Candy Shp ttm INTERSCOPE,8, GARA Oh! ZOMBA,8,9 FRANKIE Obsessin N Es Amr COLUMBIA,,988 GARA, Step ZOMBA,,0 BRITNEY SPEARS D Smething srve,08,8 JENNIFER LOPEZ Get Right EPIC 99,09 KELLY CLARKSON Since U Been Gne m.. RCA 90,0 8 JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Sul fl* HOLLYWOOD 9, 9 DESTINY'S CHILD Girl COLUMBIA 8,0 0 MARIO Let Me LveYu m I RECORDS 8,800 First Listen/FirstView "' AOL Music live Artist f the Mnth if Breaker Artist TMr Sessins@AOL Surce: AOL Music fr fur weeks etded April IP Rights Are Fcus Of 'Culture' Discussin BY KATIE HASTY NEW YORK -Jeff Tweedy believes that artists and their audiences share equal stck in a piece f music. "Once yu create smething, it desn't exist until it enters int smebdy's cnsciusness," the Wilc frntman said. "If yu listen t a piece f music, yu're a part f it." Tweedy was speaking at "Wh Owns Culture?," an April event hsted by the New Yrk Public Library and Wired magazine that discussed intellectual -prperty rights f digital music. Jining Tweedy was Stanfrd University law prfessr /authr/activist Lawrence Lessig. Wired cntributing editr Steven Jhnsn served as mderatr. Attendees as well as thse wh lgged n t a live web - cast f the event witnessed a discussin that affects musicians, labels, publishers and music fans. The IP debate stretches frm blgs t Cngress t the U.S. Supreme Curt, but Tweedy has made his peace with the Web. He has seen his music given t a few chice peple, wh then distributed it t thusands mre. And he culdn't be happier. Streaming media, digital distributin and ld- fashined wrd -f-muth helped make Wilc's 00 album "Yankee Htel Fxtrt" int a success stry. The band cntinues t liberally embrace such methdlgy. Lessig has been utspken in his desire fr less restrictive cpyright law and mre Web innvatins. He led the legal challenge t the 998 Snny Bn Cpyright Term Extensin Act; chairs Creative Cmmns, a digital nnprfit playgrund fr the arts; and has authred titles like "Free Culture: Hw Big Media Uses Technlgy and the Law t Lck Dwn Culture and Cntrl Creativity." In ne f Lessig's recent clumns fr Wired, "Why Wilc Is the Future f America," he reiterated thrugh Wilc's example hw it is pssible fr bands t take cntrl f their cpyrights and release their art n the Web. Citing subscriptin services and pen- surce cde as ther methds f "freeing" culture, Lessig applauded the band's willingness t liberate its album, after abandning Reprise Recrds and releasing the Discussing the wnership f d igital music are, frm left, Stanfrd University prfessr/ authr /activist Lawrence Lessig, Wired magazine cntri and Wilc frntman Jeff Tweed NEWTECH shelved album themselves -fr free, nline. "What struck me mst was his clarity," Lessig said f Tweedy in his clumn. "He was a man called t a war that he culdn't believe had t be fught. Yet it isn't idelgy that drives him. It's cmmn sense." "We went abut ur use f the Internet with a defeatist attitude," Tweedy said. "We can't win against it -it's there, and peple are ging t use it. But since we didn't have a label, we culd d whatever we wanted." The band gained ntriety, fans and, ultimately, the supprt f Nnesuch Recrds. The label allwed Wilc t maintain free nline distributin in parallel with the CD's cmmercial release. Despite little radi airplay and its nline availability by the time f its release, the album enjyed healthy sales at a time when peer - t -peer file sharing was attacked as a pirate's island. Accrding t Nielsen buting editr Steven Jhnsn y. SundScan, "Yankee Htel Fxtrt" sld,000 cpies in its first week, and has since mved,000. Even with last year's Grammy Award -winning "A Ghst Is Brn," Wilc cntinues t fllw a Web- intensive mdel, ffering prerelease streams and rarities nline, allwing a wide berth fr PP fans. During the "Culture" chat, Tweedy had nthing but praise fr his fans and vwed t cntinue his nline marketing strategies fr the band. Tweedy and Lessig's greater cncern thrughut the discussin lay with the cncept f wnership, bth with the manufactured prduct f an album and the bits f a digital file. "A CD is nt the same as a pair f tennis shes," Tweedy said. "A track is just a cmputer file. But music is an experience, smething that transcends all that." That is part f the essence f wnership, he said. The listener's mind makes the music what it is. "Kids are raised vilating the law with this technlgy," Lessig said. He suggested that the message f legislatin like the Digital Millennium Cpyright Act is that enjying t much music is against the law. Lessig said yung adults grwing up with tday's technlgy may cnclude: "The law is an ass." Fur Fantastic Themes An upcming Activisn videgame based n Marvel Cmics' Fantastic Fur will feature riginal sngs written and recrded specifically fr each character. Em rck acttaking Back Sunday recrded the title track fr Mr. Fantastic, hip -hp's Jurassic did the theme fr the Thing, punk newcmers the Explsin wrte the music fr the Human Trch, and all -girl grup G Betty G created the sund fr the Invisible Wman. The sngs will be featured nline in music -vide -like trailers and in unlckable features within the game itself. "The Fantastic Fur" is scheduled t ship this summer n all majr game platfrms. Prince Jams Online Prince has added several new tracks t his New Pwer Generatin Music Club site, including an exclusive - minute live perfrmance taped during the NAACP Image Awards. The "Vanguard lam" features Prince, Sheila E., Mrris Day and Jerme Bentn perfrming the new Prince single "Satisfied," as well as "D.M.S.R." and "Husequake." Other site additins include the new track "GlassCutter." All sngs are available exclusively via the Musiclgy dwnlad stre, at npgmusicclub.cm, which hsts mre than 00 Prince tracks as well as ther merchandise. N. : With a live AOL perfrmance, Kelly Clarksn's `Since U Been Gne" is N. n the vide streams list. The sng als tps he Billbard Pp 00 chart fr a fifth week in a rw. Yamaha has rescued the early 0th century paper -rll player pian frm bslescence and is turning it int a WiFi -enabled digital entertainment center -at st century prices. The Disklavier Mark IV grand player pian has an 80GB hard drive and cmes with a full -clr, tuch - screen, PDA -like WiFi remte cntrl. Bth the remte and an ptinal 0 -inch, full- clr, tuch -screen tablet cntrller can perate the pian via a hme netwrk. Unlike player pians f yesteryear, a digital system pwers the instrument. But, like any ther pian, it has wrkable keys and strings s users can play n their wn r play alng with their persnal music cllectin stred n the hard drive. In additin t MIDI files and CDs, the hard drive can stre digital images as well as Yamaha's library f PianSft instructinal sftware titles and karake sftware. The remte features sng - cntrl functins and playlist management sftware, and can display digital images and sng infrmatin. The larger tablet cntrller des the same but als displays karake -style sng lyrics and custmizable visual elements. Music can be streamed t cnnected speakers and systems in multiple rms. The system can als display lyrics, phts and videtaped pian perfrmances n standard TV sets. The basic mdel is $,9. Mre advanced mdels that include the tablet cntrller are $,9. ANTONY BRUNO Dialing Fr Titles Mbile phne manufacturer Mtrla will embed a music recgnitin and identificatin service frm U.K. -based Shazam Entertainment int select handsets. Fr a fee, the applicatins allw users t identify the title, artist and album f a sng by pinting the device at the music surce.the infrmatin may then be used t buy ring - tnes, CDs and, eventually, full -track dwnlads via the phne. Mtrla is the first handset manufacturer t adpt Shazam's technlgy. BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

35 9 BILLBOARD APRIL VIDEOSM ' P'' 8 '' I Ïp it pi >x TOP DVD SALE TM Sales data cmpiled by TITLE LABEL/DISTRIBUTING LABEL & NUMBER Nielsen VideScan NUMBER +Z THE INCREDIBLES (WIDESCREEN) '. 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36 in writers & Publishers Sugar Bar Sweet On Open -Mic Night BY JIM BESSMAN Their wn stature lng established, Nicklas Ashfrd and Valerie Simpsn are encuraging a new generatin f sngwriter /artists at the Sugar Bar, their restaurant/nightclub n New Yrk's Upper West Side. The SRO Thursday -night pen -mic events, while pen t all wrthy vcalists (even visiting superstars like Patti LaBelle and Chaka Khan), have served as a steppingstne fr aspiring singer /sngwriters, sme f whm have earned their wn sl shwcases n ther nights at the Sugar Bar. But Thursday nights have als attracted majr music- industry figures wh see an pprtunity t grm new talent in a unique setting. "Where else in this city can emerging artists hne their skills befre a discerning audience that truly appreciates sngs and singers?" asks Cherry Lane Music Publishing president Aida Gurwicz, whse cmpany administers Ashfrd & Simpsn's securitized (via the Pullman Grup) catalg. "Nick and Val nt nly attract prim yung and smetimes nts -yung artists with big -time aspiratins, but als audiences nt unlike themselves -musically sphisticated peple wh appreciate bth quality and effrt and wh are nt parsimnius with their appreciatin fr either r bth," Gurwicz adds. 'We have brught develping artists in t practice their craft." Unless they are n the rad, Ashfrd & Simpsn are always present Thursday nights at the Sugar Bar, which is lcated in the same nd Street and West End Avenue building that huses their Hpsack & Silk prductin and Nick -O -Val Music publishing cmpanies. Simpsn, in fact, leads the backup singing fr all vcalists, wh are accmpanied by a tight, prfessinal huse band enscnced in a tiny alcve at the far end f the narrw first flr. Ashfrd generally stays in an upstairs lunge, singing alng with the rest f the *, ei`'. ASHFORD & SIMPSON: GIVING NEW TALENT A CHANCE rm t a prjectin f the prceedings n a wall TV. "It's like the New Yrk thing,' " Ashfrd says. "If yu can make it at the Sugar Bar, yu can make it anywhere, because it's a tugh crwd f intelligent, mature listeners wh have heard a lt." Indeed, a recent pen -mic night fund Queen Latifah and veteran Warner Brs. Recrds publicist Liz Rsenberg in the huse. "If they can prve themselves n a Thursday, we apprach them abut ding a whle night f their wn," says Simpsn, wh has herself perfrmed new material at the Sugar Bar. She singles ut Vicky Natale, a schl teacher and pen -mic regular wh went n t win "Star Search" and then started writing her wn sngs. "She was inspired t cme back strng as a writer and had her. wn shw f her wn material," Simpsn cntinues. "Cvering smebdy else is great, but they've gt t cme up with their wn hits." Simpsn als cites singer /sngwriter Ryan Shaw. "He wwed us fr ver an hur -and -a -half with riginal material," she says. "We were in the aisles dancing." Felicia Cllins, guitarist in the CBS Orchestra (the huse band n "Late Shw With David Letterman," led by Paul Shaffer), als starred at a recent shwcase, with riginal material "that was slamming and radi -ready -but radi isn't ready!" Simpsn says. Ashfrd adds that singer /sngwriter Andy Rda, frmerly signed t Virgin and a "Next Big Star" runner -up, was cntacted by Mtwn fllwing a Sugar Bar uting. Patrick Walker, a budding singer /sngwriter wh has shwcased at the club, hails the "ryal pprtunity" its pen -mic nights affrd. "Yu can sing a cver sng r bring charts f riginal wrk and see hw the band talent factrs in fr a sngwriter trying t hear hw a sng culd sund, r yu can sing an riginal and let the band create accmpaniment fr yu. That's talent t learn frm," he says. The Ashfrd & Simpsn track recrd as cmpsers f Mtwn - era classics like "Ain't N Muntain High Enugh" and such gems perfrmed n their wn as "Fund a Cure" and "Slid" lms large in the appeal f the Sugar Bar. "A critical element is that the prprietrs are prfessinal recrding artists and sngwriters," Walker says. "Feedback and advice frm them is a blessing that they d extend, and because they have had successful recrding careers, a hst f industry representatives are always passing thrugh wh als will extend advice and smetimes even mre." Gurwicz cncludes, "It's a hip thrwback t a time when meldy mattered and sngwriters were t be nurtured and revered fr their talent." Can Labels Cntrl DPD Statutry Rates? What is the deal with labels and DPDs? That is the questin an increasing number f publishers and lawyers wh wrk with artist/sngwriters are asking. They are grumbling abut DPD ryalties -the mechanical ryalties due fr digital phnrecrd deliveries that nline music services typically include as part f their all -in ryalty payments t labels fr sund - recrding licenses. While labels are required t pass n the DPD ryalties t publishers if the services did nt license the cmpsitins directly frm the publishers, the grumblers are saying that sme labels are paying publishers less than the full DPD statutry rate f 8. cents per sng per dwnlad. Instead, they are reducing the amunt accrding t the terms f the labels' cntrlled cmpsitin clauses in the artist/sngwriters' recrd deals. Is this because f lack f infrmatin r differing interpretatins f the law? Prbably sme f bth. Befre many artists, publishers and labels began ding deals with nline music services, the federal gvernment passed a law creating DPD rights. Cngress made changes t the cmpulsry mechanical license pr- visins f the Cpyright Act in 99, when it created a digital perfrmance right in sund recrdings. At the same time, it reaffirmed the mechanical rights f sngwriters and publishers fr digital distributin thrugh new technlgy. The amendment defined a digital phnrecrd delivery t describe the Ntable N ewstm By Susan Butler sbutler@billbard.cm prcess thrugh which a cnsumer receives phnrecrds cpies f recrded music -by digital transmissin. The delivery requires payment f a mechanical ryalty t the publisher /sngwriter. The law als permits the party wh licensed the right t make a DPD, typically a recrd label that wns r cntrls the master recrding, t pass this right n t third parties -such as nline music serv- ices - withut the service having t btain anther license. What is different abut this law is the fact that Cngress cnsidered the cmmn industry practice f including a cntrlled cmpsitin clause in recrd deals, where the artist/sngwriter agrees t a reduced ryalty rate fr sngs he r she cntrls. Specifically, cntracts entered after June, 99, between a label and a recrding artist wh is the authr f the cmpsitin cannt include "a rate" fr the making and distributin f the musical wrk belw that established fr the cmpulsry license. Typically this rate is sme reduced amunt, such as % f the statutry rate. The ne main exceptin is that a recrding artist wh effectively acts as his r her wn music publisher may accept a lwer rate if the cntract is entered after the recrding was made in a frm ready fr cmmercial release -nt a dem. In that case, a label culd negtiate the DPD rate with an artist/sngwriter wh cntrls the publishing and licenses r sells cmpleted masters t the label. S why is it that sme labels are suppsedly nt paying the full statutry rate t artists wh d nt fall under this exceptin? Sme lawyers and label execs say the law des nt make it clear whether r nt it applies t the "cap" prvisin f the clause, which limits a label's bligatin t pay mre than 0 - times the statutry rate, when albums are dwnladed. Als, they say that the law shuld nt affect a label's cntractual right t withhld payment f any mechanical ryalties- whether fr DPDs r physical gds -when the mechanical ryalties actually paid t the artist/sngwriter and third -party publishers n physical gds exceed the cap, permitting the label t recup amunts paid beynd the cap frm all ryalties due the artist. Whether these psitins circumvent the law r are permissible remains t be seen. Cmpulsry license prvisins are amng the tpics that federal legislatrs are expected t discuss this year, s there may be an pprtunity t clarify the gvernment's attempt t address industry custms. DEEP BACKGROUND: BMI and Muzak, including its 0 affiliates, have settled n new licensing fees fr Muzak's backgrund music services. The terms, which were nt revealed, are subject t federal curt apprval as part f the rate curt prceeding BMI initiated in 99. BMI VP f general licensing Tm Annastas says the deal represents a higher rate fr sngwriters than Muzak paid in the past. BMI says that after apprval, it will ffer the same terms t Music Chice, PlayNetwrk and DMX Music, which als prvide backgrund music. SMELLS GOOD: EMI Music Publishing has landed a wrldwide cpublishing deal with Kelly Clark - sn's Smelly Music (ASCAP). She c -wrte six sngs n her current RCA album "Breakaway," which has sld mre than.8 millin units in the United States since its release last Nvember, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. Clarksn c -wrte the latest single frm the album, "Behind These Hazel Eyes," with Max Martin and Lukas "Dr. Luke" Gttwald. She has als cllabrated with Kara Di- Guardi, Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida and thers BILLBOARD APRIL,00

37 `Australian Idl' runner -up Anthny Callea takes his debut album t N. Dwn Under Canadian retailers react t Maverick's exclusive Starbucks deal with Alanis I- i Mrissette UNITED KINGDOM / EUROPE / ASIA / JAFAN / AUSTI' \LIA / AFRICA / CANADA Germany's Echs Ear Mixed Receptin EY WOLFGANG SPAHR BERLIN -The audience f,000 industry members at be th annual Ech Awards ceremny here April bre xuitness t the revival f dmestic repertire in the German market. Hwever, the shw's viewing fig.res were dwn frm 00, and retailers reprt a lw -key initial reactin t this year's bradcast frm cnsumers. In March, labels bdy BPW reprted a substantial slwing f the decline in the German recrded -music market: The value f the market shrank by nly % during 00, fllwing fur cnsecutive years f duble -digit dwn - tams (Billbard, March ). BPW hailed the renewed strength f dmestic repertire as a majr factr in that perfrmance, and senir label executives have since publicly underlined their cmmitment t lcal talent. The theme resnated thrughut the evening during the Echs. It was reflected nstage by Xavier Naid, singer fr Universal act Söhne Mannheims, which wn the award fr natinal rck/pp grup. "Our cuntry must seek t make German artists strng," Naid tld the audience at the Estrel Cnventin Center and thse watching at hme. The Internatinal Federatin f the Phngraphic Industry estimates that as recently as 998, Germany was the wrld's third -biggest market in tern -suf retail value ($.0 billin); in 00, it was N. ($. billin). Against that backgrund, Edel Recrds CEO Miczel Haentjes describes this year's Echs gala as a shwase fr the entire German industry. "I'm hp ng t see a general gained impetus fr sales," he says, "aie als in tams f ur industry's reputatin." Warner Music Germany GM Alexander Maurus in; sts that the annual shw has a psitive effect fr featured acts. "Perfrmances by successful, `real' artists encurage a fundamental awareness n the part f :cnsumers, he says. "That will autmatically bst sales.' Sny BMG grup Silbermnd wn best natinal newcmer, and vcalist Annett Luisan was lamed Germ-- an artist f the year. Bth perfrmed during Jr shw. H>_nz Canibl, c- funder and CEO f Lui. a-i's label, 0 Music/Sny BMG, admits t "cautiusly eçlimistic ex:ectatins abut sales after Ech." Other German perfrmers during the right incllded rck act Rammstein (Universal), pp vcali<<t Yvnne Zatterfield (Sny BMG) and Nena (Warner Music). PERCEIVED VALUE Labels have lng acknwledged the value - an appearance at the Echs gala by an interratnal act. (Cntinwe n page i) Silbermnd vcalist Stefanie Klss perfrming April at the Ech Awards in Berlin, where tte Sny BMG fur -piece was named best natinal newcmer. Malaysian Ryalties Feud Escalates BY CHRISTIE LEO KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -A dispute between the natin's cllecting scieties and cnsumer -electrnics retailers has taken n a plitical element. Public Perfrmance Malaysia and Music Authrs Cpyright Prtectin sent a warning letter in January t the Federatin f Malaysian Electrical Appliances Dealers Assn. (Fmeda), saying the retailers are abusing a 00 agreement that exempts them frm paying public perfrmance ryalties. PPM cllects perfrmance ryalties n behalf f recrd labels in Malaysia; MACP cllects n behalf f authrs and publishers. They issue jint licenses t bradcasters and t businesses that play recrded music in public places. Under the 00 agreement, arranged thrugh the Dmestic Trade and Cnsumer Affairs Ministry, the cllecting bdies agreed t waive public- perfrmance fees when music is used in -stre by retailers t demnstrate hardware. The cncessin was intended t benefit small dealerships. The scieties say spt -checks reveal that many retailers are using recrds as backgrund music in their stres and shuld be paying a full license fee. "We made cncessins in allwing hardware dealers t use sngs exclusively fr testing in the presence f custmers, but nt t play sngs t attract them," PPM CEO Tan Ngiap F declares. Fmeda secretary -general Tan Kheng Huat challenges the warning. "The sngs are used t test the hardware and nt fr public bradcast," he insists; he als cntends that rather than seeking payment, PPM and MACP shuld thank retailers fr prmting recrding artists. Fmeda has raised the issue with ne f the parties in the calitin gvernment, the Malaysian Chinese Assn. After it received the letter, Fmeda Tf.N GIAP F00: 'THE LAW IS ON OUR S [ E' delivered t the yuth wing f the MCA a memrandum-signed by mre than,000 f its members -prpsing the ablitin f licensing fees fr the use f backgrund music in stres. Accrding t Fmeda, the MCA has prmised t bring the matter t the attentin f the Dmestic Trade and Cnsumer Affairs Ministry. Any plicy change wuld require an amendment t the 98 Cpyright Act, PPM's àn ntes. "We have the law n ur side," he insists. "There's legal precedence, t." He cites the 988 Swedish Supreme Curt ruling in Wickstrand vs. FSTIM that "the perfrmance f a shrt extract f a cpyright wrk fr the purpses f testing the equipment in a shp, albeit fr the benefit f a single custmer, but dne in a way that any ther custmers may hear, is a breach f cpyright." The 98 Cpyright Act allws the scieties t sue unlicensed retailers that play backgrund music fr damages f up t $,0. PPM and MACP's jint annual licenses f $8 per utlet helped the bdies raise $9 millin during 00. Since 99, they have licensed cnsumer -electrnics dealers that vluntarily applied t play backgrund music. Accrding t PPM, thse dealers are mainly multiples with utlets thrughut the cuntry, accunting fr sme 0% f the dmestic cnsumer - electrnics market. "It's an irny that Fmeda has turned t a plitical party fr assistance," PPM's Tan says, "since a Cpyright Tribunal was set up by the gvernment [in 999] t deal with precisely such matters." Tribunal members include retired civil servants, academics, lawyers and ther prfessinals. They are appinted by the minister f dmestic trade and cnsumer affairs. Tan says PPM and MACP will nt budge n licensing matters, as the law is clearly defined. He expects the matter t be taken up by the tribunal "in the next few mnths." BILLBOARD APRIL,

38 ;_ Billbard HITS OF THE WORLD.. -icsr- e (SOUNOSCAN I NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW JAPAN JAPAN0/0 SINGLES NEW WORLD L'ARC EN CIEL KVOON SAKURA KETSUMEISHI TOY'S FACTORY DO THE MOTION BOA AVER TRAX WANT ME, WANT ME (CD +DVD) NAMIE AMURO AVER TRAX KARASU SHONAN NO KAZE RIRULA RIRUHA KAELA KIMURA COLUMBIA TOY'S FACTORY HEROINE (LTD EDITION) NA MI TAMAKI SONY MUSIC WANT ME, WANT ME NAMIE AMURO AVER TRAX ZETSUBOU TO KIBOU AI KAWASHIMA TSURASA GONOUSEN KAORI MIZUMORI TOKUMA ALBUMS B'Z THE CIRCLE VERMIWON RECORDS DEF TECH DEF TECH ILLCHILL MARIAN CAREY THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI ISLAND/DEF JAM MIKA NAKASHIMA MUSIC SONY MUSIC ASSOCIATED RECORDS BUCK TICK JYUSANKAI HA GEKKOU (LTD EDITION) HOME MADE KAZOKU ROCK THE WORLD KI /OON REMIOROMEN ETHER VICTOR VARIOUS ARTISTS SEIFUKU RAVE PRESENTS PUCHIAGE TRANCE NIVEA COMPLICATED BMG FUNHOUSE BMG FUNHOUSE VICTOR JHETT A.K.A YAKKO FOR AQUARIUS JHETT CUTTING EDGE NEW NEW UNITED KINGDOM THE OFFICIAL UK CHARTS CO 0//0 SINGLES (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO TONY CHRISTIE FT. 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DAVIS VIRGIN ALBUMS AMARAL PAJAROS EN LA CABEZA VIRGIN SANTA JUSTA KLAN S.J.K GLOBOMEDIA CAMELA CAMELA ORO.LA COLECCION CAPITOL CHAYANNE DESDE SIEMPRE SONY BMG IL DIVO 0V0 SYCO/SONYBMG DIANA NAVARRO NO TE OLVIDES DE MI WARNER MUSIC EL SUENO DE MORFEO EL SUENO DE MORFEO GLOBOMEDIA MA ISABEL NO ME TOQUES LAS PALMAS QUE TE SFDK 00 BOA MUSIC LA FUGA NEGOCIANDO GASOLINA ORO VALE MUSIC ( v NEW NEW (ARIA) 0//0 SINGLES BEAUTIFUL SOUL JESSE MCCARTNEY FMR THE SPECIAL TWO MISSY HIGGINS VIRGIN ALMOST HERE BRIAN MCFADDEN FT. DELTA G00DREM, STEP CIARA FT, MISSY ELLIOT SONY BMG CANDY SHOP 0 CENT INTERSCOPE LET ME LOVE YOU MARIO J /SONY BMG MODEST'/SONY BMG RAIN /BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER ANTHONY CALLER SONY BMG SWITCH WILL SMITH INTERSCOPE RICH GIRL GWEN STEFAN( FT EVE LONELY NO MORE ROB THOMAS EAST WEST INTERSCOPE ALBUMS ANTHONY CALLEA ANTHONY CALIFA SONY BMG JACK JOHNSON IN BETWEEN DREAMS BUSHFIRENNIVERSAL MISSY HIGGINS THE SOUND OF WHITE VIRGIN JOHN FARNHAM/TOM JONES TOGETHER IN CONCERT SONY BMG IL DIVO IL DIVO SYCO /SONY BMG GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT REPRISE MICHAEL BUBLE IT'S TIME REPRISE GWEN STEFANI LOVE. ANGEL MUSIC. BABY INTERSCOPE QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LULLABIES TO PARALYZE INTERSCOPE JESSE MCCARTNEY BEAUTIFUL SOUL FMR THE NETHERLANDS SWEDEN NORWAY SWITZERLAND 8 Ti(MEGA CHARTS BV) M /08/0 SINGLES GEEF MIJ JE ANGST GUUS MEEUWIS EMI KOMT TIE DAN HE DJ NORMAN VS DARKRAVER DIGIDANCE LET ME LOVE YOU MARIO J /SONY BMG CANDY SHOP 0 CENT INTERSCOPE LEIPE MOCRO FLAVOUR ALI B SPEC ALBUMS ANOUK HOTEL NEW YORK EMI GUUS MEEUWIS 0 JAHR LEVENSECHT EMI CHIPZ THE WORLD OF CHIPZ MICHAEL BUBLE T'S TIME REPRISE PAUL DE LEEUW DUIZEL MIJ UNIVERSAL ZEITGEIST/UNIVERSAL = g ' NEW ' NEW 8 (GEE/ 0/08/0 SINGLES WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME AMY DIAMOND BONNIER HALL OM MIG NANNE M &L BE MINE ROBYN KONICHIWA VI KAN GUNGA JIMMY JANSSON M &L RICH GIRL GWEN STEFAN( FT. 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JOY GRUTTMANN POLYDOR GET RIGHT JENNIFER LOPEZ EPIC UN MONDE PARFAIT ILONA MITRECEY SCORPIO ALBUMS DJ ANTOINE THE BLACK ALBUM MUSIKVERTRIEB MYLENE FARMER AVANT OUE L'OMBRE POLYDOR NENA WILLST DU MIT MIR GEHN MOBY HOTEL MUTE WIR SIND HELDEN VON HIER AN BLIND VIRGIN WARNER MUSIC Hits f the Wrld is cmpiled at Billbard /Lndn. NEW = New Entry RE = Re -Entry BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

