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3 ' DECEMBER 00 In Billbard ON THE CHARTS ARTIST ' ALBUM PAGE EMINEM Encre B DECEMBER, 00 VOLUME, N. 9 l OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW O.C.M.S. an GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Greatest is 0 Years Of Rck Q. a') CLAY AIKEN SHANIA TWAIN THE POSTAL SERVICE ISRAEL AND BREED CROSSFADE LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ EMINEM Merry Christmas With Lve Greatest Hits Give Up Live Frm Anther Level Crsslade Crunk Juice Encre VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW Thais What Ca I Dr stills The S gneture Cl ecc n LUIS MIGUEL EMINEM SKINDRED TWELVE GIRLS BAND ARTIST LAUSHER AND ALICIA KEYS Mexic En La Piel Encre Babyln Ray Eastern Energy TITLE My B MAROONS She Will Be Lved = LOS LONELY BOYS Heaven GARY ALLAN Nthing On But The Radi PAGE Tp f the News Cngress sends the Cpyright Ryalty and Distributin Refrm act t the White Huse fr apprval. Universal Music Publishing Grup signs Ludacris t an exclusive wrldwide publishing deal. Music The Beat: Shut Factry will rerelease legendary titles by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. Mvies & Music: Directr McG discusses the rle f music in his films during the Hllywd Reprter /Billbard Film &TV Music Cnference. Classical Scre: Perfrmers at the In Yur Ear festival in New Yrk demnstrate the exciting pssibilities f genre fusin. Turing: A Billbard Backstage Pass panel examines steep ticket prices and hw they have affected the turing market. R &B: The Billbard R &B/ hip -hp charts revamp their panel f cre stres t better reflect the retail landscape. 0 Latin Ntas: Msa's "Dámel" climbs the Tp Latin Albums chart, scring a hit fr new indie label Latinflava. Beat Bx: Cmpanies are turning t NewYrk -based indie Slphnic fr branded CD cmpilatins. Cuntry: Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin release their first studi album in three years, "Lnely Runs Bth Ways." Sngwriters & Publishers: Freddie Gershn's "Bradway Junir Cllectin" prgram helps public schls munt musical theater prductins. Studi Mnitr: The United Kingdm's Assn. f Prfessinal Recrding Services elects David Hamiltn -Smith as chairman. Marketplace Band Aid 0's update f charity single "D They Knw It's Christmas?" gets brad cverage in the U.K. media. The Indies: Metal label Century Media raises its prfile, thanks t an increased marketing spend fr the latest album frm Shadws Fall. Retail Track: After trimming its third -quarter lsses, Hastings raises its annual earnings estimate. Digital Entertainment: TVT launches an ambitius digital plan, ffering ringtnes and ther mbile -phne cntent directly t cnsumers. Glbal The 00 MTV Eurpe Music Awards get a friendly receptin in Rme. 9 Glbal Pulse: RCA will mark the 0th anniversary f Elvis Presley's birth by reissuing f the King's hit singles. Prgramming Tuned In: Radi: Fllwing Clear Channel's lead, Infinity severs ties with indie prmters. Features Bxscre Billbard Picks 0 The Billbard BackBeat 0 Executive Turntable Hits f the Wrld Classifieds Charts Chart Beat Market Watch The Last Wrd tá DURAN DURAN (Reach Up Fr The) Sunrise LASGO Surrender KEVIN LYTTLE Turn Me On JAY- Z /LINKIN PARK Numb /Encre JUANES Nada Valy Sin Tu Amr QUOTE OF THE WEEK ` Cuntry is indigenus, white sul music. That's why it's hard fr cuntry t cnnect in sme glbal markets., BRUCE ALLEN Page NELLY FEATURING TIM MCGRAW Over And Over q n JIMMY EAT WORLD Pain SNOOP DOGG FEAT. PHARRELL Drp It Like Its Ht SNOOP DOGG FEAT. PHARRELL Drp It tile Its Ht SNOOP DOGG FEAT. PHARRELL Drp It Like Its Ht SNOOP DOGG FEAT. PHARRELL Drp It Like Its Ht PAGE SHREK (WIDESCREEN) LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ CRUNK JUICE YO-y0 MA WITH ROMA SINFONIETTA ORCHESTRA Pla senermrricre ANDREA BOCELLI Andrea CHRIS BOTTI When I Fall In Lve ú NORAH JONES Cme Awa With Me ti CLAY AIKEN Merr Christmas With Lve CELINE DION Miracle MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Christmas Celebratin Artist Alan Jacksn Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin Celine Din Clay Aiken Eagles Elvis Presley Eminem Gretchen Wilsn Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Jann Arden Ludacris Martin Luther Msa Nas OutKast Ricard Arjna Shadws Fall Xzibit ARTIST & COMPANY INDEX (SIGNIFICANT MENTIONS IN THE S) Page(s), 9, Cmpany A &M Recrds Inc. Apple Cmputer Inc. Bruce Allen Talent Century Media Recrds Entercm Cmmunicatins Crp Fearless Entertainment H.L. Distributrs Inc. Hzstings Entertainment Inc. Infinity Bradcasting Crp. Latinflava Recrds Mt. Wilsn FM Bradcasters Inc. Public Bradcasting Service REalNetwrks Inc. SGZ Entertainment Sclphnic Recrds Sr ectra Systems Crp. TT Recrds. Viacm Inc Vi -gin Mbile USA Page(s) 0, 0 EVENTS CALENDAR Billbard Music Awards Dec. at the MGM Grand Arena, Las Vegas. Infrmatin: The Next Big Idea: The Future f Branded Entertainment -West Jan. 0, 00, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills, Calif. Infrmatin: - -9 Billbard Music & Mney Sympsium March, 00, at the St. Regis Htel, NewYrk. Infrmatin: - -0 Billbard Latin Music Cnference & Awards April -, 00, at the InterCntinental Htel, Miami. Infrmatin: - -0 billbardevents.cm BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

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5 Ludacris inks glbal deal with Universal Music Publishing Grup Ufrnt Tny Award - winning cmpser/ pianist Cy Cleman remembered TOP OF THE S Satellite May Nt Be Beynd FCC Petitin Asks Fr Indecency Regulatin Latin Execs Take An Indie Turn Prs, Cns T Wrking Outside The Majrs BY PAUL HEINE With envelpe -pushing air talent like Hward Stem and Opie & Anthny flcking t the less -restricted refuge f satellite radi, culd the Federal Cmmunicatins Cmmissin be far behind? Specifically, culd the FCC enfrce its indecency rules - which Stern claims drve him away frm terrestrial -at satellite radi? That's exactly what Saul Levine is hping fr. On Oct. 9, Levine, the president f Mt. Wilsn FM Bradcasters, filed a Petitin fr Rulemaking t amend Part f the FCC's pending satellite radi rules t include an indecency prvisin. ` While legal experts say subscriptin radi deeper First Amendment prtectins than free radi, Levine's petitin argues that thz FCC is, in fact, empwered t enfrce indecency rules at satellite radi and asks the cmmissin t "level [the] playing field." Why is Levine cnvinced the FCC has such pwer when the satellite radi industry-which is incurring millins f dllars in new lsses t hire indecency's biggest ffenders -is nt? Accrding t Levine's petitin, the FCC has already subjected satellite radi t Equal Emplyment Opprtunity and plitical bradcasting rules and plicies. What's mre, the petitin says, the type f radi service (i.e., (Cntinued n page ) Hward Stern decided t mve t Sirius Satellite Radi in 00 t give mre freedm t his ften utrageus mrning shw. BY LEILA COBO MIAMI -They may have gne frm flying first class t flying cach. But fr a number f frmer majr -label executives, a new life perating independent music cmpanies is prviding a refreshing change in their apprach t the business. "We have a lt f flexibility," Gerge Zamra says. He launched his wn label, Miami -based SGZ Entertainment, in cnjunctin with prducer Sergi LLORD: FEEL FOR THE MARKET Gerge in June after seven years as president f Warner Music Latina. "In this business, timing is everything," Zamra adds. "Because Sergi and I wn the label, basically we can d mre creative deals at a much faster rate." Welcme t the wrld f the new Latin indie, in many cases run by a frmer majr -label head. Here, the apprach is smaller, the verhead is lw, the marketing is creative and the cnsumer -fr nw, at least -tends t ccupy a market niche. In additin, the term "recrd label" has given way t the term "entertainment cmpany." In this new wrld, label, management, bking and pub- lishing fall under the same umbrella. "The management aspect f the business is very imprtant," says Oscar Llrd, wh launched Oscar Llrd Entertainment a little mre than a year ag after several years as chairman f Sny Discs. Based in Miami, OLE includes a label (Ole Music), a management cmpany (the Netwrk), publishing cmpany (Ventura Music) and a cncert BLAIR:'THE OLD WAYS DON'T WORK' prmtin arm (Encre Events), which prduced its first majr shw earlier this year. "When we apprach an artist's career, we lk at it frm the full spectrum," says Llrd, whse acts include established stars like Elvis Cresp and Charlie Zaa and newer nes like Tmmy Trres and teen act Tick Tck. "We see that what we d n the recrd side will feed the management side. Being able t d that, with careful crdinatin, is a big plus factr fr us." In fact, several executives have launched entertainment cmpanies first and labels secnd. "Yu can't perate in the ld ways," says Jerry Blair, a frmer executive f Arista and Clumbia wh created the (Cntinued n page ) Infinity Drps Indies; PD Splits In Cntrversy BY PAUL HEINE YORK- Infinity Bradcasting is nt cmmenting n a New Yrk Times stry that claims the cmpany fired its tp Rchester, N.Y., prgrammer fr accepting gifts frm recrd cmpanies. The news cmes as anther majr radi player, Entercm, annunces that it will n lnger wrk with independent prmters. Accrding t the Times, an internal Infinity investigatin cncluded that Jhn McRae, wh versaw rck WCMF, mdem WZNE, tp 0 WPXY and adult tp 0 WRMM, "had accepted an unspecified sum's wrth f gift certificates sent stensibly fr use in listener cntests r in statin prmtins." The Times cited as surces unnamed radi and recrd label executives wh had been briefed n the matter. One f them, a majr - label representative, said the label had rdered mre than $,000 wrth f Best Buy gift certificates t be sent t Infinity- Rchester, "care f" McRae. Cncerns regarding McRae's activities cntributed t Infinity's Nv. decisin t sever ties with independent prmters (Billbard, Nv. ), the article said. Befre ending relatinships with such prmters, Infinity had a plicy in place that banned exclusive deals with indies. Infinity's mve came n the heels f New Yrk State Attrney General Elit Spitzer's campaign against payla (see lined In: Radi, page ). Less than a week after Infinity ended relatins with the prmters, Entercm, radi's furth - largest grup wner, fllwed suit. Hwever, Entercm executive VP Jack Dnlevie tells Billbard that the cmpany had very few deals with indies left and that the mve is "simply the last step in what has been an evlving situatin ver the last several years." Dnlevie says the cmpany's relatinship with indies is "a business mdel that desn't wrk anymre... We're fcusing mre n direct relatinships with the recrd cmpanies, as ppsed t dealing with independents." Entercm senir VP f prgramming Pat Paxtn adds: 'We have decided t wrk directly with the recrd cmpanies, thus eliminating the need fr independent prmters. As many f ur statins have already made this mve, it makes sense fr the few statins that still wrk with indies t simply cntinue in the directin the industry has been mving fr the past few years." Several f the Entercm deals with independent prmters required prviding advance ntice f terminatin. Dnlevie says the curtailments are effective at the end f the year. Additinal reprting by Phyllis Stark in Nashville. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

6 Upfrnt UMG's Digital Gambit New Dwnlad -Only Label Is Hme T Established Acts BY BRIAN GARRITY YORK- Universal Music Grup is testing the all- digital waters with a new label venture that sells its releases exclusively thrugh dwnlad and streaming services like itunes, Rhapsdy and Napster. UMe Digital bwed Nv. with mre than a half -dzen album releases frm the likes f the Shazam and Ken Stringfellw f the Psies. Hwever, UMG executives are quick t cautin that the mve shuld nt be seen as a signal that the CD frmat is n the way ut. The strategy reflects stcking trends at retail as much as it measures the cmpany's cnfidence in the physical frmat. UMe Digital is a unit f Universal Music Enterprises, UMG's catalg and special prducts divisin. The digital label is designed t further UMe's missin f driving sales f established artists, nt discvering new nes. UMe president Bruce Resnikff says UMe Digital's fcus is acts that have a built -in fan base but dn't play int a mass -market retail strategy. Other acts launching with UMe Digital include Parthenn Huxley f pst -Jeff Lynne -era ELO; Rusty Andersn, sessin musician fr Paul McCartney and Ricky Martin; Eltn Jhn guitarist Jhn Jrgensn; Black 'N Blue, the band frm Kiss turing guitarist Tmmy Thayer; Shania Twain /Amy Grant guitarist Will Owsley; and rck veteran Dan Reed. "The retail envirnment has changed significantly with the shift t the big bxes and the rack accunts," Resnikff says. "There are s few recrds in the stres nw, relatively speaking, it's almst impssible t get many artists int thse places." As a result, the label will nt distribute physical CDs, either nline r ffline. Hwever, its cntent will be available t the digital arms f bricks -and -mrtar retailers like Virgin, FYE and Twer. UMe's mve lks t be the start f greater explratin f digital - nly distributin pprtunities by (Cntinued n page ) LUDACRIS: POTENTIAL FOR GLOBAL STARDOM UMPG Inks Ludacris Rapper Signs Wrldwide Pub Deal Ryalty Bill Heads T Bush Measure Creates Full -Time Rate -Setting Panel BY BILL HOLLAND WASHINGTON, D.C. -In a lame -duck sessin, the Huse f Representatives managed t pass the nly majr piece f cpyright legislatin in the 0th Cngress. It has been sent t the White Huse fr the president's signature. The Senate had already passed the Cpyright Ryalty and Distributin Refrm Act Oct.. The legislatin breezed thrugh the Huse Nv. with a 0-0 vte. The Cpyright Arbitratin Ryalty Panel prvides a much needed verhaul f the prcess by which statutry digital ryalty rates are determined and payments are distributed t cpyright hlders. Under the bill, a full -time panel mre knwledgeable abut cpyright a CHAITOVITZ: APPLAUDS PROCESS law and practice will replace the current part -time administrative judges. The part- timers were widely criticized fr inept judgments and causing exrbitant legal csts that shut ut smaller players. Grups all ver the music industry applauded the passage. "The new prcess will receive gvernment apprpriatins, s that small parties, nnprfit rganizatins and artists can affrd t participate in the prceedings," American Federatin f Televisin and Radi Artists spkeswman Ann Chaitvitz says. She adds, "The changes in the timing f new prceedings shuld nw prevent any lapse after the expiratin f the ld ryalty rate and befre the determinatin f a new rate s that all payments frm licensees shuld nw flw cntinuusly." Irwin Z. Rbinsn, chairman f the Natinal Music Publishers' Assn. and the Harry Fx Agency, says, "This act creates a better envirnment fr all cncerned fr the negtiatin and (Cntinued n page ) BY GAIL MITCHELL Universal Music Publishing Grup has signed Ludacris t an exclusive wrldwide publishing deal fr future wrks. The rapper, wh recrds fr Universal Music Grup's Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam Suth label, was previusly affiliated with EMI Music. "I wanted t put everything in the same camp," says Ludacris (aka Chris Bridges) f segueing t UMPG. His publishing entity is called Ludacris Universal Publishing (ASCAP). "We feel very cmfrtable abut the visin UMPG has fr us," the artist's manager Chaka says. "We want t help Universal grw and vice versa." That visin, accrding t UMPG wrldwide chairman David Renzer, includes increasing Ludacris' film and TV activity as well as his internatinal expsure. "Hip-hp is ruling the charts," says Renzer, wh secured the deal in EXCLUSIVE tandem with East Cast urban music directr Ethipia Habtemariam. "If yu're ging t be a successful cntemprary music publisher, yu better sign the best hip -hp talent. Ludacris has the ptential t be a wrldwide star." The Universal deal kicks ff with the Dec. release f his furth album, "Red Light District." Ludacris' previus albums, "Back fr the First Time," "Wrd f Muf' and "Chicken -N- Beer" have sld abut 9 millin cpies, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. Hit singles include "Stand Up" and Usher's "Yeah!," which als features Lil Jn. Ludacris perates the Disturbing Tha Peace label, whse acts include rapper Shawnna. Its 00 release slate includes Atlanta rck act Lazy Eye. With acting and sundtrack credits ranging frm " Fast Furius" t "Shark Tale," Ludacris is currently filming "Hustle (Sr Flw," a theatrical release due in 00. Cnfab Debates Music's Rle, Value In Mbile Market BY LEILA COBO MIAMI- Music, and hw t make mney frm it, tk center stage at Cnsect's MbileMusicCn, held Nv. -9 at the Ritz -Carltn Htel in Miami Beach. The smetimes intense discussins invlving music executives, entertainment attrneys, aggregatrs and carriers addressed the rle and value f music in a quickly evlving mbile marketplace. "Napsterizatin f the mbile space is a real threat," cautined Adam Sextn, VP f marketing and prduct develpment at Chaticm. His warning came during the rund -table discussin "Wh Gets What?" Of special cncern, Sextn and thers said, is the develpment f phnes that cme equipped with USB prts, facilitating the dwnlad f music frm cmputers. "This is eerily reminiscent f the early 000s, when dwnlads began and labels said, We want 0ß.' I hpe we wrk ut business mdels, r we will devalue music," Sextn said. Hwever, ther attendees were cnfident abut the enduring value f music fr cnsumers. "In tw t three years, mbile will be a huge business fr us," predicted keynte speaker Larry Kenswil, president f Universal elabs. But still up in the air is the issue f just hw the business will develp. While Kenswil said Universal elabs is examining prtable music subscriptins, cperatin with ther sectrs f the industry is essential. There seemed t be little cnsensus amng the different players in the industry. On the ne hand, many cmplained that the music industry as a whle hasn't dne itself any favrs. Even when aggregatrs and carriers want t play by the rules, fr example, they find that a sng has multiple publishers and that it can take six mnths t d a single licensing deal fr a piece f music. (Cntinued n page ) BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

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8 Upfrnt Tny -Winning Cmpser Cy Cleman Dies Bradway Icn C -Wrte Many Standards, Including `The Best Is Yet T Cme' And `Hey, Lk Me Over' BY BILL HOLLAND Cy Cleman, the Tny Award - winning cmpser /pianist and ne f the last great giants f the American shw tune, died Nv. f a heart ailment in New Yrk. He was. Cleman, wh is remembered nt nly fr his sassy, easy -ging, jazz- tinged meldies but fr his sly smile and drll bns mts, cllapsed after attending a Bradway pening - night party. He cllabrated thrugh the years with many f Bradway's best lyricists including Carlyn Leigh, Drthy Fields, Betty Cmden and Adlph Green, David Zippel and, mst recently, Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Tgether they created such evergreens as "Witchcraft," "The Best Is Yet t Cme," "Hey, Lk Me Over," "Why Try t Change Me Nw?" and many thers. The sngs, recrded by the likes f Frank Sinatra, Tny Bennett, Peggy Lee, Nat "King" Cle and Barbra Stresiand, became American music standards. Cleman's tunes als became jazz vehicles fr such artists as Bill Evans, Shirley Hrn and Carmen McCrae. Cleman als released 0 albums featuring his pian stylings. He received a hst f Tny nminatins and wn three times fr best musical scre. Fr many, the highlight was "City f Angels" (with Zippel), a Tny winner in 990. It was the first hit musical with a scre rted in jazz. He als tk hme the Tny fr "On the Twentieth Century" in 9 and "The Will Rgers Fllies" in 99. Cleman earned numerus ther hnrs, including inductin int the Sngwriters Hall f Fame as well as that grup's Jhnny Mercer Lifetime Achievement Award, and the ASCAP Fundatin's Richard Rdgers Award. Cleman and Leigh became a Bradway team with `Wildcat," starring Lucille Ball in 90. The shw ran fr six mnths and featured "Hey, Lk Me Over." In 9, they cllabrated n "Little Me," starring Sid Caesar. That shw included "Real Live Girl" and "I've Gt Yur Number." Cleman's next Bradway venture was "Sweet Charity" with veteran lyricist Fields. Gwen Verdn starred in this musical takeff f the Fellini film "Nights f Cabina." The shw was a majr success, yielding the standards "Big Spender" and "If My Friends Culd See Me Nw." It was later made int a film starring Shirley MacLaine. Brn Seymur Kaufman and raised in the Brnx, N.Y., Cleman was a preccius pian talent. He (Cntinued n page ) SLINE.. THE WEEK IN BRIEF Prducer Terry Melcher Dies BY CHRISTOPHER WALSH Terry Melcher, a prducer, cmpser and musician knwn fr his wrk with the Beach Bys, the Byrds and Paul Revere & the Raiders, died Nv. 9 at the age f. The cause was melanma, althugh he had als been battling prstate cancer. Melcher, the sn f actress Dris Day, als wrked with the Mamas & the Papas, Bbby Darin, Ry Cder and Randy Newman. Early in his career, he frmed the Rip Chrds with future Beach By Bruce Jhnstn, scring a hit in 9 with "Hey Little Cbra." He later became a staff prducer fr Clumbia Recrds, helping shape the pp music assciated with Califrnia, frm the surf music f the Beach Bys t the flk -rck fusin f the Byrds. Melcher prduced the Byrds' hits "Mr. Tamburine Man" and "Turn, Turn, Turn" and c -wrte the Beach Bys' 9 hit "Kkm," the Glden Glbe Award -nminated sng featured in the mvie "Ccktail." He als cmpsed sngs fr many f his mther's mvies and TV prgrams. Beach Bys funder Brian Wilsn tldbillbanl in a statement: `We were tw yung prducers, bth wrking in L.A., and he was smebdy I knew I culd cnfide in wh always understd. In the 90s, when I was in a `dwn' perid careerwise, Terry went ut f his way t try and light a creative fire under me. "As a prducer, he was a man f pwer and style," Wilsn adds. " `Kicks' by Paul Revere & the Raiders was ne f my favrite pieces f wrk that he did. Terry lved the Beach Bys a lt, and he was very supprtive f the wrk we did." "He was s cl, and he had it all," says Jeffrey Fskett, singer /guitarist in Wilsn's band and a member f the Beach Bys frm 90 t 990. "He is literally the ne guy that I never turned dwn. He had that air abut him yu wanted t wrk fr him, and yu wanted t d yur best wrk fr him." Melcher is survived by his mther; his wife, Terese; and his sn, Ryan. Wilsn says, "I will never frget his friendship, kindness and his verwhelming talent." Seacrest Hsts Billbard Shw Stefani, Mre Stars Added T Awards Lineup TV persnality Ryan Seacrest has signed n t hst the 00 Billbard Music Awards, which will be presented Dec. at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. At the same time, Gwen Stefani has jined Usher, Nelly and Green Day n the list f award -shw perfrmers. Adding t the firewrks, Paris Hiltn, Nicle Richie, Tara Reid, Big & Rich, Kelly Osburne, Gretchen Wilsn and Macy Gray have been added t the lineup f artists making special appearances. Additinal presenters, perfrmers and the awards finalists will be annunced sn. The shw will air live n Fx at p.m. ET (it will be tape- delayed fr the Pacific time zne). The awards hnr the mst -ppular artists and releases f 00, based n the year -end Billbard charts. Additinally, Billbard will hnr Stevie Wnder with the Century Award, the magazine's highest acclade fr artistic achievement. Tickets fr the shw are still available. Fr infrmatin, call the MGM bx ffice at Surces at cmputerized ticketing firm tickets.cm wuld nt cnfirm published reprts that the Internet arm f Majr League Baseball is in talks t buy all r part f the ticket service prvider. If the acquisitin were t take place, it wuld be the latest example f an entertainment cntent prvider taking cntrl ver distributin f its inventry. Earlier, facility management firm Cmcast -Spectacr annunced a partnership with in -huse ticketing technlgy firm Pacilan fr the latter t prvide in -huse ticketing slutins fr the Wachvia Cmplex in Philadelphia and Cmcast- Spectacr's Patrn Slutins ticket management business. Patrn Slutins is nw called New Era Tickets, and Cmcast -Spectacr has made a minrity investment in Pacilan. Cmcast -Spectacr Ventures president Peter Luukk has jined Pacilan's bard f directrs. RAY WADDELL Cngress fr the first time apprved $ millin in funding fr the Natinal Intellectual Prperty Law Enfrcement Crdinating Cuncil. Next year, lawmakers are expected t name what amunts t a "cpyright czar "-a directr fr the frmerly leaderless cuncil. NIPLECC was frmed in the early '90s and staffed with assignees "brrwed" frm the U.S. Trade Representative's ffice and frm the departments f Cmmerce, Justice and State. The cuncil has nt been effective, insiders say. The tuned -up NIPLECC is part f an intellectual- prperty enfrcement initiative launched by the Senate Apprpriatins Cmmittee. Sen. Ted Stevens, R- Alaska, the cmmittee chairman, and Sen. Judd Gregg, R -N.H., chairman f the subcmmittee that sets funding fr the three departments, were respnsible fr preserving the update prvisin in the mnibus spending bill. BILL HOLLAND Handleman C. reprted net incme f $. millin, r cents per diluted share, n sales f $9. millin fr its fiscal secnd quarter, ended Oct. 0. The cmpany's sales shwed a 9.% increase frm the $9.9 millin turned in during last year's fiscal secnd quarter, thanks t increased music market share fr the mass merchants Handleman services in the United States, as well as grwth in its Canadian peratin. Handleman psted an increase in net incme this year, but if discntinued peratins are cnsidered, the earnings in its fiscal secnd quarter were dwn frm the $9.9 millin, r 0 cents per diluted share, it reprted fr the previus year. Breaking ut results, grss margin drpped slightly frm 0.% f revenue last year t 0. %, while expenses maintained.% f revenue rati. In the six mnths ended Oct. 0, Handleman reprted net incme f $9. millin, r 9 cents per diluted share, n sales f $. millin, crn - pared with $. millin, r cents per diluted share, last year n sales f $. millin. Sales this year were up % frm the first six mnths f last year. Incme was affected by discntinued peratins, which lst abut cents per share this year, after earning 0 cents per share last year. Cunting nly cntinuing peratins, Handleman's earnings were cents per diluted share this year, cmpared with cents per diluted share last year. ED CHRISTMAN BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