39 NEW I NEW NEW NEW AUSTRIA (AUSTRIAN IFPVAUSTRIA TOP 0)0//0 SINGLES EMANUELA FETTES BROT HOANZL LIEBE IST NENA WARNER MUSIC FROM ZERO TO HERO SARAH CONNOR X- CEWSONY BMG CANDY SHOP 0 CENT INTERSCOPE GEKOMMEN UM ZU BLEIBEN WIR SIND HELDEN VIRGIN ALBUMS WIR SIND HELDEN VON HIER AN BUND VIRGIN NENA WILLST DU MIT MIR GEHN WARNER MUSIC FARIN URLAUB AM ENDE DER SONNE VOLKER HOR SCHNAPPI SCHNAPPI UND SEINE FREUNDE SARAH CONNOR NAUGHTY BUT NICE SONY BMG DENMARK UNIVERSAL IIFPUNIELSEN MARKETING RESEARCH) 0//0 SINGLES HVOR SMA VI ER VARIOUS ARTISTS UNIVERSAL SCARE YOURSELF D -A -D EMI LET ME LOVE YOU MARIO J/SONY BMG CANDY SHOP 0 CENT INTERSCOPE RICH GIRL GWEN STEFANI FT. 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V 0 CENT THE MASSACRE INTERSCOPE JOHN SPILLANE HEY DREAMER EMI GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT REPRISE HUNGARY IMAHASZI0/080 SINGLES A KORBEN ZORAN UNIVERSAL FEMME LIKE U K -MARO EAST WEST MINDHALAUG MELLETTEM ZSEDENYI ADRIENN MAGNEOTON SOME KIND OF MONSTER EP METAWCA VERTIGO DO SOMETHIN' BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE VIRUS EMI MEGASZTAR 0/ UNIVERSAL SOUNDTRACK THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ZSEDENYI ADRIENN ZSEDA -VUE MAGNEOTON GASPAR LACI HAGYD MEG NEKEM A DALT EMI SONY BMG BELGIUM /FLANDERS IPROMUV0/80 SINGLES u ALBUMS s NEW 0 NEW II I. NEW NEW III si DAS KLEINE KROKODIL SCHNAPPI SCHNAPPI FT. JOY GRUTTMANN POLYDOR CANDY SHOP 0 CENT INTERSCOPE WILL MATH INTERSCOPE LET ME LOVE YOU MARIO J/SONY BMG RICH GIRL GWEN STEFAN( FT. EVE ADMIRAL FREEBEE SONGS UNIVERSAL MOBY HOTEL MUTE ANOUK HOTEL NEW YORK DINO JOERI FRANSEN TRUE LIES ARIOLA INTERSCOPE QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LULLABIES TO PARALYZE INTERSCOPE PORTUGAL ESCOLINHA DE MUSICA ESCOUNHA DE MUSICA FAROL ROBERTO CARLOS PRA SEMPRE AO VIVO NO PACAEMBU KEANE HOPES AND FEARS ISLAND IL DIVO IL DIVO SYCO/SONYBMG HUMANOS HUMANOS CAPITOL MOBY HOTEL MUTE MARIA BETHANIA PERFIL S0M LIVRE PATRICIA CANDOSO O OUTRO LADO FAROL TONY CARREIRA VAGABUNDO POR AMOR ESPACIAL SEAL BEST OF 99-0D FINLAND (YLE) 0//0 SINGLES TIE VIIKATE RANKA WARNER MUSIC OUT TO FIND YOU BLOODPR PLAYGROUND OUR WILL AGAINST THEIR VELCRA EMI TAIVAS AYO TULTA TERASBETONI WARNER MUSIC MINA EN TIEDA MITAAN YUP MERCURY ALBUMS IL DIVO SYCO /SONY BMG TERASBETONI METAWTOTUUS WARNER MUSIC ASA NAA METSASTAN FRIED APULANTA KIILA LEVY -YHTIO KOTITEOLLISUUS MEGAMANIA POLAND COLUMBIA (ZWIZEK PRODUCENTOW AUDIO VIDEO) 0/0W0 ALBUMS VARIOUS ARTISTS TOP KIDS MAGIC RECORDS KRZYSZTOF KIUANSKI IN THE ROOM RAYAR PAPA DANCE EANEK NIE MOGLO SIE MYLIC WARNER MUSIC KOMBI KOMBI IZABEUN MOBY HOTEL MUTE VARIOUS ARTISTS JEST NAS WIELU UMC RECORDS EWELINA FLINTA NIEZNASZMNIE ac?ac LECH JANERKA PLAGIATY ZIC ZAC DEADWING PORCUPINE TREE WARNER MUSIC VARIOUS ARTISTS THE BEST SMOOTH EVER EMI COMMON CURRENCY A weekly screcard f albums simul aneausly attaining tp 0 chart status in three r mre leading wrld markets. Repertire wner: B: BMG, E: EMI, I: Independent, S: Sny, U: Universal, W: Warner ARTIST USA EUR JPN UK GER FRA CAN SPN AUS ITA ICHAEL BUBLE Iss. Time (W) MARIAH CAREY The Emancipatin f Mimi (U) 0 CENT The Massacre. i 8 (i GREEN DAY American Idit (W) JACK JOHNSON Im Between Dreams (U) 0 Büia EUROCHARTS NEW 9 0 NEW NEW NEW 9 NEW NEW Eurcharts are cmpiled by Billbard frm the natinal singles and album sales charts f Eurpean cuntries. 0//0 SINGLES SALES LET ME LOVE YOU MARIO J/SONY BMG CANDY SHOP 0 CENT INTERSCOPE UN MONDE PARFAIT ILONA MRRECEY SCORPIO (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO TONY CHRISTIE FT. PETER KAY UNIVERSAL TV GET RIGHT JENNIFER LOPEZ EPIC ECRIS L'HISTOIRE GREGORY LEMARCHAL MERCURY RICH GIRL GWEN STEFAN( FT. EVE INTERSCOPE ITS LIKE THAT MARIAN CAREY ISLAND/DEF JAM MA PHILOSOPHIE AMEL BENT JIVE CRYING IN THE CHAPEL ELVIS PRESLEY RCA LIFT ME UP MOBY MUTE SWITCH WILL SMFTH INTERSCOPE FROM ZERO TO HERO SARAH CONNOR X- CELUSONY BMG CONCERTO POUR DEUX VOIX CLEMENCE &JEAN- BAPRSTE MAUNIER WARNER MUSIC LIEBE IST NENA WARNER MUSIC HOW WE DO GAME FT 0 CENT AFTERMATH/G- UNITANTERSCOPE TOUT LE BONHEUR DU MONDE SINSEMILIA EPIC EMANUELA FETTES BROT IDO JE VIENS DU SUD CHIMENE BADI AZ/UNIVERSAL DAS KLEINE KROKODIL SCHNAPPI SCHNAPPI FT. JOY GRUTTMANN POLYDOR ALBUM SALES MOBY HOTEL MUTE 0 CENT THE MASSACRE INTERSCOPE MICHAEL BUBLE FT'S TIME REPRISE MARIAH CAREY THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI WIR SIND HELDEN VON HIERAN BUNS VIRGIN GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT REPRISE NENA WILLST DU MIT MIR GEHN WARNER MUSIC NATALIE IMBRUGLIA COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS BRIGHTSIDE ISLAND/DEF JAM QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LULLABIES TO PARALYZE INTERSCOPE TONY CHRISTIE DERNmVE COLLECTION UNIVERSAL TV STEREOPHONICS LANGUAGESEX.VIOLENCEOTHER? BASEMENTJAXX THE SINGLES XL RECORDINGS KEANE HOPES AND FEARS ISLAND MYLENE FARMER AVANT QUE L'OMBRE POLYDOR GWEN STEFAN( LOVEANGELMUSIC.BABY V INTERSCOPE BUSHIDO PRODUZIERT SONNY BLACK CARLO COKOXX NUTTEN II URBAN/UNIVERSAL U HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB ISLAND NEW ORDER WAITING FOR THE SIRENS CALL MARIO TURNING POINT J/SONY BMG FARIN URLAUB AM ENDE DER SONNE VOLKER HOR RADIO AIRPLAY LONDON/WARNER MUSIC Mnitred Radi Airplay infrmatin frm Eurpean cuntries as mnitred and tabulated by Nielsen Musc Cntrl. ll/n LET ME LOVE YOU MARIO J RECORDS RICH GIRL GWEN STEFANI FEAT. EVE INTERSCOPE Nielsen ra.is: Cnn!rc.i BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS GREEN DAY REPRISE GET RIGHT JENNIFER LOPEZ EPIC CANDY SHOP 0 CENT INTERSCOPE SHIVER NATALIE IMBRUGLIA SONY BMG IT'S LIKE THAT MARIAN CAREY ISLAND/DEF JAM OVER AND OVER NELLY FEAT. TIM MCGRAW UNIVERSAL RECORDS BAD DAY DANIEL POWER WARNER MUSIC SOMETIMES YOU CANT MAKE IT ON U ISLAND IF THERE'S ANY JUSTICE LFMAR SONY BMG UNWRITTEN NATASHA BEDNNRELO PHONOGENIC/SONY BMG LIFT ME UP MOBY MUTE HEAVY ON MY HEART ANASTACIA DAYUGHT/EPIC SHE WILL BE LOVED MAROON J RECORDS GIVING YOU UP KYLE MINOGUE PARLOPHONE SUNDAY MORNING MAROON J RECORDS THIS IS THE LAST TIME KEANE ISLAND EVERYBODY'S CHANGING KEANE ISLAND CAUGHT UP USHER LAFACE/ZOMBA Glbal Callea Builds On TV Fame Dwn Under "I tld myself if I was a nbdy at 0, I'd g back t university," Australian pp vcalist Anthny Callea says. At, Callea is well ahead f schedule. His first tw singles entered the ARIA sales chart at N., as did his self -titled Sny BMG debut album the week f April 9. Sny BMG Australia says it has shipped 0,000 Callea albums, targeting the audience that watched him take the runner -up slt last year n "Australian Idl." The shw's Nvember finale attracted.8 millin viewers, accrding t bradcaster Ten Netwrk. While nt victrius, Callea had a winning start t his recrding career the fllwing mnth with the single "The Prayer," which shipped 0,000 units, accrding t Sny BMG. "Our plan is t launch his internatinal career in Eurpe later this year," Sny BMG Australia chairman/ CEO Denis Handlin says. 8 release and has shipped gld (0,000 units). "We expect platinum [80,000] by the summer," Warner Music Italy president/ceo Massim Giulian says. "Thanks t Michael Bublé, wh has guested n Renz's [late -night Glbal Pulse. e Tm Fergusn, Editr CHRISTIE ELIEZER SELLING FREEBEES: Belgian rck artist Admiral Freebee fllwed his 00 platinum debut by tpping the Ultratp chart fr Flanders n April 9 with sphmre album "Sngs" (Universal). Admiral Freebee is singer /sngwriter Tm Van Laere. His self -titled debut has shipped 0,000 units dmestically, accrding t Universal. "Sngs" was released March in Belgium and the Netherlands. Like the debut, it is a blend f English - language rck and cuntry-style ballads, with rugged prductin by Jhn Hanln (Neil Yung). "Sngs" was recrded in Ls Angeles. "Van Laere wanted t recrd as much 'live' as pssible," Universal Music Belgium label manager Cathy Du Prez explains. "They recrded the whle album in five days." Internatinal release plans are nt finalized. MARC MAES SWING BACK: Singer, musician and bradcaster Renz Arbre has been entertaining Italian audiences since the 90s. Frm the '0s t the '90s, he had hit albums n the Fuit Cetera and BMG Ricrdi labels. Nw his lve f swing music has taken him back t the Italian charts with "Vintage... Ma Nn Li Dimstra" (Atlantic). The duble -CD f standards features Arbre as singer and bandleader. Guest vcalists include actress Isabella Rssellini. The album peaked at N. n the FIMI chart tw weeks after its Jan. RAI Un] TV shw, swing is pretty ht these days," Giulian says. "Renz has lng been ne f swing's standard -bearers in Italy." A U.S. release is under cnsideratin. MARK WORDEN VAN GO: "The Art f Rlling," the debut album by Danish pp -rck quartet the Blue Van, was released April in the United States - mnths after it first appeared in prm frm. New Yrk -based TVT signed the British Invasin -influenced band t a wrldwide deal in May 00, after prm -nly cpies f the album -at the time titled "Beat Sellers" -began picking up airplay in Denmark and at U.S. cllege radi. The album was recrded fr Danish indie Iceberg, which retains the Blue Van's publishing; label president Manfred Zähringer manages the act. Sngs frm the album appeared earlier this year in Eurpe n a five - track TVT EP, als titled `Beat Sellers." "We wanted t create a buzz all arund," Zähringer says. TVT will rll ut' The Art f Rlling" glbally in the cming mnths. The Blue Van will tur Eurpe during the spring and summer. The band is bked in Scandinavia by Cpenhagen -based Gearbx and elsewhere by the William Mrris Agency. CHARLES FERRO BILLBOARD APRIL,

40 Glbal Canadian Retailers Add T Starbucks Criticism BY LARRY LeBLANC TORONTO Canada's leading music retailers are jining thse in the United States t speak ut against Starbucks' exclusive Nrth American deal fr Alanis Mrissette's acustic versin f "Jagged Little Pill." Representatives f the Retail Music Assn. f Canada -whse members include HMV Canada, Sunrise Recrds and Handleman Entertainment Canada -met with Canadian Recrding Industry Assn. president Graham Hendersn and the lcal heads f the majr labels April t express their ppsitin t U.S.-derived exclusives. Mrissette's Maverick Recrds album will be sld exclusively at Starbucks',00 U.S. stres and 00 -plus Canadian utlets fr a six -week perid starting June. After the exclusive windw clses, the album will be available t ther merchants. "Canada was an afterthught fr Maverick," charges RMAC president Humphrey Kadaner, wh is als president f the 0 -stre HMV Canada chain. "Canadian label affiliates have t put pressure n their American brethren t explain that Canada is a different market. If they chse t d such deals, limit them t the U.S." Bruce Mackenzie, senir buyer at Pindff Recrd Sales, which perates the 9 -stre Music Wrld chain, suggests that Canadian label executives have little leverage with their U.S. cunterparts. "Their hands are tied," he says. "This is all cming thrugh their U.S. divisins and frm the artist management." Canada's music retail sectr has lng ppsed majr -artist exclusives. HMV Canada, Sunrise Recrds and Pindff pulled all Rlling Stnes prduct frm their stres in 00 t prtest an exclusive arrangement the band made with Future Shp/Best Buy fr its "Fur Flicks" DVD. Last year, HMV and Pindff pulled all Eltn Jhn prduct after the artist gave an exclusive deal fr a fur -DVD music set, "Dream Ticket," t the same cmpany. Retailers here emphasize that they will cntinue t ppse such U.S. - derived exclusives. MORISSEITE: LEADING RETAILERS IN HER HOME COUNTRY DISLIKE ARTIST EXCLUSIVES Accrding t surces, Canada's majr -label executives are equally furius abut U.S. -based deal- making, saying it chills custmer relatins and, because the prduct is sld and manufactured in the States, des nt cntribute t their bttm lines. "It is ur hpe that the majr recrd cmpanies in Canada will be successful in educating their U.S. cunterparts that the Canadian retail music landscape is appreciably different than that f the U.S.," Kadaner says. "Hence, they shuld nt apply their exclusive U.S. business mdel t Canada." "Americans dn't understand ur marketplace," adds Tim Baker, buyer fr Sunrise Recrds, which has stres in Ontari. Canadian executives at Warner Music Grup wuld nt cmment n the Maverick deal, citing the quiet perid fr the cmpany's pending initial public ffering. Executives at ther majrs are reticent abut speaking n exclusives. Hwever, Universal Music Canada president/ceo Randy Lennx says, "We believe in cmplete parity fr ur custmers. Canada is a separate cuntry and we need t address it as such as an industry." Starbucks' Mrissette exclusive particularly rankles veteran Canadian retailers that have supprted the Canadian singer since the early '90s, when she recrded fr MCA Canada. When she scred her internatinal breakthrugh with the riginal "Jagged Little Pill" in 99, the set sld mre than millin units in Canada, n its way t 0 millin units wrldwide. "It was the traditinal retailers wh brke her in the first place," Handle - man Canada VP f purchasing Ken Kzey pints ut. 'We pushed her as a disc queen." Mst Canadian retailers have yet t decide hw t handle Mrissette's new album nce it arrives in their stres. But Baker vws, "If we carry it, it will nt get a frnt rack." Meanwhile, Starbucks is in discussin with ther artists and labels fr future releases. "We are very pen t featuring bth established and emerging Canadian artists," a Starbucks representative says. "Each CD agreement is unique, including the arrangements f hw and where the albums are t be distributed." Echs Cntinued frm page 9 This year, Mariah Carey was ne f the nn -German perfrmers, ahead f the April release in Germany f her Island/DefJam album "The Emancipatin f Mimi." "It will be interesting t see whether [she] is able t derive any mileage frm the shw," says Tm Bhne, managing directr f Universal Music Germany's dmestic divisin. "In the last tw years, the Ech Awards have generated enrmus sales fr Shania Twain and Anastacia," he adds. "[But] I dubt whether that phenmenn will be repeated this year, as many acts [featured] already had albums ut fr quite sme time and did nt perfrm current tracks in the shw." Other internatinal perfrmers included Anastacia (the Epic singer wn fr best internatinal female artist) and British singer /sngwriter Katie Melua (Dramatic), wh was named best internatinal newcmer. Melua's album "Call Off the Search" was the biggest pst -Ech chart gainer, rising frm 9 t n the Media Cntrl chart issued April. Luisan's "Bhème" rse frm 0 t 9, and the current albums frm Silbermnd, Rammstein and Söhne Mannheims als registered small chart climbs. Internatinal award winners included Rbbie Williams (EMI), named best internatinal rck/pp artist; Green Day (Warner), named best internatinal rck/pp grup; and Eminem (Interscpe/Universal), named best internatinal hip- hp/r&b act. Industry bservers agree that a win GEBHARDT: THE ECHOS BROADCAST WAS INTERRUPTED. CAUSING RATINGS TO DROP r perfrmance at the Ech Awards rarely has the galvanizing effect n sales that is ften seen in the United Kingdm with the Brit Awards r in the United States with the Grammy Awards. Maarten Steinkamp, head f cntinental Eurpe fr Sny BMG Music Entertainment, describes the Echs gala as simply "a nice way f getting tgether" fr the industry. "I dn't think it actually results in any increase in recrd sales," he says. Retailers' muted reactins seem t bear ut Steinkamp's cmment. "We haven't really felt anything," admits Clgne -based Frank Schickel, chief buyer at Saturn, which claims abut 0% f the German music market. "At mst, we had a small [sales] rise. TV cverage n lnger has the same impact as it did years ag." Benjamin Spendrikwski, chief music buyer f Uelzen -based cnsumer electrnics/music chain Mega C., similarly reprts "small" sales increases, "particularly with Green Day and [German rapper] Gentleman." Jörg Jahnke, music buyer at the Hamburg utlet f natinal department -stre chain Karstadt, reprts "traces" f the Ech effect n sales. But "all gd TV shws, whether it's the Echs, Grammys r the Oscars r [chat shw] Wetten Dass...?' d that," he says. Ratings fr the live telecast by natinal bradcaster RU peaked at. millin viewers, says Gerd Gebhardt, chairman f Echs rganizer the German Phngraphic Academy. That is substantially less than the.8 millin wh watched in 00. Hwever, Gebhardt pints t unfreseen circumstances that disrupted the evening's viewing. During the shw, news brke f the death f Ppe Jhn Paul II; RTL immediately interrupted the Echs bradcast fr 0 minutes t give reprts. When the netwrk resumed the Echs cverage at midnight, the viewing figure had drpped t. millin. Prir t the interrupted cverage, Gebhardt says, "the ratings curve had been mving upward, as it did last year. Fllwing the interruptin, it was simply nt pssible fr RTL t catch up again." The Ech Awards are based n a mixture f sales perfrmance and vtes by an industry panel. This year, the academy dnated 0,000 eurs ($,000) f the prceeds frm ticket sales, spnsrships and 'IV fees t the German arm f the Nrdff- Rbbins Music Therapy charity. NEWSLINE. THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK IN BRIEF Viacm is replacing its MTV Pp service in Germany with children's channel Nickelden, effective Sept.. The change cmes as part f a restructuring f MTV Central Eurpe, which has been bradcasting since 99. Viacm's Viva music TV netwrk will cntinue t perate in Germany, shwcasing dmestic artists and chart -riented pp music. Als, Viva Plus will maintain its status as an interactive channel. Viacm acquired Viva Media -MTV's lngtime rival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria -in 00. Viva has been n the air in thse territries since 99. WOLFGANG SPAHR Universal artist Mihalis Hadj'yiannis was the big winner at the furth annual Arin Greek Music Awards, held April at Athens Cncert Hall. The Cyprus -brn singer /sngwriter picked up five awards, including best pp singer, best pp album and album f the year. Other multiple winners were Alkistis Prtpsalti (Heaven Music) and Paschalis Terzis (Mins-EMI), wh scped three Arins each. Deputy Culture Minister Fani Palli- Petralia presented cmpser Mimis Plessas with a lifetime achievement award during the ceremny. The event was rganized by the Greek affiliate f the Internatinal Federatin f the Phngraphic Industry in cllabratin with cmmercial TV channel MEGA, which bradcast the fur -hur gala live. The majrity f the 0 categries are vted n by music prfessinals, members f the media, radi prducers and past winners. MARIA PARAVANTES The Tky High Curt has upheld a January 00 ruling by the Tky District Curt that fund file- sharing service MMO Japan guilty f vilating the cpyrights f members f authrs bdy JASRAC and 9 recrd cmpanies (Billbard, Feb., 00). JASRAC and the Recrding Industry Assn. f Japan, which represents the labels, sued Hachiji -based MMO Japan in February 00. They claimed cpyright vilatin as a result f MMO's distributin f file -sharing sftware. The District Curt ruled in favr f the plaintiffs Jan. 9, 00, issuing a preliminary injunctin against MMO that caused it t suspend peratins in April 00. In December 00, the Tky District Curt rdered MMO Japan t pay millin yen ($,000) in cmpensatin; the cmpany appealed the ruling. STEVE McCLURE BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

41 I KNOW APRIL Billbard, 00 III AS rrammin THE MOST- PLAYED CLIPS AS MONITORED BY NIELSEN BROADCAST DATA SYSTEMS Fr week ending "New Ons are thse clips with six r nve plays fr the first time in the chart week. APRIL 0, 00 BET* CMT RAP MUSIC TELEVISION AOL, XM Sail On A Stream â, a 9 a E T 8 W. Street, NE, Washingtn, D.C. 008 MARIO, HOW COULD YOU AMERIE THING LUDACRIS, NUMBER ONE SPOT COMMON, THE CORNER BROOKE VALENTINE. GIRLFIGHT CIARA OH FAITH EVANS, AGAIN T.., U DON'T KNOW ME FAT JOE, SO MUCH MORE BOBBY VALENTINO, SLOW DOWN MIKE JONES, STILL TIPPIN' MARQUES HOUSTON, ALL BECAUSE OF YOU, U ALREADY KNOW MARIAH CAREY, IT'S LIKE THAT THE GAME, HATE IT OR LOVE IT DESTINY'S CHILD, GIRL JOHN LEGEND, ORDINARY PEOPLE 0 CENT, CANDY SHOP NIVEA, OKAY TRILLVILLE, SOME CUT CASSIDY. rm A HUSTLA SNOOP DOGS, SIGNS OMARION, O INDIA.ARIE PURIFY ME TWEET, TURN DA LIGHTS OFF FANTASIA. TRUTH IS THE GAME, HOW WE DO JA RULE, CAUGHT UP ASHANTI, DON'T LET THEM B, ALL I DO KEYSHIA COLE, (I JUST WANT IT) TO BE OVER LYFE JENNINGS, MUST BE NICE NAS. JUST A MOMENT BOYZ N DA HOOD. DEM BDYZ WILL SMITH, SWITCH DADDY YANKEE, GASOLINA TAUB KWEU, NEVER BEEN IN LOVE JENNIFER LOPEZ HOLD YOU DOWN J -KWON, TIPSY PHARRELL FRONTIN' if' NEW ONS INUTA.ARIE, PURIFY ME KEYSHIA COLE, 0 JUST WANT III TO BE OVER =Jerich Quadrangle, Jerich, NY 0 CENT, CANDY SHOP GWEN STEFANI, HOLLABACK GIRL WEEZER, BEVERLY HILLS THE USED, ALL THAT I'VE GOT TAU N G BACX SUNDAY, THI S PNOTOGMPH IS PROOF II KNOW YOU KNOWI THE KILLERS, MR. BRIGHTSIDE MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE HELENA ISO LONG & GOODNIGHTI SUM, PIECES RELIENT K, BE MY ESCAPE G ORIU,AZJDE LA SOUL FEEL GOOD INC QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LITTLE SISTER MUOVAYNE HAPPY? 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DULERO SEP TU SUENO DADDY YANKEE, GASOLINA CARLOS VIVES, VOY A OLVIDARME DE MI JUANES, VOLVERTE A VER REYLI, AMOR DEL BUENO JUUETA VENEGAS, ALGO ME ESTA CAMI FEY, LA FUERZA DEL DESTINO SERVANDO Y FLORENTINO, UNA CANCION DUE TE ENAMORE DAVID BISBAL ESTA AUSENCIA SORAYA, LLEVAME JENNIFER LOPEZ, GET RIGHT CHRISTIAN CASTRO, TE BUSCARLA LA A ESTACION, EL SOL NO REGRESA KALIMBA, TU CORAZON LO SABE DIEGO TORRES, TRATAR DE ESTAR MEJOR PAULINA RUBIO, DAME OTRO TEQUILA OBIE BERMUDEZ, TODO EL ANO MAZA, INGENUIDAD GILBERTO SANTA ROSA, ENSENAME A VIVIR SIN TI AXEL AMO -t- ' ANDY GRIGGS, IF HEAVEN ' BLAKE SHELTON, GOODBYE TIME 'S BILLY DEAN. LET THEM BE LITTLE TT SHANIA TWAIN, DON'T! SD I. DARRYL WORLEY, IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN MARTINA MCBRIDE, GOD'S WILL TIM MCGRAW, DRUGS OR JESUS F] AARON ONES, WAITIN' ON THE WONDERFUL M TERRI CLARK GIRLS UE T00 g L LEE ANN WOMACK, I MAY HATE MYSELF IN THE MORNING MIRANDA LAMBERT, ME AND CFARUE TALKING BLAINE LARSEN, HOW DO YOU GET THAT LONELY SHANIA TWAIN. 00TETI RASCAL FLATTS, BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD TOBY KEITH, HONKY TONK U SUGARLAND, BABY GIRL JO DEE MESSINA, MY GIVE A DAMNS BUSTED MONTGOMERY GENTRY, GONE COWBOY TROY, I PLAY CHICKEN WITH THE TRAIN BLAKE SHELTON, GOODBYE TIME KENNY CHESNEY, OLD BLUE CHAP TIM MCGRAW. DRUGS DR JESUS KEITH URBAN, MAKING MEMORIES OF US CRAIG MORGAN, THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SUNDAY HOT APPLE PIE, HILLBILLIES KEITH URBAN, YOU'RE MY BETTEF HALF BRAD PAISLEY, WHISKEY LULLABY DIERKS BENTLEY, LOT OF LEAVIN' LEFT TO 00 TOBY KEITH, STAYS IN MEXICO RASCAL PLAITS, WELS LIKE TODAY SHEDAISY DON T WORRY 'BOUT A THING KENNY CHESNEY, I GO BACK MARTINA MCBRIDE, G00'S WILL KENNY CHESNEY, ANYTHING BUT MINE CHARLIE ROBISON, EL CERRITO PLACE TRACE ADKINS, SONGS ABOUT ME JOSH GRACIN, NOTION' TO LOSE BOBBY PINSON, DON'T ASK ME HOW I JESSI ALEXANDER, CANYON PRAYER KATHLEEN EDWARDS, BACK TO ME JOE NICHOLS, WHAT'S A GUY GOTTA DO AUSON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION, RESTLESS KEITH URBAN, DAYS GO BY TIM MCGRAW, LIVE LIKE YOU WERE DYING DEANA CARTER, ONE DAY AT A TIME GEORGE CANYON. MY NAME GRETCHEN WILSON, WHEN I THINK AOUT CHEATIN' NELLY, OVER ANO OVER BRAD PAISLEY, MUD ON THE TIRES NEW ONS L[UUD I. JUUU, PAYCHECK WOMAN RAGSDALE, I M GLAD IT WAS YOU 99 E Mineral Ave, Englewd, TO 80 CRAIG MORGAN, THAT'S WHAT I TOBY KEITH, HONKY TONK U LOVE ABOUT SUNDAY KENNY CHESNEY, ANYTHING BUT FAINE SUGARLAND, BABY GIRL JOSH GRACIN. NOTHIN' TO LOSE JO DEE MESSINA, MY GIVE A DAMN'S BUSTED JOE NICHOLS, WHAT'S A GUY GOTTA 00 LEE ANN WOMACK, I MAY HATE MYSELF N THE MORNING KEITH URBAN, MAKING MEMORIES OF US RASCAL PLATYS, BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD BUDDY JEWELL IF SHE WERE ANY OTHER WOMAN TRACE ADKINS, SONGS ABOUT ME DIERKS BENTLEY, LOT OF LEAVIN' LEFT TO DO SHEDAISY, DON'T WORRY 'BOUT A THING SHELLY FAIRCHILD, TINY TOWN KEITH ANDERSON, PICKIN' WILDFL)WERS BLAINE LARSEN, HOW DO YOU GET THAT LONELY AMBER DOTSON, I'LL TRY ANYTHING KENNY CHESNEY, OLD BLUE CHAIR PHIL VASSAR, I'LL TAKE THAT AS A YES RFE HOTTUB SONG) THE WRIGHTS, DOWN THIS ROAD NEW ONS TIM MCGRAW, DRUGS OR JESUS HOT APPLE PIE, HILLBILLIES JON RANDALL BABY WON'T YOU C )ME HOME UK Cntinuus prgramming Hawley Crescent Lndn NW ITT SNOOP DOGG, SIGNS BASEMENT JAXX, OH MY GOSH MARIO, LET ME LOVE YOU 0 CENT, CANDY SHOP KASABIAN, CLUB FOOT THE KILLERS, SMILE LIKE YOU MEMH IT GWEN STEFAN'. RICH GIRL GORILLAZ/DE LA SOUL FEEL GOOD INC RAZORLIGHT SOMEWHERE ELSE EMINEM, MOCKINGBIRD THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS. BELIEVE NATALIE IMBRUGUA, SHIVER ATHLETE HALF LIGHT OASIS, LYLA FEEDER, FEELING A MOMENT DAFT PUNK, ROBOT ROCK NATASHA BEDINGNELD, I BRUISE EASILY AMERIE, THING GARBAGE, WHY DO YOU LOVE ME BLOC PARTY, BANQUET CIARA,, STEP CAESARS, JERK IT OUT s T 8 MARIAH CAREY, IT'S LIKE THAT THE GAME, HATE IT OR LOVE IT EMINEM, MOCKINGBIRD LUDACRIS, NUMBER ONE SPOT UC SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN T.I., U DON T KNOW ME THE KILLERS, MR. BRIGHTSIDE WILL SMITH, SWITCH FRANKIE J, OBSESSION (NO ES AMORI ALICIA KEYS, KARMA 0 CENT, CANDY SHOP SNOOP DOGG, SIGNS ROB THOMAS, LONELY NO MORE NATALIE, COIN' CRAZY MIKE JONES, STILL TIPPIN' CIARA, OH ASHANTI, DON'T LET THEM AMERIE, I THING FAT JOE, SO MUCH MORE GWEN STEFANI, HOLLABACK GIRL JENNIFER LOPEZ, HOLD YOU DOWN OMARION. 0 AKON. LONELY TRILLVILLE, SOME CUT GREEN DAY, HOLIDAY 0 CENT, DISCO INFERNO DESTINY'S CHILD, GIRL JOHN LEGEND, ORDINARY PEOPLE FAT JOE, SAFES SAY (THE INCREDIBLE) FAITH EVANS, AGAIN BECK, E -PRO Bradway, New Yrk, NY 008 LINDSAY LORAN, OVER BRITNEY SPEARS, DO SOMETHIN' THE DONNAS, FALL BEHIND ME SIMPLE PLAN. ME AGAINST THE WORLD BOBBY VALENTINO, SLOW DOWN BRIE LARSON, SHE SAID MICHELLE BRANCH, ALLYOU WANTED MUSE HYSTERIA II WANT IT NOWT BOWLING FOR SOUP, ALMOST NEW ONS MIKE JONES, STILL TIPPIN' NATALE. COIN' CRAZY ASHANTI, DON'T LET THEM AMERIE, I THING 0 CENT, DISCO INFERNO Bradway, New Yrk, NY 00 THE GAME HATE IT OR LOVE IT LUDACRIS, NUMBER ONE SPOT FAT JOE SO MUCH MORE THE KILLERS, MR. BRIGHTSIDE THE ARCADE FIRE REBELLION (LIES/ GREEN DAY, HOLIDAY THE BRAVERY, AN HONEST MISTAKE 0 CENT, CANDY SHOP WEFER, BEVERLY HILLS CIARA OH MIKE JONES, STILL TIPPIN' T.I., U DON'T KNOW ME COMMON, THE CORNER FAT JOE, SAFE SAY THE INCREDIBLE) QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LITTLE SISTER TRILLVILLE SOME CUT NINE INCH NAILS, THE HAND THAT FEEDS PAPA ROACH, SCARS THE USED, ALL THAT I'VE GOT MY CHEMICALROMNCL HEIENAISO LONG & GODDNIGHTI DADDY YANKEE, GASOLINA MATCHBOOK ROMANCE, MY EYES BURN EMINEM, MOCKINGBIRD AMERIE, THING LOUIS XIR. FINDING OUT TRUE LOVE IS BLIND U, SOMETIMES YOU CANT MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN KINGS OF LEON, THE BUCKET THE MARS VOLTA THE WIDOW HOT HOT HEAT, GOODNIGHT GOODNIGHT JENNIFER LOPEZ, GET RIGHT NEW ONS THE ARCADE FIRE, REBELLION ILLESI NINE INCH NAILS, THE HAND THAT FEEDS - T ALICIA KEYS, KARMA EMINEM, MOCKINGBIRD MARIAH CAREY, its LIKE THAT ROB THOMAS, LONELY NO MORE U, SOMETIMES YOU CANT MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN GREEN DAY, BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS DOORS DOWN. LET ME G0 JOHN LEGEND, ORDINARY PEOPLE GWEN STEFANI, RICH GIRL JACK JOHNSON, SITTING, WAITING, WISHING THE KILLERS, MR. BRIGHTSIDE GREEN DAY, HOLIDAY JET, LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOWIE DAY, COLLIDE USA MARIE PRESLEY, DIRTY LAUNDRY JOSS STONE RIGHT TO BE WRONG L SHER, CAUGHT UP CROSSFADE, COLD PSLYN, BE THE GIRL CESTINY'S CHILD, GIRL HOOBASTANK THE REASON JENNIFER LOPEZ, HOLD YOU DOWN KELLY CLARKSON, SINCE U BEEN GONE BECK, E-PRO JOHN MAYER, DAUGHTERS WILL SMITH, SWITCH BOWLING FOR SOUP. ALMOST BILLY IDOL SCREAM MOOR, BEAUTIFUL SNOOP DOGG, SIGNS NAROON, SHE WILL BE LOVED TDRI AMOS, SLEEPS WITH BUTTERFLIES GREEN DAY, AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY, WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS FRANKIE J, OBSESSION NO ES AMORI GREEN DAY, WHATSERNAME GREEN DAY, JESUS OF SUBURBIA VELVET REVOLVER, DIRTY LITTLE THING MICHAEL RUBLE, FEELING GOOD LFEHOOSE, YOU AND ME NEW ONS DESTINY'S CHILD, GIRL SNOOP DOSO, SIGNS CANADA 99 Queen St West, Trnt, Ontari MV GWEN STEFANI. HOLLABACK GIRL AVRIL LAVIGNE, HE WASN'T GREEN DAY, HOLIDAY SHAWN DESMAN, LET'S GO D CENT, CANDY SHOP KALAN PORTER, SINGLE SUM, PIECES QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, LITTLE SISTER CIARA, OH THEORY OF A DEADMAN, NO SURPRISE U, SOMETIMES YOU CANT MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN MASSARI, SMILE FOR ME USHER, CAUGHT UP THE GAME, HATE IT OR LOVE IT DESTINY'S CHILD, GIRL SNOOP DOGG, SIGNS SIMPLE PLAN, SHUT UP MATT MAYS & EL TORPEDO, COCAINE COWGIRL THE ARCADE FIRE, REBELLION ILLESI K -OS, MAN I USED TO BE FRANKIE J, OBSESSION (NO ES AMORI FINGER ELEVEN, THOUSAND MILE WISH JAKALOPE FEEL IT EMINEM, MOCKINGBIRD TIE BRAVERY, AN HONEST MISTAKE BEY, UP IN THIS TOWN GWEN STEFAN'. RICH GIRL JENNIFER LOPEZ, HOLD YOU DOWN THE STILLS, LOVE AND DEATH LUDACRIS, NUMBER ONE SPOT NEW ONS NO NEW ONS THIS WEEK A SAMPLING 0= PLAYLISTS SUBMITTED BY NATIONAL VIDEO OUTLETS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL, 00 LATIN AMERICA Cntinuus prgramming Lincln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 9 EMINEM, LIKE TOY SOLDIERS BRITNEY SPEARS, DO SOMETHIN' AVRIL LAVIGNE, NOBODY'S HOME SIMPLE PLAN, SHUT UP LINDSAY LOHAN, RUMORS MODERATTO, MURIENDO LENTO REEK, YO QUISIERA ASHLEE SIMPSON. LA LA BLINK -8, ALWAYS GOOD CHARLOTTE, I JUST WANNA LIVE INTERPOL EVIL JENNIFER LOPEZ, GET RIGHT 0 CENT, CANDY SHOP MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, HELENA ISO LONG 8 GOWNING GREEN DAY, BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS KELLY CLARKSON, SINCE U BEEN GONE JESSE MCCARTNEY, BEAUTIFUL SOUL MAROONS, SUNDAY MORNING TIZIANO FERRO, DESDE MANANA NO GWEN STEFANI, RICH GIRL VA A VIVACOminuus prgramming Im Media Park, 00 Kln, Germany SARAH CONNOR, FROM ZERO TO HERO MARIO, LET ME LOVE YOU 0 CENT, CANDY SHOP FETES BROT, EMANUELA NENA. LIEBE IST K'MARO. FEMME LIKE YOU CHIPZ, CHIPZ IN BLACK EMINEM, MOCKINGBIRD WILL SMITH, SWITCH CHRISTINA STUERMER, ICH LEBE Terrestrial radi has been fending ff attacks frm Internet and satellite bradcasters fr years. Nw thse tw cmpetitrs are jining frces, thanks t a deal between AOL and XM Satellite Radi. Billbard Radi Mnitr tp 0/ AC managing edi- tr Chuck Taylr writes that the tw will launch an nline radi service -as f yet unnamed -that will bring 0 XM channels and AOL's already streamed 0 channels free t AOL subscribers. There will als be a premium pay service available t nn- AOL members. The ffering, expected t begin this summer with AOL's next- generatin prtal, culd draw 00 millin users nline, the cmpanies say. XM will als integrate Radi AOL, AOL Music Sessins and AOL Music Live int its satellite service. The cmpanies will wrk tgether t develp new prgrams and services fr nline and satellite. PANERO: WORKING WITH ONLINE PARTNERS AOL chairman/ceo Jn Miller called the deal "a giant step in digital media," while XM president/ceo Hugh Paner said, "Our philsphy has always been t wrk with strng partners at every level: retail, autmtive and nw nline t build awareness and subscriptins fr XM." T give cnsumers a taste f the new service, 0 XM statins and all f AOL's radi statins will be available free nline in the cming mnths. AOL and XM will c- prmte their prgramming acrss their netwrks. XM has nearly.8 millin subscribers, while AOL claims mre than 00 millin unique mnthly visitrs acrss its netwrk f prperties. XM rival Sirius Satellite Radi has lng webcast its prgramming free t its subscribers at sirius.cm. Tuned In, Radi. 0 By Marc Schiffman WOMEN SEEK PD JOBS: Nearly 90% f radi PDs are men, accrding t a new study cnducted by the trade grup Mentring and Inspiring Wmen in Radi (MIW). Billbard Radi Mnitr Nashville bureau chief/cuntry managing editr Phyllis Stark (wh is als Nashville bureau chief fr Billbard) reprts that MIW's latest gender analysis study, which tracked radi PDs and general service managers, shwed that wmen were prgramming nly 0.% f the 0, statins listed in the M Street Publicatins database in late 00. The grup says that percentage has fluctuated very little since 99. The rati is lwer amng the 0 grups that wn r mre statins: Wmen prgram just 8.8% f thse grups',8 statins. Brken dwn by market size, the study fund that wmen prgrammed 8.9% f the statins in the tp 00 markets in 00. The study als fund that wmen were managing sales departments fr 0.% f all U.S. radi statins (, ut f 0, statins) in 00. That figure is up frm 9.% in 00. In the tp 00 markets, wmen were managing sales departments fr.% f statins, a percentage the grup says has increased steadily frm % in 99. THE NAME GAME As has happened in the past with newly successful frmats (classic hits, R &B ldies), the phenmenn f wide -playlist adult - targeted statins persnified under the names Bb and Jack (see stry, page ) has spawned numerus cpycats, each with its wn name. My favrite may be Ben in Philadelphia (hme t Ben Franklin). Mnitr's Chuck Taylr adds a new name t that rll call: Adult tp 0 WOZN (the Zne) Greensbr, N.C., flipped t a Jack -like frmat with the new name f Simn, as f April. The statin's under -cnstructin Web site, 98simn.cm, prudly prclaims, 'We play everything!" In the week befre flipping, it played acts including Vanilla Ice, Queensrÿche, the Killers, Htie & the Blwfish and Tm Jnes. BILLBOARD APRIL,

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Mudvayne Cntinued frm page Epic is pleased that the sng has made inrads at the latter frmat since Mudvayne had primarily been played at active rck. "We really feel like we've merged the tw frmats, active rck and mdem rck, in that we have all these believers," says Jacqueline Saturn, Epic VP f alternative prmtin. "Sme f them played a lt f Mudvayne, sme f them never played Mudvayne." Ashley Wilsn, music directr at active rck KISW Seattle, thinks "Happy?" will bring Mudvayne further COMPLETE DIRECTORY OF MUSIC INDUSTRY CONTACTS PUBLICATIONS includes shipping ($8.9 verseas) Includes: City -by -city club directry Tape /disc services Music services directry int the mainstream. "This sng is ging t really reach ut t peple that maybe weren't huge Mudvayne fans," Wilsn predicts. "It's very palatable. Yu [can] play it in all dayparts. It's nt scary. It's very [much] what rck needed. It was just a perfect sng [since] there [are] a lt mre [ballads] at the tp f the charts." "Happy?" cntinues the steady success the quartet (which als includes bassist Ryan Martinie and guitarist Greg Tribbett) has experienced since its 000 debut n Epic. That album, "L.D. 0," cntained the hits "Dig" and "Death Blms." 00 album "The End f All Things t Cme" brught further acclaim with "Wrld S Cld" and "Nt Falling," the latter becming a heavy recur- Music industry websites Darkness Dude Justin Hawkins & his Awesme Axe cllectin ORDER BY PHONE: A &R directry PLUS -Exclusive: And much mre! OR ORDER ONLINE: NOTICES /ANNOUNCEMENTS AMGCL UNSIGNED BANDS & SINGLE ARTISTS NOW YOU CAN SPEAK TO THE ENTIRE MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY THROUGH THE PAGES OF BILLBOARD. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A MANAGER OR ENTERTAINMENT ATTORNEY - RUN AN AD IN BILLBOARD'S CLASSIFIED SECTION BRIEFLY STATING WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER. WE'LL GIVE YOU ONLINE /PRINT EXPOSURE TO ALL THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS IN THIS FAST PACED INDUSTRY. LET'S TALK TODAY! Jeff Serrette r BILLBOARD CLASSIFIEDS MOVE LUXURY REAL ESTATE TO THE STARS REACH THE HIGH- POWERED WORLD OF MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Call Mark Wd - Real Estate Manager Fax: Reach all the mvers & shakers every week thrugh the pages f Billbard a frce in the music /entertainment industry fr ver 00 years rent n active rck statins. "L.D. 0" has sld,000 cpies, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. "The End f All Things t Cme" has sld 80,000. Mudvayne's makeup and cstumes, which have ranged frm face painting t alien masks and unifrms, als gt their share f attentin. Thugh the band is nt wearing makeup r cstumes fr nw, recent media attentin abut its decisin has grwn tiresme, cnsidering it first drpped the dress - up prps in 00 fr the Summer Sanitarium tur. "It's nt like we're trying t make up fr smething r aplgize fr sme big mistake that we've been making all these years," Gray says. "Like, `Oh, yu knw, I dn't knw what we were thinking. We wre makeup fr like fur years... but here we are nw, we're a real band.' That's nt the case." ELEVATED AT OZZFEST After a series f sld -ut club shws in January and February, Mudvayne returned t the rad March 9 fr a headlining run that ends May. The band (which is bked wrldwide by Dave Kirby at the Agency Grup) is playing,00- t,000 -seat venues with supprt by Life f Agny, American Head Charge and bld - simple, which is signed t Gray's BullyGat Recrds. This summer, the band will perfrm cncerts in Eurpe, as well as jin Ozzfest. After headlining the tur's secnd stage in 00, it has been elevated t main - stage status. A multiprnged prmtinal campaign cvers everything frm TV appearances and print (including cvers f Metal Edge and Outburn) t appearances and/r perfrmances n satellite radi prviders Sirius and XM and an nline cntest that will give away a set f the band's music equipment. Setup fr "Lst and Fund" began last Nvember, Epic VP f wrldwide marketing Sctt Greer says. The label's street and cllege reps have been wrking in cnjunctin with marketing cmpany StreetWise Cncepts & Culture, wned by David "Ben" Ben - veniste f Velvet Hammer Management. Benveniste and Jnathan Chen f Zen Media Grup are c- cnsultants fr Mudvayne. The street effrt launched with the track "Determined." A vide was included with the single's sampler, and Greer says the nline audi fr the sng was streamed mre than 00,000 times befre Christmas. Benveniste says,' We've really driven traffic t their site and driven wrd -fmuth thrugh StreetWise in a big way with the first sng we put ut, as well as fr prmtins fr the band, the pre - sale and the tur... Everything that ges n with [prmting] Mudvayne, we're invlved with." BILLBOARD CLASSIFIEDS fr mre inf call: BILLBOARD APRIL,

44 Backbea Edited By Sarah Han Peple /Places /Events EXECUTIVE TURNTABLE.. RECORD COMPANIES: Island Dei Jam Music Grup in New Yrk prmtes Eric Wng t VP f marketing. He was senir directr f marketing. Universal Suth Recrds in Nashville names Matt Crbin natinal directr f mid -Atlantic and Nrtheast prmtin. He was directr f natinal prmtin fr the Midwest. Universal Suth Recrds als ups Shane Allen t natinal directr f West Cast and Suthwest prmtin and Nathan Cruise t natinal directr fr the Sutheast and Midwest regin. Allen was natinal directr fr the West Cast, and Cruise was Sutheast reginal prmtin manager. PUBLISHING: BMI in Nashville names Shelby Kennedy directr f writer/ publisher relatins. He was A&R directr at Lyric Street Recrds. Kbalt Music Grup in Ls Angeles taps Dana Kasha -Chen fr VP f creative fr the United States. She was senir directr f creative services at Universal Music Publishing Grup. HOME VIDEO: Ventura Entertainment Enterprises in Ls Angeles appints Bill Clark executive VP/ CFO. He was senir VP f EMI. RELATED FIELDS: Gtuit Media in San Francisc prmtes Daniel O'Brien t chairman/ceo. He was CEO at Brief Original Bradcasts. Entertainment prductin and marketing firm the Hatchery in Ls Angeles names David Haddad executive VP f business develpment and Sean Grman VP f prgram develpment. Haddad was president/c00 at LivePlanet, and Grman was develpment executive at Radar Pictures. Online subscriptin games publisher Turbine in Westwd, Mass., names Mark Cullinane VP f business develpment and Tm Nichls VP f marketing. Cullinane was managing directr at DICOMM Ventures, and Nichls was directr f brand marketing at Atari. Billbard Digs Radside Graves The Billbard Undergrund presented the Radside Graves March 9 at the Knitting Factry in NewYrk.The New Jersey -based act independently released its album "If Shacking Up Is AllYu Want t D..." in 00. Pictured, frm left, are Radside Graves vcalist Jhn Gleasn, drummer Phil Kunkle, Billbard cexecutive editr Tamara Cnniff, billbard.cm managing editr Barry A. Jeckell, Radside Graves bassist Dave Jnes, pianist Michael DeBlasi and guitarists Rich Zilg and Jeremy Bensn. (Pht: Jeff Bsie/Tbin Prductins) Amber Tunes In Capitl Recrds artist Amber Dtsn, left, made her debut appearance n Great American Cuntry's "CRL" prgram April." CRL" hst Suzanne Alexander interviewed Dtsn; played her current vide, "l'll Try Anything "; and had viewers phne in inquiring abut the singer's recent tur with cuntry superstar Gerge Strait. Dtsn is wrking in the studi with prducer Billy Je Walker Jr. n her Capitl debut, which is scheduled fr a late- summer release. Celebrities At Caesars Celine Din greets Eltn Jhn n Easter weekend during her perfrmance f "A New Day..." at the Clsseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.The tw resident prductins f Din's "A New Day..." and Jhn's "The Red Pian" accunt fr upwards f 0 shws per year at the Clsseum. Back T Schl Train drummer /cmpser Sctt Underwd is pictured studying nline at berkleemusic.cm. Underwd incrprated his newfund skills int Train's cllabrative cmpsitin style. In additin, Underwd has teamed with Train bass player Charles Clin, a Berklee grad, t frm experimental tw -man grup Fdpill.The act's debut album, "Elixer," is available at fdpill.net. (Pht: David Cggin) BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

45 f.: Backbeat Napster T G Ges T Nashville The furth and final Napster t G Cafe tur was held April at Jacksn's in Nashville.The event prmted the fledgling legal dwnlad service with the first industry perfrmance by Raybaw Recrds/Warner Brs. Recrds cuntry rapper Cwby Try and an acustic perlrmance by Vanguard Recrds singer /sngwriter Mindy Smith. Giveaways f Napster t G subscriptin music services, Napster- branded merchandise and MP players were als featured. Pictured, frm left, are Try, Smith, Napster CEO Chris Grg and Big & Rich's Jhn Rich and Big Kenny. (Pht: Kay Williams) Rck Fr Charity Multiplatinum rck act Simple Plan played a cncert April fr AOL Music Live at the Trubadr in West Hllywd, Calif. The perfrmance was in supprt f Keep a Child Alive, an rganizatin dedicated t prviding life- saving medicine t children and families with AIDS in Africa. Pictured, frm left, are Simple Plan's Sebastien Lefebvre, Jeff Stinc and Pierre Buvier; AOL Music executive directr Jack Isquith; Lava Recrds GM Lee Trink; and Sim- ple Plan's Chuck Cmeau and David Desrsiers. (Pht: Getty Images fr AOL) Hew, Hr bis... 0tsIAI Artists t Watch Hallelujah! Fr the yung Christian mademiselles wh feel misrepresented and disrespected by tday's mainstream music, ZOEgirl's furth Sparrw release, "Rm t Breathe," is a sweet treat. Band members Chrissy Cnway, Alisa Girard and Kristin Swinfrd frmed ZOEgirl in 999 with the desire t supprt female Christian tweens and teens.the grup cntinues t fulfill its gal with the March release f "Rm t Breathe, " which hit N. n the Billbard Heatseek- ers chart in its secnd week.the title has sld 9,000 t date, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. EMI CMG artist develp- ment directr Michael Bianchi credits the album's success t the dse relatinship the band has develped with its fans thrugh its Web site and a dedicated street team f mre than 0 peple.the pp /rck sunds f "Dead Serius" and "Gd Girl "cnvey the imprtance f self- cnfidence, while the prmising lyrics f "Scream "tuch upn vercming self - destructive behavir. "The main inspiratin behind this album has mst definitely been the fans," Girard says. "They have inspired us with their letters, stries and their struggles. "ZOE - girl's rigina sngs are c- published by Birdwing Music ( ASCAP); each f the three members maintain separate c- publishing. An exclusive track, "Be LikeYu," is ffered as a bundle t custmers wh purchase "Rm t Breathe" n walmart.cm. A similar deal will be ffered thrugh Apple Cmputer's Tunes with exclusive track "Last Real Lve." The grup is handled by Prper Management and is n the rad with JumpS, bked by Jeff Rberts & Assciates. SARAN MN The Art Of Giving Latin artist and breast cancer survivr Srya puts the finishing tuches n a Gibsn guitar she painted as part f the Designer Gibsn Guitar Auctin t benefit the Expeditin Inspiratin Fund fr Breast Cancer Research.The May event at the Hard Rck Cafe in Ls Angeles will auctin 0 Gibsn Les Paul and SG Special guitars decrated by music supers:ars including Rd Stewart, Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crw. Online bidding fr the specially designed Gibsns will pen t the general public April, prir t the live auctin, at juliensauctins.cm. Behind The Wrds Lisa Leb shared her insights n sngwriting March as the featured guest at the Sngwriters Studi at the Hllywd Rsevelt Htel's Cinegrill lunge in Ls Angeles. Previus guests have included sngwriters Jerry Fuller and Desmnd Child. Pictured, frm left, are Sngwriters Studi prducer Denise Bradley, Music Cnnectin magazine cntributr Dan Kimpel, ASCAP senir directr f repertry and shw interviewer Brendan Okrent, Leb and guest artist Jeffrey Steele. (Pht: Curt Biesterfeld) Saving Music Mariah Carey is pictured during the April 9 bradcast taping f "VH Save the Music: A Cncert t Benefit thevh Save the Music Fundatin" at the Beacn Theatre in New Yrk. Carey jined such perfrmers as Alicia Keys, Rd Stewart and Jhn Legend.The shw airs at 9 p.m. EDT April n VH. (Pht Mazur/Wirelmage.cm) BILLBOARD APRIL,

46 I B R O A D C A S T DA T_ A S_ YS T_ E M S 'ing.this Mnth's Recipients f AWARDS 0 EVERY SPIN AWARD WI NNE BDSCertified Spin Awards March 00 Recipients: 00,000 SPINS Fllw Me/ c K. ker /LAVA 00,000 SPINS d Need Yu/ Leann Rimes /CAPITOL /CURB /SPARROW I As Lng As Yu Lve Me/ Backstreet ys /.IVE/ZOMEA Scar Tissue/ Red Ht Chili Peppers /WARNER BROS. 00,000 SPINS Calling All Angels,,COLUMBIA 00,000 SPINS Let Me Lve Yu/ Mari /J RECORDS Heaven /Ciel/ Ls Lnely Bys /EPIC /OR, Step/ Ciara Feat. Missy Ellit ;LAFACE/ZOMBA Bulevard Of Brken Dreams / Green Day /REPRISE Smebdy Like Yu/ Keith Urban /CAPITOL 00,000 SPINS Lvers & Friends/ Lil Jn & The East Side Byz /TVT Sldier/ Destiny's Child /COLUMBIA/SONY URBAN On The Way Dwn/ Ryan Cabrera /E.V.L.A. /ATLANTIC My Place/ Nelly Feat. Jaheim /DERFTY /FO REAL /UN VERSAL Send The Pain Belw/ Chevelle /JIVE /ZOMBA Milkshake/ Kelis /JIVE /ZOMBA Htel/ Cassidy Feat. R. Kelly /J RECORDS I Just Wanna Be Mad/ Terri Clark /MERCUR" 00,000 SPINS Since U Been Gne/ Kelly Clarksn.'RCA Caught Up/ Usher /LAFACE/ZOMBA Candy Shp/ 0 Cent /SHADY /AFTERMATH Mckingbird/ Eminem /SHADY /AFTERMATH/INTERSCC'PE Obsessin/ Frankie J /COLUMBIA Give A Little Bit/ G G Dlls /WARNER EROS. Mud On The Tires/ Brad Paisley /AR'STA Rich Girl/ Gwen Stefani /INTERSCOPE True/ Ryan Cabrera /E.V.L.A. /ATLAN -IC Lady/ Lenny Kravitz /VIRGIN Get Back/ Ludacris /DEF JAM /SOUTI- Bless The Brken Rad/ Rascal Flatts /LYRIC STREET Let Me G/ Drs Dwn /REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL The Wman With Yu/ Kenny Chesney /BNA Lve's Divine/ Seal /WARNER BROS. Baby Its Yu/ Jb /DA FAMILY /BLACKGROUND /UNIVERSAL Yu're My Better Half/ Keith Urban /ZAPITCL Only U/ Ashanti /THE INC /DEF JAM /IDJMG Party Fr Tw/ Shania Twain W/ Billy Curringtn r Mcrk McGrath /MERCLRY Lk What Yu've Dne/ Jet /ELEKTRA'A.TLANTIC Nthin' T Lse/ Jsh Gracin /LYRIC STREET Bring 'Em Out/ T.. /ATLANTIC Nthin' 'But Lve Makes Sense/ Leann Rimes /CURB;AS(LUM American Idit/ Green Day /REPRISE Flat On/ Mdest Muse /EPIC Take Me Out/ Franz Ferdinand /DOMINO /EPIC I Want T Live/ Jsh Gracin /LYRIC STREET Warning/ Incubus /EPIC Liberate/ Dict+urhed /REPRISE 0,000 SPINS Its Like That/ Mariah Carey /ISLAND / IDJMC Truth Is/ Fantasia /J RECORDS That's What I Lve Abut Sundry/ Craig Mrgan /BROKEN BOW O/ Omarin /SONY URBAN /E'IC /TUG Gin' Crazy/ Natalie / LATIUM /UNIVERSAL Its Getting Better All The Time/ Brks & DL,nn /ARISTA Ordinary Peple/ Jhn Legend /COLJMBIA,SONY UREA[ Gne/ Mntgmery Gentry / COLUMBIA Lnely N Mre/ Rb Thmas /MELISMA/ATLANTIC Okay/ Nivea /JIVE /ZOMBA If Heaven/ Andy Griggs /RCA. Sugar (Gimme Sme)/ Trick Daddy Feat. Lil' Kim & Ludacris /SLIP N SLIDE /ATLANTIC Shake That Mnkey/ T Shrt Feat. Lil Jn & The EastsJde Byz /J VE /ZOMBA Magnificent Obsessin/ Steven Curtis Chapman /SPARROW Anything But Mine/ Kenny Chesney /BNA Burning Bright/ Shinedwn /ATLANTIC Need Yu Nw/ Smkie Nrful /EMI GOSPEL Just Fr Yu/ Linel Richie / SLAND/JEF JAM Trying T Find Atlantis/ Jamie O'Neal /CAPITOL El Prblema/ Ricard Arjna /SONY DISCOS U Dn't Knw Me/ T.I. /ATLANTIC Tal Vez/ Ricky Martin /SONY DISCOS Ftgrafia/ Juanes /UNIVERSAL LATINO Still In Lve/ Teena Marie /UNIVERSA_ Gaslina/ Daddy Yankee /VI LI Nielsen Bradcast Data Suste ms

47 .9% Dnnie McClurkin lands third N. I n Tp Gspel Albums Charts SALES / AIRPLAY / TRENDS / ANALYSIS In Singles Minded: The Backstreet Bys are back n Ht 00 The Earlier, The Better A superstar act in yur camp has almst cmpleted a new album. D yu drp it in r near the furth quarter with the huge traffic it enjys during the hliday selling seasn r wait fr the start f the New Year? The answer depends n yur gal. If yur aim is t end up with ne f the best -selling albums f the furth quarter, then wait until September r later. If, hwever, yur artist's eg wuld be mre satisfied with the accmplishment f wning the tp -selling recrd f the year, a decade f Nielsen SundScan results suggests yu shuld cnsider a release date during the first six mnths. Frm 99 t 00, each year's best -selling album was n the market at least fur mnths befre the furth quarter began. Of the last 0 SundScan champs, the ne with the shrtest shelf life was Eminem's "The Eminem Shw," which was rushed t an ff -cycle street date during the Memrial Day weekend f 00. Overthe Cunter. By Geff Mayfield gmayfield@billbard.cm It is pssible that an album released in the furth quarter f ne year can triumph as the tp -selling set f the fllwing year, but that has nly happened nce in the last six years. Linkin Park's "Hybrid Thery," which hit the market in Octber 000, staged a cme -frm -behind rally in furth -quarter 00 t vertake anther 000 release, Shaggy's "Htsht." Aside frm Linkin Park's win, an album frm the prir year earned the tp slt frm 99 thrugh 998. Tw f thse fur -the sundtrack frm "Titanic" (998) and the Spice Girls' "Spice" (99)- arrived in Nvember f the previus year, but the ther tw had lnger stre lives. Alanis Mrissette's "Jagged Little Pill," the 99 champ, bwed in June 99, and Htie & the Blwfish's "Cracked Rear View," the king in 99, was released in July 99. Tenure is nt just a cnsideratin t be a year's best -selling album, as a majrity f the 0 best sellers in each f the last 0 years had reached stres befre July. The lightest yield was last year, when six f the 0 best sellers arrived befre the end f June. The mst seasned tp (Cntinued n page ) BEST-SELLING ALBUMS OF THE LAST 0 YEARS Units Sld Year Artist Title That Year Release Date 99 Htie & the Blwfish "Cracked Rear View".0 millin July, Alanis Mrissette "Jagged Little Pill". millin June, Spice Girls "Spice". millin Nv., Sundtrack "Titanic" 9. millin Nv. 8, Backstreet Bys "Millennium" 9. millin April, 'N Sync "N Strings Attached" 9.9 millin Feb. 9, Linkin Park "HybridThery".8 millin Oá.0, Eminem "The Eminem Shw". millin May, Cent "Get Rich r DieTryin' ". millin Feb., Usher "Cnfessins" 8.0 millin March, 00 Surce: Nielsen SundScan Market Watch A Weekly Natinal Music Sales Reprt 0 g c = 0 g 0 WEEKLY ALBUM SALES Jan Feb Mar Apr Mav Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nv Dec Albums Stre Singles Digital Tracks This Week 9,89,000 80,000,8,000 Last Week 0,8,000 8,000,,000 Change.%.% 0.% This Week u-,,000 8,000,,000 Change. YEAR -TO -DATE ALBUM SALES (m Ilins) 00.9 m m.% ' 99.8% YEAR -TO -DATE DIGITAL TRACK SALES (mill m 00 ge YEAR -TO-DATE OVERALL UNIT SALES Change Ttal 99,99,000 8,90,000 rn9.% Albums 0,,000,899,000 -, 9.% Stre Singles,,000,,000 8.% Digital Tracks,8,000 8,, % YEAR -TO-DATE = ' ' BY ALBUM FORMAT ;lin?,tr Changit CD,,000,,000 X.% Cassette,0,000 98,000 ' -'.% Other,000,000 '.8% YEAR -TO -DATE ALBUM SALES BY STORE TYPE (mil.) / ii Fr week ending /W. Runded figures. _ lr i 8.0%.0%.%.% /. ALBUM i SALES 00 Ill ALBUM SALES 00 Chain Mass Independent Nn - Merchants Traditinal Cmpiled frm a natinal sample f retail stre and Nielsec rack sales r ep rtscllectedand prvided P by SwntlS..an The Bys Are Back After a false start in 99 with "We've Gt It Gin' On," the Backstreet Bys began a hit streak in 99 with "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)." The single peaked at N., their highest- charted Billbard Ht 00 entry t date. Fr five cnsecutive years, the quintet had at least ne sng debut n the chart every year. By the time the grup tk a break, it had racked up chart entries, six f which reached the tp 0. The break became a lng ne, lasting exactly / years. This issue, "Incmplete" (Jive) is the first Backstreet Bys track t debut n the Ht 00 since "Drwning" bwed the week f Oct. 0, 00. "Incmplete," the first single frm the grup's June album, earns Ht Sht Debut hnrs, pening at N.. It ranks as the sixth highest debut amng the grup's chart entries. It is the highest- debuting sng n the Jive imprint this year, and the highest since Britney Spears pened at N. with "Txic" the week f Jan., 00. GOING UP: "Elevatr" takes Canadian indie -rck utfit Ht Ht Heat t new heights n The Billbard 00. The album is a new entry at N., besting the N. peak f the band's first set, "Make Up the Breakdwn," in August 00. "Breakdwn" was issued n Sub Pp, while "Elevatr" is n Sire. "Elevatr" is the highest- debuting and highest - charting CD n Sire since Nvember 99, when Madnna's "Bedtime Stries" debuted and peaked at N.. Chart ea.m By Fred Brnsn fbrnsn@billbard.cm THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL: I've written abut cuntless chart spans in this space, fr artists as well as sngwriters, prducers and labels. Nw it is time t write abut a mre persnal span. Chart Beat was initiated by Paul Grein in the March 8, 98, issue f Billbard. As a reader, it was the first thing I turned t each week, never thinking that ne day I wuld be writing the clumn. Paul penned the clumn fr years and nine mnths. When he exited, I was asked if I'd be interested in taking ver. Except fr the week f my father's funeral, my clumn has appeared in every issue f Billbard fr the last years, three mnths and tw weeks, giving Chart Beat a ttal span f years and ne mnth, a gd run by any standard. This is the final Chart Beat t appear in the print editin f Billbard. The clumn will cntinue nline at billbard.cm. Fr thse wh already check the Web site every Friday t read Chart Beat Bnus, yu'll be able t read Chart Beat even earlier, as the clumn will nrmally be psted at midnight n Wednesday. It has been a privilege t be a part f these pages fr such a lng time and I lk frward t writing the cyber editin f Chart Beat fr years t cme. BILLBOARD APRIL,