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10 I_C ;pirlin Editrials /Cmmentary / Leiters Africa's AIDS Crisis Requires A Glbal Respnse Mst f us already knw smething abut AIDS in Africa, despite the shcking lack f press cverage. I recently traveled there and lved the peple s much, but was devastated t meet s many wh will nt survive because f the AIDS pandemic. Dec. is Wrld AIDS Day, and I have decided t get invlved and lend my vice t what is being called the mst imprtant mral issue f ur time. I'm writing this t yu, the industry and my fellw artists - smething I nrmally never d- because it affects all f us. Just fr a mment imagine the media hysteria and glbal utrage if millin Americans, many f them children, died frm a treatable disease because the medicine was t cstly. Imagine if anther millin peple were infected and had n hpe f paying fr life- saving treatment. Imagine the call t actin if millin American children were rphaned by this hrrific disease, wandering ur streets alne and unlved, with n ne left t care fr them. This is exactly what is happening thrughut sub -Saharan Africa. Yu prbably already knw that antiretrviral treatment has transfrmed the lives f thse with AIDS here in the West, returning them t health. But did yu knw that less than % f Africans with AIDS have access t this life -saving treatment? A Call T Actin UNAIDS estimates that there will be 00 millin peple infected with AIDS by the end f this decade, and withut antiretrviral medicine, they cannt survive. The disease is mre than a humanitarian catastrphe; it is a mral crisis that is beginning t destry whle cuntries. I believe this shuld be as imprtant as the war n terrrism; as imprtant as rebuilding impverished cuntries like Afghanistan My View. By Alicia Keys r Iraq; as imprtant as peace in the Middle East. This shuld be as imprtant as if ur wn daughters and sns were dying. Think hw we wuld feel if the drugs that culd save ur lved nes' lives were unavailable t us because f cst! Africans cntinue t fight the pandemic with tremendus curage, effrt and cmpassin. Make n mistake, incredible wrk has been dne by such cuntries as Uganda and Senegal t cntain their epidemics. n e lets Many African natins have excellent plans in place but lack the resurces t implement them. I want t take this pprtunity t intrduce yu t an rganizatin that I have been wrking with, Keep a Child Alive. This grup ffers an emergency respnse t the deadly "treatment gap" that is destrying Africa. Keep a Child Alive is a key player in a dynamic calitin that is rapidly becming a pwerful glbal mvement t stp the dying. These rganizatins are dedicated t actin. With every dllar raised, Keep a Child Alive enables individuals t pay fr medicine fr a child r family member wh culd nt therwise affrd it. The rganizatin has established treatment prgrams in Kenya, Suth Africa, Uganda and Rwanda. But nw, we ALL need t get invlved. We need t use ur talent and individual and prfessinal pwer and privilege t help create and fuel a glbal mvement. Otherwise, we'll be knwn as the generatin with everything except cmpassin. Keep a Child Alive is a new way t help: Yu can prvide the medicatin that will keep a child alive. And if yu lk clsely enugh, we will all realize that the true her f the narrative is YOU. Alicia Keys is a Grammy Award -winning J /RMG recrding artist. Labels MustAdpt PP Slutins David Fagin's bservatins and the prpsed slutins cntained in his Opinin page piece (Billbard, Nv. 0) are nthing shrt f brilliant. He illuminates, frm a very persnal and dwn -in -the- trenches viewpint, the incredible bstacles that music cnsumers, artists and labels face in discvering and hearing new artists. Fagin is 00% crrect abut peer -tpeer's likely increase in ppularity and the challenges that it represents fr terrestrial radi, music retailers and the majr labels (what's left f them), as well as the limiting effects n the creatin, distributin and sale f music -in any frm. There are slutins n the hrizn - Shawn Fanning's sncap.cm cmes t mind. The recent develpments in the satellite radi space, the incredible surge in sales f MP players and the cntinuing ppularity f PP netwrks pint t the bvius fact that peple want mre music and mre diversity, and they want t chse the frm this music cmes in. The custmer is king, and Fagin's suggestins shuld be adpted immediately. T ignre his lgic and nt implement his suggestins is t miss the bat -again. Duglas M.Tull St. Luis Dwnlading Reflects Peple's Ethics David Fagin's cmmentary, "The `Antidte' t File Sharing," is naïve at best. If the answer t file sharing were t put mre mney int develping artists at the label level and then bradcast these artists n the radi, the Kazaas f the Wrld Wide Web wuld be ffering slely unsigned and little -knwn artists fr dwnlading. This is nt the case. Anyne I've ever knwn t illegally dwnlad music has dwnladed tp artists. Sadly, the dwnlading phenmenn is less a statement n the quality f music that is being ffered by labels, and mre a reflectin f peple's ethics. I agree with Fagin when he says, "It's stealing, pint blank." Whether ne is stealing a CD frm a Twer Recrds r dwnlading a file frm the Internet, it is illegal and unfair. Until the public can wrap their minds arund that cncept, illegal file sharing will cntinue, and labels and artists will suffer. Mark Cliser Ls Angeles 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 prperty f Billbard, which shall wn the cpyright in whle r part, fr publicatin. Billard. 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11 Fr prductin du the Underdgs, sng quality matters mst Music POP / ROCK / COUNTRY / R &B / HIP -HOP / LATIN / DANCE / TOURING Bruce Allen says U.S. cuntry acts `aren't willing t wrk' fr glbal success Nas Shares `Street' Stries On -CD Set NAS:'STREETS DISCIPLE FEATURES A DUET WITH THE RAPPER'S FATHER, JAll ARTIST OLU DARR BY GAIL MITCHELL Whether Nas discurses n street life, plitics r lve, yu can always cunt n ne thing: He is nt ging t pull any punches. Nas' latest prject, the duble -CD "Street's Disciple" (Ill Will Recrds /Clumbia), is n exceptin. The Nv. 0 release finds the Queens, N.Y., grit picking up the persnal threads wven thrughut his critically acclaimed "Gd's Sn." On that 00 album, he waxed rhymes abut the lss f his mther and newfund lve with Star T ak/zmba Label Grup artist Kelis. With marriage arund the cmer, a mre cntent Nas greets listeners n the secnd half f "Street's Disciple," his eighth studi album. But n the first disc, the 0- year -ld channels Nasty Nas, the vivid stryteller wh crafted the seminal 99 debut "Illmatic." As Nas explains, the new prject tells the saga f a man married t the streets, the changes he is ging thrugh and the need fr a wman in his life. "I wanted t apprach this album frm a strytelling vibe again," he says. "The sngs deal with where I believe men's heads shuld be at, nt falling int bullshit. It may be lighter than 'Gd's Sn,' but there's still a lt f cntent. And I've als gt smething n there fr the ladies." That's a step back frm three years ag, when Nas fund himself in the midst f a high- prfile muth-ff with fellw New Yrk rapper Jay -Z. Out f that battle -rhyme cntest emerged "Still - matic," whse pening track "Ether" cuntered Jay -Z's tur de frce "The Takever." "Battling back and frth is tired," Nas says. "But I wn't diss the game fr the battles because that's what happens n the blck: One day yu may bump heads r there's sme miscmmunicatin. But life is abut getting yurs and mving t the next level. And hip -hp shuld be the same way: mving t the next level and mving beynd the battles." HOLDING HIS OWN Few cntemprary artists can execute enugh cmpelling sngs fr a single CD, let alne a duble set. But Nas fires mre hits than misses as he alternates amng teacher, lver, father and streetwise scial cmmentatr. Vestiges f his previus persnas surface n such tracks as the cutting "Cn Picnic (These Are Our Heres)." It satirically excriates the new millennium African -American steretypes reflected n TV and in ther media. "American Way" admnishes gvernment fficials as well as hip -hp artists new t the plitical arena. Nas then entreats peple t "Live Nw," which ends with the arresting beep f a patient flat -lining. The secnd CD essays mre f what persnally prpels the evlving Nas. He ruminates n (Cntinued n page ) Shut Factry Shines Albert's Brass Fr New Series It's easy t remember the '0s filtered thrugh the music f the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Beach Bys r Frank Sinatra, but there was anther act that ruled the chart. Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass spent an amazing weeks at N. between 9 and 9 and scred a slew f hits including "This Guy's in Lve With Yu" and "A Taste f Hney." Thrugh a licensing deal with Shut Factry, at least titles will hit stres again cme February via the "Herb Alpert Signature Series," Billbard has exclusively learned. The albums all riginally came ut n A&M, the label Alpert and Jerry Mss funded in the early '0s. Althugh reissued n CD riginally in the late '0s, many have been ut f print fr years. Feb. will see the rerelease f 9's 'The Lnely Bull" and 9's "Suth f the Brder." Als arriving that day is "Lst Treasures," a cllectin f previusly unreleased sngs recrded during the grup's heyday. The prgram will cntinue thrugh May 00, with releases cming apprximately every tw mnths, including the icnic "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" in April. Fr thse t yung t remember, that album's cver -a cmely yung wman cvered in whipped cream -was cnsidered quite risqué at the time and, as Alpert says, was "pinned up in the bathrm" f many ht -blded American males. Alpert versaw the remastering f the sets and the expanded liner ntes, all f which cntain additinal reflectins by him. The jurney back in time was a pleasant ne fr Alpert. "It has been wnderful," he says. "It caught me ff guard. I try nt t live in the past, [but] when I heard these tapes, I just The Beat. By Melinda Newman felt it wuld be nice fr peple t be able t experience it." The music, in additin t melding a wnderful melange f jazz, pp, trpical, R &B and Latin sunds, captured a perid in time. "There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '0s and '0s that felt mre like a happening," Alpert says. "Prductin wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're nt perfect, but they have an hnest feeling, which is what I was ging fr." The releases are all the riginal recrdings, except Alpert says he did rerecrd a few f his trumpet parts. Alpert and Mss regained cntrl f Alpert's catalg when they sld Rn - dr Publishing t PlyGram in 000. Fr Shut funding partner and COO Bb Emmer, the prject serves as a reunin. "My first jb was as a cllege rep fr A &M between 99 and 9," he says. Emmer and Mss ccasinally saw each ther while vacatining in Maui, and, recently, Mss apprached him t discuss the ptential pairing. "Shut Factry has put ut sme wnderful cmpilatins that lk great, s we were lking fr their expertise," Mss says.' We wanted t represent Herbie in a really, really substantial and tasty way." The primary audience fr the Brass' music, Emmer believes, is the - t - year -ld dem, but Emmer says the label's utreach includes much yunger fans. "It basically cmes dwn t publicity and making peple aware," he says. "It's hitting peple ver the head with a tw -by- fur." In additin t the Tijuana Brass catalg, Sny- distributed Shut Factry als plans t reissue Alpert's sl albums. STAY DRESSED: Paul McCartney will perfrm at the halftime shw during Super Bwl XXXIX. The Feb. game (Cntinued n page ) BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

12 Music Fr Directr McG, Music Plays A Vital Rle When peple think f film directrs wh are als passinate music fans, McG's name is bund t cme up. McG (whse real name is Jseph McGinty Nichl) shared his thughts n mvies and music during a lively keynte address at the Hllywd Reprter/Billbard Film & TV Music Cnference, which tk place Nv. - at the Renaissance Hllywd Htel in Ls Angeles (Billbard, Nv. ). The directr f the "Charlie's Angels" mvies and several music vides is als executive prducer f Fx TV series "The O.C.," which has given valuable expsure t up -andcming artists. In additin, McG has either executive -prduced r pr- duced several albums, including the Angels." Accrding t Clumbia Pic - "Charlie's Angels: Full Thrttle" tures, the mvie had a wrldwide sundtrack and "The O.C. "-related bx -ffice grss f $0 millin. cllectins. McG als directed the 00 sequel In a Q&A sessin mderated by Billbard West Cast bureau chief Melinda Newman, McG said, "I've scarcely ever drawn a difference between music and film... Music is always a character t me in anything I d." McG added, "I listen t my films with the picture ff. I want the stry t be prpelled thrugh nnexpsitry means: a snic presence that hlds the hands f the audience and takes them thrugh what the film is intended t be." Speaking f his early influences, McG cited his family and prducer Rick Rubin. "I grew up in a husehld filled with music. I was always making visual accmpaniments t the music I was hearing." After helming numerus vides fr such acts as Sugar Ray, the Offspring and Smash Muth, McG made his feature -film directrial debut in 000 with "Charlie's M'Àes& Music. By Carla Hay chay@billbard.cm "Charlie's Angels: Full Thrttle" that grssed $ millin wrldwide, accrding t Clumbia. As fr the music in the "Charlie's Angels" mvies, McG said, "I used music as a character. We used needle drps as scre. I was trying t d smething specific: having the whle film feeling like ur favrite mix tapes." McG said he believed the Destiny's Child hit "Independent Wmen Part " frm the first "Charlie's Angels" mvie was respnsible fr blstering the film's bx -ffice revenue. "We were lucky t have a sng frm the mvie in which they actually cite the mvie [in the sng] in a way that feels rganic and desn't feel like vert marketing t the audience," McG said. The directr nted that music budgets and getting the rights t sngs are nging cncerns. McG revealed that he had hped t use Van Halen's "Ht fr Teacher" in the first "Charlie's Angels" film, but it was "heartbreaking" when the band did nt grant the rights t the sng. The directr used Heart's "Barracuda " instead. He added that as a directr, his chice f music in a mvie is always met with pressure and differing agendas frm the film studi, music supervisr, film cmpser and the sundtrack's recrd cmpany. "It's plitics," McG cncluded. "It's a real balancing act." During the "Bm in Artist Bipics" panel Nv., Fx Music president Rbert Kraft revealed that Wind -up Recrds utbid all ther recrd labels t release the sundtrack t Fx's Jhnny Cash bipic "Walk the Line," due in 00. Kraft said Jaquin Phenix and Reese Witherspn, wh star as Cash and his wife June Carter Cash, respectively, d their wn singing in the film but first had t win the apprval f music prducer T Bne Burnett. Stuart Benjamin, a prducer f the "Ray" mvie and sundtrack, summed up the panelists' belief abut artist bipics, saying that it is "essential t tie up the synch licensing and masters first." On a persnal nte, thanks t all the cnference attendees, speakers, panelists, mderatrs, spnsrs and Billbard and Hllywd Reprter staffers wh helped make the cnference a success. IN BRIEF: Usher has inked a deal with Dimensin Films t star in an as-yetuntitled feature -film drama abut a yung man wh finds life inspiratin in music. "Ray" screenwriter James L. White has signed n t write the screenplay. Usher has anther deal with MTV Films/Paramunt Pictures t star in anther still -untitled, musically riented prject (Mvies & Music, Billbard, Aug. ). Pras (f Fugees fame) has purchased the mvie rights t Rbert "Iceberg Slim" Beck's life stry. Pras will prduce the film, tentatively titled "Pimp," which previusly had Ice Cube attached t it as its star and c- prducer. The film has nt yet been cast, and the prject is seeking financing and distributin. Additinal reprting by Marg Whitmire in Ls Angeles. Musical Wrlds Cllide-And It's Exciting Genre intermingling has becme a red -ht tpic in the classical wrld. Is this grwing trend f juxtapsing styles within a single album r prgram a radical (r calculated) mve meant t draw in new listeners, r is it an rganic - perhaps even inevitable -frm f artistic evlutin? A new recrding and tw recent cncerts within the Jhn Adams - curated In Yur Ear festival at Carnegie's Zankel Hall suggest that this cnfluence cmes quite naturally. The first Zankel perfrmance was by Paul Dresher & His Electr- Acustic Band; the ther featured Evan Zipryn & the Game - Ian Galak Tika, a Balinese gamelan ensemble funded and directed by Zipryn that is based at the Massachusetts Institute f Technlgy. Dresher, wh studied with artists ranging frm Lu Harrisn t Indian sitar virtus Nikhil Banerjee and West African master drummers, says that drawing upn nn -Eurpean and nn -American surces is lgical fr cmpsers f his age. "One f the things that certainly influenced many cmpsers f my generatin," the - year -ld Dresher says, "was an efflrescence f availability f music frm all ver the wrld and frm all perids f time." Dresher's music stutly refuses easy categrizatin, as his album "Cage Machine" (Oct. 9, New Albin) demnstrates. His scpe ranges frm the dazzling kinetics f the "Racer" mvement frm "Elapsed Time," a 99 du fr vilin and pian perfrmed by David Abel and Julie Steinberg, t the astnishing sunds f "In the Name(less)," a 00 piece written fr tw brand - new instruments, the quadrachrd and the marimba lumina. "The quadrachrd is a -ftlng instrument with fur strings that stretch abut 0 inches," Dresher ntes. "While it's acustic in its rigin, it is amplified via elec- DRESHER. USES INSTRUMENTS tric bass pickups, and the sund is altered by several signal prcessing devices and layered in lps." While the instrument is pwerful as heard n CD, watching Dresher play it- explring the quadrachrd's tnal ptential live nstage by bwing and plucking its strings r running a clth ver the length f an entire string t prduce therwrldly, eerie vertnes -is an even greater delight. "The marimba lumina," Dresher cntinues, "was designed by Dn Buchla. It's a percussin cntrller that lks a little bit like a marimba, but it is nthing like a marimba in terms f what it is capable f. Tnally, it's a MIDI cntrller, but its remarkable quality is that it's extremely expressive f perfrmance gestures." Zipryn, wh recrds fr Cantalupe Recrds, agrees with Dresher abut the excitement f musical wrlds clliding and says that much f his music als Classical Scre. explres this phenmenn. " `Tire Fire,' which we perfrmed at Zankel," the cmpser ntes, "is fr full gamelan with basically a rck band: tw guitars, a bass player and a By Anastasia Tsiulcas keybardist. I felt that these ensembles were kind f the tw extremes f Western and Balinese music. On the ne hand, yu have a village- riented, traditinal ensemble playing handmade instruments. On the ther hand, yu have a plugged -in, machine- manufactured grup. These are my tw wrlds. It's a deliberately uncmfrtable fit. There are tuning prblems, there are balance prblems, but that's the wrld we live in." KAPELL RECORDINGS? Mre than three hurs f newly unearthed perfrmances by icnic pianist William Kapell, wh died at age in a 9 plane crash, are creating an enrmus stir. The recrdings, made n three acetates, were dne by a devted music fan named Ry Prestn in Melburne, Australia. Wrking in his hme, Prestn recrded Kapell's cncerts as they were transmitted by the Australian Bradcasting Crp. As his health declined later in life, Prestn gave his treasure trve t his friend Maurice Austin, wh last mnth turned ver the recrdings t Kapell's widw, Dr. Anna Lu Kapell -Dehavenn. Kapell recrded fr RCA, and in 99 BMG Classics released "William Kapell Editin," a nine -CD set f his cmplete cmmercial recrdings as well as varius live and hme perfrmances. Daniel Guss, directr f the classical catalg fr BMG Classics wh als executive-prduced "William Kapell Editin," says his label is interested in issuing these newly rediscvered recrdings. "Hwever," he ntes, "we first need t reslve certain issues, such as questins f wnership rights and investigating the quality f the acetates." BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

13 The 00 Hllywd Reprter/Billbard Film & TV Music Cnference drew hundreds f industry prfessinals t the Renaissance Hllywd Htel Nv. - in Ls Angeles. Highlights f the cnfab included speaking appearances by directr /prducer McG, music prducer /sngwriter Glen Ballard, directr Garry Marshall and cmpsers Jhn Debney and Mark Mthersbaugh. (Phts by Arnld Turner unless therwise nted) "Simply Simpsnic Music," a panel presented by ASCAP and spnsred by Berklee Cllege f Music, featured members f the music team frm the animated TV series "The Simpsns." Pictured abve, frm left, are musicians' cntractr Murray Adler, arranger/ rchestratr Dell Hake, music editr Chris Ledesma, cmpser /sngwriter/ cnductr /panel mderatr Alf Clausen, ASCAP senir VP f film and TV repertry Nancy Knutsen, Billbard c- executive editr Tamara Cnniff, music scring mixer Rick Ricci and vcal cntractr Sally Stevens. (Pht: Maury L. Phillips) "The Bm in Artist Bipics" examined the rising trend in mvies abut real -life artists. Pictured, frm left, are Warner Music Grup senir VP f sundtracks Darren Higman, "Ray" prducer Stuart Benjamin, Billbard senir writer /panel mderatr Carla Hay, Fx Music president Rbert Kraft and music supervisr /music editr Curt Sbel. Cmpser Jhn Debney, left, and directr Garry Marshall, right, participated in the " Directr /Cmpser Cnversatin" Q&A sessin with Billbard c- executive editr Tamara Cnniff. Directr /prducer McG participates in the keynte Q &A sessin with Billbard West Cast bureau chief Melinda Newman. (Pht: Maury L. Phillips) Billbard president/publisher Jhn Kilcullen greets BMI senir directr f media rela- tins/new media relatins Hanna Pantie. Alexi Murdch perfrms at the cnference BMI spnsred the "Billbard Q&A "sessin featuring cmpser Mark Mthersbaugh and Billbard West Cast bureau chief Melinda Newman.... *... "Acrss the Spectrum: Changing Trends in Cmpsing fr Televisin," a panel presented by ASCAP, featured several tp TV cmpsers discussing the state f TV music. Pictured, frm left, are David Vanacre, Sean Callery, ASCAP senir VP f film and TV repertry/panel mderatr Nancy Knutsen, Denis Hannigan and Bruce Bughtn. ti(rila " -_" SPIDF:R-\I \\(^ =!l Grammy Award -winning prducer /sngwriter Glen Ballard delivers the Vanguard Address. (Pht: Maury L. Phillips) Sny Pictures Entertainment spnsred the panel "Anatmy f a Mvie: Spider -Man," which featured members f the film's team. Pictured, frm left, are film editr Bb Murawski, sund designer Paul Ottssn, The Hllywd Reprter editrial directr f features/panel mderatr Paula Parisi, sund editr Greg P Russell and visual effects supervisr Sctt Stkdyk. Cmpser /sngwriter Jn Brin perfrms selectins frm his film sundtracks, which indude "Magnlia "and "I 00 Huckabees" (Pht: Maury L. Phillips) Epic Recrds artist Kaki King perfrms at the cnference. ASCAP VP f marketing Lauren lssa, left, and senir VP f film and TV repertry Nancy Knutsen greet "The Passin f the Christ" cmpser Jhn Debney at his live perfrmance at the cnference. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

14 Music urin Execs Agree Tix Pricing Mdells Brken BY CHRISTA TITUS YORK -The "Ain't N Muntain High Enugh" panel at the inaugural Billbard Backstage Pass Turing Cnference raised several pints abut why cnsumers are balking at attending live shws. But Huse f Blues Cncerts executive VP Alex Hdges stated it mst succinctly when he said, "It's nt a debate -it's an abslute fact:" tickets cst t much. The cnfab was held Nv. -9 at the Rsevelt Htel here. The panel, which met the first day, was t debate whether prices have finally peaked. It als aimed t explre the impact that such technlgies as nline ticketing, print - at -hme tickets and auctins will have n prices. Since the tpic f high ticket prices had repeatedly risen during preceding panels, mderatr Judith Herbst, business manager f Keswick Entertainment Grup, tried steering the discussin tward the changing prcess f getting tickets t fans. But the cnversatin kept returning t excessive admissin fees and hw cnsumers are saying n t thse fees with their wallets. Hdges made his cmment while discussing whether there exists a market fr auctins. He nted that while artist guarantees drive prices, "the tp ticket prices always sell; ther peple are auctining tickets fr greater than the face value." But, he cntinued, "the back f the huse and the rafters in the arenas and the lawn at the amphitheaters are ging half -sld. S there's a prblem in hw t figure the scaling f yur prices." Jining Hdges n the panel were Bb Belber, executive directr f bking at facility management firm SMG; Ticketmaster executive VP f strategy and business develpment David Gldberg; Madisn Huse bking agent/manager Mike Luba; tickets.cm executive VP Carl Thmas; and AOL Tickets executive directr Gen Yham. Thmas agreed that the fundamental issue is hw t scale the huse. "The cnsumers have s many chices f hw t spend their entertainment dllar," he said. "There's nt a bad ecnmy; it's bad ecnmics. The mdel's brken... Until at every price level yu're striking a chrd with that cnsumer and that chrd is a balanced value equatin against all the ther chices in the marketplace, yur venues aren't ging t be full." HODGES: TICKETS COST TOO MUCH Luba nted that the industry "needs t fix the entire cncert experience." He said cnsumers are tired f cnvenience charges being added t tickets and then having t frk ver mre mney fr parking, fd, beverages and merchandise. He suggested hlding auctins where such csts are part f a package deal. Thmas said cnvenience charges result frm the millins f dllars that cmpanies such as his and Ticketmaster have invested in advanced technlgy t deliver tickets faster. He explained that the sftware, labr, hardware supprt, efficient Internet transactin engines and balanced n -sale reprts all cst mney, "and the way that ticketing cmpanies make mney is n the service fees." He added that "we are abslutely pen" t creative ways f marketing. Belber acknwledged that add - ns increase a ticket's verall cst, but the prices are already steep. He recalled that the prcess used t be that befre a tur went ut, the parties invlved checked t see the highest price an individual market wuld yield. "A lt f the agents are ut there [nw] saying, `I just want a quarter f a millin dllars per market, I dn't care if it's New Yrk City r Peria,' " Belber said. "That mdel, I think, is what we're partially saying [at] this cnference is brken." THE GREED FACTOR Belber pinted t anther factr: greed. "Older acts that came frm tw, three decades ag are nw cashing ut," he said. "The higher ticket prices are OK with thse bands, because they're getting the high guarantees and they're at the pint in their career where they knw this might be the last tur." As fr the yunger bands, Belber said, "All they think abut is the fan, and they think abut trying t keep the ticket price lw. The lder acts that are cashing ut are causing huge lsses, and thse f us that are in the facility management business knw that's very clear... The reality is [that it] hurts everyne when it happens -buildings give up their rent, in sme cases, maybe ancillaries, [and it] splinters dwn t the municipal cncern that wns the building." Regarding the ways cnsumers purchase tickets, Thmas said there has been a significant shift during the past three years t the Internet as the channel f chice. Hdges stated that wrd -f -muth is the biggest advertiser fr cncerts, and mre peple are buying reserved seats n the Internet than they d fr general admissin. He als thinks there is a market fr auctins. Yham bserved that auctins are becming mre accepted. He related that when artists frm a marketing partnership with AOL t sell tickets and create exclusive cntent, it extends the life f their tur nline. Spnsrships Mving Beynd Signage BY CHRISTOPHER WALSH YORK- Opprtunities abund fr tur spnsrs, accrding t the "This Nte's fr Yu" panel, held Nv. 9 at the Billbard Backstage Pass cnference. The artist- spnsr relatinship, panelists agreed, can result in successful turs that benefit bands, brands and fans. As spnsrship has becme a mainstream prmtinal vehicle and the stigma f "selling ut" has all but disappeared amng recrding artists, marketing budgets applied t tur spnsrships are n the rise, alng with the increasingly creative applicatin f spnsrship dllars and strategies. Marketing dllars have migrated frm traditinal utlets - bradcast and print media -t experiential utreach. It reflects a transitin t effrts better suited t autmbile manufacturers, alchlic beverage brands and games cmpanies like Nintend, Sny and Micrsft. That migratin is ne f tw prfund changes t have a psitive impact in the spnsrship arena, said Brian Murphy, CEO f Fearless Entertainment. Increasingly, Murphy said, cnsumer marketing cmpanies are lking fr ways t reach yung custmers n a ne -t -ne basis. The ther transfrmatin, said Murphy, a frmer Warner Music Grup executive, has taken place at recrd cmpanies. Labels nce saw third -party relatinships as a nn -cre functin. "That has changed fundamentally in that there is nt a music cmpany tday, n the recrd label side and, dare I say, n the live turing side, that desn't lk at the crprate spnsr dllars as a key aspect f hw they d their primary business," Murphy said. "If anything, it has becme the mst cre functin." Ozzfest, which will mark its 0th anniversary in 00, exemplifies the cntemprary tur in which acts and brands exist in harmny with ne anther, Clear Channel Entertainment VP f turing sales Carline Frye said. "Every year, ur spnsrship has grwn significantly as far as the number f spnsrs and spnsrship dllars," she said. "It has been really cl, especially in a festival atmsphere, t see hw brands becme part f the cncept, whether it's buying the recrd and getting it signed at the FYE tent r getting yur T -shirt at the [Jägermeister] tent. Yu can play [Sny] PlayStatin games. It's an extensin f the culture anyway - when a kid ges t a festival, it's just part f their experience." Experiential marketing is especially applicable t audiences f Ozzfest and ther festival cncerts, which, nt cincidentally, are avid cnsumers f videgames as well as CDs. "Sampling," Frye said, "is the N. bjective fr the games cmpanies we're wrking with. They lk at this as a way [fr cnsumers] t sample games, which is extremely imprtant. Like when yu g int a recrd stre, sampling a CD is the best way t mve prduct." SPONSORS GETTING A WARMER WELCOME Cntrary t nw -utdated cnventinal wisdm, fans may even welcme spnsrs fr absrbing expenses in an era f high ticket prices and surcharges. Frye referred t the Vlkswagen Music Ed. tur f clleges in 00 and 00, the car manufacturer's initiative t bst its prfile amng - t - year -lds. CCE c- prduced bth turs. "When yu can d a $ ticket n a cllege campus and the spnsr has underwritten a lt f the csts, the spnsr can be the her with the fan," Frye said. "It all wrks tgether." Amid ecnmic uncertainty and fierce cmpetitin, crpratins are finding spnsrships a wiser apprpriatin f marketing dllars than traditinal advertising. "While ad spending is dwn, spnsrship spending is actually up," said Richard Sherwd, president f Frnt Rw Marketing. "I think a big reasn fr this is that crprate dllars are being reginalized nw, as ppsed t buying at the natinal level." Thrugh lcal and reginal events, Sherwd added, spnsrs can mre accurately target a specific demgraphic with minimal waste. Thugh ticket sales were sft in 00, Sherwd said, crpratins are cmmitted t building a brand thrugh lngterm spnsrships. "The majr crpratins lk at this as a cyclical situatin," he asserted. "One year desn't make r break a spnsrship prgram. I think they're in it fr a three - t five -year situatin where they're building a franchise psitin with a particular event." Rick Zeiler, directr f marketing and brand develpment fr Sidney Frank Imprting, cncurred. Invking his experience with the Jägermeister Music tur -Sydney Frank imprts Jägermeister liqueur -he said, "We have t differentiate ur brand. It's a cmpetitive market ut there. We wanted t put tgether a tur that was special t the bands, the fans and build smething that's ging t be arund fr a lng time." Panelists at the "This Nte's Fr Yu" sessin at the Billbard Backstage Pass cnference were, frm left, Billbard staff writer/ mderatr Jill Kipnis, MAC Presents president Marcie Allen Cardwell, Carline Frye, Brian Murphy, Richard Sherwd and Rick Zeiler. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