48 THE APRIL 00 W ÿ - '' ' N Billbard BOARICY 00 Sales data cmpiled by S Nielsen ARTIST SundScan Title IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL W m W i; < Ñ s ÿ It r- " N ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL ta NUMBER àrf t Weeks At Number 9 MARIO Turning Pint RD STREET /J 88 /RMG 8.98 CD) 0 CENT The Massacre SHADY /AFTERMATH 0009n interscope 8.98/.98) HOT SHOT DEBUT. NEW CAPITOL 9` (898 CO) FAITH EVANS The First Lady - BECK Guer INTERSCOPE 008' (.98 CO) ' VARIOUS ARTISTS Nw 8 SONY BMG /UNIVERSAL/EMI/ZOMBA/EPIC 99/SONY MUSIC 8.98 ED CD) - Pleasure & Pain DEE SOUL 00 /IDJMG.98 CD) - WILL SMITH Lst And Fund a OVERBROOK 000` / INTERSCOPE 0.98 CDI 0 GREEN DAY American Idit REPRISE8AVARNER BROS CDI 0 DDMG /CRIMINAL BACKGROUND 0098 /IDJMG (8.98/.98) ' LISA MARIE PRESLEY Nw What CAPITOL 98 (8.98 CDI BEANIE SIGEL The B. Cming S JACK JOHNSON In Between Dreams JACK JOHNSON /BRUSHFIRE 00r/UMR 0.98 COI t THE KILLERS Ht Fuss ISIANO 008 /DJMG.98 CDI NEy][ DONNIE MCCLURKIN Psalms, Hymns &Spiritual Sngs VERITY /ZOMBA 0.98 COI 9 FRANKIE J The One COLUMBIA 909/SONY MUSIC (.98 ES COI 0 - LARRY THE CABLE GUY The Right T Bare Arms JACK/WARNER BROS. INASHVILLE900IWRN 8.98 CD) 9 GWEN STEFANI Lve. Angel. Music. Baby. INTERSCOPE 009'.98 CD) CIARA Gdies SHO'NUFF- MUSICLINE/LAFACE 89'/ZOMBA 0.98/8.98 '9 KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway T RCA 9/flMG898 CO) GREATEST GAINER $ 9 JOSS STONE Mind Bdy & Sul S -CURVE 989' 8.98 CD) 9 THE GAME The Dcumentary AFTERMATH /G -UNIT 00 /INTERSCOPE 8.98/.98) [NI 0 JOHN LEGEND Get Lifted 9/SONY MUSIC.98 ED CDI 9 9 G. O.O.DJCOLUMBIA Truble SRC/UNIVERSAL 00080` /UMRG.98 CDI LUDACRIS The Red Light District DTP /OEF JAM SOUTH 008' /IDJMG 8.98/98 9 DOORS DOWN Seventeen Days 9, EMINEM REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL 0008 /UMR.98 CDI Encre SHADY /AFTERMATH 00INTERSCOPE 8.98/ ?:!!0 FANTASIA Free Yurself J '/RMG 8.98 COI USHER Cnfessins LAFACE 98/ZOMBA.98 /8.98) BRANDY ATLANTIC /WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING 8.98 CDI The Best Of Brandy 8 :. RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Tday :. LYRIC STREET 09 /HOLLYWOOD 8.98 CDI 9 RAY CHARLES Genius Lves Cmpany HEAR 8 /CONCORD 8.98 COI 0 0 b JENNIFER LOPEZ Rebirth EPIC 90r /SONY MUSIC 8.98 ED CDI ` Ii QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Lullabies T Paralyze REKORDS REKORDS 008/INTERSCOPE.98 CD) t DADDY YANKEE Barri Fin EL CARTEL 09NI 0.98 COI!9 T.I. Urban Legend Q GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 8`/A 898 CDI NEW HOT HOT HEAT Elevatr SIRE 8988/WARNER BROS. (8.98 CO) 8 JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Sul HOLLYWOOD 0 (8 COI 00 MAROONS Sngs Abut Jane OCTONE/J 000RMG (8.98 CDI [N] 0 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Three Cheers Fr Sweet Revenge REPRISE 8/WARNER BROS..98 CDI [NI 0 KENNY CHESNEY When The Sun Ges Dwn BNA 880 /RLG (98/8.98) 8 GUNS N' ROSES Greatest Hits GEFFEN 00 /INTERSCOPE (8 CO) MICHAEL BUBLE It's Time /REPRISE 89/WARNER BROS.8 98 CD) 0 9 RAY CHARLES Ray (Sundtrack) 8 8 WMG SOUNDTRACKS /ATLANTIC 0/R9I08.98 CDI U Ç PACESETTER - LYFE JENNINGS Lyfe 8-9 COLUMBIA 909; SONY MUSIC.98 LU CD) [N] y I SOUNDTRACK The OC: Music Frm: Mix, WARNER SUNSET 80/WARNER BROS..98 CDI 8 THE BRAVERY The Bravery ISLAND 00 /IDJMG (.98 CD) 9 8 SNOOP DOGG R &G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece DO GGYSTVLE/GEFFEN 00' / INTERSCOPE 8.98/.98 0 KEITH URBAN Be Here CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) CO) MOBY Htel V 8.98 CDI TWEET It's Me Again THE GOLD MIND /ATLANTIC 8/AG (8.98 CDI 8 SUGARLAND Twice The Speed Of Life MERCURY 00 /UMGN.98 CD) [N] TRACE ADKINS Sngs Abut Me CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 8 (8 98 CDI 9 8 KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bp RAZOR & TIE CDI 8 THE MARS VOLTA Frances The Mute ( 8 GOLDSTANOARDLABS /STRUMMER 009/UMRG 9 98 COI BROOKE VALENTINE SUBLIMINAL 99NI8GIN (8.98 COI PAPA ROACH EL TONAUGEFFEN 00 / INTERSCOPE (.98 C0) Title Chain Letter Getting Away With Murder LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Direct Al Crazn 9 0 FONOVISA 0/ÚG.98 COI 8 9 TRICK DADDY Thug Matrimny: Married T The Streets SLIP- N- SLIDE/ATLANTIC 8`/AG VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW #s PROVIDENT/WORD- CURB /EMICMG 09 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY.98 CD) TOBY KEITH Greatest Hits OREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) 00 /UMGN 0.98 CDI 0 9 ALICIA KEYS The Diary Of Alicia Keys J r/bmg.98/ GEORGE STRAIT 0 Number Ones MCA NASHVILLE 0009/UMON.98 CD) 8 SIMPLE PLAN Still Nt Getting Any....r" LAVA 9/AG (8.98 CD /DVDI 8 8 BIG & RICH Hrse Of A Different Clr WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 80/WRN (898 CD) 88 BREAKING BENJAMIN We Are Nt Alne HOLLYWOOD 8.98 CO) 8 KEANE Hpes And Fears INTERSCOPE 000 (9.98 CD) [N] 8 9 JOHN MAYER Heavier Things AWARE /COLUMBIA 88` /SONY MUSIC 8.98 ED COI 9 8 MADELEINE PEYROUX Careless Lve ROUNDER COI [N] s SOUNDTRACK Garden State FOX/EPIC 98/SONY MUSIC.98 ED CO) 8 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Nw EMI /UNIVERSAUSONY BMG/ZOMBA 0/CAPITOL 8.98 CO) 8 9 TINA TURNER All The Best CAPITOL (.98 CO) 8 9 MIRANDA LAMBERT Kersene EPIC (NASHVILLE) 90/SONY MUSIC (98 ED COI 8 80 BABY BASH Super Saucy LATIUM /UNIVERSAL 000 /UMRG (.98 CD) :9 LEE ANN WOMACK There's Mre Where That Came Frm MCA NASHVILLE 000' /UMGN 0.98 CD) LIL SCRAPPY/TRILLVILLE The King Of Creek & BME Recrdings Present BME/REPRISE 8'/WARNER BROS. (8.98 CDI 8 8 '0 MOTLEY CRUE Red, White & Crue ) 8 GRETCHEN WILSON Here Fr The Party EPIC (NASHVILLE 9090 /SONY MUSIC 8.98 ED CO) HIP -0 /MOTLEY 00908NME (9.98 CO) 8 9 SHANIA TWAIN Greatest Hits MERCURY 000 /UMGN (.98 CDI 9 0 U Hw T Dismantle An Atmic Bmb INTERSCOPE COI 0 OMARION 0 TU.GJEPIC 988/SONY MUSIC 8.98 EO CD) 8 0 LIFEHOUSE Lifehuse GEFFEN 0008/INTERSCOPE 0.98 CD) 8 0 KENNY CHESNEY Be As Yu Are: Sngs Frm An Old Blue Chair BNA 0/RLG 8.98 CDI DESTINY'S CHILD Destiny Fulfilled COLUMBIA 99/SONY MUSIC 8.98 EG CO) LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ Crunk Juice BME 90`/IVT.98/.98) 0 9 CROSSFADE Crssfade FG /COLUMBIA 8/SONY MUSIC (.98E CD) [NI Q TIM MCGRAW Live Like Yu Were Dying CURB 888 (8.98 CDI RE -ENTRY CHRIS BOTTI When I Fall In Lve COLUMBIA 98/SONY MUSIC ED CDI [N] VARIOUS ARTISTS Ttally Cuntry Vl. SONY BMG/WEA/UNIVERAL 8 /RLG (8.98 CD HOWIE DAY Stp All The Wrld Nw EPIC 90' /SONY MUSIC.98 ED CO) JOSH GROBAN Clser /REPRISE 80 /WARNER BROS CO) 90.. TRUSTCOMPANY True Parallels GEFFEN 00/INTERSCOPE (.98 COI ` VARIOUS ARTISTS Chsen Few: El Dcumental CHOSEN FEW EMERALD 0/URBAN BOX OFFICE (9.98 CO /DVD) , BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires ARISTA NASHVILLE 080/RLG (.98/8.98 USED In Lve And Death REPRISE 889/WARNER BROS COI CD 0 0 THE BLACK EYED PEAS Elephunk A &M 008 / INTERSCOPE (.98 CD) 9 88 NELLY Suit DERRTY/FO' REEL 00` /UMRG 8.98/.98 9 C- MURDER The Truest $ #!@ I Ever Said TRU 9900/KOCH (.98 CDI AVRIL LAVIGNE Under My Skin RCA 9/RMG CO) "` SOUNDTRACK Ice Princess WALT DISNEY 8 (898 CO) ó á H i O. i BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

49 - -. a. - jg m ïp9 00 ÿ Y N ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL 8 89 THE REVEREND AL GREEN Everything's OK BLUE NOTE CD) 0 80 MARTINA MCBRIDE Martina RCA NASHVILLE 0/RLG (.98/ LOS LONELY BOYS Ls Lnely Bys OR /EPIC 9088/SONY MUSIC 98 EO CD) [N] O 0 - BILLY DEAN Let Them Be Little CURB 8 (8.98 CD) JAY-Z/LINKIN PARK MTV Ultimate Mash -Ups Presents: Cllisin Curse MACHINE SHOP /ROC-A- FELLA/OEF JAM 89/WARNER BROS. (98 COMM LUNYTUNES & BABY RANKS Mas Flw MAS FLOW 000/UNIVERSAL LATINO (.98 CO) VARIOUS ARTISTS Disneymania : Music Stars Sing Disney...Their Way! WALT DISNEY CD) ) 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Nickelden Kids' Chice NICK 8 /SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 8.98 CDI CROSBY, STILLS & NASH Greatest Hits CD C ATLANTIC /RHINO (8.98 CD).CORROSION OF CONFORMITY SANCTUARY 89 (8.98 CDI [N] Title In The Arms Of Gd MONTGOMERY GENTRY Yu D Yur Thing COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) 908/SONY MUSIC (8.98 EO CD) VELVET REVOLVER Cntraband RCA 99'/RMG (8.98 CD) 00 VARIOUS ARTISTS Grammy Nminees 00 GRAMMY 09 /CAPITOL 8.98 CD) 0 JARS OF CLAY Redemptin Sngs ESSENTIAL 08 (.98 CD) - THE GAME West Cast Resurrectin GET LOW 0.98 CD) CD 9 - DAMIEN RICE O DRMNECTOR 80/WARNER BROS. (8.98 CO) [N] 0 JET Get Brn ELEKTRA 89/AG (.98 CD) 8 - THEORY OF A DEADMAN Gasline ROADRUNNER 8/IDJMG (.98 CD) 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Hits 00 WORD -CURB /PROVIDENT 0/EMICMG.98 CDI 8 00 CRAIG MORGAN My Kind Of Livin' BROKEN BOW (.98 CDI 9 0 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Mafia ARTEMIS 0.98 CD) ASHLEE SIMPSON Autbigraphy GEFFEN 009/INTERSCOPE 0.98 CDI 0 9 TORI AMOS The Beekeeper EPIC 9800/SONY MUSIC (8.98 EO CD) 9. CASTING CROWNS Casting Crwns BEACH STREET I0 /REUNION 8.98 CO) [N] IIED JOSS STONE The Sul Sessins (EP) S -CURVE (9.98 CDI [N] 09 9 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Gemini MOTOWN 00 /UMRG (.98 CD) 0. BROOKS & DUNN The Greatest Hits Cllectin II ARISTA NASHVILLE /RLG (8.98 CD) 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Gspel 00 WORD- CURB/EMICMG/VERITY /ZOMBA.98/9.98) 0 li BLAKE SHELTON Blake Sheltn's Barn & Grill WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 88NJRN 98 CO) 8 8 BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY Greatest Hits NEW 0 0 RUTHLESS (8.98 CO) A STATIC LULLABY COLUMBIA 9/SONY MUSIC (.98 ES CD) [N] JIMMY BUFFETT MAILBOAT 09 (890 CD /DVDI Fas Latid Live In Hawaii - MAE The Everglw TOOTH B NAIL 9(.98 CDI 9 ttt BRIGHT EYES I'm Wide Awake, Its Mrning SADDLE CREEK ur.98 CO) KINGS OF LEON Aha Shake Heartbreak RCA WRMG.98 CDI 9 8 CHEVELLE This Type Of Thinking (Culd D Us In),_ EPIC 98908/SONY MUSIC 8.98 ED CD) BOWLING FOR SOUP SILVERTONE/JIVE 9/ZOMBA 8.98 CD) A Hangver Yu Dn't Deserve NORAH JONES ` Feels Like Hme BLUE NOTE COI PAC Lyal T The Game AMARU 008' /INTERSCOPE (898/.98) 8 09 KURT CARR PROJECT One Church GOSPO CENTRIC 008/ZOMBA (.98 CDI [N] 0 BEE GEES Number Ones POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL 00NME (.98 CD /DVD) BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm VICE/DIM MAK 98' /ATLANTIC.98 CD) [N] - VICENTE FERNANDEZ Mis Crrids Cnsentids SONY DISCOS 9 (.98 ED CD) [N] 9 SOUNDTRACK The Phantm Of The Opera REALLY USEFUL/SONY CLASSICAL 9 /SONY MUSIC 8.98 Ell CO) 8 BRITNEY SPEARS Greatest Hits: My Prergative JIVE 0/ZOMBA (8.98 CD) CD. THE BEACH BOYS The Very Best 0f The Beach Bys: Sunds Of Summer CAPITOL 80 (8.98 CDI I0 0 BLAINE LARSEN Off T Jin The Wrld G IANTSLAYER/BNA 0/IILG (.98 CD) KORN Greatest Hits Vl. I IMMORTAUEPIC 900/SONY MUSIC (8.98 ED CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS Radi Disney Jams WALT DISNEY CO/DVD) 8 8 CREED Greatest Hits WIND -UP 0 (8.98 CD /DVO) BILLY IDOL CS 8/SANCTUARY (8.98 CDI Devil's Playgrund y t. IL x~ et rn w ~ rn á R. t' ÿ y ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL BEYONCE ` Dangerusly In Lve COLUMBIA 88 /SONY MUSIC 98 EO/ SLIPKNOT Vl. : (The Subliminal Verses) ROADRUNNER 888 /IDJMG (98 CD) 9 le N ADEMA Planets EARACHE 9.98 CDI 0 SHINEDOWN Leave A Whisper ATLANTIC 89/AG.98 CO) [N] 0 ROD STEWART Stardust... The Great American Sngbk Vl. III J 8 /RMG 098 CD) 8 REEL BIG FISH Were Nt Happy TiI Yu're Nt Happy MOJO /JIVE 800/ZOMBA (8.98 CO) 0 JOSH GRACIN Jsh Gracin LYRIC STREET 0/HOLLYWOOD 8.98 CD) 9 CD 88 JUANES A Mi Sangre SURCO 00/UNIVERSAL LATINO (8 CO) e FANTOMAS Suspended Animatin IPECAC (8.98 CD) [N] 08 9 OZZY OSBOURNE Prince Of Darkness EPIC 990/SONY MUSIC.98 ED CD) PITBULL M.I.A.M.I. (Mney Is A Majr Issue) DIAZ BROTHERS 0/TVT (.98/8.98) KAISER CHIEFS Emplyment BUNIOUE/UNIVERSAL 00/UMRG 9.98 CO) 8 KANYE WEST The Cllege Drput ROC- A- FELLA/DEF JAM 0000 /IDJMG 8.98/98) JACK JOHNSON On And On JACK JOHNSON 00 /UMRG 8.98 CD) ASHANTI Cncrete Rse THE INCJDEF JAM 0009 /IDJMG.98 CDI QUEEN LATIFAH The Dana Owens Album VECTOR/FLAVOR UNIT 00/INTERSCOPE (98 CD) ICED 8 - JEFF BATES Rainbw Man RCA NASHVILLE 0/.98/.98) [N] 8 - ANA BARBARA/JENNIFER PENA Cnfesines FONOVISA 9/U.98 CO) [N] ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION Lnely Runs Bth Ways ROUNDER 0 (98 CD) 0 9 RYAN CABRERA Take It All Away E. V.L.AJATLANTIC 80/AG (.98 CDI 0 0 CELTIC WOMAN Celtic Wman MANHATTAN 0 (8.98 CD) [N] 0 A PERFECT CIRCLE emotive VIRGIN 8 (898 CD) f(: NEW FISCHERSPOONER Odyssey CAPITOL 989 (8.98 CD) [N] 9 GOOD CHARLOTTE The Chrnicles Of Life And Death DAYLIGHT /EPIC 9 OR 99/SONY MUSIC ED CD) 9 ;: ; NAS Street's Disciple ILL WILL/COLUMBIA 90 /SONY MUSIC (9.98 ED CD) 0 LEANN RIMES This Wman CURB CD) 9 GAVIN DEGRAW Charit - Stripped J /RMG (.98 CD) 9 9 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS The Silence In Black And White VICTORY 0 (98 CD) [N] 0 CD NEW VARIOUS ARTISTS Verve / /Remixed VERVE 00'NG (8.98 CO) " THE ROLLING STONES The Best Of The Rlling Stnes: Jump Back '- VIRGIN 8 (8.98 CD) MODEST MOUSE Gd News Fr Peple Wh Lve Bad News EPIC 8'/SONY MUSIC (.98 ED CD) (N] CED 00 9 GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO Y Sigue La Mata Dand DISA (.98 CD) CHAYANNE Desde Siempre SONY OISC ED CO) RISE AGAINST Siren Sng Of The Cunter Culture GEFFEN 009 / INTERSCOPE 9.98 CDI [N] 8 SOUNDTRACK Naplen Dynamite LAKESHORE COI LOUIS XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept PINEAPPLE/ATLANTIC 98/AG (.98 CO) [N] 8 JUDAS PRIEST Angel Of Retributin EPIC 99/SONY MUSIC 8.98 EU CDI 8 99 HILARY DUFF Hilary Duff HOLLYWOOD (8.98 CO) JIMMY EAT WORLD Futures INTERSCOPE 00' (98 CDI 09 CDR = THE BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC BOX ORCHESTRA Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics BUENA VISTA 808/WALT DISNEY (.98 CO) [N] WILLIE NELSON Sngs LOST HIGHWAY /HIP -0/UTV 0000 /UME.98 CD) 9 0 LINDSAY LOHAN Speak CASABLANCA/UNIVERSAL 008/UMRG (98 CD) CD ROD STEWART As lime Ges By... The Great American Sngbk Vl. II J (8/RMG (.98/8.98) THREE DAYS GRACE Three Days Grace JIVE 9/ZOMBA KUTLESS BEC 9.98 CDI.98 CD) [NJ Title Strng Twer CD RE -ENTRY ANDREA BOCELLI Andrea PHILIPS 00 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP 8.98 CD) LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO Y Seguims Cn Duranguense!!! DIVA 00 (.98 CD/DVD) FRANZ FERDINAND Franz Ferdinand DOMINO /EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC.98 ED CD) [N] 98 8 PIMP C The Sweet James Jnes Stries TAP-A -LOT LIFE/J PRINCE 8' /ASYLUM (.98 CD) (ED,'. JIMMY BUFFETT License T Chill MAILBOAT/RCA 0/RLG(8.98 CDI CHRIS TOMLIN Arriving SIXSTEP9/SPARROW (.98 CD) ó á ÿ i.e i Albums Wì h the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units (Gld). A RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's multi- platinum level. Fr bed sets, and duble albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre the RIAA multiplies shipments by he number f discs and /r tapes. RIAA Latin awards: O Certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or(. Certificatin f 00,000 units ( Platin). 0' Certificatin f 00,000 units (Multi- Platin). Aste isk indicates LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CO prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked ELI, and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are prjected frm whlesale prices. Greatest Gainer shws chart's largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage grwth. Heatseeker Impact shws albums remved frm Heatseekers this week. [N] indicates past r present Heatseeker title. CO 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD APRIL,

50 9 AP00 RIL <r, Billbard TOP INTERNET ALBUM SALES.,, LU LU w g Sales data and Internet sales reprts cmpiled by ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Nielsen SundScan Title ; '. Weeks At Number BECK INTERSCOPE008' Guer JACK JOHNSON JACK JOHNSON/BRUSHFIRE00A9 /UMRG In Between Dreams 0 LISA MARIE PRESLEY CAPITOL98 Nw What 9 CELTIC WOMAN MANHATTAN80 [N] Celtic Wman 0 U INTERSCOPE 00 Hw T Dismantle An Atmic Bmb 9 MF DOOM METAL FACE /NATURE SOUNDS Live Frm Planet X! - MORRISSEY ATTACK 80/SANCTUARY Live Frm Earls Curt - MOBY V Htel 0 9 ERIC CLAPTON CHRONICLESIPOLYDOR009NMt The Best Of Eric Claptn:0th Century Masters The Millennium Cllectin GREEN DAY REPRISE 8./WARNER BROS. American Idit 9 RAY CHARLES A HEARN/cecORD Genius Lves Cmpany 9 TIM MCGRAW CURB888 Live Like Yu Were Dying ; 8 THE KILLERS ISLAND 008'nOJMG Ht Fuss ( 0 CENT A' SHADY /AFTERMATH 0009'/INTERSCOPE The Massacre EMINEM A' SHADY /AFTERMATH 00'/INTERSCOPE Encre I SOUNDTRACK FOX/EPIC 98/SONY MUSIC Garden State 80 SOUNDTRACK WARNER SUNSET 80/WARNER BROS. The OC: Music Frm: Mix 8 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND009' /IOJMG The Emancipatin Of Mimi - 9 AMOS LEE BLUE NOTE 90 [N] Ams Lee - 0 THE PERCEPTIONISTS DEFINITIVE JUX0'/DEFINITEJUX [N Black Dialgue - JOSS STONE S -CURVE 989Y Mind Bdy & Sul 8 RAY CHARLES WMG SOUNDTRACKS /ATLANTIC 0/RHINO Ray (Sundtrack) TOBY KEITH Ara DeEAMWORKs(NASHVILLE) OW/UMGN Greatest Hits SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY000JUMGN Greatest Hits 8 DAMIEN RICE DRMNECTOR80/WARNER BROS. [N] 0 ó á m Ki Ne Y N _ ti g I THE TITLE RAY (RAY CHARLES) OC: MUSIC FROM: MIX Sales data cmpiled by VUMBER Nielsen SundScan IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL 0 Weeks At Number I WMG SOUNDTRACKS /ATLANTIC0/RHINO WARNER SUNSET 80/WARNER BROS. GARDEN STATE FOX/EPIC 98/SONY MUSIC ICE PRINCESS WALT DISNEY 8 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA REALLY USEFUL/SONY CLASSICAL 9/SONY MUSIC NAPOLEON DYNAMITE LAKESHORE 80 HITCH COLUMBIA9 /SONY MUSIC 8 SHARK TALE DREAMWORKS /GEFFEN 008/INTERSCOPE 9 DORA THE EXPLORER NICK /SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 0 0 SHALL WE DANCE? CASABLANCA/UNIVERSAL 009 /UMRG 9 THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE NICK8888/SIRE 0 BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? A LOST HIGHWAY /MERCURY 009/IOJMG 8 RAY: MORE MUSIC FROM (RAY CHARLES) WMG SOUNDTRACKS/ATLANTIC /RHINO BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON GEFFEN 00 /INTERSCOPE THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (SPECIAL EDITION) REALLY USEFUL/SONY CLASSICAL 9/SONY MUSIC BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR: THE MOVIE WARNER BROS.(NASHVILLE)8/WRN SHREK GEFFEN / DREAMWORKS 00 /INTERSCOPE 8 8 SIN CITY VARESE SARABANDE 0 THE CHEETAH GIRLS (EP) WALT DISNEY FIRST DATES MAVERICK 8/WARNER BROS. GREASE Ae POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL 09/UME DE- LOVELY COLUMBIA 900 /SONY MUSIC )` COYOTE UGLY A CURB 80 9 BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR RIDES AGAIN JACK /WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 890A/RN ROBOTS VIRGIN 00 Tp Internet Album Sales reflects physical albums rdered thrugh Internet merchants, based n data cllected by Nielsen SundScan. Unlike mst Billbard album charts, catalg titles are included n the Internet and Sundtrack charts. (*Albums with the greatest sales gain this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIM) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units (Gld). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIM certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's multi- platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre, the RIM multiplies shipments by the number f discs and/r tapes. RIAA Latin awards: O Certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or.) A Certificatin f 00,000 units (Platin). ' Certificatin f 00,000 units (Multi-Platin). `Asterisk indicates vinyl available. IN] indicates past r present Heatseeker title W00, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. THE BILLBOARD 00 A- (LISTED BY ARTISTS) Pac Drs Dwn 0 Cent Adema Trace Adkins Akn Tri Ams Ashanti Baby Bash 8 The Baby Einstein Music Bx Orchestra 89 Ana Barbara/Jennifer Pena Jeff Bates The Beach Bys Beanie Sigel 8 Beck Bee Gees 9 Beynce 0 Big & Rich Black Label Sciety 9 The Black Eyed Peas 9 Blc Party 0 Andrea Bcelli 9 Bne Thugs -N- Harmny 8 Chris Btti Bwling Fr Sup Brandy The Bravery Breaking Benjamin Bright Eyes Brks & Dunn Michael Buble Jimmy Buffett 0, 99 Ryan Cabrera 9 Kurt Carr Prject 8 Casting Crwns Celtic Wman 0 Ray Charles 9, Chayanne 8 Kenny Chesney, Chevelle Ciara Kelly Clarksn C- Murder 9 Crrsin Of Cnfrmity 08 Creed 8 Crsby, Stills & Nash 0 Crssfade Daddy Yankee Hwie Day 88 Billy Dean 0 Gavin DeGraw Destiny's Child Hilary Duff 8 Eminem Faith Evans Fantasia Fantmas 8 Vicente Femandez Fischerspner Frankie J Franz Ferdinand 9 The Game 9, Gd Charltte Jsh Gratin Green Day The Reverend Al Green Jsh Grben 89 Guns N' Rses Hawthme Heights Ls Hrscps De Durang Ht Ht Heat Billy Idl 9 Jars Of Clay Jay- Z/Linkin Park 0 Lyfe Jennings Jet Jimmy Eat Wrld 88 Jack Jhnsn 0, Nrah Jnes Juanes Judas Priest 8 Kaiser Chiefs Keane Tby Keith Alicia Keys Kidz Bp Kids The Killers Kings Of Len Krn Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin 99 Kutless 9 Miranda Lambert 8 Larry The Cable Guy Blaine Larsen 9 Avril Lavigne 9 Jhn Legend 0 Lifehuse Lil Jn & The East Side Byz Lil Scrappy/Trillville 8 Lindsay Lhan 9 8 Ls Lnely Bys 0 Jennifer Lpez 0 Luis XIV 8 Ludacris LunyTunes & Baby Ranks 0 Mae Mari 9 Marns The Mars Vlta Jahn Mayer 8 Martina McBride 00 Jesse McCartney Dnnie McClurkin Tim McGraw Brian McKnight Mby 0 Mdest Muse 80 Grup Mntez De Durang Mntgmery Gentry 09 Craig Mrgan 8 Mtley Crue 8 My Chemical Rmance 0 Nas Nelly 9 Willie Nelsn 90 Omarin 0 Ozzy Osburne 9 Brad Paisley 9 Papa Rach A Perfect Circle Madeleine Peyrux 9 Pimp C 98 Pitbull 0 Lisa Marie Presley 9 Queen Latifah Queens Of The Stne Age Rascal Flatts 8 Reel Big Fish Damien Rice LeAnn Rimes Rise Against 8 8 The Rlling Stnes 9 Blake Sheltn Shinedwn Simple Plan Ashlee Simpsn 0 Slipknt Will Smith Snp Dgg 8 SOUNDTRACK Garden State 80 Ice Princess 98 Naplen Dynamite 8 The OC: Music Frm: Mix The Phantm Of The Opera Britney Spears A Static Lullaby 9 Gwen Stefani Rd Stewart, 9 Jss Stne 8, Gerge Strait Sugadand Thery Of A Deadman Three Days Grace 9 T.I. Ls Ogres Del Nrte 8 Chris Tmlin 00 Trick Daddy 9 TRUSTcmpany 90 Tina Turner 8 Shania Twain 8 Tweet U 9 Keith Urban 9 The Used 9 Usher Brke Valentine VARIOUS ARTISTS Chsen Few: El Dcumental 9 Disneymania : Music Stars Sing Disney...Their Way! 0 Grammy Nminees 00 Nickelden Kids' Chice 0 Nw 8 Nw 8 Radi Disney Jams Ttally Cuntry Vl. 8 Verve/ /Remixed 8 WOW #s: Of The Greatest Christian Music Hits Ever 0 WOW Gspel 00 WOW Hits 00 Velvet Revlver 0 Kaaye West Gretchen Wilsn Lee Ann Wmack 8 Over The Cunter Cntinued frm page 9 0 f happened in 99, when all 0 had reached stres befre July, including five that were released in the prir year. Other than that, there were three years when seven r mre f the tp 0 albums were pre -July releases (99, 00 and 00), tw when there were eight (000 and 00), and three when there were nine (99, 998 and 999). While senirity cunts in the year -end best sellers, yuth is served when yu examine the 0 biggest albums during the furth quarters f In all but ne f thse 0 years, a majrity f the 0 best sellers f a clsing quarter arrived between September and the end f the year. The ne exceptin was 999, when half f the tp 0 frm that year's furth quarter arrived befre September, with tw f thse 0 frm earlier years. Otherwise, albums released during the last fur mnths f a year accunt fr n less than f a furth quarter's tp 0 in each f the last 0 years. In three f thse years, f the last quarter's tp 0 arrived n earlier than September. There were eight pre- September releases in the tp 0 fr tw f the last 0 furth quarters (998 and 000), six such exceptins in three f them (99, 99 and 00), and five in tw ther years (99 and 00). The wild card f SundScan's -year histry is Shania Twain's 99 set "Cme On Over," an example f patience which, mre than any ther album, prves the ld industry maxim, "It's nt where yu start that cunts, but where yu finish." "Cme On Over" had the rare distinctin f ntching tp 0 weeks n The Billbard 00 during the hliday selling seasns f three different years -a claim that even Michael Jacksn's 9 -times platinum "Thriller" cannt make yet Twain's album was never the tp seller f any year r any furth quarter. The album, in fact, never even spent a single week at N. n The Billbard 00, yet "Cme On Over" has sld mre than any ther set in SundScan histry. Its. millin cpies t date exceeds sales f the runner -up, Mrissette's "Pill," by almst millin cpies. FAITH ON HIGH: 0 Cent is n curse t have the tp -selling album f 00, repeating a feat he accmplished tw years ag. He hlds curt n The Billbard 00 fr a sixth week. Fr nw, he withstands the best sales week ever by R &B queen Faith Evans, but it lks like 0's streak will be interrupted next week (see A Lk Ahead, page ). With a start f,000 cpies, Evans enters the big chart at N. and Tp R &B/Hip -Hp Albums at N., career peaks n bth lists. Her prir best Nielsen SundScan week happened in 00 when "Faithfully" sld 0,000, tpping ut at N. n the R &B/Hip -Hp chart. Her previus Billbard 00 peak was N. fr the 998 title "Keep the Faith." Als earning a career best n the big chart is a true keeper f faith: gspel star Dnnie McClurkin, whse bw at N. als represents his strngest SundScan frame (,000). His 00 uting, "Dnnie McClurkin... Again," wned his prir bests (N.,,000). In between Evans and McClurkin is a new entry fr the daughter f a man wh was knwn t recrd gspel music, as Lisa Marie Presley debuts at N. 9 with,000 cpies. Her media rllut included "The Oprah Winfrey Shw" and "Late Shw With David Letterman," yet this ne starts with less than half the pener that her first album enjyed in 00 when it bwed at N. n,000 sld. BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

51 - - : i - -: ' w,_ I - S - APRIL 00 n Billbard a ' TOP POP CATALOG TM Sales data cmpiled by w 0 Nielsen SundScan ': N ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL RAY CHARLES RHINO CD) Title Weeks At Number t The Very Best Of Ray Charles 0 CENT A Get Rich Or Die Tryin' SHADY /AFTERMATH 9 / INTERSCOPE 8.98/.98. AC/DC 0 Back In Black LEGACY /EPIC 800 /SONY MUSIC 898 Ell CDI NORAH JONES 0 Cme Away With Me 88. BLUE NOTE 0.98 CD)[ ] KEITH URBAN Glden Rad CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) / BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS 0 Legend: The Best Of Bb Marley And The Wailers TUFF GONG /ISLAND 890/UME 8.98/98 HOT SHOT DE' SWITCHFOOT A COLUMBIA 8 9 /SONY MUSIC 8.98 EQ CD) The Beautiful Letdwn 9 METALLICA / Metallica ELEKTRA' /AG.98/.98) = GREATEST GAINER $ I GREEN DAY Internatinal Superhits! REPRISE 8/WARNER BROS CD) GREEN DAY.0 Dkie REPRISE 9'/WARNER BROS..98/.98 [M] 9 THE BEATLES A9 ; APPLE 9/CAPITOL.98/8.98). 8 8 QUEEN A Greatest Hits HOLLYWOOD.98/.98 ' 0 BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND A' Greatest Hits CAPITOL /.98.' 0 LINKIN PARK A Metera WARNER BROS. 88V 9.98 CD) 8: 8 -,: EVANESCENCE AR Fallen WINDUP 0 (8.98 CD) U A The Best Of ISLAND /IDJMG.98/8.98 ' PINK FLOYD T Dark Side Of The Mn CAPITOL 800' (0.98/8.98) a, 'f C : STEVIE WONDER The Definitive Cllectin MOTOWN /UTV 0 /UME (8.98 COI THE POSTAL SERVICE SUB POP CDI [M] Give Up DADDY YANKEE Ls Hmerun: Es Vl. MACHETE 08/VI.98 CD) [N] TIM MCGRAW A Greatest Hits CURB 98.98/ DOORS DOWN Away Frm The Sun REPUBLIC /UNIVERSAL 09/UMRG (8.98/.98 ) COLDPLAY A A Rush Of Bld T The Head CAPITOL 00'.98/8. 98I ( +) 8 JACK JOHNSON Brushfire Fairytales ENJOY 8099 /UMRG 8.98 CDI [N] LED ZEPPELIN Earl Days & Latter Days: The Best OI Led Zeppelin Vlumes One And Tw ATLANTIC 89 /AG 9. C 0 0 SUBLIME A Sublime GASOLINE ALLEY / GEFFEN /UME (98/8.98) AUDIOSLAVE A Audislave INTERSCOPE/EPIC %98 /SONY MUSIC 8. 98ED CD), - DURAN DURAN Greatest CAPITOL 99.98/.98 JOURNEY l0 Jurney's Greatest Hits COLUMBIA 9/SONY MUSIC.98 EO/8.98 THE SHINS Oh, Inverted Wrld SUB POP 00. (.98 CD) JIMI HENDRIX Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix. EXPERIENCE HENDRIX ' / ME.98/898 KENNY CHESNEY A Greatest Hits BNA9 /RLG.98/898) 8 LINKIN PARK.0 [Hybrid Thery] WARNER BROS..98/E98 elp - SYSTEM OF A DOWN A Txicity AMERICAN /COLUMBIA W/SONY MUSIC.98 EO/8. 98I 9 DEF LEPPARD A Vault - Greatest Hits MERCURY 88/UME.98/8.98 ID BILLY IDOL Greatest Hits CHRYSALIS 88/CAPITOL 98 CDI. 0 - LAURYN HILL A The Miseducatin Of Lauryn Hill RUFFHOUSE/COLUMBIA 90-/SONY MUSIC /.98 OiD SADE A The Best Of Sade EPIC 88/SONY MUSIC.98 E0/8.98) ABBA A Gld - Greatest Hits POLYDOR/A&M 00/LIME.98/8.98 SIMPLE PLAN A N Pads, N Helmets...Just Balls LAVA 8/AG (98/.98M 0 MICHAEL JACKSON? Thriller EPIC 0/SONY MUSIC (.98 EO / JOSH GROBAN A Jsh Grban /REPRISE 8/WARNER BROS CD) [N] 9 ELVIS PRESLEY A0 Elvis: 0 # Hits RCA 809 /RMG (.98/9.98) MERCYME Almst There!NO 8/CURB (.98 CD) [N] - LIONEL RICHIE The Definitive Cllectin MOTOWN/UTV 080NME 8.98 CD) JOHN MAYER A AWARE/COLUMBIA 89' /SONY MUSIC (.98 Ea/89 8IM] Rm Fr Squares ELTON JOHN A Greatest Hits ROCKET /UTV08 /UME (9.98 CD) 0 9 ROD STEWART The Very Best Of Rd Stewart WARNER BROS /8.98) 8 - MARTINA MCBRIDE A Greatest Hits RCA NASHVILLE 0/RLG (98/8.98) ALICIA KEYS A J 000/OMG (.98/8.98) Sngs In A Minr Iÿ a rri ARTIST Sales data cmpiled by w a Nielsen SundScan Title IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL e: NUMBER i HOT Si- Week At Number CORROSION OF CONFORMITY SANCTUARY CDI In The Arms Of Gd 8 DAMIEN RICE O ORMNECTOR 80/WARNER BROS CDI A STATIC LULLABY COLUMBIA 9/SONY MUSIC.98 EU CD) Fas Latid KURT CARR PROJECT One Church GOSPO CENTRIC 008 ZOMBA (.98 CD) BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm VICE/DIM MAK 98' /ATLANTIC (.98 CD) b - VICENTE FERNANDEZ Mis Crrids Cnsentids SONY DISCOS 9 (.98 EU CD) R " _ - - i I: - ái - FANTOMAS IPECAC 8.98 CDI Suspended Animatin JEFF BATES Rainbw Man RCA NASHVILLE 0 /RLG.98/.98 8 ANA BARBARA/JENNIFER PENA Cnfesines FONOVISA 9/ÚG.98 CDI CELTIC WOMAN Celtic Wman MANHATTAN CO) FISCHERSPOONER CAPITOL 989V (8.98 CD) Odyssey 9 0 HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS The Silence In Black And White VICTORY 0.98 CDI RISE AGAINST Siren Sng Of The Cunter Culture GEFFEN 00 9 /INTERSCOPE 9.98 CD) 0 8 LOUIS XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept PINEAPPLE/ATLANTIC 98/AG (.98 CDI THE BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC BOX ORCHESTRA Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics BUENA VISTA 808/WALT DISNEY.98 CD) AMOS LEE Ams Lee BLUE NOTE CD) DECEMBERISTS Picaresque ea KILL ROCK STARS 0.98 CD) LALAH HATHAWAY MESA BLUEMOON 009 /PYRAMID 8.98 CD) D$ GREATEST GAINE S -- MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR MALACO /.98) Outrun The Sky Nt By Might, Nr By Pwer 0 8 THE ARCADE FIRE Funeral MERGE V.98 CD) 0 MUSE Abslutin TASTE MEDIA B/WARNER BROS..98 CDI ZOEGIRL Rm T Breathe SPARROW 9.98 CD) M.I.A. Arular XL 8*.98 CD) COPELAND In Mtin THE MILITIA GROUP CD) as i - SUPERCHIC[K] Beauty Frm Pain INPOP 9.98 CDI ED NATALIE GRANT Awaken CURB CDI NB RIDAZ nb ridaz.cm NASTYBOY 00/UPSTAIRS.98 CDI 8 8 SHOOTER JENNINGS Put The O Back In Cuntry UNIVERSAL SOUTH 008' 98 CD) RAY LAMONTAGNE Truble RCA9/RMG 8 CD) PHILLIPS, CRAIG AND DEAN INO /EPIC 989 /SONY MUSIC 98 ED CO) Let The Wrshippers Arise 9 MARC BROUSSARD Carencr ISLAND 0098/0JMG (9.98 CO) J MOSS The J Mss Prject GOSPO CENTRIC 008/ZOMBA (.98 CD) 0 - TEGAN AND SARA S Jealus VAPOR 890/SANCTUARY.98 CDI - JEM Finally Wken ATO 9.98 CO) 9 0 SCISSOR SISTERS Scissr Sisters UNIVERSAL 00' /UMRG 98 CDI Sib THE JOHN BUTLER TRIO Sunrise Over Sea i LAVA 980/AG (.98 CD) ` MICAH STAMPLEY The Sngbk Of Micah DEXTERITY SOUNDS 9/EMI GOSPEL.98 CDI BRITISH SEA POWER Open Seasn ROUGH TRADE 00V.98 CD) 9 8 UNDEROATH They're Only Chasing Safety SOLID STATE 88/TOOTH & NAIL.98 CDI. S THE BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC BOX ORCHESTRA BUENA VISTA 8//WALT DISNEY (98 CD) SHEKINAH GLORY MINISTRY KINGDOM 0 /BOOKWORLD (.98/.98) Baby Einstein: Playtime Music Bx Live 9 9 PURPLE CITY Rad T The RicheS: The Best Of The Purple City Mixtapes BABYGRANDE 0 (.98 CO) 0 ARMOR FOR SLEEP What T D When Yu Are Dead EQUAL VISION 0 98 CD) >' STEREOPHONICS Language. Sex. Vilence. Other? V.98 CDI SUBMERSED WIND-UP 0 (.98 CDI In Due Time ISRAEL AND NEW BREED Live Frm Anther Level INTEGRITY GOSPEL/EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC 8.98 EG CD) 8 8 TRIVIUM Ascendancy ROADRUNNER 8/IDJM.98 CD) I á` - THE EXIES Head Fr The Dr ULTIMATUM /MELISMA 98NIRGIN.98 CD) GRUPO EXTERMINADOR El Hij De Mexic FONOVISA 9/UG.98 CDI 0 - NU Issues T.U.G. 8/VIRGIN.98 CD) WSA APRIL u w g B;,kd a,ri TOP Sales data cmpiled by Nielsen SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL NUMBED LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ A' BME90'/TVT (.98/.98) ALBUMS TM Title 0 Weeks AtNumbert Crunk Juice. VARIOUS ARTISTS Chsen Few: El Dcumental CHOSEN FEW EMERALD 0/URBAN BOX OFFICE 9.98 CD /DVD) C- MURDER The Truest $ #!@ I Ever Said TRU 9900/KOCH (.98 CD) - THE GAME West Cast Resurrectin GET LOW 0 (.98 CD) 8 CRAIG MORGAN My Kind Of Livin' BROKEN BOW.98 CDI BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Mafia ARTEMIS 80 (.98 CD) 9 BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY Greatest Hits RUTHLESS 8.98 CDI JIMMY BUFFETT Live In Hawaii MAILBOAT CO /DVDI BRIGHT EYES I'm Wide Awake, It's Mrning SADDLE CREEK 00. (.98 CO) 0 BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm VICE/DIM MAK 98' /ATLANTIC.98 CD) [N] -..i ADEMA EARACHE 9.98 CD) FANTOMAS IPECAC 8.98 C0[8 HOT SHOT DEBI. Planets Suspended Animatin 0 PITBULL M.I.A.M.I. (Mney Is A Majr Issue) DIAZ BROTHERS 0/VT III 98/8.98) HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS The Silence In Black And White VICTORY 0 (.98 CD) [N] SOUNDTRACK Naplen Dynamite LAKESHORE CDI 8 0 BRIGHT EYES Digital Ash In A Digital Urn SADDLE CREEK 00' 98 CDI 9 DECEMBERISTS Picaresque KILL ROCK STARS 0.98 CD) [MI $ GREATEST GAINER =S. MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR MALACO /.98 [N] Nt By Might, Nr By Pwer THE ARCADE FIRE Funeral MERGE..98 CDI [N] VARIOUS ARTISTS The Surce Presents Hip -Hp Hits Vlume 9 SOURCE /IMAGE (8.98 CD) 9 STRAYLIGHT RUN Straylight Run VICTORY 9 (.98 CO) 8 M.I.A. Arular XL CO) INTERPOL Antics MATADOR..98 CD) THIEVERY CORPORATION Csmic Game EIGHTEENTH STREET LOUNGE 008.% CD) 0 8 COPELAND In Mtin THE MILITIA GROUP CD) [N] YING YANG TWINS My Brther & Me COLLIPARK 89/TVT /DVDI.98 CD VARIOUS ARTISTS Atticus: Dragging The Lake SIOEONEDUMMY (8.98 CDI 0 I. 0 NB RIDAZ nb ridaz.cm NASTYBOY 00/UPSTAIRS (.98 CD) IN] 9 9 TAKING BACK SUNDAY Where Yu Want T Be VICTORY 8.98 CDI 9 - MITCH HEDBERG Mitch All Tgether COMEDY CENTRAL CO /DVDI IM] THE CRYSTAL METHOD Cmmunity Service ULTRA I8' (98 CDI BRITISH SEA POWER ROUGH TRADE 00V 98 CDI [N] Open Seasn LAYZIE BONE AND BIZZY BONE Bne Brthers MO THUGS/TH SIGN 9 /KOCH (98 CD) PASTOR TROY Face Off Pt. II THE MONEY AND POWER 800 (.98 CDI 0 SHADOWS FALL The War Within CENTURY MEDIA CD) SHEKINAH GLORY MINISTRY Live KINGDOM 0 /BOOKW ORLD.98/.98 [N] PURPLE CITY Rad T The RicheS: The Best Of The Purple City Mixtapes BABYGRANDE 0.% COI [NI CO - THE SHINS Chutes T Narrw SUB POP 0 (.98 CD) TECH N9NE Vintage Tech STRANGE 0/MSC.98 CDI ARMOR FOR SLEEP What T D When Yu Are Dead EQUAL VISION 0.98 CDI [M] LOUIE DEVITO Trance Sessins II 00/MUSICRAMA DEE VEE.98 CD) IRON AND WINE Wman King (EP) SUB POP CDI [M] FALL OUT BOY Take This T Yur Grave FUELED BY RAMEN 0 /98 CDI [N] RAVIN & DAVID VISAN GEORGE V CDI Buddha -Bar VII SPITALFIELD Stp Ding Bad Things VICTORY.98 CD [N] GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE SAINTS UNIFIED VOICES One Vice MANY ROADS 000 (.98 CD) THE RIDDLER & VIC LATINO Ultra.Dance 0 ULTRA 9 (9.98 CD) LIL' FLIP /Z -RO PAYDAY 0 (.98 CD) Kings Of The Suth Mixtape 0 - ATREYU The Curse VICTORY 8 (.98 CD) - GEORGE DUKE Duke BIZARREPLANET 0/BPM (.98 CD /DVDI Gavin albums are - year -ld titles that have fallen belw N. 00 n The Billbard 00 r re- issues f lder albums..fcal Weeks clumn refiec s cmbined weeks tree has appeared n The Billbard 00 and Tp Pp Catalg Albums. The Heatseekers chart lists the best- selling albums by new and develping artists, defined as thse wh have never appeared in the tp CO f The Billbard 00. If a Heatseekers title reaches that level, it and the act's subsequent albums are immediately ne Bible appear n the Heatseekers chart Tp Independent Albums are current titles that are sld fia independent distnbutin, including thse that are fulfilled via majr branch distributrs. Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units (Gld). RIM certificatin fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's multi -platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and uble albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the nimber f discs and / tapes. RIAA Latin awards: Certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or). Certificatin, 00,000 units IPlatinl. 0' Certificatin f 00,000 units ( Multi- Platin). "Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CD prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EO, and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which am prjected frm whlesale prices. Greatest Gainer Shws chart's largest unit increase. [0[] indicates pastr present Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD APRIL,