15 DECzEMBa ER A fttist(s) l rd BQXS CONCERT VENUE/ DATE CO R E. GROSSES GROSS/ ATTENDANCE/ TICKET PRICE(S) CAPACITY PROMOTER BETTE MIDLER United Center, $,099 0,0 Clear Channel Chicag $00.0/$0, Entertainment Nv. STING Sprtpalais, $9,, Clear Channel Entertainment Antwerp, Belgium (9,0 eurs) sellut Clear Channel Entertainment- Nv. $9./$. Belgium BETTE MIDLER Frd Center, $9,9, Clear Channel Oklahma City $.0/$.0, Entertainment Nv. STING Knig- PilsenerArena, $9,0,00 Clear Channel Oberhausen, Germany (,00 eurs) sellut Entertainment Marek Nv. $./$9. Lieberberg Knzertagentur VAN HALEN KeyArena, $, 9, Clear Channel Seattle $/$,90 Entertainment Oct. BARRY MANILOW America West Arena, $0 9,009 Clear Channel Phenix $./$0,99 Entertainment Nv. ALAN JACKSON, MCI Center, $, 9,99 Outback Cncerts, The MARTINA McBRIDE Washingtn, D.C. $.0/$.0,9 Messina Grup /AEG Live, Nv. 9 Musicentre Prductins CHER Frd Arena, $,0, Clear Channel Beaumnt, Texas $9./$9. sellut Entertainment Nv. 9 STING T- Mbile Arena, Prague, $,,0 Clear Channel Czech Republic (,,0 Czech kruna) sellut Entertainment Serge Nv. 0 $0./$. Grimaux- Ticketpr CHER, VILLAGE PEOPLE Paige Sprts Arena, $,,9 Clear Channel Clumbia, M. $/.0 0,9 Entertainment, in -huse Nv. ALAN JACKSON, Frd Amphitheatre, $0,, Clear Channel MARTINA McBRIDE Tampa, Fla. $9.0/$.0 0,0 Entertainment Nv. METALLICA, GODSMACK Gaylrd Entertainment $00, 9, Clear Channel Center, Nashville, Tenn. $/$ 0, Entertainment Nv. BARRY MANILOW Bradley Center, $, 9, Clear Channel Milwaukee $/$,9 Entertainment Oct. STING Festhalle, $,,0 Clear Channel Frankfurt (,00 eurs),09 Entertainment Marek Nv. $.0/$9. Lieberberg Knzertagentur SARAH BRIGHTMAN American Airlines Arena, $,0, Clear Channel Miami $/$, Entertainment Nv. NORAH JONES, AMOS LEE Frd Amphitheatre, $, 0,99 Clear Channel Tampa, Fla. $/$0 0,0 Entertainment Nv. ALAN JACKSON, Charlestn Civic Center, $,09,9 Outback Cncerts MARTINA McBRIDE Charlestn, W. Va..0/$.0 9, Nv. 0 VICENTE FERNANDEZ, AZUCENA The Theatre at Madisn $0,,0 Hauser Entertainment, Square Garden, New Yrk $/$0 sellut OCESA Presents, Nrth Oct. f the Brder BRYAN ADAMS, SPEEDWAY Aberdeen Press & Jurnal $0,, Clear Channel Arena, Aberdeen, Sctland (,0), Entertainment-U.K. Oct $. BUZZFEST: VELVET REVOLVER, PAPA ROACH, Cynthia Wds Mitchell $00,9. Clear Channel CHEVELLE, BURNING BRIDES, EARSHOT, Pavilin, The Wdlands, Texas $/$0,09 Entertainment SEETHER, RIDDUN' KIDS & OTHERS Oct. 0 JOAN SEBASTIAN, Glendale Arena, $9,0, AEG Live, Elias MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Glendale, Ariz. $//$/$ 9, Entertainment Oct. JAY-Z & FRIENDS WITH R. DIDDY, RBC Center, $9,9, Atlanta Wrldwide MARY J. BLIGE & OTHERS Raleigh, N.C. $/$, Turing, Jack Utsick Nv. Presents BARRY MANILOW Pepsi Center, $9,, Clear Channel Denver $9/$,0 Entertainment Nv. SARAH BRIGHTMAN Air Canada Centre, $,. Clear Channel Trnt ($, Canadian) 0,0 Entertainment, TBA Nv. $./$0. Entertainment BEASTIE BOYS, TALIB KWELI Bell Centre, $,9 9, Gillett Entertainment Mntreal ($, Canadian) 0,000 Grup, Huse f Blues Nv. $./$./$0.0 Canada GREEN DAY, FOUND GLORY, Air Canada Centre, $, 0,9 Huse f Blues Canada SUGARCULT Trnt ($, Canadian) sellut Nv. $./$9.0 R.E.M., ANGELA McCLUSKEY FleetCenter, $,90,9 Clear Channel Bstn $ /$0/$,00 Entertainment Oct. 9 AVRIL LAVIGNE FleetCenter, $0.9 0,0 Mass Cncerts Bstn.0 /.0,00 Nv. THE MOODY BLUES Natinal Exhibitin Centre, $0,90,0 Clear Channel Birmingham, England ( 9,),0 Entertainment -U.K. Oct $9.0/$ BROOKS & DUNN, MONTGOMERY HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, $,9,0 Huse f Blues Cnceits GENTRY, GRETCHEN WILSON Atlanta $9.0/$9.0/9.0 /$0., Oct. BEASTIE BOYS, TALIB KWELI Cab Arena, $,000 9,00 Clear Channel Detrit $.0/$, Entertainment Nv. JAY -Z & FRIENDS WITH P. DIDDY, Hamptn Cliseum, $,9, Atlanta Wrldwide MARY J. BLIGE & OTHERS Hamptn, Va. $/$,00 Turing, Jack Utsick Nv. Presents LIONEL RICHIE, NINA JAYNE RDS Main Hall, $,, Aiken Prmtins Dublin (9,0 eurs) sellut Oct. $. WILCO, DEERHOOF, MANISHEVITZ Auditrium Theatre, $0, 0, Jam Prductins Chicag $/$ three selluts Oct. 9 - CHICAGO; EARTH, WIND & FIRE Ddge Arena, $,9, Clear Channel Hidalg, Texas $9./$9.,9 Entertainment Oct. Cpyright 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights resery ed. Bit-scres shuld be submitt ed t: Bb Allen, Nashville. Phne: - -9, Fax: Fr research infrmatin and pricing, call Bb Allen, M Turin Music Rival Making Mark In Atlanta, Sutheast Tania Taschereau, frmerly talent buyer fr Mad Bking & Events, has jined upstart Atlanta -based cncert prmter Rival Entertainment. Taschereau's duties will include assisting Rival senir talent buyer Lucy Lawler. She'll als be wrking with Brandn Mize, talent buyer fr the Vinyl cncert rm, lcated within the EarthLink Live cmplex in Atlanta. OnThe Rad.. By Ray Waddell '-. Rival has quickly becme a player in the Sutheast cncert scene since frming earlier this year, revitalizing the venerable EarthLink Live and prmting such dates as the Pixies' cncerts in Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., and the Beastie Bys at the Arena at Gwinnett Center near Atlanta with AEG Live. Rival als prduced its first majr utdr festival, Sulfest 00, at Turner Field in Atlanta. "Our ultimate gal is t cntinue t grw," says Tm Ck, senir partner at Rival Entertainment and wner f EarthLink Live. "Obviusly, we're excited abut ging int varius parts f the Sutheast, but ur cre business is EarthLink Live and larger venues in the metr Atlanta area" Meanwhile, Mad Bking & Events president Dacia Mre assumes talent- buying duties. TIMING IS EVERYTHING: Last spring, the Eagles played West and Midwest markets and sld ut f dates while mst in the cncert business were butting heads in the majrs back East. Nw the Eagles have successfully gne n sale in Eastern and Nrtheastern markets when many turs are gun -shy. Initial n -sales fr the first dates f their spring 00 tur f the eastern United States and Canada blew ut, with all shws at r near sellut (billbard.biz, Nv. ). "Despite all the glm and dm everyne said was left ver frm last summer, we thught we wuld d OK," Eagles manager Irving Azff understates. "We felt like we might have been ging up a little early, but I wanted t make sure we gt ut a little ahead f U." Azff says the Eagles à tweaked pricing slightly. ' "In mst places we drpped the tp price a tuch, but we flexed it s we had mre f the tp -priced tickets t sell, s the grss was the same." The Eagles are in the midst f an Asia/Pacific run that includes five nights in Melburne, Australia, three f which were t be taped in an - camera sht fr an upcming DVD t be released next spring n Eagles Recrding C. II. The March/April tur, which Azff calls "an extensin f the Farewell, I tur," will likely be fllwed by mre dates in 00. "We're getting a lt f ffers t g t Eurpe, but we prbably wn't d that until the fllwing year," Azff says. "We've gt the tw-hur NBC special cming in April, then the DVD, and we wuld like t get a recrd ut next year. We'll prbably tur the [U.S.] West Cast in late summer r early fall." ORGANIZED CHAOS: In additin t the Used, the lineup fr the inaugural Taste f Chas tur will include My Chemical Rmance, Killswitch Engage and Senses Fail (billbard.biz, Nv. ). The -shw tur begins Feb. in Orland, Fla. Als n the bill are Static Lullaby, Underath (East Cast) and Sasin (West Cast); the secnd stage will feature Bleed the Dream, Opiate fr the Masses and a winning act in each market frm a prmtin with myspace.cm. An Internet presale begins Dec. ; mst markets will g n sale Dec. t the general public. Tickets are $. Tur spnsrs include Nintend, Samsung, Verizn Wireless and Cnverse; Fuse is the media spnsr. Cnceived as an indr versin f the Vans Warped tur, the uting is prduced by Warped funder Kevin Lyman in partnership with Freeze Management and Daryle Eatn at Creative Artists Agency. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

16 TRACKSTM Music R &ú /Hip -Hp New Stre Panel Updates R&B Charts With this issue, the Billbard R &B/ hip -hp sales charts experience a ntable upgrade, as Nielsen Sund - Scan's panel f cre stres underges its first significant revisin in six years. The year -lng prcess was rchestrated bybillbard R &B/hip -hp charts manager Minal Patel, with assistance frm directr f charts Geff Mayfield and Chris Muratre, Nielsen Entertainment directr f retail relatins and research services. The revamp rughly dubles the size f the subset panel that determines rankings fr Tp R &B /Hip -Hp Albums, Ht R &B/Hip -Hp Singles Sales and billbard.cm's Tp Rap Albums chart. It als remves stres that have clsed since the last revisin. The panel nw includes 9 utlets. "I think the expanded urban panel is a great mve," says Rhda Lawrence, VP f urban sales and marketing fr Universal Music & Vide Distributin. "It has been a lng time cming." "On paper, the previus panel cmprised lcatins," Mayfield says, "but many f the chain and independent stres n that list had clsed ver time. Nw, with mre than 900 stres in place, the chart can mre accurate- IECEMa BERBifIbard z ' W y ÿ LAWRENCE: EXPANDED PANEL A GREAT MOVE' ly reflect the vibrant sales f the R &B and rap categries." Muratre adds, "Wrking in partnership with Billbard, we feel that the changes we have made t the R &B cre panel have helped keep Billbard's R &B/hip -hp charts relevant t the marketplace." The criteria fr the new panel are the same as when the first panel was installed in 99. Stres with a higher -than- average vlume f R &B/hip -hp sales and a HOT RAP Airplay mnitred by TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL DROP IT LIKE ITS HOT DOGGYSTYLF/GEFFEN/INTERSCOPE Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems Artist NUMBER Weeks At Number Snp Dgg Featuring Pharrell '' WONDERFUL Ja Rule Featuring R. Kelly & Ashanti 9 THE INCJDEF JAM/IDJMG BREATHE Fablus s DESERT STORM/ATLANTIC LET'S GO SLIP- N- SLIDE/ATLANTIC Trick Daddy Featuring Lil Jn & Twista v i GO D.J. Lil Wayne,r CASH MONEYNMRG SHORTY WANNA RIDE Yung Buck z G- UNIT /INTERSCOPE LOVERS AND FRIENDS UI Jn & The East Side Byz Featuring Usher & Ludacris BMF/TVT OVER AND OVER Nelly Featuring Tim McGraw DERRTY -FO' REEUCURB /UMRG 9 9 OYE MI CANTO N.O.R.E. Featuring Daddy Yankee, Nina Sky, Gem Star & Big Mat V ROC- A- FELLA/OEFJAM/IDJMG 0 WHAT U GON' DO Ul Jn & The East Side Byz Featuring Lil Scrappy z BME/fVT 0 BALLA BABY Chingy s CAPITOL LEAN BACK Terrr Squad V SRC/UNIVERSAL/LIMN GET BACK Ludacris 9 DISTURBING THA PEACE/DEF JAM SOUTH/IDJMG HUSH LL Cl J Featuring Aurelius z DEF JAM/IDJMG U MAKE ME WANNA Jadakiss Featuring Mariah Carey s RUFF RYDERS/INTERSCOPE KARMA Llyd Banks Featuring Avant GUNIT /INTERSCOPE YORK Ja Rule Featuring Fat Je & Jadakiss 9 THE INCJSEF JAM /IDJMG HOW WE DO The Game Featuring 0 Cent s AFTERMATH/G- UNIT/I NTERSCOPE 9 TAKE ME HOME Terrr Squad.t SRC/UNIVERSAUUMRG NOLIA CLAP Juvenile, Wack & Skip s RAP -A -LOT /ASYLUM JUST LOSE IT Eminem SHADY /AFTERMATH /INTERSCOPE BRING EM OUT T.I. 9 GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC.. KNUCK IF YOU BUCK Crime Mb Featuring UI Scrappy 9 BME/REPRISE/WARNER BROS. 0 NO PROBLEM UI Scrappy V BME/REPRISE/WARNER BROS. ENCORE Eminem Featuring Dr. Dre & 0 Cent 9 SHADY /AFT ERMATH/INTERSCOPE Recrds with the greatest increase in audience impressins. The ran tracks audience is rmmniled frm RAR /Hin -Hn and 9 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. s Videclip availability. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. brader selectin f titles frm thse genres are identified. Additinally, each individual lcatin must reside in a market that hsts at least ne radi statin that plays current hip -hp and R &B music. Thse filters help steer the Billbard R &B and rap sales lists t reflect airplay at statins dedicated t thse genres, rather than the influence f sngs migrating t ther frmats. This revisin adds independent and chain shps t the mix, as well as a swath f mass -merchant lcatins, including -fr the first time -stres racked by Handleman C. and Andersn Merchandisers. The number f Target stres has als increased significantly. The prcess relied n feedback frm the individual chains and rack - jbbers, frm each f the majr distributin cmpanies and frm labels. Patel utilized the resurces f Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems t ensure the presence f an apprpriate radi utlet in each market. "Billbard's expansin f the R &B cre -stre panel is a necessary reflectin f grwth in the genre," EMI Music Marketing senir VP Rnn Werre says. "The new cre -stre panel will prvide all music cmpanies with mre accurate reprting f sales in the R &B genre and help us better judge ur perfrmance in this key market." Mass merchants accunted fr nly.% f the previus R &B/hip -hp panel, but nw represent %. Independent stres and small chains still have a majr vice, hlding.% f the participating lcatins, cmpared with % in the ld panel. By cntrast, mass merchants accunt fr % f SundScan's verall stre sample, while independents represent. %. "Sme peple debate the value f including chain and big -bx accunts, but increasing the size f the panel can breathe new life int the urban charts and give mre flks a vested interest t fllwing them each week," UMVD's Lawrence says. "The urban charts have always been used as the pulse and cre -indicatr base fr urban music, and I believe the industry will cntinue t value them as such." "[The expanded panel] is a better view f the cnsumer," says Bill Frhlich, c- president f Sny BMG Sales Enterprise. "When yu lk at these numbers frm a marketing standpint, yu knw yu have a brader view f the cnsumer." Fellw Sny BMG c- president Jrdan Katz adds, "We're very pleased that this panel has been fine -tuned t mre accurately read the marketplace." Vibe Addresses Awards Melee Calls Fr Hip Hp Cmmunity T Develp `Means Of Accuntability' "We're ding the awards shw next year. If we dn't, it will be cunter t all the things we have been able t d with the brand and the culture." S says Vibe magazine president Kenard Gibbs after the fracas that interrupted taping f Vibe's awards shw Nv.. Since then, G -Unit member Yung Buck -wh allegedly stabbed the man wh hit Dr. Dre-is ut n bail after turning himself in t authrities. Calling such vilence "sickening," Gibbs says we have t pnder the hip -hp culture's mentality. "Vilence has unfrtunately been assciated with hip -hp since its beginnings." Gibbs als wnders what negative GIBBS: EXAMINES AWARDS SHOW INCIDENT effects the Vibe altercatin, as well as a recent brawl at an Indiana Pacers- Detrit Pistns game, may have n the marketing strides black art- lues.. By Gail Mitchell gmitchell@billbard.cm ists and athletes have made and n the participatin f hip -hp acts in ther shws. "There's a cmmn theme t all this," Gibbs adds. "Yung black males gne wild. Taking street mentality t reslve cnflict and bringing it int entertainment and sprts has gne unchecked. All f us within the culture have t lk at this and develp sme means f accuntability." Vibe's accuntability hits newsstands shrtly. The magazine's January issue will examine nt nly the awards -night incident but attitudes within hip -hp culture that may bear sme respnsibility. "This is paramunt in terms f understanding what allws things t get t that pint," Gibbs says. "That night tk frm the whle spirit f what the shw is abut: the best in urban music. We still have faith in the culture. We will rise abve and endure." ROOTING FOR THE UNDERDOGS: After signing a label deal with Clive Davis and J Recrds last year (Billbard, Oct., 00), Underdg Entertainment du Harvey Masn Jr. and Damn Thmas (aka the Underdgs) are quietly becming the new g -t guys. The Ls Angeles - based sngwriter/ prducers' musical stamp can be heard n new releases by Mari and "American Idl" champs Fantasia and Ruben Studdard. Masn and Thmas' 00 dance THE UNDERDOGS: SONG QUALITY IS KEY card is filled by such names as Omarin, Charlie Wilsn, Dnell Jnes, Babyface, Jamie Fxx, Craig David, Backstreet Bys, Keke Wyatt and Whitney Hustn. The pair first clicked in 00 with Tyrese's "I Like Them Girls." (Cntinued n page ) BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

17 , ` _A0B Billbard TOP R &B /HIP -HOP ALBUMS Sales data cmpiled frm a natinal subset panel f cre R &B /Hip -Hp stres by ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL EMINEM SHADY /AFTERMATH 00/INTERSCOPE.9/99 DESTINY'S CHILD NUMBER >V` /$/ GREATEST GAINER =$ COLUMBIA99 /SONY MUSIC.9 EO CDI LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ BME 9'/IVT 9.9/.9 Nielsen SundScan Title Weeks At Number Encre Destiny Fulfilled Crunk Juice PACESETTER =' = SNOOP DOGG DOGGYSTYLHGEFFEN00r /INTERSCOPE(.9/.9 R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece! HOT SHOT DEBUT J CHINGY CAPITOL Cm Pwerballin' USHER A LAFACE 90MBA (9/.9) JA RULE FABOLOUS THEINCJDEF JAM 009/IDJMG.9 CDI DESERT STORM/ATLANTIC/AG.9CD) Cnfessins R.U.LE. Real Talk EDITION BAD sy 00./UMRG(.9CD) One Lve 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS EMI/UNIVERSAL/SONY BMG/ZOMBA 0 /CAPITOL.9 CDI Nw RAY CHARLES WMG SOUNDTRACKS/ATLANTIC WRHINO(.9CD) Ray (Sundtrack) NELLY A DERRTY/F0' REEL00 /UMRG (.9/.9) Suit TRICK DADDY SLIP -N- SLIDE /ATLANTIC /AG99/.9 CIARA SHO'NUFF- MUSICLINF/LAFACE 9.0MBA (9/.9 RAY CHARLES A HEAR /CONCORD (.9 CD) Thug Matrimny: Married T The Streets Gdies Genius Lves Cmpany R. KELLY & JAY -Z JIVE /DEF JAM 99/ZOMBNIDJMG.9/.9 Unfinished Business QUEEN LATIFAH VECTOR/FIAVOR UNIT 00/INTERSCOPE (.9 CDI The Dana Owens Album NELLY DERRTY /FO' REEL 00"/UMRGI0.9/.9 Sweat 9 ANTHONY HAMILTON s SO DEF 0/ZOMBA (.9 CD) Cmic' Frm Where I'm Frm 9 YOUNG BUCK G -UNIT 009VINTERSCOPE (.9 CD) Straight Outta CaShville YING YANG TWINS COLUPARK 9/NT (.9 CD /DVD) My Brther & Me ALICIA KEYS J /RMG.9/.9) The Diary Of Alicia Keys LI L WAYNE CASH MONEY 00VUMRG.9 CDI Tha Carter 0 0 JILL SCOTT HIDDEN BEACH /EPIC9m /SONY MUSIC DIN EQ CD) Beautifully Human: Wrds And Sunds Vl. 0 JOJO DA FAMILY /BLACKGROUND 00/UMRG 9.9 CD) JJ LL COOL J DEF JAM 0099/IDJMG(.9 CD) The DEFinitin 9 ANITA BAKER BLUE NOTE 0(.9/.9) My Everything 9 0 MOS DEF RAWKUS/GEFFEN D0'/INTERSCOPE(.9 CD) The New Danger R. KELLY A JIVE 00MBA.9/9.9 Happy Peple/U Saved Me GUERILLA BLACK CZAR WIRGIN (.9/9) Guerilla City 9 LLOYD BANKS A G.UNIT 00 /INTERSCOPE.9/.9 The Hunger Fr Mre MICHAEL MCDONALD MOTOWNO0/UMRG(.9CD) Mtwn Tw 9 0 LYFE JENNINGS COLUMBIA 909/SONY MUSIC (9EQCD) [NI CRIME MOB BME /REPRISE 0/WARNER BROS. (.90 CO) Lyfe -9 Crime Mb BEYONCE A COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC ( Dangerusly In Lve LIL SCRAPPY/TRILLVILLE 9M/REPSEIWARNERBROS. 9.9 COI The King Of Crunk & BME Recrdings Present TALIB KWELI RAWKUS/GEFFEN000/INTERSCOPE(.9CD) The Beautiful Struggle AKON SRC/UNIVERSAL 0000'NMRG.9 CD) Truble PITBULL DIAZ BROTHERS 0e/fVr (II.9/.9 MIAMI. (Mney Is A Majr Issue( JADAKISS RUFF RIDERS 00/INTERSCOPE (.9/.9) Kiss Of Death 0 BLACK EYED PEAS A &M009 /INTERSCOPE(.9 CD) Elephunk LIL WYTE HYPNOTIZE MINDS 00/ASYLUM (.9 CD/DVD) Phinally Phamus BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY RUTHLESS.9 c) Greatest Hits 0 JACKI -O POE BOY 0/rVT.9 CD) Pe Little Rich Girl JON B E0/SANCTUARV URBAN.9 CDI Strnger Everyday JOSS STONE S -CURVE COI 9 JUVENILE CASH MONEY 00NMRG (.9 CD) DECEMBER 00 MICHAEL JACKSON Billbard MJJ/EPIC 900/0NV MUSIC (9.9 El CD /DVD) TOP R Mind Bdy & Sul The Greatest Hits 0 The Ultimate Cllectin 9 ) 9 0 ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL SMOKIE NORFUL EMI GOSPEL 9 9 CO) Nthing Withut Yu THE ALCHEMIST TEENA MARIE ALC9 /OCH(.9CD) [NI CASH MONEY CLASSICS 9NMRG.9 c) Title st Infantry La Dna VARIOUS ARTISTS A' UNIVERSAL/EMI/SONYMUSIC0MeA000NME (.9CD) Nw DE LA SOUL A0 /SANCTUARY URBAN 9.9 CDI JAY -Z A ROC -A- FELLNDEF JAM /IDJMG (.9/.9) The Grind Date The Black Album TERROR SQUAD SRCNNIVERSAL W' /UMRG.9 c) True Stry LIL WAYNE CASH MONEY 00/UMRG 9.9 CD Tha Carter. Screwed & Chpped 0 KANYE WEST A ROC -A- FELLA /DEF JAM 9O0 /IDJMG.9.9 The Cllege Drput THE GAME GET LOW i.scd [NI Untld Stry 9 ROY JONES, JR. PRESENTS BODY HEAD BANGERZ N OY REAWNP/BISAL.00WAINNI99 [N) PNISTA A ATLANTIC VAG.9/.9 THE DIPLOMATS PRESENT JIM JONES DIPLOMATS ncoch(9cd) Bdy Head Bangers Vlume One Kamikaze On My Way T Church 0 00crsTYLE 0RV9.9/.9 The Hard Way :) 9 9 MASE J I N BAD BOY/FEY REEL000r/UMRG 9.9 CDI RUFF RYDERS 0NIRGIN.9 CO) Welcme Back The Rest Is Histry DONALD LAWRENCE & CO. UERITY/OMBA.9ern.9 [NI I Speak Life VANESSA WILLIAMS LAVA 999/AG9e.9c) Silver& Gld THE O'.JAYS MUSIC WORLD /SANCTUARY URBAN I.9CD) Imaginatin LUTHER VANDROSS J /RMG (.9/ Dance With My Father FRED HAMMOND VERITY /JIVE/ZOMBA Smethin "But Lve (.9/.9 B.G. CHOPPA CITY 0/KOCH (.9/.9 Life After Cash Mney 9 PRINCE NPG /COLUMBIA 90/SONY MUSIC (.9 ELI CD) Musiclgy WILL DOWNING GRP00NG.9CO Christmas, Lve And Yu 0 0 SHAWNNA DISTURBING THA PEACE/DEF JAM 090 /IOJMG(.9CO) Wrth Tha Weight O'RYAN TUG /UNIVERSAL 00NMRG(9.9CD) O'Ryan 9 9 KIERRA KIKI SHEARD EMI GOSPEL 90(.9 CD (NI I Owe Yu 9 DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ TIGHT DEF/UNIVERSAL 0G/UMRG.9CD) [NI Dem Franchise Byz 9 J MOSS GDSPO CENTRIC 00/ZOMBA (.9 CD) (NI The J Mss Prject CAPITOL (.9 CD) Self Explanatry VICKIE WINANS VERITY /ZOMBA(.9/.9 [NI Bringing It All Tgether WU -TANG CLAN aus STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP (IBA c) Legend Of TheWu- Tang:Wu -Tang Clan's Greatest Hits ANGIE STONE J /RMG9.9c) Stne Lve LLOYD THE INCJDEF JAM 0009 /IDJMG.9 CD) Suthside MOBB DEEP INFAMOUS /JIVE 0/ZOMBA (.9/.9 Amerikaz NightMare CEO 0 : ä 00 HOUSTON CAPITOL CO Its Already Written RAY CHARLES URBAN WORKS SN/MADACYI9.9B c) Ray Charles Celebrates A Gspel Christmas With The Vices Of Jubilatin! 0 CENT A SHADY /AFTERMATH9M /INTERSCOPE (.9/.9) Get Rich Or Die Tryin' LALAH HATHAWAY MESA BLUEMOON009 /PYRAMID(.9CD) [NI Outrun The Sky OUTKAST g LAFACE 00MBA.9 CO) SHYNE GANGLAND /DEF JAM 9IDJMG (.9/.9) LIL' ROMEO NO UNIT "/KOCH (.9/.9) BOYZ II MEN MSM /KOCH 9.9 CO Speakerbxxx/The Lve Belw Gdfather Buried Alive Rmeland Thrwback THE DIPLOMATS DIPLOMATS /KOCH.9 C0) Diplmatic Immunity 9 AMEL LARRIEUX BLISSLIFEDOOO nan ci Bravebird 9 G-UNIT -UNIT009/INTERSCOPE.9/.9 Beg Fr Mercy BARRY WHITE IS LAND /CHRDNICLES9WBBWMEI9.NCDI The Best Of Barry White: 0th Century Masters The Millennium Cllectin RAVEN -SYMONE HOLLYWOOD (.9 CDI This Is My lime 0 MALL & MJG BAD BOY00N /UMRG 9 CO) Living Legends BEENIE MAN SHOCKING VIBES 9NIRGIN.9/9 Back T Basics TEEDRA MOSES TVTsn9 c0 [NI Cmplex Simplicity RAPHAEL SAADIQ POOKIEID09CO) Ray Ray -HOP CATALOG ALBUMSM Sales data cmpiled frm a natinal subset ac le W panel f cre R &B /Hip -Hp stres by Nielsen i SundScan F ç f c=i. á f. A=A ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title NUMBER Weeks At Number - LUTHER VANDROSS LV/EPIC9 /SONY MUSIC.9 E0/99) This Is Christmas RAY CHARLES RHINO 9(9 COI The Very Best Of Ray Charles ANITA BAKER ATLANTIC 09/RHINO.9 CD) The Best Of Anita Baker EMBVEM WEB /AFTERMATH 990 /INTERSCOPE (.9/.9) The Eminem Shw JAY-Z A' ROC- A- FELLNDEF JAM 9 /IDJMG 99/9.9) The Blueprint 0 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS TUFF DON /ISIAND*WMEI.M9 Legend: The Best Of Bb Marley And The Wailers 0 JAY-Z FREEZE/ ROC- A- FELLA00N /CAPITOL.9/. Reasnable Dubt THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. A' BAD BOY 00ar/SMRG(.9mm Ready T Die 0 LAURYN HILL A RUFFHOUSE/ COLUMBIA90 /SONY MUSIC (.9 NV.9) The Miseducatin Of Lauryn Hill 9 0 EMINEM A' WEB /AFTERMATH 909 /INTERSCOPE(.9/.9 The Marshall Mathers LP 9 SADE A EPIC /SONY MUSIC nee mutes) The Best Of Sade - MAIAHCAREY ' COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC (.9 EQ/.9 Merry Christmas AL GREEN A' HI/THE RIGHT STUFF 000/CAPITOL (0.9/.9) Greatest Hits 9 9 LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ A' BME SIWTI.9B /9) Kings Of Crunk 0 - DESTINY'S CHILD MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA 09/SONY MUSIC (.9 Ell /.9 B Days OfChristmas z STEV IE WONDER MOTOWN/UTV9Ne/UME MIS CD) The Definitive Cllectin ' 9 DR. DRE A' DEATH ROW 000 /KOCH 9.9/.99 The Chrnic 9 - THE TEMPTATIONS MOTOWWCHRONICLESBKIBINME.99.9 The Best Of The Temptatins: 0th Century Masters The Christmas Cllectin ' DR. DRE AB AFTERMATH 90 /INTERSCOPE (.9/.9) Dr. Ore -00 r 0 P/AC AMARO/DEATH ROW 900/INTERSCOPE(9.9.9) Greatest Hits 09 e - MICHAEL JACKSON 'B EPIC 0/SONY MUSIC (.9EWI.9 Thriller : EMINEM ' WEB /AFTERMATH 90 /INTERSCOPE9/.9 The Slim Shady LP 9 THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 0 BAD By /MRG9.9/.9) Life After Death PPC ' DEATH ROW 00/KOCH 9.9/.9 All Eyes On Me 0 - THE TEMPTATIONS GORDY /MOTOWN 9/UME 9//9 Give Lve At Christmas Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Catalg albums are -year ld titles that have fallen belw N. 00 n The Billbard 00 r reissues f der albums. Ttal Chart Weeks clumn reflects cmbined weeks title has appeared n the Tp R &B /Hip-Hp Albums and Tp R &B /Hi -Hp Catalg Albums. Recrdng Industry Assn.. Of America (RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units (Gld). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f millin units (Platinuml. RIAA certificatin fr net hipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's mufti -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: Certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units Or). A Certificatin f 00,000 units ( Pletin). Certificatin f 00,000 units (Multi- Platin). 'Asterisk Indicates LP is available. Mst ape prices, and CO prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked ED, and all ther CO prices, are equivalent prices which are prjected frm whlesale prices. Greatest Gainer shws charts largest unit increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage grwth. Heatseeker Impact shws albums remved frm Heat - seekers this week. [N] indicates past r present Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

18 i! DECEMBER ' BiIIbard HOTR&B/I"FI"PAP TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) ' NUMBER Oa, Drp It Like It's Ht. YYk% SNOOPDOGG IDOGGYSTREGEFTMNIBGCOPD,? ze My B S USHERAND AUCIA KEYS (LAFACE/ZOMBA) Wnderful JA RULE (THEINC/DEFJAWIOJMG) Let Me Lve Yu MARIS RD STREET /J/RMGI -- Breathe FABOLOUS (DESERT STORWATLANTIC) G D.J. LIL WAYNE (CASH MONEYNMRGI Charlene 0 ANTHONY HAMILTON ISO SO DEF/ZOMBAI Shrty Wanne Ride VOUNG BUCK (G- ONR/INTERSCOPEI _, Step CIAM ISHO'NUFFMOSICUNERAMCF0MBA Diary 0 ALICIA KEYS (JAIMG) Let's G TRICK DADDY ISUP- N- SUDF/ATIANTIC) s TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) Lean Back TERROR SQUAD ISRCNNIVERSAL/UMAGI W Nlia Clap JUVENILE, WACK0 SKIP TRAP -A- LOT /ASYLUM Hw We D THE GAME FEAT. 0 CENT IAFTERMATW 'G- UNRANTERSCOPEI Knck If Yu Buck CRIME MOB IBMF/REPRISF/WARNER Lcked Up AKON FEAT. STYLES P. Bring Em Out T.I. IGRANO HUSRF/ATIANTICI My Place BROS.) ISRCNNNERSAW MRGI NELLO FEAT JAHEIM IOEflflY/FO'AEEWMRGI Balla Baby CHINGY ICAPITOU _ What We D Here BRIAN MCKNIGHT IMOTOWNNMRG) N Prblem UL SCMPPY IBMEAREPRISFNVARNER BROS.) I Smke, I Drank BODY HEAD BANGERS (BODY HEAD/UNIVERSAL/UMRG) Lvers And Friends 9 Big Chips LIL JON I) THE EAST SIDE BOYZ IBMERVT) R. KELLY &JAY- IJIVE/DEF JAM/II/MG) Sldier 0 Sme Cut DESTINY'S CHILD (COLUMBIA/SUM) l TRILLWLLE FEAT. GUTTY (BMBREPRISEANARNER BROS.) Lse My Breath _? DESTINY'S CHILD (COLUMBIA/SUM) U Make Me Wanna JADMISS RAT MARIAN CMEY Ia %FRYOERMNTERSCGPEI t a_ Hush QE 9 Gdies LLCOOLJ FEAT. AURELIUS (DEFJAM/IDJMG) it Oye Mi Cant RARE. (ROC- A- FELLNDEF JAMADJMG) If I Ain't Gt Yu* AUCIA KEYS Whatever WRMS) JILL SCOTT (HIDDEN BEACH/EPIC/SUM) a) W _ F TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) Over And Over. RELIT FEAT. TIM MCGRAW IDERRTY -FO' REEI/CURBNMRGIAA Hey Nw (Mean Muggin) Hw Des It Feel? 0 Encre %ZIBITFEAT NERl HILSON ICOLUMBINSUM) ANITA BAKER (BLUE NOFNIflGINI EMINEM ISHAOY /AFTERMATFSIINTERSCOPEI A Rse By Any Other Name TEENA MARIE (CASH MONEY CLASSICSNMASI 9 Yu're The One GUERILLA BIACK ICZATLNIRGIN) Tempted T Tauch RUPEE (ATLANTIC) 9 S Sexy Chapter II (Like This) TWISTA FEAT. R. KELLY (ATLANTIC( Westside Stry - Truth Is FANTASIA IJIRMG) Red Carpet (Pause, Flashy IID GAME FFAT 0 CENT (AFTERMATH/f- UNRANTYASCOPEI R. KELLY IJIVE/ZOMBA) Ordinary Peple JOHN LEGEND (GOOD MUSIC/COLUMBWSUM) Breathe, Stretch, Shake MASE FEAT. P., DIODO (BAD BOY/F0' REEUUMRG) tr Frever, Fr Always, Fr Lve LALAH HATHAWAY (GRPNERVE) Can't Wait One Millin Times GERALD LEVERT (ATLANTIC) AVANT IDREAMWORKS /GEFFEWINTERSCOPEI

19 TOP DECEMBER 00 Y w Ñ a S t Y m ÿ LI Billbard Sales data cmpiled by N. Nielsen m SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL NUMBER git Weeks At Number - LUIS MIGUEL Mexic En La Piel WARNER LATINA 9T/ (.9 COI MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Razn De Sbra FONOVISA NG (.9 CO) JUANES A Mi Sangre SURCO 00/UNIVERSAL LATINO (.9 CD) GRUPO CLIMAX Za Za Za MUSART 09/BALBOA 9 CD) [N] - VARIOUS ARTISTS Las Mas Bailables Del Pasit Duranguense DIVA 0 (.9 CD) LOS TEMERARIOS Regal De Amr 9 FONOVISA NG (.9 CD) A.B. QUINTANILLA III PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS A Fueg EMI LATIN CO) K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA Pensand En UNIVISION 0/0 (.9 CD) IN] DADDY YANKEE Barri Fin 0 EL CARTEL 09N.9 CD) tr/g HOT SHOT DEBUT ='r CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA Miles De Vces En Viv FONOVISA /ÚG (.9 CD) [N] 0 LOS TEMERARIOS La Mejr...Cleccin e SISA Oá(.9 CD) GREATEST GAINER $ JUAN LUIS GUERRAO Para Ti VENE 000 /UNIVERSAL LATINO (.9 CO) [N] ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ A Crazn Abiert SONY DISCOS 9.9 EO CDI [N] MONCHY & ALEXANDRA Hasta El Fin JAN 9/SONY DISCOS.9 EQ CD) [N] DON FRANCISCO Mi Hmenaje Gigante A La Musica Nrtena UNIVISION Ú/U.9 CO) [Lr] LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE 0 Nrtenas Famsas FONOVISA (.9 CDI 9 VICENTE FERNANDEZ Tesrs De Cleccin SONY DISCOS 9 )9.9 EQ Cm [N] ALEJANDRO SANZ Grandes Exits 9-0 WARNER LATINA 90 (9 CDI [NI 9 0 JENNIFER PENA Hustn: Rde Live UNIVISION 0/U.9 MDR] 0 9 LOS TEMERARIOS Veintisiete 0 FONOVISA /ÚG (.9 CD) - UNIVISION 0N0/UG (.9 CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS Lunytunes Presents La Misin : The Take Over MAS FLOW 00/UNIVERSAL LATINO (.9 CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS Arciris Musical Mexican 00 LUNYTUNES La Trayectria MAS FLOW 000/UNIVERSAL LATINO (.9 CS) [N] CD 0 9 e ADAN CHALINO SANCHEZ Mi Histria MOON/COSTAROLA 90/SONY DISCOS.9 EQ CDBVD) DUELO Mi Histria Musical UNIVISION 0G.9 CDI[N] LOS CAMINANTES Tesrs De Cleccin: Puras Rancheras SONY DISCOS EQ CD) [N] 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS El Mvimient De Hip Hp En Espanl UN (VISION 9/0G (9 CD) LOS BUKIS L Mejr De Nstrs 9-9 FONOVISA /yú.9 W ) [Ni 0 IVY QUEEN PERFECT IMAGE 0 /UNIVERSAL LATINO.9 CO) BANDA ARKANGEL R - SONY DISCOS 9 9 EG CDI [NI Title Real Tesrs De Cleccin MARC ANTHONY Vati La Pena SONY DISCOS 90 (.9 ES CDI É PACESETTER PEPE AGUILAR N Sy De Nadie SONY DISCOS 9.9 EQ CDI [H] 0 - LUPILLO RIVERA Pa Crrids UNIVISION 0/U(.9 CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS Agarrn Duranguense DISH 90 (.9 CDBVD) BANDA EL RECODO En Viv FONOVISA /ÚG (.9 C0) [N] 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Ls Sencills Duranguenses Del An DIVA 9.9 CD /DVD) GLORIA ESTEFAN Amr Y Suerte: Exits Rmantics SONY DISCOS 9(.9 EQ CDBVD) 0 MOSA Damel LATINFLAVA 0 (.9 CD) 9 BRAZEROS MUSICAL El Grup Jven Duranguense DISA 09 )9 CD) [NI 0 DJ NELSON Flw La Discteka FLOW000/UNIVERSAL LATINO (.9 CD) IN] 9 INTOCABLE Mments De Cleccin EMI LATIN 9 (.9 CD) 9 GRUPO BRYNDIS El Quint Trag DISA 09 ( 9 CD) [NI MARC ANTHONY A Amar Sin Mentiras 9 SONY DISCOS 99.9 EQ CDI EL GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO Aqui Estams Y De Verdad SONY DISCOS 9 9 EQ CD). DON OMAR The Last Dn: Live, Vl. VI 0.9 CD) [Ni ; JAVIER SOLIS Tesrs De Cleccin SONY DISCOS 9 (9.9 EO CD) [NI 0 E VARIOUS ARTISTS Ls 0 Sencills Del An Y Sus Vides DISA 9.9 CDBVD) JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ Tesrs Musicales SONY DISCOS 909 (9.9 EQ CO) Z á Ñ - - Y W 09 h ; Ñ E ALBUMS.. á ui x W ARTIST Title. IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL 9 RAMON AYALA Y SUS BRAVOS DEL NORTE Antlgia De Un Rey FREDDIE 90.9 CO) [NI 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Man A Man, Durang Vs. Chicag DISA 0.9 CD) 0 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Las Mas Grandes De El Pasit De Durang LIRERES 909 (.9 CD) MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS & JOAN SEBASTIAN Ds Grandes FONOVISA 0BG ).9 CD) ALAGABRIEL Tradicinal VENE EQ CD) BRONCO: EL GIGANTE DE AMERICA En Viv FONOVISA 09/ÚG (0.9 CO) VARIOUS ARTISTS Reggaetnhits 00 J &N 90/SONY DISCOS (.9 EOM LOS RAZOS La Raza Anda Acelerada ARIOLA 9 /BMG LATIN.9 CD) JULIETA VENEGAS ARIOLA BM LATIN (.9 CD) CO LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH La Oreja De Van Ggh En Direct: Gira Clal 9 SONY DISCOS EQ DVD /CDI ALACRANES MUSICAL A Camhi De Que? UNIVISION 0G (.9 COI [N] 9 OBIE BERMUDEZ EMI LATIN (.9 CD) Si Td El An VARIOUS ARTISTS Bachatahits 00 JAN 99/SONY DISCOS 9 EQ CO) GRUPO MONTEZ DE DURANGO RISA 0 (.9 CD) Z x a ó rl En Viv Desde Chicag VARIOUS ARTISTS 0's Y 0's - Ds Decades De Amr LATIN MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT 00.9 CD) 0 JAE -P Esperanza UNIVISION 0B (.9 CD) [N] SIN BANDERA A De Viaje SONY DISCOS 0.9 ES CD) [N] DON OMAR The Last Dn VI 0.9 CO) [NI VARIOUS ARTISTS ique Chide! El Pasit Duranguense DIVA 0.9 CD) BANDA LOS LAGOS Tesrs De Cleccin SONY DISCOS 9 )9.9 EQ CDI :Q RE -ENTRY OZOMATLI Street Signs CONCORD PICANTE W/CONCORD.9 CDI [HI 0 0 RE -ENTRY BETO Y SUS CANARIOS 00% Tierra Caliente RISA 00 9 CD) Gill MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS Le Histria Cntinua... FONOVISA 090/U (.9 CDBVD) - CARDENALES DE NUEVO LEON La Mejr...Cleccin DISH 0 (9.9 CO) JOSE ALFREDO JIMENEZ 0 Inlvidables UNIVISION 00 (.9 CO) A.B. QUINTANILLA III PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS O Ls Remixes.0 EMI LATIN 0 (.9 CD) 9 CARLOS VIVES El Rck De Mi Puebl EMI LATIN 90 (.9 CD) [HI LATIN POP ALBUMS TROPICAL ALBUMS REGIONAL MEXICAN ALBUMS MARCO ANTONIO SOUS DADDY YANKEE LUIS MIGUEL RAZON DE SOMA (FONOVISA/UG) BARRIO FINO (ELCARTEI/VII MEXICO EN LA PIEL WARNER LATINA) JUANES JUAN LUIS GUERRA GRUPO CLIMAX PARA TI IVENEB NIVERSAL LATINO) A ZA ZA (MUSAAIBOAI RTB MI SANGRE (SURCOBNIVERSALLATINO) 9 AB.OUINTANIWL III PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS MONCHY & ALEXANDRA VARIOUS ARTISTS FUEGO )EMI EL LATIN) HASTA FIN (JAN/SONY DISCOS) LAS MAS BAILABLES DEL PASITO DURANGUENSE IDISAI ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ VARIOUS ARTISTS LOS TEMERARIOS A CORAZON ABIERTO (SONY DISCOS) IJNYTUNES PRESENTS U MOON ETNETAQOWS KSRONNxGALUaaI REGALO DE AMOR (FONOVISIWG) ALEJANDRO SALAZ WNYTDNES K-PAZ DE LA SIERRA GRANDES EXITOS 9-0 IWAflNER LATINA) LA TRAYECTORIA (MAS FLOWBNIVERSAL LATINO) PENSANDO EN TI (UNIVISIONBG) JENNIFER PENA M' OUEEN CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA HOUSTON: RODEO LIVE (UNIVISIONBGI REAL )PERFECT IMAGENNIVERSAL LATIN0 MILES DE VOCES EN VIVO IFONOVIS/WG) GLORIA ESIEFAN MARC ANTHONY WS TEMERARIOS AMOR V SUERTE EXITOS ROMANTICOS (SONY DISCOS) VADO LA PENA (SONY DISCOS) LA MEJOR...COLECCION (DISA) 0 marc mininy Mle DON FRANCISCO 9 AMAR SIN MENTIRAS )SONY DISCOS) DAMELO (LATINFLAVA) MI HOMENAJE GIGANTEA LAMUSICANORIFNA (UNINSIONIIG) JUUETA VENEGAS 9 DJ NELSON 9 LOS BORES DEI NORTE SI IARIOLMBMGLATINI FLOW LADISCOTEKA (FLOW/UNIVERSAL LATINO) 0 NORTENAS FAMOSAS (FONOVISMJG) 0 IA OREJA DE VAN GOGH 0 Fl GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO 0 VICENTE FERNMIDEZ LA OREJA OE EN DIRECTO: )SONY VAN GOGH GIRA DISCOS) ADUI ESTAMOSY DE VERDAD (SONY DISCOS) TESOROS DE COLECCION )SONY DISCOS) OBIS BERMÚDEZ DON OMAR W TEMERARIOS TODO EL ANO (EMI LATINI THE LAST DON.UVE, VOL IVI) VEINTISIETE IFONOVISANG) SIN BANDERA VARIOUS ARTISTS vajuus ARnsis VIAJE (SONY DISCOS) REGGAETONHITS 09 (JAN/SONY DISCOS) ARCOIRIS MUSICALMEX /CANO 00 (UNIVISION/U) DE OZOMATU VARIOUS ARTISTS ADAN CHAIINO SANCHEZ STREET SIGNS (CONCORD PICANTECONCORD) BACHATAHITS 0 (JAN/SONY DISCOS) MI HISTORIA (MOON/COSTAROLABONY DISCOS) MARCO ANTONIO SOUS DON OMAR MELD LA HISTORIA CONTINUA.. IFONOVISABGI THE LAST DON (VI) MI HISTORIA MUSICAL (UNIVISIONBGI AB QUINTANILLA IN PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS CRAWS VIVES WSCAMINANIES LOS REMIXES V/ (EMI LATIN) EL ROCK DE MI PUEBLO )EMI LATIN) TESOROS DE COLECCION: PURAS RANCHERAS (SONY DISCOS) FRANCO DE VITA GILBERTO SANTA ROSA VARIOUS ARTISTS STOP (SONY DISCOS) AUTENTICO )SONY DISCOS) EL MOVIMIENTO DE HIP HOP EN ESPANOL (UNIVISIOWUG) ALEJANDRO SANZ TITO NIEVES WS asses GRANDES EXITOS 9-0 WARNER LATINA) (SG/SONY FABRICANDO FANTASIAS DISCOS) LO MEJOR DE NOSOTROS 9-9 (FONOVIS/WG) Atas SYNTEK NORIEGA BANDA ARKANGEL R- MUNDO UTE ISMI LATIN) CONTRA LA CORRIENTE (ROW/CU TINGBNIVERSAL LATINO) TESOROS DE COLECCION (SONY DISCOS) 9 JENNIFER PENA 9 RAY QUEEN 9 PEPE AGUIL R SEDUCCION (UNIVISIONBG) DIVAPLATNUM ED /ON (PERFECT IMAGE/UNIVERSAL LATINO) NO SOY DE NADIE (SONY DISCOS) 0 LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH 0 MAGNATE & VALENTINO 0 LUPILLO RIVERA LSQUETE CONTEMIENDWSTEIMCIAS LA DORMIDA ISONYOISCOSI SINUMITE ISELLOSASOCIADOSMI PA'CORMS IUNNISIOWUGI walbums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding industry Assn. Of America (RIM) certificatin fr net shipmem f 00,I0D album units lgldi. RIM certificadr fr net shipment f I mil Irn units (Platinum). RISA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units IDiamandl. Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's mld -platinum level. Pr bxed sets, and dubh albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre, the RIM multiplies shipments by the number f ducs and/r tapes RIM Latin awams: Certificadr fr net shipment f 00,000 unes (Ora). A Certifica dn f 00,000 units (Platina) A' Certificaban f 00,000 unes (Mud/- Plalinl. *Asterisk indicates LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CD prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lts. Tape price: marked EO, and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are prtected frm whlesale prices. Greatest Gainer shws chart's largest une increase. Pacesetter indicates biggest percentage grwth Harreeker lmnart sh,ww<amnme rcmmied frnm Heatseekers this week. [NI indicates mast r present Heatseeker title. 09. VNU Business Media. Inc.. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

20 TRACKS.. DECEMBER 00 Billbard- HOT LATIN LATIN POP AIRPLAY x m n iv:, I- R rt "^., $' TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) Airplay mnitred by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems Artist IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL NUMBER 0 Weeks At Number NADA VALGO SIN TU AMOR Juanes 9 JUANES,G.SANTAOLALLA JUANES) ( SURCO /UNIVERSAL LATINO ME DEDIQUE A PERDERTE Alejandr Fernandez 9 A.BAQUEIRO,S.GEORGE ILGARCIA) SONY DISCOS DAME OTRO TEQUILA Paulina Rubi 9 E.ESTEFAN JR.,R.GAITANA.GAITAN,T.MARDINI ESTEFAN, JR., R. GAIT AN,A.GAITAN,TMARDINI,TMCWILLIAMS) ( E. UNIVERSAL LATINO ESTA LLORANDO MI CORAZON Bet Y Sus Canaris 9 G.GARCIA (C.GONZALEZ) DISA 9 PERDIDOS Mnchy & Alexandra 9 M.DLEON ID.CRUZ,J.ROVIRAI JAN '0.ç GREATEST GAINER (((Q))) 9 TODO EL ANO Obie Bermudez 9 S.KRYS,J.SOMEILLAN IO.BERMUDEZ,E.TORRES) EMI LATIN MIEDO Pepe Aguilar 9 PAGUILAR IFATOI SONY DISCOS /EMI LATIN 9 MI MAYOR SACRIFICIO Marc Antni Slis 9 0 M A.SOLIS IMA.SOLISI FONOVISA ESTA AUSENCIA David Bisbal K. SANTANDEA,B.OSSA (K.SANTANDER) VALE /UNIVERSAL LATINO 0 QUE SEAS FELIZ Luis Miguel 9 LMIGUEL (C.VELASDUEZ) WARNER LATINA Q 0 PORQUE ES TAN CRUEL EL AMOR Ricard Arjna R.ARJONA,C.CABRAL'JUNI0R' IR.ARJONA) SONY DISCOS 9 INVISIBLE Intcable 9 R.MARTINEZ,R.MUNOZ IM.A.PEREZI EMI LATIN 0 LAS AVISPAS Juan Luis Guerra 9 VENE /UNIVERSAL LATINO COSA DEL DESTINO Alexandre Pires 9 A.PIRES,C.HOSA,P.OURANO IA. PIPES,FPIRES,J.JUNIOR,A.VERDE,FLOPEZ ROSSII ARIOLA /BMG LATIN 0 TE BUSCARLA Christian Castr 9 R. PEREZ IC.CASTRO,O.IRIBARREN,D.MONTES) ARIOLA /BMG LATIN VOLVERE K -Paz De La Sierra 9 J.LGUERRA,M.HERNANDEZ IJ.LGUERRAI K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA IC.NATILI,M.RAMOINO,C.POLIZZYI UNIVISION FUEGO Kumbia Kings 9 ABOUINTANILLA IILC'CK' MARTINFZ IA.B.QUINTANILLA III,C'CK' MAATINEZLGIRALOQJ. BL000AOCK, S. EVANS,R.FOWLER,C.PETTIFORDG.WIGFALLI EMI LATIN LASTIMA ES MI MUJER Grup Mntez De Durang 9 9 ( J.L.TERRAZAS IJ.GABRIELI 0 DELANTE DE MI Banda El Recd A.LIZARRAGA,J.UZARRAGA ID.AGUIRREI DISA FONOVISA QUIERO SABER DE TI Grup Mntez De Durang J.LTERRAZAS (W.CASTILLO) 0 OJALA QUE TE MUERAS Pesad 9 J.M.ELIZONDO,MA.ZAPATA IFDE JESUS MARTINEZ JR.) WEAMEX NVARNER LATINA VALLO LA PENA Marc Anthny 9 ESTEFANO,S.GEORGE,M.ANTHONY IESTEFANO,J.LPAGAN,M.ANTHONY) SONY DISCOS - EL VIRUS DEL AMOR Ls Tucanes De Tijuana M.QUINTERO LARA IM.DUINTERO LARA) UNIVERSAL LATINO. DUELE EL AMOR Aleks Syntek With Ana Trrja 9 A.SYNTEKA.BAQUEIRO IA.SYNTEKI EMI LATIN AHORA QUIEN Marc Anthny 9 ESTEFANO,S.GEORGE IESTEFANO.J.REVESI SONY DISCOS 9 HASTA EL FIN DEL MUNDO Jennifer Pena 9 CD 9 CD R.PEREZ IA.PEREZ,M.LOPEZI PISA UNIVISION SON DE AMORES Andy & Lucas 9 A.STIVELM.RIVERA ILGONZALEZ GOMA) APIOLA /BMG LATIN ESCUCHA ATENTO Laura Pausini LPAUSINI (OANIELLPAUSINI,CHEOPE,J.BADIA) WARNER LATINA QUE NO ME FALTES TU Mariana 9 A.A.ALBA,R.PEAEZ,PINIGUEZ IW.CASTILLOI UNIVISION 0 9 SI LA VES Franc De Vita With Sin Bandera 9 FOE VITA,LROMERO IF.DE VITA) SONY DISCOS CONTIGO YO APRENDI A OLVIDAR Patrulla A.RAMIREZ CORRAL IR.LUGO) 0 NO CREO QUE TU Vicente Fernandez ED P.RAMIREZ IF.MENDEZ) DISA SONY DISCOS QUE DE RARO TIENE Ls Temeraris 9 A.A.ALBA,R.PEREZ IM.URIETA SOLANO) FONOVISA DICEN POR AHI Pabl Mnter 9 K.SANTANDER.O.BETAN000RT IC.BRANT,R.TERANI RCA /BMG LATIN 9 SOMBRAS Ls Temeraris 9 A.A.ALBA (F.LOMUTO,J.M.CONTURSII FONOVISA - YA NO QUEDA NADA Tit Nieves Featuring India, Nicky Jam & K -Mil S.GEORGE,NORIEGA (NORIEGA) ) TU NUEVO CARINITO SGZ Ls Rielers Del Nrte LOS RIELEROS DEL NORTE IM.RIVERAI FONOVISA 9 UN AMOR ENTRE DOS Dn Francisc 9 A.PASTOR (J.A.CASTILLO DIAZ) UNIVISION 9 DE VIAJE Sin Bandera A.BAQUEIRO,SIN BANDERA (N.SCHAJRIS,LGARCIA) SONY DISCOS 0 ANDAR CONMIGO Julieta Venegas 9 C.SOROKIN,J.VENEGAS IJ.VENEGAS,C.SOROKINI ARIOLA /BMG LATIN 9 LA LOCURA Yahir 9 E.RUFFINENGO,D.BALLO.B.BENOZZO NV.PAZ,R.VERGARAA.JAENI WARNER LATINA - A MANOS LLENAS Isabela 9 F.MEZA (E.GARIBAY) SISA RE -ENTRY GRITA CONMIGO Charlie Cruz R.DEL SOL IJ.LPILOTO,Y.HENRIQUEZI 9 DESDE QUE LLEGASTE Reyli Barba M.DOMM.R.BARBA IR.BARBAI SGZ SONY DISCOS CD LENTO Julieta Venegas 9 C.SOROKIN,J.VENEGAS IJ.VENEGAS,C.SOROKINI ARIOLA /BMG LATIN 0 0 VUELVE CONMIGO Cnjunt Primavera Ca J.GUILLEN (R.MONTANER) FONOVISA PASOS DE GIGANTE Bacils 9 J.V.ZAMBRANO IJ.VILLAMIZARI WARNER LATINA CD 9 - DE RODILLAS Tmmy Trres T.TORRES (TTORRESA.JIMENEZ) OLE ref/ 0 < HOT SHOT DEBUT JTÉ TU CARCEL EnanitsVerdes 9 ENANITOS VERDES IM.A- SOLIDI UNIVERSAL LATINO COMO TU Carls Vives 9 E.ESTEFAN JR.,S.KRYS,C.VIVESA.CASTAO IC.VIVES,C.I.MEOINAI EMI LATIN Cmpiled frm a natinal sample f airplay supplied by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems' Radi Track service. A panel f 9 statins ( Latin Pp, Trpical, Reginal Mexican) are electrnically mnitred hrs. a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by Audience Impressins.= 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 and nce. 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 availability. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. c F á w á i Airplay mnitred by /\ Nielsen Bradcast Data r? w cr w I NADA VALGO SIN TU AMOR JUANES SURCO /UNIVERSAL LATINO MEDEDIOUE APERDERIE ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ Q SONY DISCOS DAME OTRO TEQUILA PAULINA RUBIO UNIVERSAL LATINO MIEDO PEPE AGUILAR SONY DISCOS/EMI LATIN QUE SEAS FEUZ LUIS MIGUEL WARNER LATINA PORQUE ES TAN CRUEL EL AMOR RICARDO ARJONA Q SONY DISCOS Q TODO EL ANO OBIE BERMUDEZ 9 EMI LATIN TEBUSCARIA CHRISTIAN CASTRO APIOLA /BMG LATIN O COSA DEL DESTINO ALEXANDRE PIRES ARIOLA/BMG LATIN 0 DUELE EL AMOR ALEKSSYNTEK WITH ANA TORROJA 0 EMI LATIN Q ESCUCHA ATENTO LAURAPAUSINI m WARNER LATINA 9 NO ME QUIERO ENAMORAR KAUMBA 9 SONY DISCOS. 9 SI LA VES FRANCO DE VITA WITH SIN BANDERA SONY DISCOS Q ESTAAUSENCIA DAVIDEISBAL 0 VALE /UNIVERSAL LATINO Systems TITLE ARTIST ti w ti w IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL? g SON DE AMORES ANDY &LUCAS ARIOLA /BMG LATIN.w tiw? g TITLE Airplay mnitred by /L ITr Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL DESDE OUE LLEGASTE SONY DISCOS LENTO ARIOLA/BMG LATIN LA LOCURA WARNER LATINA LAS AVISPAS VENE /UNIVERSAL LATINO DE RODILLAS OLE TU CANCEL UNIVERSAL LATINO PERDIDOS J &N PASOS OE GIGANTE WARNER LATINA HASTA EI. RN DEL MUNDO UNIVISION VADO LA PENA SONY DISCOS AHORA QUIEN SONY DISCOS CORAZON ENCADENADO UNIVISION DICEN POR AHI RCABMG LATIN COMO TU EMI LATIN DEJAMEESTAR ARIOLA/BMG LATIN TUNO TIENES ALMA WARNER LATINA TE TENGO QUE APRENDER A OLVIDAR FONOVISA WE DERARO -RENE FONOVISA EL SOL NO REGRESA ARIOLA/BMG LATIN FANTASIA 0 REALIDAD WARNER LATINA TROPICAL AIRPLAY ARTIST yw trw IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL =? g PERDIDOS MONCHY &ALEXANDRA 0 J&N LAS AVISPAS JUAN LUIS GUERRA VENE /UNIVERSAL LATINO - YA NO QUEDA NADA TITO NIEVES FEATURING INDIA NICKY JAM BK -MIL 0 SGZ O GRITA CONMIGO CHARUE CRUZ SGZ Q - GASOUNA DADDY YANKEE EL CARTEL NI ESTAAUSENCIA DAVID BISBAL O VALE /UNIVERSAL LATINO Q - - POBRE DIABLA DON OMAR VI FABRICANDO FANTASIAS TITO NIEVES SGZ NADA VALGO SIN TU AMOR JUANES SURCO /UNIVERSAL LATINO Q 9 9 PUNTO YAPARTE TEGO CALDERON WHITE LION /BMG LATIN TE PROPONGO VICTORMANUELU 0 SONY DISCOS w % W g TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL QUIENERESTU J &N COSA DEL DESTINO ARIOLA/BMG LATIN DAMELO LATINFLAVA HECHIZO DE LUNA LATINUM /SONY DISCOS MI GORDA BONITA SONY DISCOS HONYTU SI JONY J &N VENN J&N TE BUSCARLA ARIOLA /BMG LATIN GOZANDOVMRE CUTTING ENAMORAITO SONY DISCOS LOCO POR TU AMOR M.P. NO LE TEMAS GOLD STAR /UNIVERSAL LATINO MIRADITA Y MENEITO MP BAIDORA SAZON DE MI ISLA UNIVISION UNO. DOS, TRES SALVAVISION RESISRRE UNIVERSAL LATINO OILE PERFECT IMAGE ESTAS NAVIDADES AVALON COMO TU EMI LATIN REGIONAL MEXICAN Airplay mnitred by w. Nielsen TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL Bradcast Dala Systems ARTIST H w Ñ w Ñ T g ESTA LLORANDO MI CORAZON BETOY SUS CANARIOS Q DISA Q INVISIBLE INTOCABLE EMI LATIN VOLVERE KPAZ DE LA SIERRA UNIVISION LASTIMA ES MI MUJER GRUPO MONTEZ OE DURANGO DISA DELANTE DE MI BANDA EL REC000 FONOVISA 9 QUIERO SABER OE TI GRUPO MONTE DE DURANGO DISA Q :t OJALAQUETEMUERAS PESADO WLAMEX /WARNER LATINA Q EL VIRUS DEL AMOR LOS TUCANES 0E TIJUANA Q UNIVERSAL LATINO 9 FUEGO KUMBIA KINGS Z9 9 EMI LATIN AIRPLAY TITLE IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL ME DEDIQUE APERDERTE SONY DISCOS LA ULTIMACANCION DISH EL RUMBO QUE TUQUIERAS EMI LATIN IMPOSIBLE OLVIDARTE PROCAN RISA ENAMORADO DE TI DISA ROSAS UNIVERSAL LATINO auede RARO TIENE FONOVISA YA SOY FFUZ FONOVISA LA MANZANITA FONOVISA - ARTIST REM BARBA JULIETA VENEGAS YAHIR JUAN LUIS GUERRA TOMMY TORRES ENANITOS VERDES MONCHY& ALEXANDRA BACILOS JENNIFER PENA MARC ANTHONY MARC ANTHONY GRACIELA BELTRAN WITH CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA PABLO MONTERO CARLOS VIVES DIEGO TORRES ALEJANDRO SANZ BETZAIDA LOS TEMERARIOS LA SA ESTACION ALEX UBAGO ARTIST FRANK REYES ALEXANDRE PIPES MOSA WILLY CHIRINO EL GRAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO KINITO MENDEZ DOMENIC MARIE CHRISTIAN CASTRO FULANITO OSCARD'LEON EDDIE SANTIAGO TREBOL CLAN PEDRO JESUS YAGGA & MACKIE JHOSY & BABY CI ORO SOLIDO TONO ROSARIO IVY QUEEN COMPAY PERRO FEATURING SK FAMILY CARLOS VIVES ARTIST ALEJANDROFERNANOEZ GRUPOBRYNOIS LOS INVASORES DE NUEVO LEON K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA GERMAN UZARRAGA DIANA REYES LOS TEMERARIOS BANDA EL RECODO LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE ANA BARBARA PALOMO LOS ANGELES DE CHARY JENNIFER PENA LA ARROLLADORA BANDA ELUMON LOS REYES DEL CAMINO VOCES DEL RANCHO RAUL BRINDIS YOLANDA PEREZ LOS HOROSCOPOS DE DURANGO SOUDO BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