52 I O - - _- - NUMBER ALBUMSM t Billbard TOP BLUES ALBUMS Sales data cmpiled by tl. Nielsen NUMBER =e ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL B.B. KING GEFFEN /CHRONICLES 008 /UME GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS CAPITOL 980 SONNY LANDRETH SUGAR HILL 99 AEROSMITH COLUMBIA 80` /SONY MUSIC TOMMY CASTRO BLIND PIG 09 ERIC CLAPTON Q WILLIE CLAYTON DUCK/REPRISE 89/WARNER BROS. END ZONE 08 B ERIC CLAPTON DUCK/REPRISE 8./WARNER 9 0 SUSAN TEDESCHI NEW WEST 0 O 8 TAB BENOIT TELARC BLUES 8/TELARC BROS. ' 9 RONNIE EARL/DUKE ROBILLARD STONY PLAIN 0 JACKIE NEAL JAllY 9 - MARVIN SEASE MALACO 8 " VARIOUS ARTISTS MADACY 099 HUBERT SUMLIN li - - A ZOIÓ W S TONE -COOL 09 /ARTEMIS SundScan Title Weeks At Number l The Ultimate Cllectin Greatest Hits: 0 Years Of Rck Grant Street Hnkin' On Bb Sul Shaker Sessins Fr Rbert J Full Circle Me And Mr Jhnsn Live Frm Austin TX Fever Fr The Bayu The Duke Meets The Earl Bilba TOP GGÂE ALB ' Sales data cmpiled by ARTIST IMPRINT& NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL VARIOUS ARTISTS CHOSEN FEW EMERALD 0 /URBAN BOX OFFICE = LUNYTUNES & BABY RANKS MAS FLOW 000 /UNIVERSAL LATINO á VARIOUS ARTISTS VI 0 DADDY YANKEE VI00 DON OMAR VI 08 [N] VARIOUS ARTISTS MAS FLOW /MACHETE 9000 /UNIVERSAL LATINO 8 DON OMAR VI 08 [N] 9 SOUNDTRACK MAVERICK 8/WARNER BROS. '9 l0 SKINDRED BIELER BROSJLAVA 90/AG [N] 0 ELIEL VI 0 [N] LUNYTUNES MAS FLOW 8000 /UNIVERSAL LATINO [N] - T VARIOUS ARTISTS NEW RECORDS 00 /UNIVERSAL LATINO BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS TUFF GONG /ISLAND/CHRONICLES 0008 /UME LUNYTUNES MAS FLOW 0008 /UNIVERSAL LATINO [N] APRIL VARIOUS ARTISTS NIVISITN 0/ÚG Nielsen SundScan Dwn In Da Club Playa Haters Best Of Blues: 0 Hits Abut Them Shes Title -`'r' NUMBER "N;- 0 Weeks At Number Chsen Few: El Dcumental Mas Flw The Hitmakers Of Reggaetn Ahra Le Tca Al Cangri! Live The Last Dn Reggaetn Club Anthems The Last Dn: Live, Vl. 0 First Dates Babyln El Que Habla Cn Las Mans La Trayectria Reggaetn Super Hits Gld Mas Flw: Platinum Editin Ls Patrnes Del Reggaetn 00,`a'A'LibI ill us "; Sales data cmpiled by a ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CELTIC WOMAN MANHATTAN0 [N] A Nielsen SundScan Title =t '' NUMBER : Weeks At Number l Celtic Wman ; RONAN TYNAN Rnan i DECCA 008/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumay Presents: Acustic Brazil PUTUMAYO SOUNDTRACK The Mtrcycle Diaries EDGE/DG 009 /UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP DANIEL O'DONNELL Welcme T My Wrld: 0 Classics Frm The Jim Reeves Sng Bk DPTV MEDIA 0 [N] CARLA BRUNI Quelqu'un M'a Dit V VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumay Presents Afr -Latin Party PUTUMAYO LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO AND THE STRINGS OF THE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA GALLO 09/HEADS UP N Bundaries 8 DANIEL O'DONNELL Sngs Of Faith OPTV MEDIA [N] 9 SOUNDTRACK The Chrus NONESUCH /WARNER BROS. HAPA FINN 00 Maui DANIEL O'DONNELL Classic Dubles: Sngs Of Inspiratin / I Believe OP TV MEDIA 0 0 THE CHIEFTAINS Live Frm Dublin: A Tribute T Derek Bell RCA VICTOR VARIOUS ARTISTS Slack Key Guitar Vlume PALM 0 PARIS COMBO 0ßG88 /KOCH Mtifs A pi&l) e, i E/ W c a Bilbad TOP CHRISTIAN ALBUMS TM Sales data cmpiled by Nielsen SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL /HOT SHOT DEBUT t' VARIOUS ARTISTS PROVIDENT/WRRO- CURB /EMICMG 09 /PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY Title Week At Number WOW ffls JARS OF CLAY ESSENTIAL 08 /PROVIDENT -INTEGRITY Redemptin Sngs VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD- CURB /PROVIDENT 0/EMICMG WOW Hits 00 SWITCHFOOT A' COLUMBIA/SPARROW 9/EMICMG The Beautiful Letdwn CASTING CROWNS BEACH STREET /REUNION 0/PROVIDENT INTEGRITY an Casting Crwns - MAE TOOTH & NAIL9 /EMICMG The Everglw 8 8 KUTLESS BEC9/EMICMG Strng Twer 0 9 CHRIS TOMLIN SIXSTEPS /SPARROW /EMICMG Arriving $= GREATEST GAINER $ RONAN TYNAN OECCA008 /EMICMG Rnan 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS INO/TIME LIFE 9/PROVIDENT INTEGRITY I Can Only Imagine VARIOUS ARTISTS LIBERTY 08/EMICMG Mre Than 0 Mst Lved Hymns 9 JEREMY CAMP BEC8/EMICMG Restred MERCYME ISO 89/PROVIDENT-INTEGRITY Undne RELIENT K GOTEE/CAPITOL9/EMICMG MMHMM ZOEGIRL SPARROW 9 /EMICMG [N] Rm T Breathe 'LS a{ - SUPERCHICIK] INPOP 9 /EMICMG [N] Beauty Frm Pain NATALIE GRANT CURB880/WORD -CURB [NI Awaken 9 SMOKIE NORFUL EMI GOSPEL 9/EMICMG Nthing Withut Yu? 8 - VARIOUS ARTISTS BEG9/EMICMG X 00: Christian Rck Hits '} 0 TOBYMAC FOREFRONT /EMICMG Welcme T Diverse City,. PHILLIPS, CRAIG AND DEAN INO8OI /PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY [N] Let The Wrshippers Arise. 0 J MOSS GOSPO CENTRIC 008 /PROVIOENTINTEGRITY [N] The J Mss Prject MICHAEL W. SMITH REUNION 00 /PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY Healing Rain 8 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN SPARROW 89 /EMICMG All Things New UNDEROATH SOLID STATE/TOOTH & NAIL8 /EMICMG [N] They're Only Chasing Safety ISRAEL AND NEW BREED INTEGRITY GOSPEL89 /PROVIDENT INTEGRITY IN] Live Frm Anther Level 9 9 BEBE WINANS STILL WATERS,TMG99NVORD -CURB Dream BILL & GLORIA GAITHER AND THEIR HOMECOMING FRIENDS GAITHER MUSIC GROUP 08/EMICMG Jerusalem.? BILL & GLORIA GAITHER AND THEIR HOMECOMING FRIENDS GAITHER MUSIC SROUPO9/EMICMS Israel Hmecming 0 NORMA JEAN SOLID STATE/TOOTH & NAIL9/EMICMG O' Gd, The Aftermath KRISTEN CHENOWETH SONY CLASSICAL/INTEGRITY 89/PROVIDENT INTEGRITY As I Am POINT OF GRACE WORD- CURB/WARNERBROS 8/WORO -CURB I Chse Yu 8 VARIOUS ARTISTS INTEGRITY /MARANATHAJIN089/PROVIDENT- INTEGRITY Integrity's iwrsh!p Next: ATtal Wrship Experience I ELVIS PRESLEY RCA 88/SONY BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP Elvis: Ultimate Gspel 8 PAUL WILBUR HOSANNA, 80/PROVIDENT INTEGRITY The Watchman - OUT OF EDEN GOTEE9/EMICMG Htmns MARTHA MUNIZZI MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 [N] The Best lsyett Cme THE AFTERS INO /EPIC 98 /PROVIDENT INTEGRITY [N] I Wish We All Culd Win 9 0 NEWSBOYS SPARROW /EMICMG Devtin SELAH CURB88/WORD CURB Hiding Place yr W i= e c' a " - Bilband TOP GOSPEL Sales data cmpiled by eil Nielsen SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL e' NUMBER /GREATEST GAINER 'ti; - Week At Number DONNIE MCCLURKIN VERITY /ZOMBA Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Sngs VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD- CURB /EMICMGNERITY/ZOMBA WOW Gspel 00 KURT CARR PROJECT GOSPO CENTRIC 008/ZOMBA [N] One Church MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR MALACO0 [N] Nt By Might, Nr By Pwer SMOKIE NORFUL EMI GOSPEL 9 Nthing Withut Yu e J MOSS GOSPO CENTRIC 008/ZOMBA [N] The J Mss Prject - MICAH STAMPLEY DEXTERITY SOUNDS 9/EMI GOSPEL [N] The Sngbk Of Micah E r RUBEN STUDDARD J /RMG I Need An Angel SHEKINAH GLORY MINISTRY KINGDOM 0 /BOOKWORLD [N] Live 8 9 ISRAEL AND NEW BREED INTEGRITY GOSPEUEPIC 9/SONY MUSIC [NI Live Frm Anther Level 8 BEBE WINANS STILLWATERS/TMG 90/SONY MUSIC Dream HOT SHOT DEBUT.: ANOINTED COLUMBIA /INTEGRITY GOSPEL 9099/SONY MUSIC Nw Is The Time ` GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE SAINTS UNIFIED VOICES MANY ROADS 000 One Vice. 9 0 MARTHA MUNIZZI MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 [N] The Best Is Yet T Cme 0 THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA REAL WORLD98 Atm Bmb S VARIOUS ARTISTS INTEGRITY GOSPEUGOSPO CENTRIC 00/ZOMBA Gtta Have Gspel! Vl. Fi LASHUN PACE EMI GOSPEL 8 [NI Its My Time 8 DONALD LAWRENCE & CO. VERITY 8/ZOMBA [N] I Speak Life ; CECE WINANS PURESPRINGBGOSPEUIN090 /SONYMUSIC Thrne Rm ) KIERRA KIKI SHEARD EMI GOSPEL 90 [NI I Owe Yu 9 8 FRED HAMMOND VERITY /JIVE8/ZOMBA Smethin "But Lve. rie. 0 TYE TRIBBETT & G.A. INTEGRITY GOSPEUCOLUMOIA 909 /SONY MUSIC [N] Life VICKIE WINANS VERITY /ZOMBA [N] Bringing It Tgether THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS BLACKBERRY /MALACO Still Here VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD /EMICMGNERITY 9/ZOMBA WOW Gspel 00 I.( IER VASHAWN MITCHELL TYSCOTTTASEIS Believe In Yur Dreams 0 BEN HARPER AND THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA VIRGIN 0' There Will Be A Light DEITRICK HADDON TYSCOTNERITY 98/ZOMBA [N] Crssrads 8 BRIDGJETTE TAYLOR ABLIFE000 Bridgjette Taylr 9 TONEX & THE PECULIAR PEOPLE VERITY /JIVE/ZOMBA Out The Bx 9 SOUNDTRACK MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA 908/SONY MUSIC The Fighting Temptatins 9 NICOLE C. MULLEN WORD-CURB 8/WARNERBROS. [N] Everyday Peple THE GOSPEL MIRACLES AMEN0 Break Thrugh t 8 BISHOP PAUL S. MORTON & THE FGBCF MASS CHOIR TEHILLAH /LIGHT9 /COMPENDIA [N] Let It Rain 0 THE RANCE ALLEN GROUP TYscTGrrasus The Live Experience. all e VARIOUS ARTISTS DEXTERITY SOUNDS 9/EMI GOSPEL Bishp T.D. Jakes Presents: He- Mtins LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO AND THE STRINGS OF THE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA GALLO 09/HEADS UP N Bundaries 0 EXCELSIOR VITAL SOUND 8 The Prmise ; VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD CURB 80/WARNER BROS. All Star Gspel Hits Vlume : Praise & Wrship VICKI YOHE PURESPRINGS GOSPEL 80/EMI GOSPEL [N] I Just Want Yu Title. with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 alnum units (Gld). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd / Indicates album's multi -platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre, the RIAA multiplixs shipments by the number f discs and /r tapes. 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53 '_ Billbard SINGLES AND TRACKS SONG INDEX... Chart Cdes: C (Ht Cuntry' Singles); Hi f w Sing es); LT (Rt Latin rráck 'slnd R H Ht `: Et "Hpitlp `iîig es TITLE ( Publisher - Licensing Org.) Sheet Music pi. CI 'it PQ,'tin,,,, STEP (Ryalty Rightings, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music lt, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane, BMI /Bubba Gee, BMI /Nntime Tunes, BMI /Mass Cnfusin, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP), WBM, Hi 9; RBH 9 t THING (Mi Suk, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Dam Rich, BMI /EMI U Catalg, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Hi 8; RBH TH OF JULY (Universal, ASCAP /Faster N Harder Music, ASCAP), HL, CS 9 -A- ADIOS AMOR TE VAS (BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Alma, BMI) LT9 AGAIN (Chyna Baby, BMI /Universal, ASCAP /Tetragrammatn, ASCAP /Nivrac Tyke, ASCAP /Jesse )aye, ASCAP /Reach Glbal, ASCAP /The Rbinsn Music Grup, BMI /9 Black Music, BMI), HL, H00 ; RBH 9 AIRE (Ser -Ca, BMI) LT ALABAMA (ShanCan, BMI) CS 9 ALGO ESTA CAMBIANDO (Llein, BMI /Dble Acuarela Sngs, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI) LT8 ALGO MAS (EMI April, ASCAP) LT ALL BECAUSE OF YOU (Liesse's First Brn Music, BMI /Peer, BMI /Wilkinsn Ave., BMI /Peer, ASCAP /MilYrk City Music, ASCAP /Jerme Jnes, SESAC /Ntting Hill Sngs, SESAC /Yung Fian, SESAC /AIT Blac Muzik, ASCAP), HL, RBH 8 ALMA EN LIBERTAD (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Perez St, BMI) LT ALMOST (Zmba, ASCAP / Drp Yur Pants, ASCAP /Sntrack, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI), HL /WBM, H AMOR DEL BUENO (Mnster Music, ASCAP) LT ANYTHING BUT MINE (Gravitrn, SESAC /Carnival Music, SESAC) CS i; H8 ASAP (Dmani And Ya Majesty's Music, ASCAP /Dwn Hlmes Publishing, BMI) RBH EL AUTOBUS (Edimusa, ASCAP /Fat, ASCAP /Vander America, BMI) LT -B- BABY O. Brasc, ASCAP / Desert Strm, BMI /Big Tank Music, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP /D. Thrntn, ASCAP /Black Bull, ASCAP /lbete, ASCAP /Dll Face, BMI /Big Pppa, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Bvina, ASCAP /N Questin Ent., ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP), HL, RBH BABY DOLL (Greenhrse, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /U Rule Music, ASACP /EMI April, ASCAP), HL, CS BABY GIRL (Dirkpit, BMI /GreaterGd, ASCAP /lennifer Nettles, ASCAP /Telegrammusic, ASCAP) CS ; Hi BABY I'M BACK (Nka Internatinal Music, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /Latin Velvet, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI), HL, Hi ; RBH 8 BABY MAMA (Uncle Bbby's Music, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /MO GT, BMI /MS 80, BMI /Unichappell, BMI), HL /WBM, H009; RBH BANDOLERO (Mia Mussa, ASCAP) LT 8 BEAUTIFUL SOUL (Dying Eg, ASCAP/Ddd, ASCAP) H BEHIND THESE HAZEL EYES (Smelly Sngs, ASCAP /Maratne, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /Kasz Mney Publishing, ASCAP), HL, Hi 8 BESO A BESO (Glden Huina, ASCAP) LT BEVERLY HILLS (E.O. Smith, BMI) Hi BE YOURSELF (Disappearing One, ASCAP /LBV Sngs, BMI /Melee Savvy Music, BMI /Me, BMI), WBM, M Blackwd, BMI/Ptty Muth, BMI /Rund d BMI), WBM, CS BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD (Careers -BMG, BMI /Flyd's Dream, BMI /Jeff Diggs, BMI /Bug, BMI), HL, CS ; Hi BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS (WB, ASCAP /Green Daze, ASCAP), WBM, Hi BREAKAWAY (Friends Of Seagulls, ASCAP /Five Card, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /G Matt, ASCAP /Alm, ASCAP /Avril Lavigne, SOCAN), HL /WBM, Hi 8 BRING EM OUT (Carter Bys, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI /Dmani And Ya Majesty's Music, ASCAP /Swizz Beatz, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH 9 BRING ME DOWN (Sny /ATV Tree, BMI /WHATSKI Music, ASCAP /Quit Pickin'At It Music, ASCAP), HL, CS B.Y.O.B. (Sny /ATV Tunes, ASCAP /Ddevil, ASCAP), HL, Ht -C- CANDY SHOP (Sctt Strch, ASCAP /Trill Prductins, ASCAP / Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL, Hi ; RBH CANT SATISFY HER (Lyal Sldiers, ASCAP /Jam One, ASCAP) RBH CATER U (Sny /ATV Tunes, ASCAP /Beynce, ASCAP /Kelendria, ASCAP /Michelle MW, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Rdney Jerkins, BMI /Ntting Dale, ASCAP /Black Owned Musik, ASCAP /Ric Rude, ASCAP), HL, RBH CAUGHT UP (Dirty Dre, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Duble Oh Eight, ASCAP /PhBZ, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Pladis, ASCAP), HL, Hi 8; RBH CAUGHT UP (Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Slavery, BMI /Family Bizness Muzik, BMI /DI Irv, BMI /Kam Kam's Music, BMI), HL, RBH 90 CHARIOT (G. DeGraw Music, BMI /Warner-Tamerlane, BMO, WBM, Hi 9 CITY BOY WIT' IT (Neggy Neg Publishing, ASCAP) RBH 8 CLASS REUNION (THAT USED TO BE US) (Sny/AN Tree, BMI /Sixteen Stars, BMI /HriPr, BMI /Super ID, ASCAP /Tp Mule, ASCAP /Sassy Mule, ASCAP /Dn Pfrimmer, ASCAP /The Lving Cmpany, ASCAP /Wixen, ASCAP), HL, CS 8 COLLIDE (HKD Music, BMI /Warner-Tamerlane, BMI /Tentative, BMI), WBM, Hi COMO PUDISTE (EMI April, ASCAP /Gunhill Rad, ASCAP /Perez St, BMI /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI) LT CONTRA VIENTOS Y MAREAS (WB, ASCAP /Muziekuitgeveris Artemis BV, BMI) LT CONVERSATION (Mney Mack, BMI) RBH t THE CORNER (Universal Sngwrks, BMI /Senseless, BMI /Please Gimme My Publishing, BMI /Getting Out Our Dreams, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Be Bp Or Be Dead Music, ASCAP /Tunes By Dune, ASCAP), HL, RBH COUNTRY BOY (GG&L, ASCAP) RBH 98 -D- DAME ESTA NOCHE (Ventura, ASCAP/Sny/ATV Discs, ASCAP) LT DEM BOYZ (Regina's Sn, ASCAP /Diehamar Music, ASCAP /Jeezy Music, BMI /Flywid lt, BMI /Griffin Ga. Finest, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP) RBH DISCO INFERNO ( Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /, ASCAP) Hi ; RBH DONT. (Universal-Sngs Of PlyGram Internatinal, BMI /Ln Ech, BMI /Out Of Pcket, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP), HL /WBM, CS DONT ASK ME HOW I KNOW (Msaic Music, BMI /Bbby's Sng And Salvage, BMI /Bill Butler, BMI /InesBne Music, ASCAP /Tier Three Music, ASCAP) CS DONT CHA (Gd Given, BMI) RBH 9 DON'T PHUNK WITH MY HEART (Careers -BMG, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI /will.i.am, BMI /Cherry River, BMI /Printz Plr, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /El Cuban Music, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI), HL /WBM, Hi 9 DONT STOP (Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Shakur Al -Din, ASCAP /The Waters Of Nazareth, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Pressure Music, ASCAP), HL, RBH 9 DONT WORRY'BOUTATHING (Emert, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP), WBM, CS 9 DOWN AND OUT (Kills Cam, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /EMI Lngitude, BMI /Please Gimme My Publishing, BMI), HL, RBH DREAM BIG (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI), WBM, CS DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT (My Own Chit, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /The Waters Of Nazareth, BMI /Careers -BMG, BMI /Raynchaser, BMI), HL, Hu; RBH DRUGS OR JESUS (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Onaly, BMI /Careers -BMG, BMI /Silverkiss, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Sngs Frm The Engine Rm, BMI /Nashville DreamWrks Sngs, ASCAP /Mnkey Feet, ASCAP /Cherry Lane, ASCAP), CLM /HL /WBM, CS ; H 9 -E- EN EL MISMO TREN (Crisma, SESAC) LT ENSENAME A VIVIR SIN TI (SADAIC Latin, ASCAP /Alndra, ASCAP /Sngs Of Peer, ASCAP) LT EN SOLEDAD (F.I.P.P., BMI) LT E -PRO (Plastic Ksms Music, ASCAP /Dust Brthers, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Brklyn Dust, ASCAP /Universal- PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, Hi 8 ERES DIVINA (BMG Sngs, ASCAP) LT 8 ERRTIME (Jackie Frst,ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Publishing Designee, BMI /Bubba Gee, BMI /Nntime Tunes, BMI /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI/Ishmt Music, BMI), HL /WBM, RBH ESTA AUSENCIA (Kike Santander, BMI) LT ESTA LLORANDO MI CORAZON (Edimnsa, ASCAP) LT EVERYDAY LOVE (Blaman's Talking -Drum Publishing, ASCAP) RBH 89 EVERYTIME YOU GO AWAY (Cancelled Lunch, ASCAP /Universal -PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, RBH -F- FAST CARS AND FREEDOM (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Onaly, BMI /Majr Bb, ASCAP /Sweet Summer, ASCAP /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI /Lexi's Palm Tree Music, BMI), HL /WBM, CS FEEL IT IN THE AIR (Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Shakur Al -Din, ASCAP /Cpyright Cntrl) RBH FOREVER, FOR ALWAYS, FOR LOVE (EMI April, ASCAP /Uncle Rnnie's, ASCAP /Barry Platnick, ASCAP), HL, RBH FREE YOURSELF (Mass Cnfusin, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /CraigMan, ASCAP /DreamWrks Sngs, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Nisan's Music, ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH -G- GET EM UP (The Sundatin, BMI /Mak -V, BMI /Carls Glver, BMI /Lewis And Smith, BMI /Lil In 00 Music, BMI /TVT, BMI /White Rhin, BMI) RBH 9 GETRIGHT(Dam Rich, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Unichappell, BMO, HL /WBM, Hi 8; RBH GHETTO (Nka Internatinal Music, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP), HL, RBH GIRL (Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP / Beynce, ASCAP /Helendria, ASCAP /Michelle MW, ASCAP /It's A Wnderful Wrld Music, BMI /Christpher Garrett, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /EMI Full Keel, ASCAP /EMI Lngitude, BMI /Angela Beyince,ASCAP), H Hi 0; RBH GIRLFIGHT (Kakeni Music, ASCAP /Beats Me, ASCAP / Lilln 00 Music, BMI /White Rhin, BMI /Sngs Of Peer, BMI /Marchninth,ASCAP /Gnat Bty, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP), HL, Hi ; RBH GIVE ME THAT (Nt Listed) RBH GOD'S WILL (Sny /ATV Tree, BMI /BMG Sngs, ASCAP), HL, CS ; Hi 88 GOIN' CRAZY (Natbgie Publishing, ASCAP /Latins Gin' Platinum, BMI /Bttz Wrld, ASCAP) Him z GONE ( Gttahaveable, BMI /Lve Mnkey, BMI /Sngs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI /Sny /AN Tree, BMI), HL, CS ; Hi GOODBYE TIME (Sny /ATV Tree, BMI) CS THE GOOD LIFE (EMI April, ASCAP /Sea Gayle, ASCAP /Msaic Music, BMI), HL, CS GOTTA GO GOTTA LEAVE (TIRED) (Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP /VSG Tunes, ASCAP /lunebugspade, ASCAP), HL, RBH GOTTA MAKE IT (April's By Music, BMI /Kharatry, ASCAP /Uncle Bbby's Music, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Kim Hglund Publishing Designee, ASCAP /Mighty Three, ASCAP /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Staying High Music,ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH 9 GRIND WITH ME (Blue Star Publishing, BMI /Black By Hatchet, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMO, HL, Hi ; RBH GUESS WHO LOVES YOU MORE (Zmba, ASCAP /Ahmad's Wrld, ASCAP /K -Dpe Music, ASCAP /Unichappell, BMI), WBM, RBH GUTTA LIVIN (Blaman's Talking -Drum Publishing, ASCAP) RBH 9 -H- THE HAND THAT FEEDS (Leaving Hme, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP) Hi HATE IT OR LOVE IT (BlackWallStreet, BMI /EachlTeachi, ASCAP / Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Dade C. Prject Music, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMO, HL /WBM, Hi ; RBH HELP SOMEBODY (Careers -BMG, BMI /Gttahaveable, BMI /Sngs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI) CS HICKTOWN (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Big Lve, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /Carl Vincent And Assciates, BMQ, WBM, CS HILLBILLIES (Gypsy Outfit, ASCAP /Sul Of Eve Music, ASCAP /Wrld Of Grve Music, ASCAP /Haber Crpratin, BMI) CS 8 HOLD YOU DOWN (Sny /AN Sngs, BMI /Cri Tiffani, BMI /Gregry Christpher Publishing Deisgnee, ASCAP /Gregry Brun's, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP /Adrable Sngs Cllectin, ASCAP /Wamer- Tamerlane, BMI /Jey & Ryan Music, BMI /Sngs Of Lastrada, BMI /Saja, BMI), HL /WBM, Hi HOLIDAY (WB, ASCAP /Green Daze, ASCAP), WBM, H 8 HOLLABACK GIRL (Harajuka Lber Music, ASCAP /The Waters Of Nazareth, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /BMG- Careers, BMI /Raynchaser, BMI), HL, Hi t HOMEWRECKER (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Hsiermama Music, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Memphersf-ield, ASCAP /Huse Of Full Circle. BMI), H CS ; Hi HONKYTONK U (Tkec Tunes, BMI) CS 9; Hi HOPE (Stayin High Music, ASCAP /China White, ASCAP /Gd Given, BMI /Alm,ASCAP), HL, RBH HOW COULD YOU (First Avenue, ASCAP/BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Demis Ht Sngs, ASCAP /Edmnds, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /Underdgs Sngs, BMI /Irving, BMI /E D Duz It, BMI /Antni Dixn's Muzik, ASCAP /Jhnnie Law Music, BMI /Famus, ASCAP), HL, Hi 9; RBH HOW DO YOU GET THAT LONELY (Black In The Saddle, ASCAP /Giantslayer, ASCAP /Murrah, BMO, WBM, CS 9; Hi 9 HOW WE DO ( Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /J. Taylr Fr BlackWallStreet, ASCAP /EachlTeachl, ASCAP /Ain't Nuthin' Gin' On But Funking, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /Elvis Mamb, ASCAP /Bltter, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Hi ; RBH HOY COMO AYER (Maxim Aguirre, BMI) LT HYPNOTIC (Zmba Sngs, BMI /R.Kelly, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /N Questin Ent., ASCAP /J. Brasc, ASCAP /Desert Strm, BMI), HL /WBM, RBH 8 -I- I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU (Kemmunity, BMI) RBH 0 ICY (Furline, BMI) RBH I DON'T WANT TO BE (G. DeGraw Music, BMI /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI), WBM, Hi 9 IF HEAVEN (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Purple Crayn, ASCAP), HL, CS 8; [Im IF SHE WERE ANY OTHER WOMAN (Sny /AN Tree, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /Didn't Have T Be, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /Platinum Plw, ASCAP), WBM, CS IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN (EMI April, ASCAP /Sea Gayle, ASCAP /Atlantic Bridge, BMI /Msaic Music, BMI), HL, CS (I JUST WANT IT) TO BE OVER (Bk Of Daniel, ASCAP /Lellw, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /She Wrte It, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP) RBH 8 I'LL TAKE THAT ASAYES (THE HOT TUB SONG) (Sngs Of Mighty Isis Music, BMI /Vista Larga Music, BMI /Sefir Vicente Music, BMI /Haber Crpratin, BMI) CS 0 I'M A HUSTLA (Larsiny, ASCAP /Swizz Beatz, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Carter Bys, ASCAP /Virginia Beach, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Hi ; RBH I MAY HATE MYSELF IN THE MORNING (Cal IV, ASCAP) Hi 98 INCOMPLETE (Wrd, ASCAP /Glm Music, ASCAP /Universal -PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP /Angelu, ASCAP /Right Bank, ASCAP /My Getaway Driver, ASCAP), HL, Hi INCREDIBLE FEELIN' (Slim Thug, BMI /Bubba Gee, BMI /Nntime Tunes, BMI /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI /Ishm IN THE KITCHEN (Zmba Sngs, BMI / R.Kelly, BMI), WBM, Hi 9; RBH 8 I PLAY CHICKEN WITH THE TRAIN (Muzik Mafia, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Rich Texan, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Runded, BMI /Ptty Muth, BMO, HL /WBM, CS I SEE ME (Sny/AN Acuff Rse, BMI /Pst Oak, BMI), HL, CS IT'S A HEARTACHE (Careers-BMG, BMI /Lj, BMI /PEN, BMI) CS IT'S GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME (Sny/AN Tree, BMI /Katy's Own Music, BMI), HL, CS ; Hi IT'S LIKE THAT (Rye Sngs, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Shaniah Cymne, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Seal Music, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Naked Under My Clthes, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP), HL, Hi ; RBH IT'S NUTHIN' (WE THUGGIN') (Lse Akstix, ASCAP /Sctt Strch, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP) RBH 8 -J- JERK IT OUT (Universal- PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP /Telegrammusic, ASCAP), HL, M 8 JUSTA LIL BIT ( Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Sctt Strch, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP), HL, Him) ; RBH 8 JUSTA MOMENT (Zmba, ASCAP /III Will, ASCAP /Ntting Dale, ASCAP /Mawkeen's, ASCAP /Cliffrd Peacck Publishing Designee, BMI /Warner-Tamerlane, BMI /Bernard's Other, BMI /Sny /AN Sngs, BMI), HL /WBM, RBH -K- KARMA (Bk Of Daniel, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Lellw, ASCAP), HL, Hi -L- LACAMISA NEGRA (Camalen, BMI /Peermusic Ill, BMI) Hi 9; LT t LADY (Miss Bessie, ASCAP /Wigged, BMI) Hi 8 LA SORPRESA (TN Edicines, BMI) LT LA ULTIMA CANCION (Peermusic III, BMI) LT LET ME GO (Escatawpa, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI) Hi LET ME LOVE YOU (Sctt Strch, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP /Pep-Sul Music, ASCAP /R.H. Cmpund, ASCAP) Hi ; RBH LIKE THAT (Val's Child, ASCAP /Swizz Beatz, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Tri, BMI /Alley, BMI /Paul Simn, BMI) RBH LITTLE SISTER (Bard Stiff, BMI) Hi t LLEVAME (Yami, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI) LT9 LO MEJOR FUE PERDERTE (Nt Listed) LT 8 LONELY (Famus, ASCAP /Byefall Music, ASCAP /Feather, BMO, HL, Him ; RBH LONELY NO MORE (U Rule Music, ASACP /EMI April, ASCAP), HL, Ht 9 LONG, SLOW KISSES (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Smith Haven, BMI /New Wrks, BMI /The New Cmpany Sng Grup, BMI /Kid Lips Music, ASCAP /RPM, ASCAP), WBM, CS LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE (let Music, ASCAP) Hum 8 LO QUE PASO, PASO (Ls Cangris, ASCAP) LT LOT OF LEAVIN' LEFT TO DO (Sny /ATV Tree, BMI /Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP) CS ; Hi 8 LOVERS AND FRIENDS (Lii Jn m Music, BMI /TVT, BMI /White Rhin, BMI /U.R. IV, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Ludacris, ASCAP /Michael Sterling, ASCAP /UniversaI,ASCAP /Irving, BMI /Persevere, BMI), HL, Ht; RBH z -M- MAKE HER FEEL GOOD (Team S Dt Publishing, BMI /Hitc, BMI /MO GT, BMI /MS Eight Zer Tw Music, BMI /Universal -Sngs Of PlyGram Internatinal, BMI /EMI Ssaha, BMI /Jnathan Three, BMI), HL, RBH MAKING MEMORIES OF US (Sny/AN Tunes, ASCAP /I Only, ASCAP), HL, CS ; Hi 90 MANAMA QUE YA NO ESTES (Garmex, BMI) LT MAYOR QUE YO (Nt Listed) LT MIC CHECK, (Nt Listed) RBH THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (Hpe -N -Cal, BMI /Shadley, BMI /Cal IV, ASCAP), WBM, CS MI MAYOR SACRIFICIO (Crisma, SESAC) LT 9 MOCKINGBIRD (Eight Mile Style, BMI /Jaceff, ASCAP /Rest Wrld, ASCAP /Nueve Music, ASCAP), WBM, Hi ; RBH 9 MOTIVATION (Dmani And Ya Majesty's Music, ASCAP /Tmpstne, BMI) RBH MR. BRIGHTSIDE (The Killers, ASCAP /Universal -Ply- Gram Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, Him MUST BE NICE (Lyfe, ASCAP) RBH MVP (Universal, ASCAP /Mary J. Blige, ASCAP /Black- WallStreet, BMI / EachlTeachl, ASCAP / Cent, ASCAP /Dade C. Prject Music, BMI /Zmba Sngs. BMI), HL /WBM, RBH MY GIVE A DAMN'S BUSTED (Difftunes, BM I /Msaic Music, BMI /Sny /AN Tree, BMI /Wennga, BMI), HL, CS ; Hi MY NAME (Ri Brav, BMI /Dawg, BMI /N Such Music, SOCAN /Passing Stranger, SOCAN /9 Sngs, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP), HL, CS MY SISTER (Zmba Meldies, SESAC /Agatha Mnre, SESAC /Zmba, SESAC /Annabella's Fram Music, ASCAP /Universal,ASCAP /Msaic Music, BMI), HL /WBM, CS -N- NO ME QUEDA MAS (EMI Blackwd, BMI /Lne Iguana, BMI) LT NO ONE'LL EVER LOVE ME (EMI Blackwd, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /Castle Street, ASCAP /Music Highway, ASCAP), HL, CS 8 NOTHIN' TO LOSE (Alm, ASCAP /Kevin Savigar, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Chaggy Buss, ASCAP), HL, CS u; Hi NOT ME (West Mraine, ASCAP /Gunslinger, ASCAP /Springcreek, ASCAP /Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Sngs Of Mraine, BMI /Mike Curb, BMI), HL /WBM, CS NUMBER ONE SPOT (WB, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Hi ; RBH 8 -O- 0 (First Avenue, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Demis Ht Sngs, ASCAP /Black Fundatin, ASCAP /Tank, ASCAP /Anthny Nance Muzik, ASCAP /Antni Dixn's Muzik, ASCAP /Irving, BMI /E D Duz It, BMI) Hi ; RBH OBSESION (NO ES AMOR) (Premium Latin, ASCAP) LT OBSESSION (NO ES AMOR) (Premium Latin, ASCAP) Hi ; RBH OH (Ryalty Rightings, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music tt, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Dirty Dre, ASCAP /Ludacris, ASCAP / Universal- PlyGram Internatinal Tunes, SESAC /lahgae )ints, SESAC /EMI April, ASCAP), HL, Ht; RBH u OKAY (White Rhin, BMI /Drugstre, ASCAP /Peertunes, SESAC /Hale Yeah, SESAC /Sngs Of Peer, BMI /Mrningsidetrail,ASCAP /Nivea B. Hamiltn, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /EMI, ASCAP), WBM, Hi ; RBH ONE BELIEVER (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Onaly, BMI/Super ID, ASCAP /Tp Mule, ASCAP /Sassy Mule, ASCAP /Dn Pfrimmer, ASCAP /The Lving Cmpany, ASCAP /Wizen, ASCAP /Avaln Way, ASCAP) CS OPEN ARMS (EMI April, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Cpyright Cntrl), HL, RBH 88 ORDINARY PEOPLE Ohn Legend, BMI /will.i.am, BMI /Cherry River, BMI), CLM /HL, Hi 9; RBH OTRAVEZ (Universal -Musica Unica, BMI /Castill, BMI) LT 8 -P- PICKIN' WILDFLOWERS (EMI April, ASCAP /Rme Cwby, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Kim Williams, ASCAP), HL /WBM, CS 8 PORQUE ES TAN CRUEL ELAMOR (Sny /AN Discs, ASCAP /Arjna Musical, ASCAP) LT 0 THE POTION (Ludacris, ASCAP /Virginia Beach, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH 9 PRECISAMENTE AHORA (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI) LT PRETTY GIRL (Marc Cardenas, ASCAP /Ricard Martinez, ASCAP /Daniel Salas, ASCAP /Jnathan, ASCAP) RBH 8 PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE THIS WAY (Alm, ASCAP /Irving, BMI), HL, CS 0 -Q- QUE LASTIMA (Universal Musica, ASCAP) LT -R- REAL N *"A ROLL CALL (Lil In mil Music, BMI /NT, BMI /White Rhin, BMI /Swizle, BMI /Gangsta Bgie, ASCAP /Swle, ASCAP) RBH 8 RICH GIRL (Ain't Nuthin' Gin' On But Funking, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Bat Future, BMI / Blndie Rckwell, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Elvis Mamb, ASCAP /Bltter, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Harajuka Lber Music, ASCAP /Terry Bck Enterprises, BMI /K'Stuff, BMI /ArtHuse, BMI /Mayerling Prdu), HL /WBM, H0 -s- SCARS (Viva La Cucaracha, ASCAP /DreamWrks Sngs, ASCAP), HL, H0 SEDUCTION (EMI April, ASCAP /Flyte Tyme, ASCAP /U.R. IV, ASCAP /Sublime Basement Tunez, BMI /Defenders Of Music, BMI /Jibranda Music Wrks, ASCAP /Minneaplis Guys, ASCAP) RBH 9 SET IT OFF (Cpyright Cntrl /Swizz Beatz, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL, RBH SHE WILL BE LOVED (Careers -BMG, BMI /February Twenty Secnd, BMI /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Valentine Valentine, ASCAP), HL, Hi SIGNS (My Own Chit, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /The Waters Of Nazareth, BMI /Careers -BMG, BMI /Raynchaser, BMI /Takin' Care Of Business, BMI), HL, W SI LA QUIERES (EMI Blackwd, BMI) LT SINCE U BEEN GONE (Maratne, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /Kasz Mney Publishing, ASCAP), WBM, Ht SIN MIEDO A NADA (WB, ASCAP) LT SITTING, WAITING, WISHING (Bubble Tes, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL, Hum 8 SITTIN SIDEWAYZ (Paul Wall, ASCAP /Carnival Beats, ASCAP) RBH 8 SI YO ME VUELVO A ENAMORAR (Rubet, ASCAP /Universal Musica, ASCAP) LT SKIN (Mike Curb, BMI /Sweet Radical, BMI /Cl Hand, ASCAP), WBM, CS 9 SLOW DOWN (Tight Werk, BMI /TimeFlytes, BMI /Sngs Of DreamWrks, BMO Hi ; RBH SOLDIER (Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP /Beynce, ASCAP / Kelendria, ASCAP /Michelle MW, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Dam Rich, BMI /Christpher Garrett, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Mney Mack, BMI /Dmani And Ya Majesty's Nusic,ASCAP), HL, RBH EL SOL NO REGRESA (EMI April, ASCAP) LT SOMEBODY'S HERO (EMI April, ASCAP /PangTn, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Shaye Smith, BMI /Careers- BMG, BMI /Sagrabeaux Sngs, BMI), HL, CS SOME CUT ( Swle, ASCAP /Lil Jn 0 Music, BMI /TVT, BMI) Hi ; RBH SOMETHING LIKE A BROKEN HEART (EMI Blackwd, BMI /Rumbal, BMI /Earl Wright, BMI /Winning Circle, ASCAP /Clashing Plaids, ASCAP) CS SOMETHING MORE (GreaterGd, ASCAP /Jennifer Nettles, ASCAP /Dirkpit, BMI) CS 8 SOMETIMES YOU CANT MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN (Universal -PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, Hi 99 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN TEXAS AND MEXICO (Frrest Hills, BMI /Ash Street, ASCAP) CS SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW (BMG, PRS) Hi 89 SO MUCH MORE (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Jey & Ryan Music, BMI /Dade C. Prject Music, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI), WBM, Hi 8; RBH SONGS ABOUT ME (EMI Blackwd, BMI /Shaye Smith, BMI /Careers -BMG, BMI /Sagrabeaux Sngs, BMI), HL /WBM, CS ; H0 8 SO WHAT (IF YOU GOT A BABY) (Tents Of Kedar, ASCAP /Hllw Thigh, ASCAP /Careers -BMG, BMI) RBH SO WHAT THE FUSS (Steveland Mrris, ASCAP) RBH STILL TIPPIN' ( Players, BMI /Carnival Beats, ASCAP /Mike Jnes, BMI /Paul Wall, ASCAP /Slim Thug, BMI) Hi; RBH SUGAR (GIMME SOME) (Index Music, ASCAP /Serius Scriptures, ASCAP /First N' Gld, BMI /Trick N' Rick, BMI /Ludacris, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL, Hi ; RBH SUNDAY MORNING (Careers -BMG, BMI /February Twenty Secnd, BMI /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Valentine Valentine, ASCAP), HL, Hi SWITCH (Treyball, ASCAP /Kwamethebygenius Music, BMI /Alm, BMI /Brthers Grimm, ASCAP /Mariesnmusic, BMI) Hi -T- THE TALKIN' SONG REPAIR BLUES (EMI Blackwd, BMI /Rising Grge, BMI), HL, CS TE BUSCARIA (Simn Music Temple, ASCAP) LT THAT SUMMER SONG (Nashville DreamWrks Sngs, ASCAP /Brian Nash, ASCAP /Cherry Lane, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /Chalante, ASCAP /Ensign, BMI /Sngs Of Nte, BMI /Titania, BMQ, CLM /WBM, CS THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SUNDAY (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Drivers Ed, ASCAP /Sny /AN Tree, BMI /Cake Taker, BMI /March, BMI), HL, CS z; Hi THAT'S WHAT IT'S MADE FOR (EMI April, ASCAP /Flyte Tyme, ASCAP /U.R. IV, ASCAP /Sublime Basement Tunez, BMI /Defenders Of Music, BMI /Jibranda Music Wrks, ASCAP /Minneaplis Guys, ASCAP) RBH 9 THROWBACK (U.R. IV, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /F.O.B., ASCAP /N.Q.C., ASCAP /Christpher Mathew, BMI /Hitc, BMI /Sngs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI /Gld Frever, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI) RBH 8 TOCANDO FONDO (Sny /AN Latin, BMI) LT z TOMA (Marimber, ASCAP /White Rhin, BMI /C'Amre, BMI /Me & Marq, ASCAP) RBH 8 TONIGHT'S NOT THE NIGHT (Lnely Mtel, BMI /Spunker Sngs, ASCAP /Universal -PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, CS TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET (CHAPTER i OF ) (Zmba Sngs, BMI /R.Kelly, BMI), WBM, RBH 8 TRUE (Whrgamusica, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Rndr Lndn, PRS /Shepard Slmn, BMI /Jumb Bm Bm, BMI /Rihps Inc., ASCAP /Irving, BMI), HL, Hi TRUTH IS (Full Of Sul, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Sulvang, BMI /Christpher Mathew, BMI /Hitc, BMI /Sngs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI /Tabulus, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Alley Gadfly, BMI /Sngs Of DreamWrks, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP / Bvina, ASCAP), HL, Hi ; RBH TU PONTE EN MI LUGAR (Ser -Ca, BMI) LT TURN DA LIGHTS OFF (Mass Cnfusin, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Beat Factry, ASCAP /Arlene & C., ASCAP /Alm, ASCAP /Brs. Grimm, ASCAP /Gerge Simn Music, BMI /lbete, ASCAP /FCG Music, ASCAP /MGIII Music, ASCAP /NMG Music, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH -u- U ALREADY KNOW (RDi Music Wrks, BMI /Da Twelve Music, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Sny /AN Sngs, BMI /Ivers Sngs, BMI /Christpher Garrett, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP), HL, H0 9; RBH t U DON'T KNOW ME (Dmani And Ya Majesty's Music, -V- VEN TU (Premium Latin, ASCAP) LT 9 ASCAP /Tmpstne, BMI) Him ; RBH UNA LIMOSNA (Zmba Glden Sands, ASCAP) LT EL VIRUS DEL AMOR (Prim, BMI) LT VIVEME (WB,ASCAP) LT VOLVERE (TRO- Essex, ASCAP) LT VOLVERTE AVER (Peermusic III, BMI /Camalen, BMI) LT it VOY A OLVIDARME DE MI (Gaina Bay, ASCAP) LT -w- WAITIN' ON THE WONDERFUL (Universal -PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP /Green Wagn, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /Animal Fair, ASCAP), HL /WBM, CS WAIT (THE WHISPER SONG) (ClliPark, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Da Crippler, BMI /EWC, BMI), HL, Hi ; RBH 9 WE BELONG TOGETHER (Rye Sngs, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Shaniah Cymne, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Seal Music, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Naked Under My Clthes, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP /Sny /AN Sngs, BMI /Hip Chic, BMI /Epic Slar, BMI/Mister lhnsn'sjams, BMI /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Ballads B) W ; RBH WE GOT THAT (Breka Music, BMI /Trunk Trunk, ASCAP) RBH 9 WHATEVER Oatcat, ASCAP /Blue's Baby, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Tuched By Jazz, ASCAP /Kylah Prald Musicwrks, ASCAP) RBH 9 WHAT'S A GUY GOTTA DO (Fray, SESAC /MR, SESAC /EMI April, ASCAP /Didn't Have T Be, ASCAP /Sea Gayle, ASCAP), HL, CS l; Hi 8 WHAT YOU AIN'T GONNA GET (Careers -BMG, BMI /Flyd's Dream, BMI /Sny /AN Tree, BMI /Wennga, BMI), HL, CS WOBBLE & SHAKE IT (Crump Tight, ASCAP /Bne Crusher, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Magnum Music, ASCAP /Sunds -f- seventytw, ASCAP /Rabasse Music, PRS /WB, ASCAP) RBH 8 -y - YO ME QUEDE SIN NADIE (P emus, ASCAP /Universal Musica, ASCAP) LT YOU AND ME (G- Chills, BMI /Sngs Of DreamWrks, BMI /Cleisin, BMQ Hi 9 YOU'LL BE THERE (Cburn, BMI) CS ; Hi 9 Y TE VI CON EL (Seg Sn, BMI) LT 9 BILLBOARD APRIL, 00 w;rw.billbard.biz