21 Latin A méricalatina. S FROM SOUTH OF THE BORDER In Mexic: Fur f Mexic's mst ntable gruper acts received gld certificatins frm the recrding industry assciatin Amprfn fr sales f mre than,000 cpies nly a few weeks after their respective album releases. Despite Ls Temeraris' latest studi album, "Veintisiete," still being in stres, the act's new cmpilatin, "Regal de Amr" (Fnvisa), was certified gld. The disc includes a previusly unreleased single, "Ess Amres," perfrmed with Juli Iglesias. The sng is als the theme t sap pera "Angel Rebelde," which just debuted in Mexic n the Televisa netwrk. Als earning gld certificatins were Lupill Rivera, fr "Cn Mis Prpias Mans" (Univisin), and Marc Antni Sils, fr "Razón de Sbra" (Fnvisa), which went gld in just ne week. Ls Tigres del Nrte earned duble gld albums, as well as a platinum certificatin fr 00,000 cpies sld, fr "Pact de Sangre" (Fnvisa). The set's tw singles, "Jsé Pérez León" and "La Manzanita," are amng the tp five mst -played sngs n Mexican radi. TERESA AGUILERA SundExchange and Mexican rights sciety Smexfn have signed reciprcal agreements fr recrding artists. One deal allws SundExchange and Smexfn t receive and distribute ryalties fr artists represented by either sciety. Smexfn will cllect and distribute ryalties fr perfrmers and musicians in cnjunctin with cllecting sciety EJE Mexic. The secnd agreement cvers indie labels. The deal will allw SundExchange t cllect fr Mexic's indie labels in the United States and allw Smexfn t cllect fr independent U.S. -based labels in Mexic. LEILA COBO Arjna Innvates On CD /DVD Set BY LEILA COBO MIAMI -In a crwded market f new DVD releases, Ricard Arjna's "Sl" stands ut. Released Nv. as a CD /DVD cmb, "Sl" (Sny BMG) is a highly persnal prtrait f Arjna that can best be described as an interactive bipic. "Peple are used t DVDs that are five videclips and a guy sitting n a chair and that's it," says Arjna, speaking ver cffee at a Miami htel. "In this case, the DVD carried the weight. It's the wrk f tw years, where there was huge effrt and where each idea was crazier than the next." The CD cmpanin, als titled "Sl," includes many f Arjna's greatest hits, such as "Mujeres," "Sledad" and "Si El Nrte Fuera Sur," as well as virtually unknwn tracks that were persnal landmarks fr Arjna. Amng them is the current single, "Prqué Es Tan Cruel el Amr," which Arjna riginally wrte when he was. The track is N. n the Billbard Ht Latin Tracks list this week. Like all the sngs n the CD, "Prqué Es Tan Cruel el Amr" has been rerecrded in sparse, elegant arrangements played nly with acustic instruments. "They are the mst imprtant sngs in my career, dressed with very little clthing," says Arjna, wh asked musicians wh have been key t his career -such as pianist Miguel Nuflez and guitarist Junir Cabral - t recrd with him. "But the real weight f this prject, even thugh I'm cnvinced abut the album, is what's n the DVD." An abbreviated versin f the DVD was screened fr Miami media Nv., after which Arjna perfrmed. The DVD is surprisingly intimate fr an artist wh, despite his fame, is ntriusly private. On "Sl," Arjna nt nly pens up his hme and intrduces his children t the camera, he als takes the audience t his native Guatemala t visit his elementary schl, his university and even the hme where he was brn. There are stries f inspiratin, tales f hard kncks and testimnials frm a varied cast f characters, frm Ricky Martin t Rigberta Menchú. A DVD FOR FILM BUFFS While the bvius buyer fr the DVD is the avid Arjna fan, the singer/ sngwriter says he believes film buffs will als be interested because it breaks the steretype f the nrmal musical DVD in a CD package. "Sl" will be screened in several cities, and will be prmted with TV campaigns thrughut Latin America and the United States. In additin t wrking the single t radi, several retail campaigns were launched, including ne with Wal -Mart that allws cnsumers t dwnlad a free preview f the DVD. The tw- frmat push seems t wrk tgether. "Arjna always sells well fr us," says Inés Crtés, reginal marketing manager fr Trans Wrld Entertainment. "Sl," she adds, will be placed in the CD racks because it has a CD and nt a DVD packaging. But the DVD cncept, publicist Diana Barn says, has been instrumental in garnering media interest fr the prject. WHEN HE WAS "Sl" was cnceived and executed by Arjna n his wn. When he tk it t Sny, the label embraced it and suggested recrding the cmpanin CD. It was the label that suggested "Prqué Es Tan Cruel el Amr" as a single even thugh the sng was written almst 0 years ag. "It was the first sng I ever wrte... It's very inncent, very fresh," says Arjna, wh was tempted t change the lyrics fr the new versin but decided t leave his teenage thughts intact. In leaving things exactly as they were, Arjna is being faithful t his prject, which dcuments the gd alng with the bad. One f the tpics tuched upn, fr example, was his failure t get a recrd deal. Sny Mexic rejected him several times befre signing him. Afterward, Arjna's scially cnscius lyrics prpelled his albums up the charts. Lking at the current state f the business, Arjna sees a cnnectin. "Recrd labels are realizing that the nly way t sell albums is with excited peple. That means thse wh make the albums and thse wh buy them," he says. "And fr peple t be terribly excited abut an album, the persn wh made it had t be terribly excited as well. Nw in Latin America, each day we see [fewer] pretty faces and mre peple wh have smething t say." Music Slphnic Brand Fr Clubs, Sandwiches New Yrk independent label Slphnic has been creating quite a name fr itself in the wrld f lifestyle marketing via branded cmpilatins fr butique htels, trendy restaurants, lunges and fashin salns. Slphnic funder Jay Friedlander says the cmpany is wrking n several prjects, including custmized CDs fr a new gurmet sandwich chain, Starwich. Slphnic has als signed a distributin deal with Musicrama, which will help secure prper placement fr the label's new beat - mixed cmpilatin, "Escape: St. Barth's." The breezy and sulful cllectin includes there is an inherent danger in featuring numerus vcalists and musical styles n ne album, he believes he struck the perfect balance. "It culd have been like a cmpilatin gne wrng," he says. "But this still sunds like me. If I wuld DJ, this is what I wuld play tday." SOUND BITES: Fans f Everything Beat Bx.. By Michael Paletta mpaletta@billbard.cm tracks by Martin Slveig (Jey Negr's dub mix f but the Girl will have reasns t be "Rcking Music "), Junir Jack ( "E cheerful the day after Valentine's Samba ") and GusGus (Tim Day. On Feb., Sire/Atlantic/ Deluxe's mix f "David"). Blanc y Negr/Rhin will issue "St. Barth's" is the first vlume in the British du's "Adapt r Die -0 the destinatin- riented Escape Years f Remixes," a new cllectin series, Friedlander says. that includes many new and previ- Ultimately, Friedlander's main usly unreleased restructurings. fcus is t "brand Slphnic as the Highlights include rare re -rubs label that lifestyle brands g t fr by Jazzy Jeff ( "Mirrrball"), Kenny custm -branded cmpilatins." "Dpe" Gnzalez ("Dwnhill LPHONIÇ Racer "), Jay "Sinister" Sealee BACK TO BASICS: Drum'n'bass ambassadr Rni Size likens each f his studi recrdings t an "exam paper." Fr Size, his duble -disc debut, the Mercury Prize -winning "New Frms," was a "skeletn f ideas -a studi recrd meant t sund live. And it translated well nstage." Similarly, he says his 000 disc, "In the Mde," was made fr the stage. "It was nt made frm a DJ pint f view." On his new album, the vcal - driven `Return t V" (Full Cycle/ Thrive), Size steps back t his sulful rts. Amng thse jining him n the musically diverse set are Jcelyn Brwn ( "Sing "), Sweetie Irie ( "Rise Up ") and Beverley Knight & Dynamite ( "N Mre "). "I put this recrd tgether fr myself," Size ntes. "The cntributrs are peple I've met alng my beautiful jurney. It's my very wn Nah's Ark -it has a little bit f all the musical styles I've wrked in." While Size acknwledges that ( "Lullaby f Clubland") and King Britt ( "Rllercaster "). Als ntewrthy are remixes by C.L. McSpadden ( "Missing "), Brad Wd ( "Single ") and Kevin Yst ( "Five Fathms "). Lk fr Ultra's latest releases - StneBridge Featuring Therese's "Put 'Em High," Full Intentin member Michael Gray's "The Weekend" and Stere Star's "Utpia" - t make their presence knwn n danceflrs and dance radi in the cming weeks. And if yu haven't snagged a cpy f StneBridge's full- length, "Can't Get Enugh" (frm British label Hed Kandi), t qute the fab Gwen Stefani, what yu waiting fr? Finally, Esther fans, take nte: Reprise is issuing the lyrically astute artist's six -track "We R in Need f a Musical Revlutin" EP Dec.. Such chice cuts as "This Lullaby," "Everyday Is a Hliday (With Yu)" featuring Sean Lennn and the title track ffer a fine preview f her sphmre album, which is scheduled t arrive in the first quarter f next year. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

22 `i DECEMBER 00 HOT DANCE Billbard'". SINGLES y W Ñ - a Sales data cmpiled by l a ó Nielsen {,j x TITLE SundScan Artist ; IMPRINT& NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL t NUMBER l'er. Weeks At Number TURN ME ON (REMIXES) Kevin Lyttle 9 ATLANTICT AG M T WHO IS SHE U (REMIXES) Brandy 9 ATLANTIC 99/AG O 0 THE DISTRICT SLEEPS ALONE TONIGHT The Pstal Service 9 SUB POP 0 0 O AMAZING (FULL INTENTION & JAC( 'N' RORY MIXES) Gerge Michael 9 AEGEAN/EPIC /SONY MUSIC 0 9 SURFING ON A ROCKET SOURCE EYASTRALWERKS O Air O WATCHIINGC RRS GO BY Felix Da Husecat EMPEROR NORTON EIGHT EASY STEPS (REMIXES) Alanis Mrissette 9 MAVERICK/REPRISE awarner BROS FLAWLESS (GO TO THE CITY) Gerge Michael 9 AEGEAN/EPIC 0/SONY MUSIC Q ME AGAINST THE MUSIC Britney Spears Feat Madnna 9 JIVE /ZOMBA O 0 9 LEFT OUTSIDE ALONE (J. NEVINS REMIX) Anastacia 9 DAYUGHT/EPIC 0/SONY MUSIC O HOLE IN THE HEAD (A. VAN HELDEN REMIX) Sugababes 9 INTERSCOPEWZ0 O 0 YOU MOVE ME Amber JMCA00IXVSOUND ADVISORS O 0 DEVIL INSIDE (R.H. VISSION/SCUMFROG MIXES) Utada ISLAND 00/OJMG O 0 MY MY MY Armand Van Helden 9 SOUTHERN IRLIED/TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL 9/TOMMY BOY 0 0 Rt MIN FLASHDANCE Deep Dish Y0HITOSHIO/DEEPDISH O - ONEEINIGHTSmTAND (REMIXES) Mis -Teeq /W BROS 0 e LOVE PROFUSION Madnna 9 MAVERICK/0.YWARNER BROS O 0 MORE & MORE Astrid Suryant & Dave Micalizzi STATRA 0 O 9-9 IF I CLOSE MY EYES Reina ROBBINS O CD Nt W STILL (REMIXES) Tamia ELEKTRNATLANTC /AG O NtW WALK INTO THE SUN Dirty Vegas CAPITOL O - O.G. BRCH (HAMEUSMITTI IH &G /BLOW -UP /ORANGE FACTORY) Esther REPRISEOYWARNER BRUS. O 0 SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (REMIXES) The Rlling Stnes 9 ABKCO9 CD RE.ENIRY NOTHING FAILS /NOBODY KNOWS ME MAVERICK 9/WARNER BROS. O RE ti Madnna -ENTRY AS THE RUSH COMES Mtrcycles? ULTRA 9 O SALES,. DECEMBER 00 Billbard"' HOT DANCE RADIO AI Airplay cmpiled by Nielsen RPLAYTM W w Bradcast Data Ñ TITLE Systems Artist IMPRINT & PROMOTION LABEL NUMBER Weeks At Number 0 SURRENDER Lasg Q NUBBINS MP LOSE MY BREATH Destiny's Child COLUMBIA Q 9 DIARY Alicia Keys Featuring Tny! Tni! Tne! J /RMG GET UP STAND UP Stellar Prject Featuring Brandi Emma ULTRA Q WALK INTO THE SUN Dirty Vegas a CAPITOL STEPPIN' OUT Kaskade m HOW DID YOU KNOW? Mynt Featuring Kim Szzi NEUTONE LOLA'S THEME Shape: UK YOU /ULTRA 9 9 YOU NEVER KNOW Marty ROBBINS D IF I CLOSE MY EYES Reina ROBBINS ED (REACH UP FOR THE) SUNRISE Duran Duran EPIC FREE ME Emma VISION OF LOVE See Alice Featuring Simn Luka g TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL/TOMMY BOY 0 CALL ON ME Eric Prydz ULTRA D 9 { I LIKE IT Narctic Thrust YOSHITOSHI/REEP DISH I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS CURB Wynnna CONNECTED Paul Van Dyk Featuring Vega MUTE MAMASITA Flexy MODA/CASABLANCA/UMRG CO SOMEBODY TOLD ME The Killers ISLAND /IOJMG 0 WHICH WAY YOU'RE GOING Rbbie Rivera YOU/ULTRA HOW WOULD U FEEL David Mrales With Lea -Lrien DMI/ULTRA OED 0 ITS YOU Sin Plm TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL/TOMMY BOY ED WHATEVER U WANT Christina Milian Featuring Je Budden ISLAND /IDJMG WHITE FLAG ARISTA/RMG RE -ENTRY MOVE YA BODY Nina Sky Featuring Jabba NEXT PLATEAU/UNIVERSAL/UM Did DECEMBER 00 Billbard' w s rn g `' _ M ' TOP ELECTRONIC ALBU MST. Sales data cmpiled by a Nielsen SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title NUMBER e 0 Weeks At Number THE POSTAL SERVICE SUB POP 9' IN] Give Up SCISSOR SISTERS Scissr Sisters [N] DEPECHE MODE MUTE/REPRISE /WARNER BROS. Remixes -0 TIESTO Parade Of The Athletes ` BLACK HOLE 0m /NETTWERK [N] THE HAPPY BOYS Dance Party (Like ft's 00) ROBBINS 0 0 UNKLE Never, Never, Land GLOBAL UNDERGROUND 0' FATBOY SLIM Palkaville ASTRALWERKS 0 'NIRGIN LOUIE DEVITO Luie Devit's Dance Factry: Level DEE VEE 00/MUSICRAMA 9 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Ministry Of Sund: The Annual 00 ULTRA 0 0 DJ LIL' CEE Dance Mix TOMMY BOY 0 THIEVERY CORPORATION EIGHTEENTH STREET LOUNGE 0' Babyln Rewind 0 THE PRODIGY Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned XL/MAVERICK 990/WARNER BROS. THE STREETS A Grand Dn't Cme Fr Free VICE /ATLANTIC PAUL OAKENFOLD Creamfields PERFECTO 90/THRIVE A.B. QUINTANILLA III PRESENTS KUMBIA KINGS Ls Remixes.0 EMI LATIN 0 DEPECHE MODE Remixes -0 [Limited] MUTE/REPRISE 90/WARNER BROS. VARIOUS ARTISTS Ultra.Trance: ULTRA VARIOUS ARTISTS Fired Up! RAZOR & TIE 90 ID RE -ENTRY SASHA Invlver GLOBAL UNDERGROUND 000 [N] 0 9 THIEVERY CORPORATION The Outematinal Sund EIGHTEENTH STREET LOUNGE 0' [N] ZERO When It Falls ULTIMATE DILEMMA/ELEKTRA ' /AG N] STEPHANE POMPOUGNAC Htel Cstes V. PSCHENT 090/WARGRAM VIC LATINO & DAVID WAXMAN Ultra.Dance 0 ULTRA 90 [N] MY VARIOUS ARTISTS 0th Anniversary Cllectin: Ultimate Disc MADACY 9 ARIA Aria : Metamrphsis KOCH Dance Airplay titles 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 tide which has been n he chart fr mre than 0 receive weeks will generally nt a bullet, even if h registers an increase in detectins Tales belw me tp are remved frm the chart after weeks. 00, VN U Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. al Electrnic Albums with the g sales g ains this week. Retarding Industry Assn. OfAmente(RIM) certificatin fr netshipmeet f 00,000 album units (Gld).RlAA ment f certificatin fr net ship- millin uni(platinum). RNA certificatin fr net shipment f lo millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamnd symbl indicates album's mule -platinum level fr hxed sea. and duble albums with mneing time f lg minutes r mre, the RlAAn "" VVEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape paces marked E and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are prjected frm whlesale paces. [N] indicates past r present Heatseeker tale. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. CLUB PLAY TM. _... _.. DECENIOBER Billbard HOT DAN E w C CD Y Y cn ó ; ÿ g g TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL Artist h r S TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL Artist ef NUMBER =V 0 Week At Number POWER PICK c 9 (REACH UP FOR THE) SUNRISE EPIC PROMO Duran Duran 9 O - SILENCE 00 NETTWERKZI Delerium Featuring Sarah McLachlan 0 WHICH WAY YOU'RE GOING Y000,OITRA Rbbie Rivera a EWOHEWAY VINYL SOULMauSICPLANT Friscia & Lamby WALK INTO THE SUN CAPITOL Dirty Vegas 0 - THE WONDER OF IT ALL TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL BNTOMMYBOY Kristine W 0 9 ONE NIGHT STAND (REMIXES) /REPRISE Mis -Teeq CD HAVE A GOOD TIME PAS IMPORT Speaker High 9 WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? INTERSCOPE PROMO Gwen Stefani 9 FEEL YOU ALYSONGRODVESCOMPROMO Alysn SAND IN MY SHOES (REMIXES) ARISTAPROMO/RMG Did 0 9 THE JOINT IS JUMPIN' D PROMO D Featuring Lisa Hunt 9 TOUCH IT TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL /TOMMYBy Hlly James f - COPACABANA (REMIXES) CONCORD PROMO Barry Manilw - WHATEVER U WANT (DANCE REMIXES) ISLAND00MOJMG Christina Milian Featuring Je Budden PUMP IT UP ULTRAiz Danzel 9 ' RAINDROPS WILL FALL (REMIXES) 9 PROMO Tamyra Gray COMO TU (P. OAKENFOLD /R. RIVERA MIXES) EMI LATIN PROMO Carls Vives9.' EIGHT EASY STEPS (REMIXES) MAVERICKREPRISE Alanis Mrissette 9 STILL (REMIXES) ELOKTRAHATLANTIC Tamia - DIARY (HANI MIXES) J PROMO/RMG Alicia Keys Featuring Tny! Tni! Tne! 9 0 HOW WOULD U FEEL SMI tt David Mrales With Lea- Lrien MY MY MY SOUTHERN FRIED/TOMMY BOY SILVER LABEL 9TOMMYBOY Armand Van Helden 9 TRIBAL MADNESS s0ß9 ITN Size Queen Featuring Mitch Amtr@k 9 0 SHAKE THAT BODY FUERTE/UNIVERSAL0H0.JNMRG The Ernie Lake Prject Featuring Kevin Ceball 0 - HOW COULD I LIE was wpm Angel 0 EVERYMAN-EVERYWOMAN... MINDTRAIN00/ItMSTEO On 0 BEAUTIFUL DAY MOTEMA99mADIKAL DJ Jackie Christie Featuring Discmind 0 S YOU LIFT ME UP PURPLE ROSE 000 Martha Wash FOLLOW THIS BEAT TßAX0 Paul Jhnsn CD LOSE MY BREATH (P. JOHNSON & M. JOSHUA MIXES) COLUMBIA PROMO Destiny's Child 9 9 PERSONAL JESUS (FELIX DA HOUSECAT MIXES) INTERSCOPEPROMO Marilyn Mansn 9 FREE ME 9IMPORT Emma BACK TO LOVE ACT 00/MUSIC PLANT Rachel Panay WITHOUT LOVE JHPROMO/BML Sun - ITS GONNA TAKE TIME GRANDSTAND/MODA 0/MUSIC PLANT Nadia 9 LOOKING GOOD, FEELING GORGEOUS RUCOPROMO RuPau9 0 0 SOMEBODY TOLD ME (KING UNIQUE/J. HARRIS MIXES)!SIAM S9ADJMG The Killers 9 VERTIGO (JACKNIFE LEE MIXES) INTERSCOPEPROMO U9 9 LOLA'S THEME yu0/ultra Shape: UK PARTY TIME (T. MORAN /J. BUDZ/REED & WARREN MIXES) EPISODE/ZYXNYAAKO Raw Deal DEVIL INSIDE (R.H. VISSION /SCUMFROG MIXES) ISLAND00MOJMG Utada DIRTYFILTHY TWISTED PROMO Superchumb Featuring Celeda +.c HOT SHOT DEBUT tint ECSTASY RA0KAL990 ATB DO YA THINK I'M SEXY? (REMIXES) WARNER BROS.ems 0 OCEAN DRIVE (LENNY B./THE SOURCE/WILSON REMIXES) BASICLUX9OTOMMYBOY Madisn Park HOME (REMIXES) SIMPLYRED.COMPROMO /RED INK Simply Red ENJOY THE SILENCE (REMIXES) MUTEPROMO/REPRISE Depeche Mde CD BE HAPPY VINYL SOUL /MUSIC PLANT Gergia Prgie Rd Stewart CD FREEFALLING KOCH 9 Kat Peple 9 Tides with the greatest sales r club play increases this week. Pwer Plck n Club Play is awarded fr the largest int increase amng singles belw the tp 0. The Club Play chart is cmpiled frm a natinal sample f reprts frm club DJs. 9 Videclip availability. Catalg number is fr vinyl maxi -single, r CO maxi -single, r CD single respectively, based upn availability. On Dance Singles Sales chart: 0 CD Single available. CD Maxi -Single available. Vinyl Maxi -Single available. p Cassette Maxi -Single available. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

23 un ry Music BY JIM BESSMAN Thanks t a big year full f awards shw wins and majr TV expsure fr Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin, Runder Recrds is understandably upbeat abut the cmmercial prspects fr "Lnely Runs Bth Ways," the act's first studi album in three years. Krauss is als enthusiastic abut the album - released Nv. -but fr a different reasn. "I'm just excited because it's dne," says Krauss, a ntriusly tardy prductin perfectinist 'We finished at the last secnd pssible." But she and the band made use f every mment f the -mnth n -andff prject. "It didn't feel cmplete until the last tracking sessin," she says. STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS Unin Statin guitarist Dan Tyminski's cver f Del McCury's "Rain Please G Away" helped "fill in the blanks" at the end, as did Krauss' versin f Dnna Hughes' "Pr Old Heart." "That was the last tune we fund fr me," she ntes. `Barry Bales heard ne f her sngs n the radi while driving arund near his hme in East Tennessee. He called her, and she sent a whle bunch f sngs. We recrded it Krauss + Unin Statin A Hit 'Bth Ways' in a secnd." Other sngs came frm Krauss' sngwriter favrites Sidney and Suzanne Cx, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and Unin Statin banjist Rn Blck and dbr virtus Jerry Duglas. Wdy Guthrie's "Pastures f Plenty," with an arrangement pat - temed after bluegrass banjist Dave Evans' versin, prvided Tyminski with anther vcal shwcase. The lead single, the Rbert Lee Castleman- penned "Restless," was the act's first N. hit in Billbard: It recently tpped the Ht Cuntry Singles Sales chart. Krauss' nly ther brush with N. came when she and Billy Dean added vcal parts t Kenny Rgers' chart- tpping 000 hit "Buy Me a Rse." There's als `This Sad Sng," which Krauss c-wrte years ag with frmer Unin Statin banjist Alisn Brwn. "We made that up in the back f a van when I was," says Krauss, wh had signed with Runder three years prir. "The guys have wanted t recrd it frever, but I said n and really fught t nt have it n the recrd. I said I'd feel better if they put it under a different name s peple wuldn't think it was me, r say I was a high -schler [at the time]. But I guess it's OK if nbdy listens t the lyrics clsely." Buyed by the cntents f "Lnely Runs Bth Ways" and Krauss' incredible media expsure during the last year, Runder GM Paul Fley feels that the album `withut dubt will be Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin's biggest recrd ever. Certainly it's ur largest ship ever -at least 00,000." Predicting that the act's preceding album, "Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin Live" (00), will reach duble -platinum by the end f the year, Fley says that accunts are "just as excited" as the label abut the new disc. "The respnse, tp t bttm, has been verwhelming," he says. "The sense is that this is Alisn's time." Jhn Brnicki, music buyer fr Brders Bks & Music, agrees. "It's prbably ging t be the biggest success fr her," he says, "which is hard t imagine cnsidering what she sld n the last cuple albums and the live ne especially. But she has been a busy girl the last year and definitely in the public eye, s this ne shuld far surpass her thers." Krauss' year has included winning Grammy Awards and, mre recently, Cuntry Music Assn. Awards, the latter fr her hit duet with Brad Paisley, "Whiskey Lullaby." There have als been TV perfrmances, including the Academy Awards, CMT Flamewrthy Music Awards, the PBS Natinal Memrial Day Cncert, the Ryder Cup pening ceremnies and the CMA Awards. Brders utlets will feature "Lnely Runs Bth Ways" in tw prminent lcatins, Brnicki says. "One will be what we call a `rlling display cart' fixture at the frnt entrance f the stre, with multiple face -uts f her recrd. We'll als incrprate an - inch -by- -inch graphic in the music department with prduct placement arund that. This will be frm street date past Jan., s there will be high visibility - and then we'll g int listening prgrams in January." Surprisingly, Fley is equally enthusiastic abut radi supprt fr the band. "Cuntry radi hasn't played them much ver the last few years, and her success has been driven by press, CMT and retail supprt," he explains. "But cming ff the Brad [Paisley] single and all the feedback we're getting, cuntry radi is ready t play Alisn." Runder is buttressing retail and radi supprt with a majr TV campaign. It will include CMT spts frm the weekend befre Thanksgiving thrugh Christmas and natinal buys sltted just befre the mrning news shws "s everybdy in the cuntry knws this album is available," Fley says. TV perfrmances will include "The Tnight Shw With Jay Len" Nv. and "Gd Mrning America" Dec. 0, with appearances n "The Early Shw" and the Charlie Rse talk shw als slated. Krauss, wh is managed by Nashville -based DS Management and bked by Nashville's Keith Case & Assciates, will kick ff the first leg f a lengthy tur Dec. in Evansville, Ind. Allen: U.S. Cuntry Acts Lack Internatinal Presence Bruce Allen knws hw t stir up cntrversy. During a recent keynte speech at the Cuntry Music Assn.'s Glbal Markets Frum in Nashville, Allen said few cuntry artists have careers utside the United States because mst aren't willing t wrk fr it. Allen, the president f Vancuver - based management firm Bruce Allen Talent, whse clients include Martina McBride and Anne Murray, said at the Nv. 0 event that he is disillusined with the glbal reach f cuntry music and the effrts f its artists t expand int internatinal markets. "I dn't see cuntry music making an impact anywhere [else], including my hme cuntry f Canada," he said. "Hw hard is it t wrk Canada? Yu culd cver the cuntry in a week and sales wuld duble." Allen said cuntry music in the glbal marketplace has "a prblem. Make n mistake abut that." In Allen's view, nly ne artist, Canadian Shania Twain, has a truly glbal career, and he says her ability t crss ver t the pp mainstream was a critical element in her internatinal success. Faith Hill and LeAnn Rimes have sme internatinal presence, Allen allwed, but they are "miles behind Shania." Twain is managed by Q -Prime Management. "She was always imaged crrectly," he said f Twain, nting that in publicity phts f her there was "nt a bt, spur, fireplace r cactus." Cuntry artists wh sing with a twangy accent and perfrm sngs whse lyrics are "children's stries," he said, are much mre likely t turn ff audiences verseas. He als said internatinal labels are mre likely t cncentrate n wrking U.S. acts with crssver appeal, nt thse with hats r accents. "If the cnsumer is scratching their heads, yu're dead. "Cuntry is indigenus, white sul music," Allen cntinued. "That's why it's hard fr cuntry t cnnect in sme glbal markets." But he als said artists are unwilling t wrk t earn an internatinal fan base, saying U.S. cuntry artists' excuses fr perfrming verseas are "bad fd, t far and nt wrth it." "Artists have t wrk the market and they have t shw up, and that means mre than ne visit," he said. "They have t be willing t get n a plane and g t Eurpe and d the big TV shws. In Eurpe, if yu d the right TV and have the right image, yu can get a fthld. And if yu can get a fthld, yu can kick the dr dwn." Allen thinks the internatinal markets with the mst prspects fr U.S. cuntry artists are Ireland, Canada, Australia and, t sme extent, the United Kingdm. But while thse markets may have mre f an penness t embracing cuntry, he said, "it takes wrk" And as lng as Nashville artists are "rmanced" by fairs and festivals - sft ticket events where they can make mney -Allen thinks it will always be tugh t get them t try their luck verseas. NashviIk Scene. ON THE ROW: Warner Brs. Recrds Nashville chief creative fficer Paul Wrley has frmed Skyline Music Publishing with prducer /music publisher /sngwriter Wally Wilsn; Chip Vrhis, Wilsn's partner in their DubleThke Sund studi; and Beaumnt, Texas -based attrney Glen Mrgan. `,r+ By Phyllis Stark pstark@billbard.cm The Nashville -based cmpany has pened its drs with Wrley's catalg f mre than,00 sngs, as well as six staff sngwriters: Wilsn, Jimmy Yeary, Kim McLean, Billy Crain, Lisa Brkp and Brandn Kinney. Talent scuting will initially fcus n Texas. Prir t jining Warner Brs., Wrley, wh is als a prminent prducer, was VP f creative services at Sny ATV/Iree and executive VP f creative at Sny Music Nashville. Wilsn is a frmer executive at Universal Music Publishing. Vrhis previusly was VP at Blue Water Music. Elsewhere, Kch Recrds Nashville is shifting its prmtinal fcus frm reprting statins back t secndary statins. Texas -based reginal prmter Keith Greer exits. Prmtin crdinatr Allen Mitchell leaves fr a jb at Universal Suth Recrds. Meanwhile, Amy Murray, frmerly f bluegrass label Pinecastle Recrds, jins fr bluegrass prmtin and marketing duties. Bill Ricks, frmerly f Skaggs Family Recrds, jins as alternative directr f marketing. SIGNINGS: Warner Brs. artist Jhn Michael Mntgmery has signed with the Ery Wlsey C. fr management. Wlsey als represents Gerge Strait, Lee Ann Wmack, Dierks Bentley and Andy Griggs. Mntgmery previusly was managed by Mark Hybner Entertainment Travis Tritt is nw managed by Duke Cper f the newly frmed Quantum Management in Nashville. Tritt, wh recrds fr Clumbia Recrds, amicably split with frmer manager Gary Falcn f Falcn - Gdman Management during the summer (Billbard, Aug. ). Falcn had managed Tritt fr years. Cper (Cntinued n page ) BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