54 l Charts Radi Is Once Again Chesney Cuntry Kenny Chesney achieves his eighth N. n Ht Cuntry Singles & Tracks with "Anything but Mine," which gains 90,000 audience impressins and interrupts a fur -week stretch atp the chart by Craig Mrgan's "That's What I Lve Abut Sunday." With. millin impressins, Chesney's new single utpaces Mrgan's N. - ranked sng by millin listener impressins. Chesney mst recently appeared at N. with "When the Sun Ges Dwn," a duet with Uncle Kracker, which started a five -week run at the tp in the April, 00, issue. In the intervening mnths, he came just shy f N. by peaking at N. with a pair f titles, "I G Back" in July 00 and "The Wman With Yu" in December 00. BACKSTREET'S BACK: The Backstreet Bys return t The Billbard Ht 00 fr the first time in / years as "Incmplete" scres the Ht Sht Debut at N.. The quintet was last n the chart with "Drwning," which peaked at N. 8 in Nvember 00. "Incmplete," a preview f the grup's frthcming "Never Gne" album, enters the Ht 00 Airplay chart at N. and debuts n Ht Digital Sngs at N. 0 with 0,00 paid dwnlads. On the Pp 00 chart, the Backstreet Bys leap frm last week's N. 90 debut t N.. First -week sales f the digital track cupled with the largest audience increase n the mainstream tp 0 radi - based Pp 00 Airplay tally (up 8 millin impressins) is the catalyst fr this huge jump. In the tw -plus mnths f the Pp 00's existence, the leap f "Incmplete" is secnd nly t 0 Cent's 89-0 jump fr "Disc Infern" in the Feb. 9 issue. THREE THINGS: The retail release f Amerie's " Thing" pushes the title - n Ht R &B/Hip -Hp Singles & Tracks, giving her the biggest charting single f her yung career. Amerie previusly peaked at N. 9 in August 00 with her debut, "Why Dn't We Fall in Lve." " Thing," the initial single frm her April release "Tuch," debuts at N. n the R &B/Hip- Hp sales list with strng first - week sales at R &B cre stres. Amerie's chart mve n R &B/ Hip -Hp Singles & Tracks places her in the tp three alngside Fantasia, wh hlds at N. with "Truth Is." This is the first time since the Feb., 00, issue that tw sl females appear in that regin withut guests. In that issue, Alicia Keys and Beynd held dwn the N. and N. slts with "Yu Dn't Knw My Name" and "Me, Myself and I," respectively. Keys has since becme a radi staple. Her three subsequent singles after "Name" nw ccupy the tp three slts n billbard.cm's Ht R &B/Hip -Hp Recurrents chart. Leading the way is "If I Ain't Gt Yu," fllwed by "Karma" and "Diary." In 00, 0 Cent became the first artist t dminate the recurrents chart in such a manner. HIGH RENT DISTRICT: Weezer's "Beverly Hills" mves t the tp f Ht Digital Sngs, jumping - with 0,00 paid dwnlads, an,000 imprvement ver last issue's debut ttal. "Hills" parlays that sales gain int a - jump n The Billbard Ht 00 and a - rise n the Pp 00. Gwen Stefani enjys the Digital chart's biggest sales spike as APRIL 00 Billbard "Hllaback Girl" jumps,00 units t 0,000 and rises -. The imprvement is cncurrent with the sng gaining ppularity at tp 0 radi utlets as the track mves 0 - n the Ht 00 Airplay list with a 0% audience impressin bump. Stefani's strength in the sales and airplay cmpnents prpels "Hllaback" -0 n the Ht 00 and -0 n the Pp 00. SinglesMinde a Silvi Pietrlung silvi@billbard.cm Minai Patel Wade Jessen wjessen@billbard.cm ADULT TOP 0TM Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) ty NUMBER -VI', Bulevard Of Brken Dreams s Whsa N i GREEN DAY REPRISE Lnely N Mre ROB THOMAS IMEUSMA/ATLANTICI Since U Been Gne KELLY CIARKSON (RCA/RMG) Sunday Mrning MAROONS OCTONE/JIRMG Give A Little Bit G00 G00 DOLLS NVARNER BROS.) Á Let Me G DOORS DOWN IHEPUBUDTINN ERSA W MRGI F Cllide HOWIEDAY (EPIC) Yu And Me LIFEHOUSE GEFFEN Breakaway KELLY CLARKSON MALT OISNEY/HOLLYW000 A^A Breathe ( A.M.) ANNA NAUCK ICOWMBIA) Lk What Yu've Dne* JET IELEKTRA/ATIANTICI One Thing FINGER ELEVEN OMND -UPI She Will Be Lved* MAROONS (OCTONE/JAIMG) Beautiful Sul JESSE MCCARTNEY HOLLYWOOD True RYAN CABRERA (E /LA/ATLANTIC) w What Happens Tmrrw DURAN DURAN EPIC American Baby DAVE MATTHEWS BAND (RCA/RMG Smetimes Yu Can't Make It On Yur Own U INTERSCOPE Mr. Brightside THE KILLERS )ISLANOADJMG) Charit GAVIN DEGRAW (ARMS) Ma THE VOTES ARE IN: Mary J. Blige returns t Ht R &B /Hip -Hp Singles & Tracks at N. with assistance by the Game n "MVP." The track, which was recently leaked t radi, uses the music bed f the Game's current N. track, "Hate It r Lve It," and includes an intrductry freestyle by the rapper, fllwed by Blige recapping her wn ppular singles and basting f being "the sul hip -hp queen." The track bws with. millin APRIL 00 ADULT Billbard' CONTEMPORARYTM 0 0 TITLE ' NUMBER Breakaway nutqasa TDlaaluriYDODI Heaven LOS LONELY BOYS IOR'EPICI itr Daughters Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems JOHN MAYER (AWARE/COLUMBIA) tr r wk all Live Like Yu Were Dying* TIM MCGRAW (CURB) Hme MICHAEL RUBLE /REPRISEI itr She Will Be Lved MAROONS IOCTONE/JIRMG) Give A Little Bit GOO GOO DOLLS (WARNER BROS.) In My Daughter's Eyes. MARTINA MCBRIDE (RCA NASHVILLE) Yu'll Think Of Me KEITH URBAN ICAPITOU, Ill Be Arund Pi DARYL HALL JOHN DATES IU- WATCRDK -E) This Lve MAROONS IOCTONE/JRIMG) HA d True RYAN CABRERA (EVLAJATLANTICI w Hmesick MERCYME IINO/CURB) Lnely N Mre RO8 THOMAS IMEUSMNATLANTICI 'd MA Dn't Let Him Steal Yur Heart Away PHILCOWNS (FACE VALUE/RHINO /ATLANTIC( Open Arms TINA TURNER CAPITOL) MI The Way Yu Mve KENNY G FEAT. EARTH, WING a FIRE IARISTAAIMGI Cllide, HOWIE DAY (EPIC) Ma Sunday Mrning MAROONS IOCTONE/J/RMG) Sunset Blvd SCOTT GRIMES (VELOCITY) unslicited audience impressins at R &B/hip -hp signals. Leading the way with the highest spin cunt is WUSL Philadelphia, which clcks detectins in the tracking week. MAINSTREAM TOP 0 NEW RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL SIMPLE PLAN Untitled (Hw Can This Happen T Me?) LAVA GWREECENTTLLY TEESSTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL Hllanack Bin INTAERSCOPE HOWyyIE DAY Cllide EPIC IFER LOPEZ FEAT. FAT JOE adin d Du Dwn EPIC PAPA ROACH scars GEFFEN BOYS IInGncmpplete GAVIN R DEGRAW CROSSFADE um COLUMBIA LYCL ARKSON B n i These Hazel.yes RMG Y.AN CABRERA Inds Uf Sadness ATLANTIC CAESARS perk EEt Yu INe GEFFEN REL NT K Be My Escape CAPITOL ADULT TOP 0 NEW RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL NO NEW SONGS SHOWED HIT POTENTIAL THIS WEEK RECENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL J BeáSifUl SUf HOLLYWOOD REMTI- A KIL'JERS n htsl a IDJMG Y TIM licfgf W LIVBMI a u ere Dying CURB Blige's management camp serviced the Cl & Dre- prduced track t radi utlets, but Geffen has nt cnfirmed it fr inclusin n any frthcming album. DATA fy PROVIDED BY ADULT CONTEMPORARY NEW RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL NO NEW SONGS SHOWED HIT POTENTIAL THIS WEEK RECENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL HOWIE DAY Cllide EPIC MAROONS SSundayy Mrning RMG FIV FOR FIGHTING If Gya ma a Yu COLUMBIA BRIOD.S E WARD FEAT. ERIC CLAPTON LNNY KRAVITZ LLJa VIRGIN Lk What Yu've Dne ATLANTIC GREEN DAY Bulevard Of Brken Dreams REPRISE JES$E MCCARTNEY Beautiful Sul HOLLYWOOD MODERN ROCA NEW RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL HO NEW SONGS SHOWED HIT POTENTIAL THIS WEEK RREECENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL G HHlidaayy,REPRISE Sner IN UrLaterHOEWJOOD SYSTEOM OF A DOWN zjjqeeceptance RMG DI erent COLUMBIA INGRAM HILL,,Imstst Perfect HOLLYWOOD Le Outtssldn A0 e COLUMBIA (öbb.y.ouossfädé Far Away COLUMBIA HE EXIES ly VIRGIN UDVAYNE Aa p? EPIC OfEBlindinggLights INTERSCOPE City wake me Up hen September Ends REPRISE Sngs are Win tteste n ine by PrmSquad using multiple I stens and a natinwide sample f carefully prfiled music cnsumers. Sngs are rated n a - scale; final result: are based n weighted psitives. Sngs with a scre f r mre are judged t have Hit Ptential, althugh that benchmark number can fluctuate per frmat based n the strength f available music. Fr a cmplete and updated st r current sngs with Hit Ptential, cmmentary, plls and mre, please visit Prmsqual and HitPredictr are trademarks f Think Fast LLC. APRIL 00 MODERN Billbard ROCKTM SL Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems H TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL) VI NUMBER 0 'e = Be Yurself %%AM.I AUDIOSLAVE IEPICUNTERSCOPEI The Hand That Feeds NINE INCH NAILS INOTHING/NTERSCOPEI Hliday O O 8 O 0 E -Pr GREEN DAY 'REPRISE) It BECK (INTERSCOPEI Little Sister QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (INTERSCOPE) Beverly Hills WEEDER GEFFEN) Sner Or Later BREAKING BENJAMIN (HOLLYWOOD) Why D Yu Lve Me GARBAGE IALMO SOUNDS/GEFFEN) The Clincher CHEVELLE (EPIC) 8 The Widw THE MARS VOLTA ISOLOSTANDAHDUIBSSTRUMMEMJMRGI 9 Mr. Brightside THE KILLERS (ISLAND/ID /MG) 0 Bulevard Of Brken Dreams* GREEN DAY (REPRISE) B.Y,O.B. SYSTEM OFA DOWN (AMERICAN/COLUMBIA) itr Wrk JIMMY EAT WORLD (INTERSCOPEI S Far Away GROSSFADE (FG/COLUMBIA) Ugly THE 8 Happy? Cld MUDVAYNE (EPIC( IULTIMATUM/MEU$MANIRGINI GROSSFADE (FG/COLUMBIA) 9 Scars PAPA ROACH IELTONAL/GEFFEN) Itr Walking Dead Z -TRIP (HARD LEFT/HOLLYWOOD) Cmpiled frm a natinal sample f data suppbed by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems. BO dun tp 0, 88 adult cntemprary and 8 mdem rck statins am electrnically mnitred hurs a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by number f detectins. Sngs shwing an increase in detectins ver the previus week, regardless f chart mvement A sng which has been n the chartf mre than 0 weeks will generally nt receive a bullet even if h registers an increase in detectins. Sngs belw the tp n Adutt Tp 0 and Adult Cntemprary am remved frm the chart after 8 weeks. All fur radi charts cn at deeper lengths in Airplay Mnitr, Billbard Infrmatin Netwrk, and billbard.cm. it indicates tine earned HitPredictr status in research data prvided by Prmsquad. 0, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. AP00RIL HOT 00 Billbard SINGLES SALESTM m 9 0 w 8 Nielsen SundScan TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) RWF NUMBER Gin' Crary NATAUE ILATIUMNNIVERSAUUMRGI Wks At NA In The Kitchen/Trapped In The Clset (Chapter l Of ) R KELLY (JIVE/ZOMBA) D Yu Believe In Magic ALY & AJ. (HOLLYWOOD) Sldier OESTINY'S CHILD FEAT. TI. a UL WAYNE (COLUMBIA) Dn't Cha TORI ALAMAZE IROCKHILLNNIVERSALNMRG) We Will Becme Silhuettes/Be Still My Heart THE POSTAL SEINICE (SUB POP) Thing AMERIE (RISE/COLUMBIA) If She Were Any Other Wman BUDDY JEWELL (COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE)) Saturday Night AARON CARTER IPARADISE/TRANS CONTINENTALI Dn't Say Yu Lve Me ERASURE ( MUTEI Lse My Breath DESTINY'S CHILD (COWMBIA) 0 Gtta G Sl PATTI LABELLEFEAT. RON ISLET IMF SOUL CLASSICSAOJMGI Wait (The Whisper Sng) TING YANG TWINS (COLLIPARKJTVT) Slw Dwn 0 BOBBY VALENTINO (DTP/DEFJAMUIDJMG) The Crner COMMON FEAT. THE LAST POETS (.0.0.0/GEFFEN) Oye Mi Cant N. O. RE. (ROCA- FELLA/OEF JAMADJMG) It's Like That MARIAN CAREY (ISLANDADJMG) City By Wit' It TOM. G (GIGANTIC) I'm A Hustle CASSIDY (FULL SURFACE/J./HMG) S Much Mre FAT JOE (TERROR SQUAD/ATLANTIC) crds AIt'I eeatest sales gains. C 00, VNU gusiness Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. The tp selling singles cmpiled frm a natinal sample f retail stre, mass merchant, and internet sales reprts cllected, cmpiled, and prvided by Nielsen SundScan. This data is used t cmpile the Ht 00 and Pp BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

55 Jack Cntinued frm page tramp r sme ther '0s staple came n, it gt an verwhelming thumbs -up frm the Mlsn- enhanced crwd. But there was a nticeable lack f enthusiasm when Jimi Hendrix, the Animals, the Drs r ther '0s icns played. While the crwd dug cnnecting with music frm their high schl years, Kreger nticed the statin wasn't playing a lt f ther acts his generatin grew up with, like the Pretenders, Elvis Cstell, Sft Cell and Tears fr Fears. Returning hme, he pulled ne f Jel Whitbum's Billbard chart reference bks ff the shelf and began feverishly cmpiling a list f sngs frm 9 t the present that had a rck/ac flavr but were nt getting much radi lve. He ended up with a deep and wide ptpurri. With the help f Mike Drn frm Audience Research Internatinal, Kreger made a frmat mntage frm the sng list and had it tested during a CHUM strategic study. "It came back that the hle was abslutely huge," Kreger recalls. Kreger always liked the "Bb" mniker used by a Minneaplis cuntry statin in the early '90s, s he adpted the handle in Winnipeg. "We wanted t present a persnality fr the radi statin withut having t g thrugh all these names that have been used a gazillin times befre, like the Hawk and the Bear," he says. And s, n March, 00, Nrth America's first Bb FM was brn n CFWM Winnipeg. In launching the statin, Kreger jump -started the latest ht radi frmat, which ges under varius regular -guy names: Bb, Jack, Ben, Simn, Hank and thers. It encmpasses a wide swath f music frm the mid- t late '0s up t the turn f the century. Variety is the name f the game, seemingly mimicking the ipd Shuffle campaign in its quest fr dd juxtapsitins f style and genre. The ne cmmn denminatr is that these sngs were all hits. Launching tw weeks int Canada's Bureau f Bradcast Measurement ratings survey, the fresh frmat debuted in Winnipeg at N. amng adults ages - and has remained there ever since -fr nine cnsecutive ratings perids. Inspired by the success in Winnipeg, Rgers Bradcasting launched Jack FM in Vancuver in December 00, under PD Pat Cardinal. Tday, there is a Bb, Jack, Je r Dave in every majr Canadian market except Mntreal. Each f the cuntry's three radi titans -Rgers, Crus Radi and CHUM Bradcasting- prgram variatins in multiple markets. FIDGETING PROGRAMMERS Initially puzzled by a frmat that fractures sme f radi's time- hnred prgramming tenets, U.S. bradcasters have since embraced the cncept. "The first time yu sit dwn with smebdy t schedule what everybdy calls `train wrecks,' yu might see a little fidgeting ging n," Jel Flger says amid bursts f devilish laughter. A fr- mer prgrammer, Flger wrks with Kreger advising U.S. statins n the frmat. He prides himself n helping PDs "unlearn many f the principles that [they], as a prgrammer, have cme t believe are set in stne. Yu can play sngs frm different [musical] frmats n the same statin." In ne frm r anther, Bb, Jack and their ffshts have hit the air in markets including Ls Angeles; Chicag; Philadelphia; Dallas; Detrit; Washingtn, D.C.; Atlanta; Denver; Kansas City, M.; Salt Lake City; Austin; Sacrament, Calif.; Indianaplis; Des Mines, Iwa; Tucsn, Ariz.; and Texarkana, Texas. "One f the interesting things that came ut f this is that wide can be a frmat nce again," Kreger says. While the new apprach is mst evident as an adult tp 0 /classic hits hybrid, it is als being felt at frmats as disparate as mdem rck and cuntry. It subscribes t the cred that train wrecks shuld be celebrated, nt shunned. Dn McLean's "American Pie" int the Pet Shp Bys' "West End Girls "? N prblem. Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" int Lipps, Inc.'s "Funkytwn "? Yu bet. U's "Desire" int the Spinners' "Rubberband Man"? Bring it n. Thugh it waves the "We play anything" flag with pride, the frmat fcuses n music that appeals t - t - year -lds while tssing maxims abut fit and cmpatibility ut the windw. Classic alternative frm the '80s is abundant: Tears fr Fears, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Sft Cell, INXS. That meshes with the acts that first put MTV n the map, like Men at Wrk, Dexy's Midnight Runners and Duran Duran, and with that decade's pp - rck crssvers frm Bryan Adams, Tt, Prince and the J. Geils Band. But there is als rm fr dance and funk frm the Cmmdres, Kl & the Gang and Wild Cherry. Seventies classic rck is anther crnerstne, with Freigner and the Steve Miller Band taking prminent seats at Bb and Jack's table. And dn't frget adult tp 0 frm the '90s and tday, encmpassing Sugar Ray, Smash Muth, Avril Lavigne and Matchbx Twenty. In shrt, it is the nly place n the dial where Grand Funk Railrad, Nrah Jnes and the Gergia Satellites peacefully c- exist. Libraries range frm 00 t,00 sngs, with mst Canadian statins leaning tward the tp f that range. And that has brught Lverby, Hneymn Suite and Crey Hart back in a big way. MAINTAINING FOCUS Kreger admits sme prgrammers are tempted t tss any cnstraints ut the windw, "but the statins that will remain successful are the nes wh fcus their resurces n finding ut what the right sngs t play are." "At the utset, it's a nearly equal split between the classic rck '0s and the pp -rck '80s," Edisn Media Research VP f music and prgramming Sean Rss says. "As it has evlved, there's a little mre '90s and a little less '0s, but the pp- rck '80s is still the center." Spanning the yungest edge f the baby bm and the lder end f Generatin X, the - dem is nstalgic fr the music it grew up n. In additin, Kreger believes cnsumers tend t bsess n what was ht 0 years ag. In the '0s, the '0s- inspired "Happy Days" was a TV smash. In the '80s, peple lked back t the Vietnam War era f the '0s thrugh films like "Platn" and "Full Metal Jacket." In the '90s, TV's "That '0s Shw" became ppular, and there were mvies abut Studi. Nw, it is the '80s' turn. "As yu apprach yur middle t late 0s, thse pangs f nstalgia get luder and luder," Kreger says. Meanwhile, the explsin f peer-tpeer file sharing and the ppularity f mix tapes have cnditined cnsumers t expect -and demand -mre variety, Kreger reasns. "The last several years became a real awakening perid fr peple's musical taste buds," he says. "I'd have Abba and the Clash n the same tape. That's what this whle thing is all abut. Plus radi has been niche -frmatted t death. Nw variety has becme a niche." Sme believe Jack and Bb's real drawing pwer stems nt frm the music but frm the variety, nvelty, surprise and "radi withut rules" statinality. "T the extent yu can still d a. share n a signal- challenged statin in a crwded market, that's prbably true," Rss says. "But it's even better if yu've gt a classic hits hle r an '80s hle, r even better, bth." Flger cmpares Bb and Jack t early -'0s tp 0 utlets like WLS Chicag. "Yu wuldn't be limited by [genre]," he says. "They'd g frm Al Green t Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fr a big part f the audience, it's smething they never heard befre." EXPLOSIVE RATINGS Bnneville flipped AC KKLT Phenix t the new frmat, under the name the Peak, last May. "I spent a lt f time paying attentin t the Jacks and Bbs in Canada befre we started thinking abut this prject," PD Jel Grey says. "I thught we culd d it urselves." Diamnd Cntinued frm page These will be Diamnd's first U.S. cncerts since the Three Penny Opera wrld tur. That - shw uting grssed $88. millin and drew mre than. millin peple t shws, 98 f them selluts, accrding t Billbard Bxscre. AEG Live als prmted that tur. "We have a great relatinship with Neil, and Sal and Jeff," Phillips says. "Basically, we are the prmters f the event, market by market. And, in cnjunctin with Sal and Jeff, we d the building deals and the ruting." Diamnd's 00 rad wrk began in March with a sld -ut tur f Australia and New Zealand prmted by Paul Dainty. The Dwn Under trek has been nthing shrt f a bx -ffice mnster: Fifteen dates have drawn,0 peple and grssed $. millin. The tur cntinues in the United Kingdm and Ireland befre arriving in the States in July. Barry Clayman at Clear Channel Entertainment Eurpe With virtually n external marketing, the statin's - rank zmed frm th in spring 00 t secnd that summer and t N. that fall. Reflecting n the explsive ratings, Grey says, "It was different, it was brad, they lved it, and they tld everybdy they knew abut it. We hit a hme run right ut f the bx." The Peak's audience is abut 0% female, higher than the frmat's nrmal 0 %. "We started ut as a female radi statin. We held n t all thse females, and the males have slwly cme ver," Grey says. The Peak als differs in the size f its library. At rughly 00 sngs, it is duble that f many music statins but still several hundred titles shy f mst Jacks and Bbs. "These days, there are as many different versins f the frmat as peple ding it," Edisn's Rss says. "At the same time, everybdy is filling rughly the same hle, which is classic hits plus '80s plus a little bit f '90s." Amng the variants are such ACslanted, female -friendlier versins as Greater Media's WMWX (Ben FM) Philadelphia and ABC's WRQX (Mix) Washingtn, D.C. Emmis has applied the mdel t cuntry WLHK (Hank) Indianaplis, where Susquehanna perates WGLD (Jack). And Clear Channel is gunning fr guys with KDRB (the Bus) Des Mines. Will it wrk everywhere? Apart frm the frmat's runaway success in Canada, it has achieved ntewrthy ratings in Phenix, Austin, Denver, Kansas City and Dallas-where Infinity's KJKK is N. in the - dem and N. in cumulative audience amng - listeners. In fact, KJKK "was ne f the statins that cnvinced [U.S.] radi it was real," Rss says. Will the nvelty wear ff? D Bb and Jack have legs? "Because f the breadth f the years encmpassed and the sheer vlume f sngs, yu're nt ging t see the kind f burn factr that yu saw with Jammin' Oldies and is handling the U.K. prtin. Diamnd will be jined by his lngtime turing band, which includes a hrn sectin and backup singers. Phillips says the "cycle is right" fr a hugely successful run in the States, as well. 'We will be adding dates, and there culd be multiples in sme markets." Tickets will g n sale in early May and will be priced "well under $00," accrding t Phillips. "Neil insists n keeping his ticket prices lwer than ther artists with a similar demgraphic, because he wuld rather play mre shws fr mre peple," Phillips says. "His philsphy n pricing is exactly the same as urs. That's hw we were able t take Prince ut fr less than $00 last year." Still, Phillips insists, the deals are structured s AEG Live can realize a fair return, which is nt a given in tday's marketplace f high artist guarantees. "It's a tugh deal, but we're nt a nt -fr -prfit cmpany," Phillips says. A wrkhrse n the rad fr years (he was the tp sl turing artist f the 990s, grssing $8 millin frm shws), Diamnd's last tur was lengthy even by his standards. `this [tur] was special, in the sense '0s statins," Flger says. "I seriusly dubt it's ging t wear ut anytime sn, especially with Bb, where yu have sme currents in the mix." RADIO PHYSICS Amng the frmat's challenges, Flger adds, are "resisting the temptatin t drill playlists dwn t far and [devting sufficient energy t] creative writing." Kreger says Bb tday is nt the same statin he launched three years ag. "The biggest thing is managing thse expectatins," he says. "It's radi physics: What ges up must cme dwn. The frmat runs a really big library and attentin has t be paid t balancing rck with pp /AC, because it's really easy t sund like a classic rck statin ne hur and an AC statin the next hur." Grey cntends that "as lng as the `Oh, ww' recrds nly cme up nce in a while," the frmat will avid the prblems that the Arrw frmat and '0s ldies statins encuntered. "I think it des have legs." Rss believes there will always be a hle fr a statin that cmbines '0s and '80s ldies. "The previus generatin didn't want t g t three different statins t hear the ldies it grew up with," he bserves. "And there is n inherent reasn that it has t whither after a cuple f years. Oldies and classic rck statins didn't shrivel up after a few years. The fact that every gld - based frmat has prblems says smething abut PDs, nt necessarily abut the audience." "The frmat is ging t grw beynd belief in the next few years," Flger predicts. "In three years, yu'll have a statin with a wide playlist f all different kinds f music in every market. It's an exciting time fr radi." Grey believes radi audiences are clamring fr mre variety and less repetitin. "Everybdy's crying ut fr that," he says. "And t sme extent, we haven't been listening." that it really became mre than a tur after the 9 - tragedy," Diamnd tld Billbard at the time. "I gt a sense that peple were really in need f nt s much entertainment, but t get n with their lives. It started as a tur and ended as a missin." Diamnd initially didn't intend t wrk s much n Three Penny Opera. "Once I realized what was ging n ut there, I called Sal Bnafede and Jeff Apregan and tld them t fill up my dance card. I dn't knw if I culd d it again, but I felt it was necessary." At ne pint, industry speculatin was rife that Diamnd might tur in 00 with his high- prfile duet partner Barbra Streisand. One surce tld Billbard the prpsed guarantee fr a Streisand/Diamnd date was in the range f $. millin per shw (billbard.biz, Oct., 00). "A Neil Diamnd/Barbra Streisand tur wuld have been abslutely huge," Phillips says. Talk persists that Streisand will tur in sme fashin in 00. Dwnlad Billbard's White Paper reprts: BILLBOARD APRIL,