24 - - DECEMOBER W w - H ; a ri g w a n Bîllbard«HOT COUNTRY.. SINGLES Airplay mnitred by s Nielsen Bradcast Data TITLE Systems Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL NOTHING ON BUT THE RADIO M.WRIGHT,GALLAN (B.HILL,O.BLACKMAN,B.LONG).= NUMBER ` Week AtNumberl Gary Allan MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT THE WOMAN WITH YOU Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY IC.WISEMAN,D.FRASIER) RNA ALBUM CUT O O.HUFF IR.MCDONALB,R.HARBIN,D.PFRIMMERI BNA ALBUM CUT BACK WHEN Tim McGraw B. GALLIMORE, TMCGRAWA. SMRHIJ.STEVENS,S.SMITH,S.LYNCHI CURB ALBUM CUT SOME BEACH Blake Sheltn z B.BRADDOCK IP.OVERSTREELR.LFEEKI WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT/WRN THAT'S WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT Brks & Dunn v KBROOKS,R.DUNN,M.WRIGHT (S.MCEWAN,C.WISEMAN) ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT MR. MOM Lnestar v O 9 HOW AM I DOIN' Dierks Bentley 9 0 B. BEAVERS (WRITER X,O.BENTLEY) CAPITOL ALBUM CUT AWFUL, BEAUTIFUL LIFE Darryl Wrley.r Q F ROGERS (D.WOBLEY,HALLENI OREAMWORKS ALBUM CUT PARTY FOR TWO Shania Twain With Billy Curringtn Or Mark McGrath 9 R.J.LANGE (S.TWAIN,RJ.LANGE) MERCURY ALBUM CUTS G IN A REAL LOVE Phil Vassar FROGERS,P.VASSAR (P.VASSAR,C.WISEMANI ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT z W W 9 ~ ti b Iñ á E S cm x & TRACKS TITLE Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT & NUMBER/PROMOTION LABEL AndyGriggs9 R. SCRUGGS (G.PETERS) RCA ALBUM CUT 0 THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SUNDAY Craig Mrgan C. MORGAN,P.O'DONNELL IADORSEY,M.NARMORE) BROKEN BOW ALBUM CUT ME AND CHARLIE TALKING Miranda Lambert,t F. LIDDELLM.WRUCKE (M.LAMBERT,R.IAMBERT,H.LITTLEI ALBUM /EMN EPIC CUT O REVENGE OF A MIDDLE -AGED WOMAN Tracy Byrd B.J. WALKER,JR.,TBYRD ID.BERGA.TATE,S.TATE) BNA ALBUM CUT - GONE Mntgmery Gentry 0 M J.STEELE IB.OIPIERO,J.STEELEI COLUMBIA FÁIBUM 9 YOU DON'T LIE HERE ANYMORE Shelly Fairchild B.CANNON,K.GREENBERG (S.FAIRCHILD,C.MILLS,S.LEMAIRE) H COLUMBIA C. LINDSEY,J.STROUD IJ.WAYNE,D.SAMPSONI DREAMWORKS ALBUM CUT 9 HOW DO YOU GET THAT LONELY Blaine Larsen R. L.FEEK,T.JOHNSON (R.LFEEK.J.TEACHENORI BNA ALBUM CUT I THINK THE WORLD NEEDS A DRINK Terri Clark B.GALLIMORE IE.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD) MERCURY ALBUM CUT m 0 PAPER ANGELS Jimmy Wayne THE UPSIDE OF BEING DOWN Catherine Britt K.STEGALL IC.BAKERT,S.BAKER,R.L.FEEKI ALBUM RCA CUT Q LONG, SLOW KISSES Jeff Bates B. CHANCEY,K.BEARD.D.MALLOY W.BATES,G.BRADBERRY,B.HAYSLIP) RCA ALBUM CUT ó á á a 9 MONDAY MORNING CHURCH Alan Jacksn.? D K.STEGALL IB.BAXTER,E.ENDERLINI ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT NOTHIN 'BOUT LOVE MAKES SENSE LeAnn Rimes.r O. HUFF IK.SACKLEY.G.BURRJ.FEENEYI ASYLUM-CURB ALBUM CUT Brad Paisley 9 F ROGERS IC.DUBOIS,B.PAISLEYI ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT COME HOME SOON SheDaisy D.HUFFSHEDAISYIK.OSBORNJ.SHANKS) LYRIC STREET ALBUM CUT 0 SUDS IN THE BUCKET Sara Evans sz S.EVANS,P.WORLEY IB.MONTANAJENAII RCA ALBUM CUT 9 YOU'RE MY BETTER HALF Keith Urban 0 D.HUFF,K.URBAN IJ.SHANKS,K.URBAN) CAPITOL ALBUM CUT WHEN I THINK ABOUT CHEATIN' AIRPOWER Gretchen Wilsn sit M WRIGHTJ.SCAIFE (G.WILSONJ.RICH,V.MCGEHEI EPIC ALBUM CUT/EMN 9 HE GETS THAT FROM ME Reba McEntire.t R. MCENTIRE,B.CANNON,N.WILSON IS. DJONES,P.WHITEI MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT 0 0 HOLY WATER Big & Rich 9 0 B KENNYJ.RICH,P.WORLEY (B.KENNYJ.RICH,VMCGEHE,J. COHENI WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT/WRN TRIP AROUND THE SUN Jimmy Buffett With Martina McBride z M.UTLEY,M.MCANALLY IAANDERSON,S.BRUTON,S.VAUGHNI MAILBOAT ALBUM CUT/RCA ED NOTHIN' TO LOSE Jsh Gracin M maims (K.SAVIGAR,M.CHAGNDNI LYRIC STREET ALBUM CUT a) - MOCKINGBIRD Tby Keith Duet With!Crystal J STROUD,T.KEITH,LWHITE II.FO00KC.FOX0 DREAMWORKS ALBUM CUT CD WHAT'S A GUY GOTTA DO Je Nichls B. ROWAN IJ.NICHOLS,K.LOVELACE,D.SAMPSONI UNIVERSAL SOUTH ALBUM CUT Q I WOULD CRY Amy Dailey L. MILLER (A.DALLEYB.BAKERI CURB ALBUM CUT 0 THE BUMPER OF MY S.U.V. Chely Wright C.WRIGHT (C.WRIGHT) Q PAINTED RED 00 9 I'M A SAINT Mark Chesnutt JAITCHEY (J.RICHEYJ.SELLERS,T.MARTINI VIVATONI ALBUM CUT THE CHANCE Julie Rberts a B. ROWAN (D.BRYANT,LHENGBERI MERCURY ALBUM CUT 9 INSPIRATION David Lee Murphy Featuring Lee Ry Pamell D.L. MURPHY ID.LMURPHY) KOCH ALBUM CUT 9 I AIN'T SCARED Carlina Rain 9 0 S. SMITH IR.BOYER,G.LOYD,S.SMITH) EOUITY ALBUM CUT 0 - I'LL TAKE THAT AS A YES (THE HOT TUB SONG) Phil Vassar. F ROGERS,P.VASSAR W.MCELROY,V.MELAMED) ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT 0. WHERE I BELONG Rachel Prctr C LINDSEY IC.LINO SEYH.LINDSEY,A.MAYO,T.VERGESI BNA ALBUM CUT :ÌJ: HOT SHOT DEBUT J:. 0 0 BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD Rascal Flatta M.BRIGHT,M.WIWAMS,RASCAL RATTS IM.HUMMON,B.EBOYDJ.HANNAI LYRIC STREET ALBUM CUT 9 STAYS IN MEXICO Tby Keith c J.STROUD,T.KEITH IT.KEITH) DREAMWORKS ALBUM CUT WHAT SAY YOU Travis Tritt With Jhn Mellencamp'c R J. WALKEIWR.,T.TRITT (FJ.MYERS,M.BRADFORDI CO W MBIA ALBUM CUT LET THEM BE LITTLE Billy Dean. B.OEAN,LWHITE (B.DEAN,R.MCDONALDI CURB ALBUM CUT DON'T BREAK MY HEART AGAIN Pat Green. 0 D.GEHMAN IP.GREEN.W.BDWEN) REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL ALBUM CUT /MERCURY BABY GIRL Sugarland z FUNDIS IK.BUSH,KHALLJ.NETTLES,T.BLESERI c MERCURY 00 9 I MAY HATE MYSELF IN THE MORNING Lee Ann Wmack 0 B.GALLIMORE (O.BLALKMANI MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT TRYING TO FIND ATLANTIS Jamie O'Neal. K.STEGALL IC.WATERSZTURNERI CAPITOL ALBUM CUT NO END IN SIGHT Katrina Elam 9 IT'S GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME Brks & Dunn F. BROOKS,R.DUNN,M.WRIGHTIR.DUNN,D.000K) ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT FOUR WALLS Randy Travis K.LEHNING (D.ROLLINS,H.STINSON,D.V.WILLIAMS) WORD -CURB/WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT/WRN YOU DO YOUR THING Mntgmery Gentry 9 J. SCAIFE,M.WHIGHT (C.BEATHARD,E.HILL) COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT - HOME SWEET HOLIDAY INN TrentV(illmn F.ROGERS IT.WILLMON,C.STAPLETON,J.CLARKI COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT GOD'S WILL Martina McBride M. MCBRIOE,P.WORLEY IT.DOUGLASI ALBUM RCA CUT ALL I EVER NEEDED Bret Michaels With Jessica Andrews B.MICHAELS (B.MICHAELS) ALBUM POOR BOY CUT TONIGHT Sara Evans S.EVANS,P.WORLEY IT.JOHNSON,B.BAKER) ALBUM RCA CUT 9 9 RESTLESS Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin 9 A KRAUSS. UNION STATION IR.LCASTLEMAN) 0 ROUNDER COWGIRLS Kerry Harvick 9 B.GALLIMORE IANGELO,H.LINOSEY,R.TYLERI ALBUM LYRIC STREET CUT - T BROWNJ.LSLOAS IKELAM,R.LBRUCE.C.DANNEMILLERI UNIVERSAL SOUTH ALBUM CUT Recrds 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 Sys ems' adm rack service. Cuntry Statins are electrnically mnitred hurs a day, days a week. Sngs ranked by number f detectins. Airpther awarded ts gsappearingint hetp9nbththebosairplayandaudiencechart sfrthefirsttimewithincreasesinbthdetectinsandaudience. Tiesbelwthetpareremvedfrmthechart after0weeks. 9Videclipavailability. Catalgnumberisf rcdsingle, rvinylsingledcdsingleisunavailable. gle available. O CD Maxi -Single available. O Cassette Single available. O Vinyl Maxi -Single available. O Vinyl Single available. Cassette Maxi -Single available. 00, VNU Business Media, IncAll rights reserved. DE EM0BERgillbarJ - _ S TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL HOT COUNTRY SINGLES SALES TM Sales data cmpiled by,,,,:: Nielsen SundScan NUMBER ;tfi, Weeks At Number i TI REDNECK DAYS OF CHRISTMAS /HERE'S YOUR SIGN CHRISTMAS WARNER BROS. MOWN Jeff Fxwrthy/BillEngvall Q -. THE BUMPER OF MY S.U.V. PAINTED RED 00 Chely VIVA LAS VEGAS ROUNDER The Grascals With Special Guest Dlly Partn RESTLESS ROUNDER Alisn Krauss + Unin Statin d BABY GIRL MERCURYORiyUMGN Sugarland m YOU DON'T LIE HERE ANYMORE COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC Shelly Fairchild HURT ' AMERICAN 0090'AOSTHIGHWAY Jhnny Cash a 9 WILD WEST SHOW WARNER BROS. /WRN Big & Rich 9 BREAK DOWN HERE MERCURY00B/UMGN Julie Rberts lll, I MEANT TO EPIC /SONY MUSIC Brad Ctter - ReHrds with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America IRIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units r,000 DUD single units (Gld). Heayseeker title. )0D -VNII Business Media Inn and Nielsn SmmdSnan Inc All rinms ra- crvad Artist DECEMBER 0 W W t Ñ g BilI J`a -J TOP OCD Single available. 0' DVD Sin- BLUEGRASS ALBU MS TM Sales data cmpiled by ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Nielsen SundScan tit OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW NETTWERK09 O.C.M.S. RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER seams FAMILY/LYRIC STREET9000/HOLLYWOOD Brand New Strings VARIOUS ARTISTS RAINMAKERIUCKONA VISION 00 /SUGAR HILL All "Star Bluegrass Celebratin STEVE IVEY MADACY CHRISTIAN 0 /MADACY Best Of Bluegrass Gspel VARIOUS ARTISTS UNIVERSAL SPECIAL mucus 9L99(TIME UFE The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Cllectin: Christmas lime's A- Cmin' VARIOUS ARTISTS WINDHAM HILL M99 /BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP Appalachian Picking Sciety 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS GAITHER MUSIC GROUP9 Bill Gaither Presents: A Gspel Bluegrass Hmecming Vlume One 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS UNIVERSAL SPECIAL MARKETS I900/TIME LIFE Legends Of Bluegrass 9 ''a STEVE IVEY MADACY CHRISTIAN 09/MADACY 0 Bluegrass Gspel Favrites 0 PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE ROUNDER 0 Yu Were There Fr Me STEVE IVEY MADACY SPECIAL PRODUCTS 0/MADACY 0 Best Of Bluegrass Gspel YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND FROG PAD 0 Muntain Tracks: Vlume VARIOUS ARTISTS GAITHER MUSIC GROUP W Bill Gaither Presents: A Gspel Bluegrass Hmecming Vlume Tw JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN ACOUSTIC DISC Been All Arund This Wrld EARL SCRUGGS /DOC WATSON /RICKY SKAGGS ROUNDER0 The Three Pickers RIM certificatin fr netshlpment f millin uns r 0,000 DVD single units (Platinum), with multimillin titles indicated by a numeral fllwing the symbl. 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E DECEMBER,. rq g á ti x Billbard Sales data cmpiled by ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL SHANIA TWAIN r, i.rcuhy 000JUMGN.9 CDI TOP OD Nielsen SundScan NUMBER EqTf COUNTRY Title Weeks At Number t Greatest Hits - TOBY KEITH Greatest Hits HEAMWORKS 00NMGN CD) GEORGE STRAIT A MCA NASHVILLE =$ GREATEST GAINER =$' CO) 0 Number Ones GRETCHEN WILSON A' Here Fr The Party EPIC 9090/SONY MUSIC.9 ED CDI TIM MCGRAW A Live Like Yu Were Dying Y 9 CURB.9 CO) RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Tday LYRIC STREET 09 /HOLLYWOOD.9 CD) BIG & RICH Hrse Of A Different Clr WARNER BROS. 0ANRN (.9 CD) i_' LARRY THE CABLE GUY JACK/WARNER BROS. 9/WRN 9 CD) -, àï A Very Larry Christmas KENNY CHESNEY A When The Sun Ges Dwn BNA 0/RLG 9/.9 9 BROOKS & DUNN The Greatest Hits Cllectin II ARISTA NASHVILLE /KG CO) 0 0 KEITH URBAN Be Here CAPITOL 9ß.9ß CD) 9 BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires ARISTA NASHVILLE 00 /RLG.9/ LEANN RIMES WhatA Wnderful Wrld ußeen9na.9acd) SARA EVANS Restless HcA 0 /RLG 9/.9 JIMMY BUFFETT License T Chill 'nail OAT/RCA 0lßLG.9 CD) BLAKE SHELTON Blake Sheltn's Barn & Grill WARNER BROS. WflN(.9BCO) + ALAN JACKSON What I D ARISTA NASHVILLE 0/RLG.9 CD) KEITH URBAN A Glden Rad CAPITOL 90.9/.9 MARTINA MCBRIDE Martina RCA 0/ßL0 (.9/.9) TOBY KEITH A' Shck'n Y'All OREAMwaRKS 0 UMGN (s.99) 9 LONESTAR Let's Be Us Again BNA 9/ 09 CD) ALAN JACKSON A' Greatest Hits Vlume II ARISTA NASHVILLE /RLG pß.9 CD) 9 TERRI CLARK Greatest Hits MERCURY 0090/UMGN p CD) BIG & RICH Big & Rich's Super Galactic Fan Pak (EPI WARNER EROS..9 DVD /CDI DIERKS BENTLEY Dierks Bentley CAPITOL 9.9/ GEORGE JONES 0 Years Of Hits BANDIT (zsecm GARY ALLAN See If I Care MCA NASHVILLE OOm /UMGN.9/.9 0 TRACE ADKINS Cmae On Strng CAPITOL 0.9Mß SHEDAISY Sweet Right Here LYRIC STREET 0/HOLLYW000( CO) 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS Have A Fun Christmas UNIVERSAL SPECIAL MARKET9 /TIME LIFE.9 CD) - RANDY TRAVIS Passing Thrugh WORD-CURB /WARNER BROS. (.9 C0 WILLIE NELSON It Will Always Be `b LOST HIGHWAY 00' /UMGN.9 COI REBA MCENTIRE Rm T Breathe MCA NASHVILLE 000 /UMGN.9 /9) 0 ei-k i... L j - VARIOUS ARTISTS Shimmy Dwn The Chimney: A Cuntry Christmas CAPITOL (.9 CO) 9 9 MONTGOMERY GENTRY Yu D Yur Thing COLUMBIA 90/SONY MUSIC (.9 ED CDI JULIE ROBERTS Julie Rberts MERCURY 0090/UMGN (./.9) x _ a rn á d W Lu rn g Q ALBU MS00 ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL JOHN DENVER Definitive All -Time Greatest Hits RCA 0/BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP.9 C0) PAT GREEN Lucky Ones REPUBLIC/MERCURY 00/UMGN (9 CDI ALABAMA Ultimate Alabama: 0 Hits RCA 9/BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP (.9 CDI 0 DARRYLWORLEY Darryl Wrley DREAM WOAKS te/umgn.9 CO) 9 SOUNDTRACK Blue Cllar Cmedy Tur. The Mvie IVARNER BROS. WRN (.9 CD) LONESTAR Frm There T Here: Greatest Hits RNA 0/ßL0.9/) JOSH TURNER Lng Black Train MCA NASHVILLE 0009 /UMGN.9/9.9) (HI 9 RON WHITE Drunk In Public PAflALLEUHIP- 000/UME (.9 CD) [H) JOSH GRACIN Jsh Gracin LYRIC STREET 0/HOLLYWOOD.9 CD) BILL ENGVALL JACK /WARNER BROS. /WRN (.9 CD) JOE NICHOLS UNIVERSAL SOUTH 00 (9 CD) Title ó Ñ a s 9 0 A Decade Of Laughs ATraditinal Christmas TOBY KEITH0 Best Of Tby Keith:0th Century Masters The Millennium Cllectin s /umellz.se clhe 0 PHIL VASSAR Shaken Nt Stirred 0 ARISTA NASHVILLE 9 /RLG.9 CO) 0 ANDY /RGRI GS F `` 9 CD) This I Gtta See WILLIE NELSON The Essential Willie Nelsn LEGACY /COLUMBIA 0/SONY MUSIC.9 EO CD) SUGARLAND Twice The Speed Of Life MERCURY 00/UMGN(.9CD) (Hl 0 JIMMY WAYNE Jimmy Wayne DREAMWORKS 0/UMGN.9 CD) 0 DWIGHT YOAKAM The Very Best Of Dwight Yakam REPRISE 9 /RHINO (.9 CD) 9 RANDY TRAVIS The Very Best Of Randy Travis WARNER BROS. 99/RHINO (.9 CD) JOE NICHOLS Revelatin UNIVERSAL SOUTH 00 ( CD) CONWAY TWITTY Number Ones MCA NASHVILLE/UTV 000 /UME 9 CO) 9 LEANN RIMES Greatest Hits CURB 9.9 CD) CLEDUS T. JUDD Biplar And Prud KOCH 909 (.9 CD) r 9 9 TRAVIS TRITT My Hnky Tnk Histry COLUMBIA 90 /SONY MUSIC.9 EU CDI TRACE ADKINS Greatest Hits Cllectin, Vlume I CAPITOL 9/) WILLIE NELSON & FRIENDS Outlaws And Angels LOST HIGHWAY 009/UMGN.9 CDI DIXIE CHICKS Tp Of The Wrld Tur Live MONUMENT /COLUMBIA 909/SONY MUSIC EU CO) KENNY ROGERS Ultimate Hits CAPITOL 99 CD) BROOKS & DUNN Red Dirt Rad ARISTA NASHVILLE 0 /RLG (9 /.9) TIM MCGRAW A' Tim McGraw And The Dancehall Dctrs CURB.9/.9) 0 - BILLY CURRINGTON Billy Carringtn MERCURY 000/UMGN.9/99) [HI - ALAN JACKSON A' Greatest Hits Vlume II And Sme Other Stuff ARISTA NASHVILLE 09/KG (.9/ ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis: Ultimate Gspel RCA /BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP.9 CD) DOLLY PARTON Live And Well BLUE EYE 99/SUGAR HILL (.9 CO) LORETTA LYNN Van Lear Rse INTERSCOPE99 9 CD) RODNEY CARRINGTON Greatest Hits CAPITOL 9M (.9 COI RANDY TRAVIS WORD -CURB /WARNER BROS. (.9 CD) Wrship & Faith WYNONNA What The Wrld Needs Nw Is Lve CURB.9/.9) PATSY CLINE MCANASHVILLE /CHRONICLE009NME 0.9 CD) The Definitive Cllectin Albums wi h the reatest 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' 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. RIM Latin awards: OCertificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or). A Certificatin f 00,000 units(platin). A Certificatin f 00,000 units (Mriti- Platin) 'Asterisk indicates LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CD prices far BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EEL 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. DI] indicates past r present Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. DECEM0BER., re W S c Sales data cmpiled by Billbard T P ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL tlil Nielsen Sundscan OU NTRY Title ", F á le I A d I d A Of Am ialaa) rdfi ti n fr net shi ment f album unit =Albums Mir the greatest sales gains this week. Catalg albums are -ygar-ld titles that havetllen belw N. 00 n The Billbard 00 r reissues f 0 era lbums. Ttal Ch art Weeks clumn reflects cmb) ed weeks title has appeared n Tp Cuntry Albums and Tp Cuntry Ceta - ecr Ina n ustry ssn. ante ce ca p fl Gall). ARIAA ertificaun fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units ( Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diam d symbl indicates album's multi-platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble albums with a running time f 00 minut es r mre, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the number f discs and/r tap s.'asterisx militates LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CD prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EEL and all ther CD prices, are equivalent prices, which are prjected frm whlesale prices. [H] indicates past Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved., x W CATALOG ALBU ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL ii'-": NUMBER `_g Weeks At Number ALAN JACKSON ARISTA NASHVILLE /LASERLIGHT(e.9CO Hnky Tnk Christmas BURL IVES MCA SPECIAL PRODUCTS /AMEU.9 CDI. Rudlph The Red-Nsed Reindeer TIM MCGRAW A CURB.9/.9 Set This Circus Dwn 0 9 MARTINA M BRIDE RCA aß RLG ID.:... White Christmas 9 SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY, :r UMGN. ^:.99 Cme On Over RASCAL FLATTS A LYRIC STREET ns /HOLLYWOOD.9/.9 Melt 0 ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION ROUNDER CD) Live 0 TIM MCGRAW A' CURB 9 (.9/.9) Greatest Hits 09 KENNY CHESNEY A' BNA0/RLG n9w,.9) N Shes, N Shirt N Prblems ELVIS PRESLEY RCAm9 /ßM0.9/9.9) Elvis: 0 # Hits JOHNNY CASH AMERICAN 09' /LOST HIGHWAY p.9cd) American IV: The Man Cmes Arund 0 0 KENNY CHESNEY BNA sleoe /RLG (me CD) All I Want Fr Christmas Is A Real Gd Tan 9 JOHNNY CASH LEGACY/ CSLUMeA9 9/SDNY MUSIC ).%Emn.%) Biaaest Hits 9 LARRY THE CABLE GUY PARALLEL/HIP-0 anmeuescd) Lrd, I Aplgize 0 TOBY KEITH A MERCURY 9/UME(.9ß/.9 Greatest Hits Vlume One ALAN JACKSON ARISTA NASHVILLE 0 RLG II.9.9 Let It Be Christmas ) ALABAMA RCA 9/ßL00.9 /.9) Christmas Vlume II TOBY KEITH MERCURY 909 UMGN.9CD) Christmas T Christmas 9 LONESTAR BNA 9/RLG.9/.%l This Christmas Time 0 SOUNDTRACK LOSTHIGHWAV /MERCURY009/UMGN.9 O Brther. Where Art Thu? 0 FP - ALABAMA AOMS SPECIAL PRODUCTS /ßG.9ß/.9 Alabama Christmas 90 MARTINA MCBRIDE RCA mlrlgp9m.9b) Greatest Hits 9 RASCAL FLATTS LYRIC STREET 0 /HOLLYWOOD.9/.9IH Rascal Flatts 0 KENNY CHESNEY A' BNA 9/RLG.9/.9) Greatest Hits WILLIE NELSON LEGACY /COLUMBIA9/SONY MUSIC.9 E0/.9) Biggest Hits BILLBOARD DECEMBER, Title MSTM en a ea