56 IFPI Cntinued frm page Kennedy says that althugh nline piracy is nt as widespread in Japan as in mst Western cuntries, it des present a threat t the develpment f the legitimate dwnlad business. "There's a prblem if we want peple t pay fr a service that is available fr free elsewhere," he says. In the Netherlands, the first legal cases were brught against 0 individuals in a jint actin by authrs sciety Buma/Stemra, labels bdy NVPI Audi and anti -piracy rganizatin Brein. Under Dutch law, the industry needs the cperatin f ISPs t identify alleged infringers. Brein has sent cease -and- desist letters with damages claims t five lcal ISPs fr delivery t their custmers suspected f engaging in illegal file sharing. Cpyright Cntinued frm page Franklin, Tenn. -based Naxs f America, the U.S. distributin arm f Hng Kng -based Naxs Glbal Distributin, fr cmmn -law cpyright infringement, unfair cmpetitin and ther claims based n state law. The recrdings at the center f the dispute were made under cntract with the perfrmers by Gramphne C., a predecessr f Capitl Recrds' current parent, EMI Recrds. Accrding t the curt's pinin, an EMI subsidiary granted exclusive U.S. licensing rights t Capitl, which remastered and released CDs f the recrdings. The U.K. cpyrights all expired by 990. Naxs restred the perfrmances frm the riginal shellac recrdings in the United Kingdm, releasing them in 999 n CDs in the United States. Capitl demanded that Naxs stp selling the CDs, but the crn - pany refused. The federal Secnd Circuit Curt f Appeals, which was cnsidering mtins by the parties, requested New Yrk's highest curt t clarify state law. Its -page pinin tracing the histry f English and American cpyright law favrs Capitl. GREATER PROTECTION The pinin is gd news fr labels with ld recrdings f jazz, classical and rck music that want t make an investment in restring, remastering and releasing CDs fr cllectrs. "This unequivcal judgment will enable these and ther artists and their estates t cntinue t benefit frm histrical recrdings, at least in the U.S.," EMI Classics president Richard Lytteltn says. "Recrding cmpanies need this level f prtectin t sustain current recrding prgrams, particularly in the classics genre." Cpyright attrney William Patry with Thelen Reid & Priest in New Yrk Brein directr Tim Kuik says that f the five ISPs, nly ne, XSALL, has refused t cperate. Cees Vervrd, chairman f Buma /Stemra and chairman f the bard f directrs f the Internatinal Cnfederatin f Scieties f Authrs and Cmpsers, says XSALL "refuses t frward the Brein warning messages t the ffenders. They say their rules frbid them t d s. But thse same rules als frbid their members t vilate authr rights, but XSALL des nthing t stp this. I call n bth manufacturers and ISPs t respect the interests f rights hlders." If the situatin cntinues, Kuik says, Brein will g t curt t frce the ISP t supply the addresses f the alleged infringers. Judith van Erve, XSALL head f public affairs, says the cmpany des nt intend t frward the claims, nr will it supply names and addresses f its custmers t third parties. "We will nly supply this ntes that thrughut histry, sund recrdings have received less prtectin than ther types f cpyrighted wrks, such as musical cmpsitins and literary wrks. This is still the case verseas, he says. The appellate decisin, hwever, prvides greater prtectin in the United States than has ever been granted. While thse reissue labels that have nt searched fr the rights hlders befre releasing lder wrks may cnsider the pinin t be bad news, sme lawyers pint ut that the decisin nly cvers acts f infringement that ccur in New Yrk -nt every recrding that was riginally made r is wned by a cmpany in New Yrk. It is unclear whether ther states will fllw the decisin and whether it will g unchallenged. Legal experts say this is the first decisin t definitively recgnize cmmn - law cpyrights in pre -9 recrdings. While 9 states have sme frm f statute prhibiting unauthrized distributin f recrdings, there are lawyers wh argue that many f the laws nly deal with criminal acts rather than civil cpyright infringement. It remains t be seen whether thse states withut civil legislatin will embrace cmmn -law cpyright prtectin t supplement unfair - cmpetitin laws. While small cmpanies that typically release unlicensed reissues will prbably cntinue t d s because it wuld be expensive fr labels t g after all f them, lawyers say, legitimate distributrs may be mre cautius befre ffering lder recrdings after this decisin. Naxs attrney Maxim Waldbaum with Schiff Hardin in New Yrk tells Billbard that his client has authrized him t petitin the U.S. Supreme Curt fr review if he deems it apprpriate. He believes the Naxs decisin is legally flawed and wrthy f review. The case is still pending n ther issues in the federal curt. Philip Lacvara with Mayer, Brwn, Rwe & Maw in New Yrk argued the case fr Capitl. infrmatin after a curt rder," she says. "This [psitin] is based n ur wn rules and the privacy statement we have agreed n with ur clients." She adds, "We dn't think they can ask ISPs t act as bailiffs and deliver claims in their name t ur clients." Brussels -based nnprfit rganizatin Eurpean Digital Rights is als challenging the music industry's legal strategy. Funded in June 00, EDRI cmprises privacy and civil- rights watchdgs frm Eurpean cuntries, with the aim f defending such rights in the infrmatin age. In a statement, EDRI says it "cndemns actins against Lil Jn Cntinued frm page Lil Jn will nt perfrm n the ringtnes, but rather prduce the music created fr them. "This is really a partnership fr Lil Jn's mbile rights," Blingtnes VP f A &R Jnathan Dwrkin says. "He and I are sitting dwn and develping a cmpelling prduct t really bring fans int his wrld." Dwrkin wuld nt cmment n the financial terms f the deal. Blingtnes was particularly interested in Lil Jn's signature shuts, which will be used fr vicetnes, vice ringbacks, vic greetings and what may be a first fr the wireless industry: vide vicetnes. The vide vicetne wuld feature a clseup f Lil Jn's face n the phne screen as he rars, "Answer yur phne!" r a similar phrase. A FIGHT AHEAD The mbile channel is shaping up t becme a battlegrund, especially Glastnbury Cntinued frm page ing in increments each year t a cap f 9 %. Eavis retains majrity cntrl f Glastnbury. Mean Fiddler is currently the target f a takever bid by a cnsrtium led by Clear Channel Entertainment and Dublin -based prmter MCD Prductins. "During the curse f next year, subject t all things being equal, Glastnbury and Mean Fiddler will sit dwn and wrk ut whether there is a way f mving frward tgether again," Benn says. Glastnbury began as a festival in 90. The inaugural event gathered a few thusand visitrs t Eavis' dairy farm at the Wrthy Farm in Piltn t watch such headliners as T- Rex. Included in the ($.88) entry fee was a free jug f milk. The milk may be gne, but years later the festival draws the cream f the wrld's talent. The lineup f headliners fr this year's event includes Cldplay, Kylie Eurpean file sharers." EDRI bard member Sjera Nas, wh is als a member f Dutch lbbying grup Bits f Freedm, claims, "In cpyright infringement cases, ISPs cannt check and verify that the cmplaint is valid." She suggests that the nly apprpriate way t tackle the issue is t g thrugh curt prcedures and have judges decide n hw t prceed. Kennedy admits that cntent wners, mainly the film and music industries, are eager fr ISPs t implement a "cde f cnduct" and d sme plicing themselves. At a March cnference rganized by Brussels -based lbbying grup when U.S. carriers begin ffering full -sng dwnlad services later this year. Bundling a full sng with a master ringtne, vicetne and wallpaper image, all frm ne artist, is a merchandising play labels have nt fcused n until recently. Thugh they are taking steps t cnslidate the mbile rights f their artists, majr and independent labels are facing increasing cmpetitin frm smaller, upstart labels and aggregatrs that target the mbile space. "The labels are lking at this and wndering if they missed the bat here," says Michael Gallelli, directr f cntent and acquisitins fr T- Mbile USA. Lil Jn & the East Side Byz are signed t TVT Recrds, which last Nvember launched a direct -tcnsumer nline initiative, selling dwnladable singles, plyphnic and master ringtnes, and mbile - phne wallpaper images. While TVT will retain the rights t sell master ringtnes frm sngs recrded by Lil Jn & the East Side Byz, it has lst the ability t package thse ring - tnes with ther Lil Jn mbile cn- MINOGUE: AMONG FESTIVAL HEADLINERS Mingue and the White Stripes. Veteran artists Brian Wilsn, Van Mrrisn and Elvis Cstell are als n the bill, alngside such newcmers as Kaiser Chiefs, Blc Party and Kasabian. The full lineup is available at glastnburyfestivals.c.uk. As befits ne f the mst ppular music events n the British summer calendar, the 00 festival sld ut in recrd time, mre than a the Eurpean Telecmmunicatins Netwrk Operatrs' Assn., Kennedy suggested a five -pint cde f cnduct "by which ISPs wuld respect the music and the music makers." "My pint was t say that cntent des nt appear miraculusly," he says. "It is the scial respnsibility f the ISPs t help us, but there are als gd business reasns t help." An ETNO representative says Kennedy's prpsals "have been nticed, and we are discussing what can be their fllw -up. It is bvius that we all have an interest in wrking tgether and finding slutins that cme frm within the industry, and nt thrugh regulatin." tent, unless it wrks with Blingtnes. Executives frm TVT were unavailable fr cmment. Lil Jn has been the label's bestselling artist fr the past tw years. He finished 00 with tw f the tp five titles n the Billbard indie chart, and three f the five bestselling master ringtnes n TVT's site belng t Lil Jn & the East Side Byz. In additin, the TVT site sells a mbile -phne wallpaper graphic f the grup, currently limited t the cver art frm its CD "Crunk Juice." The Blingtnes deal culd frce mbile cnsumers t chse between buying Lil Jn images frm TVT r buying them frm Blingtnes. Blingtnes, a divisin f Lagardere Active Nrth America, aims t becme a full- service label, with distributin slely in the mbile space. Accrding t Dwrkin, the cmpany has signed several artists fr mbile- distributin rights beynd ringtnes. "I lve ringtnes, and they ffer creative challenges, but we've gt ur eyes n full -track dwnlads," he says. "We're ready t be cmpetitive when the time cmes." week befre the lineup was annunced. The entire alltment f,000 tickets was gne in slightly mre than three hurs after their release April. In stark cntrast t last year, nline sales thrugh SeeTickets went smthly, Benn says. "Last year we had a bit f a nightmare with tickets, and there were literally tens f thusands f cmplaints afterward. S this time I brught in my wn team t manage sales." The 90,000 tickets set aside fr nline sale were snapped up within tw hurs, he says. The remainder were sld ver the telephne. Tickets fr the entire weekend cst ($.0). In an effrt t utmaneuver scalpers, pht ID will be required fr entry. Glastnbury's rganizers have cmmitted t dnate at least D. millin ($.88 millin) this year t the charities the festival supprts, which include WaterAid, Oxfam and Green - peace. "Even thugh Mean Fiddler is a cmmercial rganizatin, it accepts the unique nature f what Glastnbury is," Benn ntes. "S yu apply a slightly different set f rules." BILLBOARD APRIL, 00

57 HOB Cntinued frm page culd grw ur clubs a hell f a lt faster as a result. We like being in bth f these businesses." The news cmes after HOB annunced late last year that it had retained glbal financial services RIAA Cntinued frm page 8 Sme users have shared as many as,00 MP files and as many as,00 ttal files. Partly as a result f the jint cmmittee partnership with higher - educatin leaders begun mre than tw years ag, mre than 0 clleges and universities nw ffer legitimate nline music services, and thers are experimenting with filtering technlgy t reduce the incidence f illegal activity. "Withut questin, the jint cmmittee's effrts t respnd t the issue f illegal [peer -t -peer] file sharing n campus netwrks cntinue t yield significant dividends," Sherman said. "In rder t maintain the gains we've made, we must mve quickly t address this new threat emerging frm ihub and similar applicatins." Sherman said there are n current plans t g after the netwrk peratrs f ihub: 'We're waiting fr a ruling in the [Supreme Curt] Grkster case" fr directin. Lawsuits 0 The RIM filed its latest rund f cpyright- infringement lawsuits against students at the fllwing institutins: Bstn University Carnegie Melln University Clumbia University Drexel University Gergia Institute f Technlgy Harvard University Massachusetts Institute f Technlgy Michigan State University New Yrk University Ohi State University Princetn University Rensselaer Plytechnic Institute Rchester Institute f Technlgy University f Califrnia, Berkeley University f Califrnia, San Dieg University f Massachusetts, Amherst University f Pittsburgh University f Suthern Califrnia firm UBS t evaluate the ptential sale f its cncert divisin, which Trjan defines as "anything nt part f the club business." HOB perates nine clubs. While he wuld nt cmment n specifics, Trjan says,' We had ffers, firm frmal ffers in this prcess, but nthing was cmpelling enugh fr us t mve frward." In the end, it lks as if the price was just nt right fr an HOB Cncerts sale. The cmpany acquired its cncert divisin fr $90 millin in 999 frm Seagram, which perated the unit as Universal Cncerts. Surces clse t the situatin say n new ffer came clse t HOB's riginal purchase price. "Certainly the mst imprtant driver is value," Trjan says. Asked if a less -than- stellar cncert market and a flat 00 lessened the value f a cncert prmtin crn - pany, Trjan replies, "I d think there are peple that are nt as ptimistic abut the future f this business as we are, s the answer wuld be yes." At ne pint, it seemed as thugh a deal t purchase HOB Cncerts was imminent, with several high - prfile bidders in the running. Accrding t surces, amng thse cnducting due diligence and kicking the tires were Clear Channel Entertainment, AEG Live, Nederlander Organizatin, and arena management Cldplay Cntinued frm page "Our jb is t get t as many Cldplay fans as pssible, and we'd be flish nt t explit the wireless channel as much as we can," Capitl Recrds VP f new Blackstne Cntinued frm page 8 as directr f business affairs. He was later elevated t the dual rle f running business and creative affairs, wrking with such acts as Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park, R. Kelly and Britney Spears. "Training at Zmba is a unique backgrund," says Neil Prtnw, wh left his pst in 00 as the Zmba Grup's senir VP f West Cast peratins t becme the president f the Recrding Academy. When the tw men wrked tgether, Prtnw says, the privately held Zmba was a highly entrepreneurial peratin. It created a TROJAN: 'NOTHING WAS COMPELLING' firm SMG (billbard.biz, Feb. ). The surce says three final bids carne in, ranging frm $9 millin n the high end t $ millin n the lw end. HOB had been hping fr an ffer as high as $0 millin. Nw Trjan says HOB "happily remains in the cncert business, and we intend t be in it fr a lng time. We did nt cme at this prcess frm a glmy perspective. We're nt disappinted at all. But I'm nt sure thers share ur ptimism." Mst industry bservers d nt see the lack f an HOB Cncerts deal as an indictment f the cncert business. "I dn't think this is as indicative f the state f the cncert business as it is the mechanics f ne deal nt wrking ut," bserves media Ted Mic says. "We believe Cldplay is the mst exciting band n the planet, and they deserve a new and exciting campaign." The Cingular Sunds prgram aims t cnvince labels t release master ringtnes frm upcming singles befre they are available in any ther medium. In return fr the exclusive rights t debut new sngs, Cingular will give new business culture that excelled in executing a synergy between its label and publisher, he explains. "T the extent that the labels were successful and innvative, Richard and the publishing cmpany were right there, side by side, lking at pprtunities," Prtnw says. Surces say Blackstne takes ver a cmpany that has t make up fr a lt f lst grund. When Warner /Chappell became the first publisher t enter a license agreement with its sister label fr master ringtnes in 00, industry bservers wndered whether the parent cmpany had strng -armed the publisher t finalize terms that ther publishers were hesitant t set with labels. Althugh Blackstne lacks extensive internatinal experience, surces Randy Phillips, CEO f AEG Live. Thse wh were pitched n HOB Cncerts are subject t a nndisclsure agreement and cannt cmment n specifics f the deal. BLUES REFRAIN This is familiar territry fr Trjan and HOB. In 00, the cmpany retained investment banking firm Allen & C. t find a buyer fr sme HOB assets, which were pulled ff the market in Nvember f that year (Billbard, Nv. 9, 00). Nw HOB Cncerts is again ff the market. "I'm glad this prcess is ver," says Trjan, wh maintains that HOB was initially apprached by buyers rather than actively seeking them ut. "We did what needs t be dne in having fiduciary respnsibility t ur sharehlders. When peple are expressing serius intent in [purchasing] yur business, it's yur duty t yur sharehlders t listen t them." HOB wns, perates r exclusively bks 0 arenas and amphitheaters in Nrth America. Cncert assets include the amphitheaters, the cmpany's bking agreements and the utside prmtin business in HOB markets in the United States and Canada. Amng the HOB sheds are Hi -Fi Buys Amphitheatre in Atlanta; Crs Amphitheater in Chula Vista, Calif.; releases prminent placement n its Web site and tp billing in its mbile ringtne stre. The carrier will als send e- mail and text messages t subscribers ntifying them when new sngs are available and will prmte the band in its radi, TV and print advertising. "In general, ur exclusivity was predicated n the marketing say he has a prven track recrd in building relatinships. Attrney Ira Selsky with Dreier LLP in New Yrk ntes that Blackstne made "a cnscius and very successful effrt" t expand the cmpany's relatinships in Nashville. Selsky adds that Blackstne, with whm he has wrked clsely in the past, has a persnality that lends itself t meeting the challenges. "Hanging ut with Richard is like hanging ut with Le Blm," he explains, referring t the likable character played by Gene Wilder in "The Prducers." Like the Prducers, surces say, Blackstne will need smene t make enugh mney available t catch up with the cmpetitin. Crs Amphitheater in Englewd, Cl.; Blssm Music Center in Cuyahga Falls, Ohi; Smirnff Music Center in Dallas; the Grge in Gerge, Wash.; and Mlsn Amphitheatre in Trnt. HOB als has a lng -term lease t perate the newly renamed Gibsn Amphitheatre at Universal Citywalk in Universal City, Calif. FLAT AND HAPPY HOB reprted cncert grsses ttaling $0 millin in 00, accrding t Billbard Bxscre. "We had a better year than mst in being flat frm an earnings perspective," Trjan says. HOB cmpleted a $0 millin recapitalizatin plan in March with Ares Management investing $0 millin in the cmpany and lngtime HOB backer JP Mrgan Partners cming in with additinal investments. The cmpany has adpted an aggressive stance in the club market since the recap. HOB pened an eighth club in Cleveland last mnth, and a ninth club pened in San Dieg this spring. A new club in partnership with Harrah's in Atlantic City, N.J., pens in July. Additinally, three mre clubs are expected t pen this year r early next year. Trjan has said the plan is fr HOB t pen "five r six f these a year." spend and cmmitment that Cingular stepped up with," Mic says. "We definitely see them as a cmarketing partner in this." He says the respnse rate Cingular gets frm its ther custmer alert initiatives was f particular interest t Capitl. Fr instance, % f Cingular subscribers wh received alerts fr the carrier's "Star Wars Episde III" exclusive ffer pened the message. "That's huge fr any srt f marketing message," Mic says. Accrding t Cingular VP f marketing Jhn Burbank, the Cingular Sunds prgram will feature a new artist exclusive every week. He says the cmpany has deals in place with ther labels and artists t deliver additinal cntent in the cming weeks. "We're ging t give extra special treatment t bands that have the biggest fan base," Burbank says. "We're acting like a retailer and a new distributin channel fr their prduct." 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58 'Hpefully, The Musicians Feel Like We're Hnring Their Music' BY MARGO WHITMIRE Fr millins, the pening strains f Phantm Planet's "Califrnia" mark the start f the week's mst -anticipated guilty pleasure, Fx TV's "The O.C." Creatr and executive prducer Jsh Schwartz has turned the series int a music tastemaker, placing acts like Mdest Muse, the Killers and the Thrills alngside Phantm Planet in pp culture histry. The shw features a fictinal all -ages venue, the Bait Shp, and audiphile characters like Seth Chen (played by Adam Brdy), wh has a penchant fr Death Cab fr Cutie- thugh he misses the grup's Bait Shp perfrmance in the upcming seasn -tw finale. At, Schwartz was the yungest persn in netwrk histry t create and versee the prductin f a series when he sld "The O.C." t Fx in 00. He wrks clsely with the shw's music supervisr, Alexandra Patsavas, appraching the sng selectin fr each episde as carefully as a casting decisin. Musical success stries abund. Geffen act Rney perfrmed n the shw during its first seasn in January 00, and the fllwing week its self- titled debut saw a 8% sales spike. Indie newcmers the Walkmen enjyed a 9% gain in sales fr their album "Bws & Arrws" (Recrd Cllectin) after a seasn -tw Bait Shp perfrmance. Sales fr the Killers, the Thrills and Rachael Yamagata als climbed significantly in the weeks fllwing each act's Bait Shp gig. Schwartz tk a new apprach with the March 0 episde, weaving a fur -sng preview f Beck's album "Guer" (Inter - scpe) int the stryline. The episde als featured Beck's cver f "True Lve Will Find Yu in the End," a sng by cult singer/ sngwriter Daniel Jhnstn that des nt appear n "Guer." The album track "Scarecrw" can be fund n the series' latest cmpilatin CD, "Music Frm `The O.C.': Mix," which hit stres April. The Warner Sunset cmpilatins have sld mre than 00,000 cpies. "Jsh is passinate abut music, and he knws what he likes," Warner Brs. Recrds senir VP f TV marketing Lri Feldman says. "He's able t give a natinal vice t yung, up -andcming artists wh prbably wuld nt have had that expsure therwise. He is keenly aware f hw t use that music t best serve the shw, as well as the artists." Q: Did yu always plan n music being s integral t "The O.C. "? A: I didn't knw that it wuld catch n like it did, but I think in the pilt script I had, like, five sngs written in. It was always the idea fr me that the music we wuld use wuld be less reflective f Orange Cunty and mre reflective f ur characters' emtinal state. Q: Why d yu think the music tk n a life f its wn? A: Well, it was really surprising t me, because it was just kind f music that was n my ipd fr the first six r seven episdes that I liked, and stuff that had been ut there. It wasn't until we gt Alex [ Patsavas] arund episde seven r eight that we started getting music that hadn't been heard befre, but I think the template was in place frm the beginning that it was ging t be music that was really emtinal and nt necessarily n the radi. I think the reasn it caught n is because we were featuring really great artists wh really didn't have any ther avenues f having their music heard. Initially there were n pprtunities fr bands like Death Cab [fr Cube] t be heard in a mainstream way. Q: Nw that artists see the shw as a valuable vehicle, d yu get apprached a lt? A: Yeah, and we're getting really big artists. We lve music The Last A Q &A With Jsh Schwartz Jsh Schwartz: Career Highlights 99: Sells his first screenplay t Sny during his junir year at the University f Suthern Califrnia 000: "Brkfield" pilt prduced fr ABC 00: "Wall t Wall Recrds" pilt prduced fr the WB 00: Becmes yungest series creatr /prducer in netwrk histry with `The O.C." 00: Nminated fr Writers Guild Award n the shw -myself, Alex, the prducers and editrs -and we're nt snbs. We dn't say, "It has t be new, it has t be British and it has t be depressing." We just had this thing with Beck, wh's bviusly what I wuld call an established artist, and that was really exciting and a really big hnr fr us t be able t premiere his music. We're als talking t Cldplay's recrd label [Capitl] abut ding smething with them. S nw we have sme bigger artists, and we're as excited t be wrking with thse kinds f artists as we are t break the newer nes. Q: Are fans respnding well t the Bait Shp as a musical vehicle? A: Yeah, if it's a band they like. I think in the beginning I was just s excited, like, "We have the Killers! Let them play!" And I think as the shw has evlved, we really kind f gt a handle n hw t integrate Bait Shp perfrmances int the stry, s it became mre rganic t the strytelling. The respnse t that has been huge. Peple were just really excited t see bands like Mdest Muse perfrm, and Rachael Yamagata. And it gives thse artists a real chance t be featured. Q: Any plans fr an "O.C." artist tur similar t the recent "One Tree Hill" uting? A: "One Tree Hill" is its wn thing, and Gd bless, but fr us, it felt like at that pint it becmes t much. It feels all f a sudden that it's packaged and yu're trying t make mney ff f it, and sme f the purity f it is gne. That's my feeling. The sundtracks and Bait Shp are as big as we want t take it. Anything after that starts t feel a little like yu're frcing the crprate synergy dwn yur fans' thrats. Q: When yu're selecting the music fr each episde, d yu start with the scene r the sng? A: It's different fr each ne. Alex has amazing taste and is a guide t me, because Lrd knws yu get t busy ding the shw t stay n tp f everything. S she makes these "cmp" CDs every week that she sends me with abut 0 new sngs n them, and they're like, yu knw, crack. I listen t them in the car and when I'm writing, s smetimes I'll write sngs int the script and say, "OK, this is what we want t g after." And then there are times where we'll lk at a scene and Alex will make pitches fr what sng shuld g n there. Smetimes we'll try t clear a sng, and then we'll change ur mind and g a different way. Our editrs are really music- centric as well, and a lt f times they'll put music in ff the cmp CDs that they lve and inspire me, s we're always turning each ther n t new things and trying t experiment. Q: D yu ever run int licensing radblcks? Either a sng is t expensive r the band just isn't interested? A: Yeah. I mean, it's getting rarer and rarer that we get turned dwn. I think Arcade Fire wasn't really int it, but fr the mst part, we're getting a little spiled in that we're getting pretty much everything we try t get. I think the artists recgnize that we're fans and we're ging t treat their music with integrity and that it's cming frm the inside ut. We're nt trying t just superimpse what we think ur audiences will like nt the scene, we're trying t pick the sng that we think best brings up the emtinal resnance f that scene and I think, hpefully, the musicians feel like we're hnring their music -because that's what we really want t d. Q: Wh are sme f yur bands t watch ut fr this year? A: Turin Brakes has a new album ut that's laying n my desk right nw that I'm very excited abut. Just saw Blc Party last week, and they're great, althugh they've kind f blwn up nw, s it's nt really a new tip. Kaiser Chiefs, LCD Sundsystem, [the sl set by] Imgen Heap f Fru Fru. And Matt Pnd PA is smene I still try t turn peple n t. His cver f "Champagne Supernva" is n [ "Music Frm `The O.C.': Mix "]. He has this album, "Emblems," that anyne wh lves the Shins will really lve. f BILLBOARD APRIL,00

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