26 Music billbard picks ALBUMS Edited by Michael Paletta POP. SOUNDTRACK Grand Theft Aut: San Andreas PRODUCERS: varius Rckstar Games /Interscpe B000 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Prir t its Oct. street date, Play - Statin 's videgame "Grand Theft Aut: San Andreas" had pre- rders f nearly millin. Indeed, the demand fr this three -disc set (tw CDs, ne DVD) is pised t be equally strng. The "San Andreas" game is set in the early '90s and sptlights the diverse music that was heard n West Cast radi at that time. The tw CDs included here cull tracks frm the eight -disc "San Andreas" bxed set, due Dec.. Featured artists run the gamut frm James Brwn and Public Enemy t Heart and Rage Against the Machine. AFI's new cver f Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like a Hle" adds a cntemprary twist t an early -'90s staple. Fr many, thugh, the DVD sundtrack will be the real star here. This prequel, titled "The Intrductin," ffers sme much -needed backgrund inf. MP RAMMSTEIN Reise, Reise PRODUCERS: Jacb Hellner, Rammstein Universal 90 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Music's ability t functin as an internatinal language accunts fr why such acts as German heres Rammstein have been able t build an American fllwing. Hwever, when the cnverted hear new album "Reise, Reise," they will discver that the industrialist band is feeling a little nilmetal these days. Its buzz -saw guitars and machine -like synth backgrunds ( "Reise, Reise," the unrelenting "Mein Teil ") cement its rts in the genre befre taking a turn int territry ften ccupied by Krn ( "Dalai Lama "). " Keine Lust" is a sht f adrenaline DJs shuld wisely pump int the clubs, but the minimalist "Ls," which rides n bass and duble - dutch drum beats, is a danceflr sneak attack waiting t happen. The sparser arrangement carries ver t "Amur," anther piece that culd d damage at radi if a versin was cut with English lyrics. "Stein Um Stein" is a sludgy dirge that scales back n the temp; the time change cntinues with the ballad "Ohne Dich." Expect "Reise, Reise" t maintain Rammstein's American strnghld. -CLT RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Want Tw PRODUCERS: Marius de Vries, Rufus Wainwright Geffen B000 RELEASE DATE: Nv. We dn't blame Rufus Wainwright fr making an indulgent album. His vice is beautiful, his phrasing adventurus and his arrangements intense. "Want lin" is an apprpriate respnse t last year's self -cnscius disc, "Want One," a full E S S E N T I A L U Hw t Dismantle an Atmic Bmb PRODUCERS: varius Interscpe B00000 RELEASE DATE: Nv. If every sng n U's new album was as catchy as lead track 'Vertig," it wuld amunt t a reinventin f the band. But "Hw t Dismantle an Atmic Bmb" is quintessential U, taken t the next level. The sund is bigger, the playing better, the lyrics sharper and the spirituality mre cmpelling than anything the act has dne in many years. While a fistful f ld friends (Brian En and Daniel Lanis n "Lve and Peace," fr example) ffer additinal prductin t that f main prducer Steve Lilly - white, "Bmb" is nt cluttered. The Edge has never played with greater cnfidence (apparent n the DVD) and Bn's mature phrasing puts his well - crafted wrds acrss with cnvictin. Sngwriting may be the mst impressive part f a recrd n which U scales new peaks: Frm the gspel f "Lay Dwn" t the majestic "Smetimes Yu Can't Make It n Yur Own," the album is full f great sngs, perfrmed with the vitality f a band that keeps surprising us by simply being itself. -WR expsure f his classical and cabaret pedigree under the thin guise f pp. With fleshy string arrangements and grandise meldy lines, Wainwright clearly subscribes t the "if yu've gt it, flaunt it" schl. But the material culd stand a bit f pruning -as "One" and "'Iiv" yield sme f the same prduce, they might as well have cme frm the same tree. And, much like his previus three albums, Wainwright has a way f saying much but revealing little; with such a thematically sensitive album, intimacy is just ut f reach, intentinally r nt. Regardless, Wainwright achieves much as a maturing sngwriter with "Want iv," his errant siren sngs served well by his vanity, libid and nble intentins. -KH R&D/HIP-HOP FANTASIA Free Yurself PRODUCERS: varius 9 Entertainment/. - RELEASE DATE: Nv. Reigning "American Idl" queen Fantasia makes a self -assured debut that belies her nvice stature. After listening t this -sng set, the uninitiated can SNOOP DOGG R &G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece PRODUCERS: varius Dggystyle /Star Trak /Geffen B000 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Eleven years after his debut, Snp Dgg remains as relevant and rambunctius as ever. "R &G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece," his seventh studi set, is ff t a great start with lead single "Drp It Like It's Ht," which was prduced by the Neptunes (wh c- executive -prduced the album) and features Pharrell. The track's tngue- clicking accents and MIMI it It Tar nt,,,,",,,:,^ rp -t)g synthed -sampled bunce are irresistible. Meanwhile, "Snp D.O. Duble G" is reminiscent f his early Death Rw catalg. A lver f the ladies, Snp delivers the gds n "Perfect," a midtemp grver with the Gap Band's Charlie Wilsn. It's ne f thse just -right tracks fr a late -night drive with that special smene. Other highlights include "Oh N" (featuring 0 Cent) and the trunk -infused "Step Y Game Up" (with Lil Jn and Trina). -RH appreciate the talent f this yung singer with the sphisticated, Tina Turner -esque vice. Under the directin f such marquee names as Missy Ellitt, Rdney Jerkins and Sulshck & Karlin, Fantasia's vcals are put t gd use. The Fantasia/Ellitt pairing wrks t full effect n "Selfish (I Want U Myself)," ne f three cuts the female rapper prduced and c- wrte. A church -infused versin f "Yu Were Always n My Mind " -cvered ntably by Willie Nelsn -is anther pleasant surprise. And yu can just picture the vide that culd be made t supprt the step -lively, single- mther anthem "Baby Mama." One jarring mment n this cntemprary R &B uting is Fantasia's renditin f the Gershwin classic "Summertime," her signature sng during the "Idl" cntest. Simply put, it des nt fit within this cntext. -GM LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ Crunk Juice PRODUCERS: varius BME /TVT 9 RELEASE DATE: Nv. There is n dubt that there is a demand fr all things Lil Jn right nw. Need prf? This album was s highly anticipated that many retailers began R E V I E W S GWEN STEFANI Lve, Angel, Music, Baby PRODUCERS: varius Interscpe B0009 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Yu wn't find much self -revelatin n Gwen Stefani's sl debut. The N Dubt frntwman prves t be even mre f a musical chamelen than anther famusly prvcative blnde singer /fashin icn. But Stefani is nt shy abut admitting the cllabrative effrt behind "Lve, Angel, Music, Baby," which invlved a wealth f well - knwn prducers. Paradxically, the track with the mst persnal lyrics ( "Cl ") is the ne that sunds mst like a N Dubt uttake. Stefani instead asserts herself thrugh her musical chices, adding her stamp t the signature sunds f, amng thers, the Neptunes and Dr. Dre (wh delivers the standut "Rich Girl," which reunites Stefani and Eve). The album shuttles breathlessly frm '0s new wave and funk (What Yu Waiting Fr? ") t millennial hip -hp ( "Luxurius" samples the Isley Brthers). Style trumps substance in Stefani's wrld, making "Lve, Angel, Music, Baby" an ideal guilty pleasure. -!M selling it days ahead f its scheduled release. Frtunately, this is ne time where the prduct des meet its expectatins. "Crunk Juice" is the aural equivalent f the alchlic cncctin it is named fr -strng, infectius and having the ptential t start a rit. The kinetic lead single, "What Yu Gn' D" (featuring Lil Scrappy), is a prime example. At the same time, Jn, Lil B and Big Sam als have a few surprises up their sleeves. The tri teams with Usher and Ludacris n the grving ballad "Lvers and Friends." They als mine g -g funk n the DJ Kl- featured "Aww Skeet Skeet" and Slayer's metal sunds n the Rick Rubin -prduced "Dn't F * ** Wit Me." The result is a nnstp party. "Crunk Juice" als features such A- listers as R. Kelly, Snp Dgg and Chris Rck. -RH CHINGY Pwerballin' PRODUCERS: varius Capitl 9 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Fr the fllw -up t his multiplatinum debut, "Jackpt," Chingy has crafted "Pwerballin'." The set marks a turning pint in the St. Luis MC's yung career. Having parted ways with Ludacris and his Disturbing Tha Peace clique, he nw has t make a name fr himself and his G.I.B. crew. Lead single "Balla Baby" is an affable attempt in that directin. Prduced by Lil' Mack, the sng is driven by its infectius, sing - sngy hk with Chingy's Midwestern, twangy flw buncing right alng. His mre R &B- influenced fare, whether teaming with Janet Jacksn n "Dn't Wrry" r R. Kelly n "Leave Wit Me," is equally effective. Hwever, the cnstant talk f expensive cars, gyrating wmen and endless parties quickly becmes redundant -and bring. Despite the few highlights, "Pwerballin' " sunds all t familiar-rh DANCE /ELECTRONIC * D:FUSE Begin PRODUCERS: D:Fuse, Blueletter, Pete Lrimer, Mark Nrwd System Recrdings SYS0 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Prgressive huse and trance DJ D:Fuse has helmed a handful f DJmix cmpilatins. With "Begin," he embarks n his wn jurney as a prper artist. Thse expecting a cllectin slely cnsisting f banging beats and rhythms will be disappinted. Instead, D:Fuse infuses his spacius snic landscape with enugh peaks and valleys fr a range f emtins t run thrugh it. On fur sngs, including the jangly "Letter t a Friend," D:Fuse deftly handles vcal duties. Elsewhere, he sptlights Jes (f Mtrcycle), Pete Lrimer (aka 9 Palms) and thers. "Everything With Yu" and "Living the Dream," bth featuring Jes, are dance - flr anthems. Cnversely, the dwn - temp "Int Me" finds Jes entering Marianne Faithfull territry. The Lrimer -frnted "A Light Less Brken" is smth -sailing huse music. A beautifully ambient remix f "Living the Dream" clses the album. Cnsider this ne auspicius beginning. -MP WORLD * MONICA SALMASO laiá PRODUCER: Rdlf Streter Wrld Village 0 RELEASE DATE: Nv. 9 The thing t remember abut Sà Pal native Mônica Salmas is that she is the mst pure singer in Brazil tday. She has, frm the utset f her career, pssessed a vice with a remarkable clarity, which is matched by Salmas's frmidable interpretive gift. "laiá," her third album, finds the artist giving expressin t a sundry cllectin f tunes that, as a whle, cnstitute a superb CD. Cnsider her bittersweet versin f " Vingança," a sng in the tada style that tells f lve fund and lst. "Vingança" desn't just tell a stry; Salmas's vcal, supprted by the brilliant cntributins f Nailr "Prveta" Azeved and Tninh Ferragutti, creates a visin. Her perfrmance n "Cidade Laga," tracked with Quintet Sujeit a Guinch, demnstrates the suppleness f her vice. This is a sly samba, but Salmas rules it with ease. (Cntinued n next page) CONTRIBUTORS. Keith Caulfield, Jnathan Chen, Debrah Evans Price, Rashaun Hall, Katy Hasty, Jackie McCarthy, Gail Mitchell, Michael Paletta, Wayne Rbins, Chuck Taylr, Christa L. Titus, Philip van Vleck. 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 halt 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 DECEMBER, 00

27 Music (Cntinued frm preceding page) Listen t the tnal pattern f her vcal, and yu'll realize she is the mst intriguing instrumental slist n this tune. Distributed by Harmnia Mundi. -PVV CHRISTIAN JEREMY CAMP Restred PRODUCERS: Aarn Sprinkle, Adam Watts, Andy Ddd BEC Recrdings BED9 RELEASE DATE: Nv. In smewhat f an upset, this Indiana newcmer walked away with the male vcalist f the year acclade during the Gspel Music Assn.'s Dve Awards in April. One listen t this impressive cllectin makes it easy t hear why Camp tk the prize. He's a pwerful cmmunicatr with a vice that pssesses cnsiderable depth, range and emtinal intensity, alng with a texture and edge that lend an extra pignancy t these well- written sngs, the bulk f which Camp penned himself. He knws hw t write infectius hks and anthemic chruses, as evidenced by the ptent "Even When." The title cut is a mdern -day classic revealing Gd's grace and mercy, a theme that reverberates thrugh the disc. Other standut cuts include "Breathe," "My Desire" and "Nthing Else I Need. " -DEP VITAL REISSUES NIRVANA With the Lights Out PRODUCERS: varius DGC B000 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Icn, drug addict, vice f a generatin, self -lathing slacker: The late Kurt Cbain was all this and mre during his t brief years n earth. In between, the music he frged with Nirvana just happened t turn the wrld n its ear. The band's legacy finally gets the lavish treatment it deserves n this fur -disc bx, runding up everything frm thrat -shredding Zeppelin cvers, radi sessins and rehearsal jams t never - released riginals ( "If Yu Must," "Old Age," "Anrexrcist ") and Cbain's haunting sl dems ( "Rape Me," "Yu Knw Yu're Right," "All Aplgies "). The DVD basts amusing early tur ftage plus the live debuts f "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Pennyryal Tea," ptent prf f Nirvana's nstage fercity. A revelatry, emtinal listen frm start t finish, "With the Lights Out" crystallizes Cbain's trtured genius. What a shame we'll never knw what culd have been.-c MICHAEL JACKSON The Ultimate Cllectin PRODUCERS: varius Epic /Legacy 900 RELEASE DATE: Nv. This fur -CD cllectin is intended fr thse fans f Michael Jacksn wh want the smash sngs but als demand unreleased and rare material. Unfrtunately, because Jacksn has s many hits, sme are missing frm this set in favr f the new tracks. What big singles are missing? Quite a few, actually: "Say Say Say" with Paul McCartney and the Jacksn 's "Never Can Say Gdbye," fr starters. "The Ultimate Cllectin" des prvide a slid verview f the legend's career - frm the Jacksn and his early sl wrk with Mtwn thrugh the Jack - sns era and his Epic sl career. Rare gems include the funky tri f "Sunset Driver," "Cheater" and "Mnkey Business." One f the mst recently recrded, unreleased cuts, "Fall Again," was prduced and written by Walter Afanasieff and Rbin Thicke. It's a lvely ballad that culd have been a hit single. Als included is a DVD f Jacksn's Dangerus tur cncert frm Bucharest in 99. -KC DVD EVANESCENCE Anywhere but Hme Wind -up 00-0 RELEASE DATE: Nv. Fr all the dark mdiness its music cntains, Evanescence's first live CD/DVD package, "Anywhere but Hme," is a snapsht f a gd- natured band enjying the mnths it spent n the rad behind its breakthrugh album, "Fallen." Onstage at a Paris cncert, frntwman Amy Lee alternates between whirling like a gthic ballerina and sedately playing the ivries; drummer Rcky Gray, guitarists Jhn LeCmpt and Terry Balsam and bassist William Byd rck as determinedly as she sings. Bathed in sapphire- clred lights, Evanescence rips thrugh tunes, perfrming as tightly n clsing sng "Whisper" as it des n pener "Haunted." Highlights are the different dimensin the band adds t Krn's "Thughtless" and hw it turns "Farther Away" int a thrbbing primal scream. The unity the audience feels during "My Immrtal" is shwn in an aerial sht f the crwd swaying and singing alng with Lee's pian. The DVD's extras expse the quintet as a pack f gfy pranksters. -CLT HOLIDAY DIANNE REEVES Christmas Time Is Here PRODUCERS: Dianne Reeves, Peter Martin Blue Nte VANESSA WILLIAMS Silver & Gld PRODUCER: Rb Mathes Lava 999 DANNY WRIGHT An Intimate Christmas PRODUCER: Danny Wright Atc CLAY AIKEN Merry Christmas With Lve PRODUCERS: Phil Ramne, Water Afanasieff RCA SOUNDTRACK The Plar Express PRODUCERS: varius Warner Sunset /Reprise 9 Billbard,cm Pearl Jam, "Rearviewmirrr: (Greatest Hits 99-00)" (Epic) American Music Club, "Lve Sngs fr Patrits" (Merge) Jhn Fahey, "The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick" (Water) SINGLES Edited by Michael Paletta MODERN ROCK THE KILLERS Mr. Brightside (:) PRODUCERS: the Killers, Jeff Saltzman WRITERS: B. Flwers, D. Keuning PUBLISHER: the Killers (ASCAP) Island ISLR 9 (CD prm) Thse wh lved the G -G's "Vacatin" will be delighted by the Killers' new single, "Mr. Brightside." The anthemic sng isn't a cpycat, but its heavy synthesizers, pppy rck guitars and manic glee will remind listeners f that peppy '0s tuchstne. This hmage t new wave dance is what teen slumber parties and rller rinks nce thrived n -and what sme peple still d. As with "Vacatin," it's incredibly easy t get swept up in the irresistible beat, which is a gd fil t the heartache- steeped lyrics: "Jealusy, turning saints int the sea/swimming thrugh sick lullabies /Chking n yur alibis." This is a slid bet t match the success f the Killers' "Smebdy Tld Me," which cntinues t get played n radi and in dance clubs. With "Mr. Brightside," the band -alng with its debut album, "Ht Fuss "-will gain a few mre fans. This is ne act that's getting htter by the minute. -CLT THE PRODIGY Ht Ride (:0) PRODUCER: Liam Hwlett WRITERS: L. Hwlett, J. Webb PUBLISHERS: EMI Music; EMI Ssaha Music /Jnathan Three Music REMIXER: El Batri XL Recrdings /Mute /Maverick 0 (CD prm) "Ht Ride" is the newest single frm the Prdigy's latest uting, the musically sptty "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned." It is, withut questin, the album's high pint. In signature Prdigy style, the beats cme hard and fast. The guitar wrk is just as furius. Actress /singer Juliette Lewis (the "Natural Brn Killers" star nw frnts the grup Juliette & the Licks) handles the vcal chres with ample rck star attitude. Her delivery is tugh and in yur face. The sng pays hmage t the th Dimensin's 9 tp 0 hit, "Up, Up and Away," with Lewis seductively snarling, "Up, up and away/in my beautiful /My beautiful/balln." While the R &B vcal quintet likely never imagined its sng being used in this cntext, it wrks beautifully. Of curse, whether mdern rck and dance/electrnic enthusiasts will care remains t be seen. MP COUNTRY KEITH URBAN Yu're My Better Half (:) PRODUCERS: Dann Huff, Keith Urban WRITERS: J. Shanks, K. Urban PUBLISHERS: WB Music; Dylan Jacksn Music (ASCAP); Guitar Mnkey Music; Cburn Music (BMI) Capitl 0-0 (CD prm) Keith Urban may have been caught ff guard by his recent male vcalist f the year win at the Cuntry Music Assn. Awards, but the industry crwd in attendance enjyed seeing him reap his reward. A triple threat as a guitarist, sngwriter and singer, ESSENTIAL REVIEWS FANTASIA Truth Is (:) PRODUCERS: Sulshck & Karlin WRITERS: varius PUBLISHERS: varius Recrds -0 (CD prm) Fantasia may have wn "American Idl" this year by singing well - tread American pp standards, but she is set t rattle and dazzle fans with a cntemprary, R &B -based debut album. Launch single "Truth Is" zes ld- schl slw - jam sul, with a lse, capable vcal frm the budding chanteuse that wuld make cmparable - sunding Kelly Price prud. The Isley Brthers share a writing credit here with prducers Sul - shck & Karlin, explaining the retr nd. It all cmes tgether nicely, thugh fans may be disappinted that there's nt mre f a "ww" factr alng the lines f Kelly Clarksn's pst -"Idl" release "Miss Independent," which grabbed yur ears the first time thrugh. Fr sure, "Truth Is" is a slw grw -which, at radi these days, is risky. Nt what we had hped fr, but a testament t Fantasia's talent, nnetheless. -CT Urban has been steadily gaining mmentum, fueled by a slid string f hit singles. This new entry frm his "Be Here" album makes an impressive additin t his résumé. The prductin is light and breezy, and the temp will help prgrammers stave ff the winter dldrums. Penned by Urban and Jhn Shanks, the lyric paints a sweet prtrait f dmestic bliss, the kind f lve that makes it easier t endure a hard day at wrk because f the prize waiting at hme. An engaging perfrmance. -DEP DANCE 0. DEBBY HOLIDAY Half a Mile Away (:) PRODUCER: Clif Magness WRITERS: D. Hliday, B. Crbett PUBLISHERS: Jshman Music (ASCAP); Ice Cream Headache Music (ASCAP) REMIXERS: varius Nebula 9 Recrds 9 (CD single) Singer /sngwriter Debby Hliday has been gigging arund Ls Angeles fr quite sme time nw. But it was nly recently that she entered the wrld f dance music: Remixes f her sng "Dive" inched their way int the tp five f the Billbard Ht Dance Club Play chart in August. Quite pleased with the receptin she received n danceflrs, Hliday returns with remixes f the title track frm her self - released album. In its riginal versin, AVRIL LAVIGNE Nbdy's Hme (:) PRODUCER: Dn Gilmre WRITERS: A. Lavigne, B. Mdy PUBLISHERS: varius RCA (CD prm) Avril Lavigne is having n truble hlding radi's favr with her sphmre platinum set, "Under My Skin." Single N. - fllwing "Dn't Tell Me" and the fab "My Happy Ending" - hits the airwaves at mainstream and adult tp 0 radi with immediate impact. Lyrically, "Nbdy's Hme" skillfully tells the tale f a girl in truble: "She wants t g hme, but nbdy's hme/it's where she lies, brken inside/with n place t g t dry her eyes/brken inside." Meldically, the sng delivers what we've cme t expect, with a sea f grizzled guitars, driving percussin and a surefire vcal frm Lavigne, wh wrte the sng with frmer Evanescence guitarist/sngwriter Ben Mdy. Fr nw, Lavigne's repertire cntinues t sund pretty fresh, thugh a cuple mre f these midtemp puty rckers are likely t fill her career qutient f the brand. Might be time t try smething new. -CT "Half a Mile Away" is a wnderful flk/rck hybrid. Her sulful delivery here is ne f pure lve and desire. "Never underestimate/the curius reactin/lve can bring," she sings. Secnds later, she is reaching fr the prize: "Yu're the nly thing I see /And yu are almst in my reach/i'm nly half a mile away." Remixes by Sctty K, Slar City, Jamie J. Sanchez and thers surrund this sturdy sng with energetic beats -perfect fr peak -hur club play and dance radi. Thrughut, Hliday shines, as a singer and a sngwriter. -MP HOLIDAY FIVE FOR FIGHTING Silent Night (:) PRODUCER: nt listed WRITERS: J. Mhr, F. Gruber PUBLISHER: public dmain Aware /Clumbia CK 0 (CD prm) PATSY MAHARAM The Daughter f Santa Claus (:) PRODUCER: Patsy Maharam WRITER: R. Maharam PUBLISHER: Wild Chrysanthemum Sngs (BMI) Wild Chrysanthemum (CD single) CYNDI LAUPER Silent Night (:) PRODUCER: Peter Wds WRITERS: J. Mhr, F. Gruber PUBLISHER: public dmain Epic /Legacy EK 9 (album track) BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

28 Backbea Edited By Carla Hay Peple /Places /Events EXECUTIVE TURNTABLE.. RECORD COMPANIES: Century Media Recrds in Hawthrne, Calif., prmtes Brian Sharp t VP f internal peratins and Andrew Hsner t VP f sales and distributin. Sharp was VP f sales and distributin and Rsner was manager f sales and distributin. RADIO: Clear Channel Radi in San Antni prmtes Bb Case t managing directr, and appints Yaman Cskun creative crdinatr /senir prducer and Rbert Summers managing directr. Case was reginal VP, Cskun was an independent creative directr and Summers was creative directr at McCann Ericksn Wrld Grup. Clear Channel Radi als prmtes San Francisc -based Michael Martin t reginal senir VP f prgramming and Lufkin, Texas -based Jhnny Lathrp t VP/ market manager, and names Franklin, N.J. - based Brad Hbicrn general sales manager. Martin was reginal VP f prgramming, Lathrp was directr f sales and Hbicrn was news /talk radi directr at Greater Media. Sirius Satellite Radi in New Yrk names Patrick Reilly senir VP f cmmunicatins. He was VP f crprate cmmunicatins at BMG. Rhythmic tp 0 WQHT New Yrk appints Jhn Dimick PD, effective in mid -December. He is San Dieg directr f prgramming and peratins at Jeffersn -Pilt. Dance KNGY San Francisc names Chris Shebel PD. He was PD at adult tp 0 WRMF West Palm Beach, Fla., which prmtes Dennis Winslw t PD. Winslw was interim PD. Spanish KLOL Hustn names Jesse Ris PD. He was PD at reginal Mexican KROM- AM San Antni. Cuntry WYCD Detrit names Chip Miller PD. He was PD at cuntry WGKX Memphis, which names Lance Tidwell PD. Tidwell was PD at cuntry KQFC Bise, Idah. AC WBZU Madisn, Wis., names Laura Lee PD. She was assistant PD /music directr at classic rck WCSX Detrit. Cuntry WYNK Batn Ruge, La., appints Sam McGuire PD. He was assistant PD /music directr /afternn hst at cuntry WCAT Harrisburg, Pa. PRO AUDIO: Prfessinal Audi Design in Rckland, Mass., elevates Jhn Sngdahl t VP f sales and marketing. He was directr f sales and marketing. RELATED FIELDS: The Henry Mancini Institute in Ls Angeles appints Dan Carlin executive directr. He was c- funder f Segue Music. Jump Fr Gspel Gspel Music Channel celebrated its Oct. 0 launch with a party held Nv. in Franklin, Tenn. Cntemprary Christian grup Jump was amng the guests. Pictured, frm left, are GMC president/ceo Charles Humbard, Jump members Brandn Hargest, Lesley Mre, Chris Fedun and Brittany Hargest and GMC vice chairman Brad Siegel. Ht fashin... DICKY MAOIIN Ricky Martin was a runway mdel at Girgi Armani's spring /sjmmer 00 cllectin shw, held Oct. at NewYrk's Pier 9. Jhn Mayer and Damn Dash were amng the ther celebrities attending. In ther music -meets -fashin news, Bw Ww's mther /manager, Teresa Caldwell has pened the clthing butique Taste in Duluth, Ga. Stars wh attended the stre's Nv.. grand pen- ing included Bw Ww and Ciara. (Pht: Dimitrs Kamburis/ Wirelmage.cm) lights, Camera, Actin The Hip -Hp Summit Actin Netwrk held its secnd annual Actin Awards Oct. at the Lighthuse at Pier, Chelsea Piers in New Yrk. Mary J. Blige, Ludacris and his Ludacris Fundatin, Anheuser -Busch and MTV's "Chse r Lse" campaign were recipients. The Actin Awards hnr individ- uals and cmpanies that make utstanding cntributins t the empwerment f disad- vantaged cmmunities. Pictured, frm left, are HSAN president/ceo Dr. Benjamin Chavis, MTV VP f public affairs and strate- gic partnerships Ian Rwe, MN Netwrks chairman/ceo Judy McGrath, Anheuser- Busch VP f sales develpment and cmmu- nity affairs Jhnny Furr Jr., Blige, Ludacris, Ludacris' mther Rberta Shields and HSAN chairman Russell Simmns. Nw, Hear bis... MAHIIN [UIIIEH Artists t Watch Frm Hunters Pint t Harlem. The intriguing phrase reads like an album title. But it represents Martin Luther's cast -t -cast quest t revlutinize cntemprary music. The singer /sngwriter's latest step in this dyssey is his album "Rebel Sul Music." Released Sept. n Luther's Rebel Sul Recrds, the sphmre prj- ect frm Luther is distributed by Image Entertainment. Luther hails frm San Francisc's Hunters Pint neighbrhd. His rebellin against cnventin revealed itself early: The pian -playing chirby ditched the ivries fr the guitar after hearing the raucus sunds f Parliament /Funkadelic. Luther's eclectic amalgamatin f funk, rck and sul first made waves n his 000 self -released album "The Calling." "Rebel Sul Music" displays mre f Luther's style that can be described as Jimi Hendrix meets Sly Stne and Eddie Van Halen. Further eschewing tday's ckie -cutter mentality, Luther cuples his music with earthy, gspel- tinged vcals and thught- engaging lyrics. Hearing is believing, especially n the empwerment anthem "Rise" and the ghett -drawn missive "Ms. America." Luther has tured as the pening act fr the Rts and Cmmn. And he has since becme bicastal, als hanging his guitar strap in NewYrk's Harlem neighbrhd, where his Rebel Sul label is based. "The black culture still has a limitatin n what's fly," Luther says f his alternative stance. "But there's n need t have a clsed mind. My music is just a cmbinatin f all things gd, sulful and rcking -presented in an hnest, pure frm." GAIL MITCHELL BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

29 Mcirletilcice estimate Hastings' Jhn Marmaduke raises the chain's earrings RETAIL / DISTRIBUTIO / DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT / DVD / MOBILE / WIRELESS Band Aid 0 Single Sees Early U.K. Success BY LARS BRANDLE LONDON -An all -star rerecrding f the 9 hit "D They Knw It's Christmas?" is generating extrardinary interest in Britain befre it has even hit retailers' shelves. The Band Aid 0 charity single was recrded Nv. at Air Studis here, with Nigel Gdrich prducing and Midge Ure in the rle f executive prducer. Paul McCartney, U's Bn, Cldplay frntman Chris Martin, pp singer Rbbie Williams and U.K. chart -tpping siblings Natasha and Daniel Bedingfield are amng the artists wh cntributed t BAN the prject. DO THEY KNO Britain's Bradcasters' Audience Research Bard estimates 0 millin TV viewers tuned in t the Nv. premiere f the prm vide, which was simulcast by abut 0 channels. Numerus TV schedules were interrupted as the clip aired just befre p.m. lcally acrss all five natinal netwrks and varius channels n Sky pay -TV. "I've never knwn anything like this, where all the bradcasters gt tgether and put this ut simultaneusly. It was a mnumental ccasin," says Phil Munt, head f music at Initial, which prduced the bradcast. Initial, which is a divisin f independent TV prductin firm Endeml U.K., estimates that the vide achieved an 0% audience share. Ftage relating t the vide will air Dec. in an hur -lng prime -time dcumentary n British public bradcaster BBC. The crss -netwrk bradcast appears t have bsted sales f dwnlad - able versins f the track, which went live at midnight Nv. via varius U.K. nline music services. "Our servers went crazy after the bradcast," says Ben Drury, managing directr f Digital Media. The Lndn - based firm has been respnsible fr building the fficial Band Aid Web site (buybandaid0.cm) and fr handling nline payments and digital rights management fr the dwnlad. Priced at.9 ($.), the dwnlad is available at the Band Aid Web site and D AID 0 W IT'S CHRISTMAS' Rbbie Williams, left, and Thm Yrke are amng the artists heard in the Band Aid 0 charity single. Prceeds frm the sng's sales benefit Band Aid Trust's famine -relief effrts in Africa. thrugh such nline music services as My Cke Music, Tiscali, NTL, Wanad, Virgin Megastre, MSN, virgin.net, MTV, HMV and Napster U.K. Als available is a dwnlad f (Cntinued n page ) Firm Has Text- Friendly Cat Fr Tw-Sided Discs BY CHRISTOPHER WALSH DualDisc and DVD[plus] discs have until nw been devid f graphics, apart frm limited text n the inner ring. Because bth sides f these CD /DVD hybrids cntain ptical data, it has been impssible t apply graphics t them. But MediaCat technlgy frm Spectra Systems, a develper f systems fr marking, tracking and authenticating dcuments and prducts, has pened the dr t graphics, text and barcdes n the "play" side f a disc. Prvidence, R.I. -based Spectra Systems says MediaCat is cmpatible with all prerecrded ptical media frmats, as well as the next -generatin HD -DVD and Blu -ray frmats. The cmpany als claims that the technlgy ffers imprved disc durability thrugh increased scratch resistance. Develpment and cmmercializatin f MediaCat will be handled jintly by Spectra Systems and Hanau, Germany - based Singulus Technlgies, a manufacturer f replicatin lines fr ptical disc frmats. Digital Valley was the first Eurpean replicatr t cmmercially prduce DVD[plus] discs, and the Val de Reuil, France -based cmpany is als first t prduce discs using the MediaCat technlgy. The first client t incrprate MediaCat is Vidé Futur, France's largest DVD rental franchise. The cmpany's lg is featured n the data side f its discs. Spectra Systems CEO Dr. Nabil Lawandy envisins such messaging and marketing pprtunities as the chief applicatin fr MediaCat n single -sided sftware, gaming, vide and audi discs. But the ability t apply graphics and text t dual -sided discs will make DualDisc and DVD[plus] mre attractive t labels and cnsumers alike, he says. "The driving market frce that gt us interested in [develp - ing MediaCat] was the interest in duble -sided ptical media," Lawandy says. "In particular. we are targeting duble -sided discs fr music, d C disgust Magg* d'un prpdi exclusif de prtectin pur vtre plus valid tdfrt.,,,,.,,r. *Nit.. a Nl.ra lea _ r like DVD[plus]." MediaCat is an add -n prcess that takes place at the end f a standard disc -manufacturing line, Lawandy explains. A cating is applied and cured, then an image is transferred t the disc using ultravilet irradiatin. A secnd cat is added t prtect the disc frm excessive expsure t light and t add scratch resistance. "Vidé Futur are enjying the benefits f messaging," Lawandy says. "They are enjying the secnd -layer MediaCat, [which prvides] an incredible scratch resistance: They're getting mre turns n the disc. And they're enjying a level f security, because nw they knw they get their discs back." Asked abut the technlgy, executives frm ne U.S. -based label prducing Dual - Discs expressed n knwledge f MediaCat. Andrew DaPuzz, directr f sales audi fr replicatr Snpress, says nly that his cmpany has lked int the applicatin f graphics t the data side f ptical discs, particularly tw -sided nes. "We certainly investigate any new technlgies like that and are interested in them," DaPuzz says. "If the DualDisc is successful, and we hpe it is, this srt f technlgy wuld certainly help." France's largest DVD rental franchise, Vidé Futur, is MediaCat's first dient.the cmpany's lg appears n the data side f its discs. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

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Billbard Directries als available n diskette and mailing labels - fr infrmatin, Fr advertising pprtunities, call - -9 r s.. <, BDBG Marketplace Century Pushes Shadws, And Retails Sees The Light Metal insiders knew the latest frm Shadws Fall, "The War Within," wuld be a success. But the band's label, Ls Angeles - based Century Media, craved mre. It wanted mass retailers t start taking the label as seriusly as they d such hard - cre stalwarts as Radrunner and Victry. Century gt what it wanted, but nt withut a huge investment. VP f sales and distributin Andrew Hsner says the label budgeted abut $0,000 in retail spending fr the Sept. release. Mst f the mney went tward lcking up psitining prgrams with bx retailers thrugh February. "The War Within" has sld 0,000 cpies in the United States, accrding t Nielsen SundScan, making it the fastest seller the Carline -distributed label has had. Only tw ther releases have passed the century mark in the label's - year histry. "We shipped 0,000 by street date," Carline GM Rick Williams says. "We gt that recrd int accunts that we really hadn't had success with [in terms f] metal. Getting in Target and Wal -Mart was a huge breakthrugh fr them." Accrding t Hsner, Target has accunted fr abut % f the album's sales. "That's crazy fr a label like us," he says. "It tk strng cmmitments n ur part. With the recrd being a $.99 list, I was able t d a minimal amunt f extra discunting and get it int a lt f the $9.99 prgrams. Once we culd ffer that price, a lt f the chains will cut the price f the prgrams in half." The Indies. By Tdd Martens The album hasn't hit the break - even pint yet, but it is ahead f schedule. "We had a budget in place based n shipping 0,000, and that was fr mnths. We've hit 0,000 in tw mnths," Rsner says. The success has given Century the cnfidence t rll ut a similar plan fr next year's Lacuna Cil release, targeting such majr bksellers as Brders Bks & Music. Yet Hsner is well aware that the label can't becme t bsessed with reaching bx retailers. "When yu're nly shipping 0,000 recrds, yu can't specialize with ne chain," he ntes. "We can't get a band t 0,000 withut indie retail. Once we get t 0,000, that's when we'll cnsider graduating them t the next level. If we're ging t cmpete with the Radrunners f the wrld, then we have t d mre with Target and Wal- Mart." SPRING READING: New Yrk - based undergrund hip -hp label Definitive Jux will use the next release frm Aesp Rck t enter a new field: bk publishing. Aesp Rck's seven -sng EP "Fast Cars, Danger, Fire & Knives," due in March, will cme with an -page hardbund bk that cllects every lyric the MCwhse real name is Ian Bavitzhas written fr the label. The EP/ bk cmb will sell fr $.9. Definitive Jux c- president Amaechi Uzigwe says the label will print,000 cpies f the bk, which can be purchased withut the EP directly frm the label. Accrding t Uzigwe, Definitive Jux briefly entertained the idea f selling the bk alne, but retailers nixed that plan. "Once we did a little research, retailers made it clear that the music wuld drive the sales," he says. While the EP /bk cmb is priced as an album rather than an EP, Definitive Jux desn't expect t make mney ff the prject, Uzigwe says. "This was imprtant t Aesp, s we viewed this mre as a gift t him and his fans." Uzigwe als drps hints abut the label's plans fr 00. In additin t a new El -P recrd and a full -length frm indie rap supergrup the Perceptinists, next year shuld see the release f El -P side prject Central Services. A number f well -knwn indie rckers, including Cat Pwer and members f Trtise, have expressed interest in cntributing. The label is cnsidering utside help fr the set, Uzigwe says. "We imagined putting it ut urselves, but it may require mre f a push than we can give it." AESOP ROCK: BOOK WILL COMPILE LYRICS Band Aid 0 Cntinued frm page the riginal single bundled with the latest versin fr.99 ($.). "Everyne invlved has pledged their margins t charity, and we all hpe t make this the best -selling dwnlad ever," Drury ntes. In less than five days, legitimate dwnlad sales generated mre than 0,000 ($,00) fr the Band Aid Trust, accrding t Drury. Band Aid 0 was rganized t help raise funds fr the Band Aid Trust's famine relief in Africa, specifically in the Darfur regin f Sudan. Mercury will release the single Nv. 9 t traditinal retail utlets in Britain. Plans fr an internatinal release have yet t be unveiled. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

31 Marketplace Hastings Narrws Lss, Ups Earnings Estimate Althugh Hastings psted a lss in the quarter ended Oct., an imprvement frm the previus year's fiscal third quarter prmpted the cmpany t increase its annual earnings estimate by 0 cents per share. In a statement, Hastings frecast that fr the fiscal year ending Jan., 00, it will earn 90 cents -9 cents per diluted share (up frm its previus estimate f 0 cents - cents). Fr the three mnths ended Oct., Hastings psted a lss f $. millin, r cents per diluted share, n sales f $9. millin. In the crrespnding perid last year, the cmpany had a lss f $. millin, r cents per share, n sales f $. millin. Revenue increased.9% in the mst recent quarter, principally because f a.% cmparable - stre uptick frm last year's third quarter. Vide sales, which rse 9. %, and videgames, which rse. %, drve the cmparable - stre increase. Music sales drpped 0. %, and s did vide rentals, but the latter trend fllws frm the cnsumer shift tward purchasing mvies. This shift away frm the higher - margin categry f vide rentals als affected Hastings' grss margin, which dipped frm % t. %. Selling, general and administrative expenses drpped frm.9% t.% because f lwer advertising csts and increased stre labr prductivity. At Hastings' cnventin in Octber, chairman/ceo Jhn Marmaduke said the cmpany cntinues t benefit frm its three -acrss cncept, which divides each stre int bk, mvie and lifestyle sectins. The lifestyle sectin includes music, videgames, T- shirts and ther prduct lines that appeal t Generatin X shppers. "The three -acrss [layut] drives imprved sales and crss - shpping," Marmaduke tld vendrs in a Q&A sessin at the cnventin. "It puts the Generatin X prduct tgether. An unintended cnsequence is fr the Gen -Xers t stay lnger and spend mre in that sectin." Marmaduke reprted that ne stre achieved a % increase in sales when it mved acrss the street and cnverted its track layut t the three -acrss cnfiguratin. S far, abut 0 f Hastings' stres have implemented the three - acrss cncept, s "we still have a ways t g," Marmaduke said. Retail Track.._ By Ed Christman In the current fiscal year, Hastings plans t renvate r relcate abut a dzen stres and t pen five stres. As part f these plans, the chain will include its in -stre cffee bar, Hard Back Cafe, and a drive -thrugh windw wherever pssible. Marmaduke said he expects t cntinue filling the 0 states where Hastings already has stres. He als said the chain will stick with free -standing r strip- center sites. "We think the mall is stale and at risk," he said. "S we are adding `tweener' prduct, because we think we can take that custmer away frm the mall and wn them." In additin t using space efficiently -allwing,000 square feet f merchandise t fit int 0,000 square feet- threeacrss allws Hastings t better serve its custmer base, accrding t Marmaduke. Thanks t its diverse prduct ffering, he said, "Hastings is a cmmunity gathering place; we have everything frm upscale custmers t migrant farm wrkers." The chain's custmer base segments int abut 0% Generatin Y, % Gen X, % baby bmers and % mature buyers. The cmpany designs each stre t crrespnd t hw its custmers shp. Marmaduke nted that music cmprises abut % f sales, bks and newsstand %, vide rental 0 %, vide sell- thrugh %, videgames % and ther prducts %. Overall business has been helped by the chain's strategy f mixing used prduct with new. That helps it present a dminant assrtment in all categries, accrding t Marmaduke. "Hastings' mst lyal custmer is smene wh just traded in merchandise and gt a credit," he tld vendrs. One vendr, Randm Huse Nrth America COO Dn Weissberg, tld Hastings managers during his keynte address: "I will never be pr -used bks." But he added that he understands why retailers carry used merchandise. Marmaduke tld vendrs he wuld like t see Hastings' bk and newsstand sales grw t %. He said the cmpany's bk selectin is 0% larger than Waldenbks' but smaller than that f Barnes & Nble r Brders Bks & Music. Hastings had ne f the larger trade shws Retail Track attended, and bk vendrs appeared t be the dminant categry. In vide, the first things the Hastings custmer sees upn entering are new DVD titles n sale, Marmaduke said. The cmpany has cmmitted t anime titles, allwing it t "wn" thse custmers, accrding t Marmaduke. Hastings has als made a cmmitment t videgames, with each stre devting feet f frntage t the categry. In the electrnics area, the chain must redesign fixtures fr mre effective merchandising. Hastings cntinues t wrk n stre ambience and lighting, Mar - maduke said. "We want ur stres well [lit] enugh s yu can read, but nt verlit," because that reduces shppers' time in the stre. The chain fund that a white flr tile it was using was causing t much glare, s it fund a replacement. Fr the nine mnths ended Oct., Hastings lst $9,000, r cents per diluted share, n $9. millin in vlume. This cmpares with a lss f $. millin, r cents per share, in the crrespnding perid last year, when sales were $9.9 millin. Hastings' stck finished Nv. at $., up cents r.% frm its previus clse f $.9. The best surce f venue infrmatin fr prmters, prducers, agents, managers and event planners. r., Billbard A Internatinal Guide c new cristrúcftati a,^,i!ity Buyer's Guide Cmplete data n ver,00 venues wrldwide, ncluding Amphitheaters, Arenas, Stadiums, Sprts facilities, Cncert Halls and New Cnstructins. YOU GET DETAILED VENUE INFORMATION INCLUDING: > CONTACT INFORMATION > FACILITY CAPACITIES > STAGING CONFIGURATIONS > MARKETING POPULATION )- TICKETING RIGHTS > PLUS, the cmplete FACILITY BUYER'S GUIDE listing thse wh supply and service the arena industry. 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32 igital ntertainment N. : "SpngeBb SquarePants Theme" is the highest entry, as the animated character's mvie reaches N. at the bx ffice. IDECEMER 0C HOT Billbard" RINGTONESTM 9 0. "9 0 Cmpiled by CONSECT mbu. m.mc,. m.,.". TITLE ORIGINAL ARTIST NUMBER Drp It Like Its Ht SNOOP DOGG FEATURING PHARRELL My B USHER AND ALICIA KEYS Lse My Breath DESTINY'S CHILD Lean Back TERROR SQUAD Balla Baby CHINGY, Step 9 Shrty Wanna Ride CIARA FEATURING MISSY E W OTT YOUNG BUCK Let's G *t&i TRICK DADDY FEATURING LIL JON & TWISTA Lcked Up i Gdies AEON FEATURING STYLES P. CIARA FEATURING PETER PABLO 0 N Yeah! USHER FEATURING ULJON & LUDACRIS w. N l Yu're A Mean One Mr. Grinch BORIS KARLOFF Freek -A -Leek PETER PABLO SpngeBb SquarePants Theme THE PIRATES,y Big Pimpin' JAY -Z FEATURING UGK American Idit GREEN DAY The Pink Panther Theme -..- HENRY MANCINI Super Mari Brthers Theme KOJI BONDS Jingle Bells PERRY COMO Bad Bys INNER CIRCLE y Eased.n data rimmed by, in alphabetical rder. ward Dwang, aith WesUMdtnes, Infspace l p M:bile, `l MIDIRingtresSAG Interactive, %Ringer, üngy and Ztang, A WiderThan Cmpany..u* r\ tm Chart endrsed by CTIA - The Wireless Assciatin', and Miè Entertairment Frum. tim ì Artist EMINEM t U THE BEATLES NEILYOUNG Z THE ROLLING STONES E - OL' DIRTY BASTARD BOB DYLAN a i PEARLAM 9 d PINK FLOYD 0 SNOOP DOGG ' A PERFECT CIRCLE LED ZEPPELIN 9 NIRVANA RADIOHEAD. 9 R.E.M. _ DAVID BOWIE DESTINY'S CHILD _ MILES DAVIS 9 z: THE WHO 0 e THE CURE la INTERPOL 9 ELTON JOHN TOM WAITS MODEST MOUSE LA ELLIOTT SMITH pure All Music Guide fr the week ending Nv. N. : The recent passing f rapper )l' Dirty Bastard ;emits in a verge f Web searches hr the manic wrdsmith. TVT Cnnects T Cnsumers Online BY BRIAN GARRITY YORK -TVT Recrds is putting a digital spin n the direct -t- cnsumer sales mdel lng emplyed by independent labels. The New Yrk -based indie is selling dwnlads, ringtnes and ther mbile phne cntent thrugh a new retail channel n its Web site. The new business will supplement nline sales frm TVT's existing relatinships with dwnlad retailers and mbile services. TVT funder and president Steve Gttlieb says the mve is just the first step in an ambitius digital play. By 00, the label intends t be selling prduct bundles that will include CDs, cncert tickets, merchandise and digital cntent. Lil Jn & the East Side Byz, Pitbull, Sevendust, Ying Yang Twins and Ambulance Ltd. are amng the acts n TVT's rster. "This is very different than the day -tday, bread- and -butter fferings, Gttlieb says. "This will enable us t give a cnsumer an ffer f, say, $0 r $ where yu get a whle cnstellatin f gds built arund an artist r label. "This is nt abut thrwing a cuple f things in a basket and ttaling them all up," he adds. "It's an entirely new value prpsitin fr the cnsumer and a cnvenience fr the cnsumer." Indie labels are n strangers t using direct sales t supplement physical retail. Mail rder has lng been a staple fr many indies, and in recent years direct Web sales f CDs and ther physical gds have als becme ppular. Hwever, indies are increasingly lking t the Web t pwer everything frm simple digital transactins t premium packages like thse TVT envisins. Indies are nt alne in seeking direct -sales pprtunities nline. Majr labels are increasingly experimenting with straight -t- cnsumer ffers f ringtnes, fan-club initiatives Apple Cmputer has set its lineup f digital music players fr the hliday selling seasn with the recent intrductin f tw high -end updates t its ipd franchise -the ipd Pht and the special- editin U ipd. The ipd Pht, a third prduct line that will run alngside the riginal ipd and the ipd mini, is targeting digital - phtgraphy enthusiasts wh want t carry their picture cllectins (up t,000 images) alngside their sng libraries. It als basts significant tweaks in functinality and interface that cre music fans will appreciate. It is the first ipd t use a clr screen and t display album art alngside track infrmatin, and it pushes strage capacity t new heights: 0GB, r,000 sngs. Lil Jn (abve) & Byz, Sevendust, Yang Yang Twins, Pitbull (belw) an Ltd. are part f TVT's rster. and CD presales via artist sites. Gartner G analyst Mike McGuire says the direct -tcnsumer digital mdel can help labels develp a ne -n-ne relatinship with the cnsumer -a lng- sught -after cnnectin that labels d nt get with traditinal retail mdels. A direct strategy als allws labels t release cntent n a staggered basis -fr example, thrugh a Web site first and at retail later -and t establish mre niche -riented cntent ffers. Thse types f ffers, targeted at a band's cre fans, d nt necessarily require a traditinal retailer t facilitate the transactin, McGuire ntes. That gives labels a chance t realize better margins, as well as gain a better understanding f their cnsumers. TVT's new stre (tvtrecrds.navi.cm) is pwered by Navi Systems, a Cuperthe East Side tin, Calif. -based prvider f rights -based cmmerce slutins. Navi technlgy d Ambulance enables TVT t distribute multiple digital prduct frmats t cnsumers - including mbile cntent and dwnlads -in a single transactin. TVT will use the MP frmat fr individual sng dwnlads and digital albums. Fr labels, the difficult part f the direct - sales mdel is keeping pace with larger players that traditinally have cntrlled custmer relatinships and have develped brands t which custmers relate. Labels face the challenge "f creating demand and driving traffic," McGuire says. "The larger nline stres have established themselves pretty well. They're already wrking with a lt f the independents." Still, TVT is cnfident that it can partner with third -party spnsrs t drive awareness f its new site. The label is als hping t use rewards prgrams t generate grassrts album prmtin. "The site," Gttlieb says, "is built t reward cnsumers wh virally prmte ur artists and cntent." /TECH Innvatin, hwever, cmes at a price -and a trade -ff in size. The tp -f- the -line ipd Pht carries a price tag f mre than $00 after sales tax and, reversing the slimming trend in previus ipd updates, has the heft f a first -generatin ipd frm tw years ag. In the case f the U ipd, Apple is betting that band lyalists will frk ver $9 fr what is essentially the standard $99 0GB ipd. In exchange, they get a U "experience" - distinctive black casing, replica engravings f the band members' signatures and $0 ff a $9 "digital bxed set" f U's catalg. The mve, if successful, figures t pave the way fr future artist -branded music player deals invlving Apple and thers. BRIAN GARRITY Sum Of All Phnes Virgin Mbile USA has first crack at new ringtne fferings frm Island Recrds rck act Sum. Fr the next tw mnths, the wireless carrier will be the sle retailer f mbile cntent frm Sum 's latest album, "Chuck." The tracks "We're All t Blame," "Pieces" and "The Bitter End" will be amng thse available as ringers. The deal is part f an nging alliance between Virgin Mbile and Universal Music Grup fr the latter's First Dibs exclusive- cntent initiative. Since June, the cmpanies have crafted similar deals fr UMG acts Llyd Banks, Yung Buck and D. GREATEST SONGS \LI..ÁI: Real Bargains RealNetwrks cntinues t drive its dwnlad business with discunt prmtins. The latest ffer is a mnth -lng track sale in assciatin with Rlling Stne magazine's "00 Greatest Sngs f All Time" special issue. Each sng will cst 9 cents, a break frm the usual price f 99 cents. Real, which prvides back -end peratins fr rllingstne.cm, is als using the special issue t create riginal radi prgramming fr its Rhapsdy subscriptin service. `NFL Street' Smarts Sny Music artist Xzibit will appear n the cver f vide - game "NFL Street," due Dec. frm EA Sprts Big. The rapper is featured in the game as a character and vicever cntributr. He als will serve as a spkesman fr the "NFL Street" brand. The riginal "NFL Street" has sld mre than millin cpies since its January release. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

33 , { AXIS DECEMBER ]0. Y g BIIbard Tp DVD SALES., LABEVDISTRIBUTING LABEL : Sales data cmpiled by Nielsen VideScan Princi al Perfrmers z DEC EMOBER w Se iñ 0 Billbard TOP MUSIC VIDEOS Sales data cmpiled by TITLE LABEL / DISTRIBUTING LABEL & NUMBER CRUNK JUICE HME/W 9 gta NUMBER get. Nielsen SundScan Principal Perfrmers Week At Number Lil Jn & The East Side Byz v ó W á `, a TM.9 CD /DVD 'i! - 0 S SHREK ( WIDESCREEN) UREAMWORKS HOME ENTERTAINMENT / UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO 90 SHREK (PAN & SCAN) REAMWORKS HOME ENTERTAINMENT/UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO 90 MICKEY'S TWICE UPON CHRISTMAS WALT DISNEY HOME ENTERTAINMENT/BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT FRIENDS: THE COMPLETE EIGHTH SEASON WARNER HOME VIDEO THE STEPFORD WIVES (PAN & SCAN) PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT 0 THE STEPFORD WIVES (WIDESCREEN) `.R AMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT 0 ALADDIN (SPECIAL EDMON) WALT DISNEY HOME ENTERTAINMENT / BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT MULAN (SPECIAL EDRION DISC SET) WALT DISNEY HOME ENTERTAINMENT/BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT 9 %t` NUMBER Weeks At Number Mike Myers Camern Diaz Mike Myyers Camern Dlaz Animated JenniferAnistn Matthew Perry Nicle Kidman Matthew Brderick Nicle Kidman Matthew Brderick Animated Animated PG 99 PG 99 G 9.9 NR.9 PG - 9 PG -.9 G 9.9 G 99 LIVE AID Varius Artists WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING/WARNER MUSIC VISION : NUMBER ONES Bee Gees POLYOOßtINNERSAL MUSIC VIDEOBNIVERSAL MUSIC& VIDEO DIST. 00 AMOTION A Perfect Circle VIRGIN MUSIC VIOEO/EMM MUSIC VIDEO ÿ WORDS & MUSIC JOHN MELLENCAMP'S GREATEST HITS Jhn Mellencamp ISLAND/WV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST. 00 MY BROTHER & ME Ying Yang Twins C O LLIPARKrIVT 9 HERE FOR THE PARTY Gretchen Wilsn EPIC MUSIC VIDEO/SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT 9 WANT TWO Rufus Wainwright DREAMWORKS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE Britney Spears JIVE/ZOMBA VIDEOBMG VIDEO 9 LOS LONELY BOYS [SPECIAL EDITION] Ls Lnely Bys 9.9 DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD 9.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD 9.9 DVD.9 CD /DVD 9 0 GARFIELD THE MOVIE FOXVIDEO GONE WITH THE WIND (COLLECTOR'S EDITION) '.VARNER HOME VIDEO 9 THE LAST SAMURAI ( DISC PAN & SCAN EDITION) WARNER HOME VIDEO Breckin Meyer Jennifer Lve Hewitt Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Tm Cruise WHITE CHICKS (UNRATED) Shawn Wayans COLUMBIA TRISTAR HOME ENTERTAINMENT 0 Marln Wayans 9 0 THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW ( WIDESCREEN) FOXVIDEO M VAN HELSING (WIDESCREEN) 'H NIVEHSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO SHREK ( WIDESCREEN PACK) DREAMWORKS HOME ENTERTAINMENT /UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO 909 STAR WARS TRILOGY (WIDESCREEN PACK) FOXVIDEO POPEYE: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 90 Dennis Quaid Jake Gyllenhaal Hugh Jackman Kate Beckinsale Mike Myers Camern Diaz Mark Hamill Harrisn Frd Nt Listed AROUND THE WORLD IN 0 DAYS (PAN & SCAN) Jackie Chan WALT DISNEY HOME ENTERTAINMENT/BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT 9 0. i I THE LUCY SHOW: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 90 THE BEVERLY HILLBIWES: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 900 SHREK: THE STORY SO FAR ( DISC SET) DREAMWORKS HOME ENTERTAINMENT/UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO 99 THE ROAD TO BALI: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS Lucille Ball Nt Listed eke Myers DIaZ Nt Usted DAWN OF THE DEAD (WIDESCREEN) Sarah Plley UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO 9 Ving Rhames THE LITTLE PRINCESS: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 90 THE CLEARING ( WDESCREEN) FOXVIDEO n Nt Usted Rbert Redfrd PG - 9 G 9.9 R 9.9 NR.9 PG PG PG 9.9 PG 9.9 NR 9 PG 9 NR 9 NR 9 PG.9 NR.9 R a9 NR.9 R.9 OR/EPIC/SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT 99 " CROSSRAODS GUITAR FESTIVAL ( DISC SET) Eric Claptn WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING/WARNER MUSIC VISION 0 DISCLAIMER II Seether WIND -UP VIDEOBMG VIDEO 00 RAZON DE SOBRA Marc Antni Slis FONOVISANNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST. 9 BIG & RICH'S SUPER GALACTIC FAN PAK Big & Rich ' WARNER REPRISE VIDEO /WARNER MUSIC VISION 90 PLAY Peter Gabriel RHINO HOME VIDEO/WARNER MUSIC VISION 09 GREATEST HITS Neil Yung WARNER BROS./WARNER MUSIC VISION 9 LEARNING TO FLY Hilary Duff HOLLYWOOD MUSIC VIDEO/UNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST. 9 9 DISNEY CHANNEL HITS: TAKE Varius Artists WALT DISNEY HOME ENTERTAINMENT/UNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST. 0 LIVE IN 00 Nrah Jnes And The Handsme Band BLUE NOTE/EMM MUSIC VIDEO999 0 UP CLOSE & PERSONAL Shania Twain MERCURY NASHVILLE VIDEOBNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DISC 99 HALLUCINOGENETICS Primus PRAWN SONG/RED DISTRIBUTION THREE DAYS GRACE Three Days Grace JIVE RECORDSBMG VIDEO 0 HARRY FOR THE HOLIDAYS Harry Cnnick, Jr. COLUMBIA MUSIC VIDEO/SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT 0. REGALO DE AMOR Ls Temeraris FONOVISANNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST. ' PHINALLY PHAMOUS Lil Wyte HYPNOTIZE MINDS/ASYLUMAVARNER REPRISE VIDEO MO PENSANDO EN TI K -Paz De La Sierra UNIVISIONBNIVERSAL MUSIC& VIDEO DISC DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 DVD /CD 9.9 DVD.9 CD /DVD 9.9 DVD.9 CD /DVD 9.9 DVD 9.9 DVD.9 DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD I, CASPER: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 99 Animated THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS Andy Griffith NR.9 NR.9 AWAKE THE BEST OF LIVE Live RADIOACTIVENNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO 0ST. 00 MILES DE VOCES EN VIVO Cnjunt Primavera FONOVISNUNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD TOM & JERRY: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 90 Animated NR.9 's OF JUSTICE CONCERT SERIES VOLUME Varius Artists SERICALSTRIKE/AXIS OFJUSTICE/COWMBINSONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT 99.9 CD /DVD 9 DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: VOLUME BOX SET Dick Van Dyke GENIUS PRODUCTS 90 NR 9 NO QUARTER (UNLEDDED) Jimmy Page & Rbert Plant ATLANTIC VIDEO/WARNER MUSIC VISION DVD 0 `'_ -- BRIDGET JONE'S DIARY (COLLECTORS EDITION) MINIMA% FILMS/BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT VAN HELSING (PAN & SCAN) UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO Renee Zellweger Hugh Grant Hugh Jackman Kate Beckinsale MCLINKTOCKI VOLUME BOX SET Nt Listed GENIUS PRODUCTS 90E R 99 PG - 99 NR 9 _ - 0 FESTIVAL EXPRESS Varius Artists WARNER REPRISE VIDEO /WARNER MUSIC VISION 0 ' 9 READY TO DIE The Ntrius B.I.G. BAD BOY/UNNERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO 0ST. 00 MI HOMENAJE GIGANTE A LA MUSICA NORTENA Dn Francisc UNIVISIONNNIVERSAL MUSIC& VIDEO DIST. 0 9 DVD.9 CD /DVD.9 CD /DVD THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (PAN & SCAN) Dennis Quaid FOXVIDEO 9 Jake Gyllenhaal PG_ 9.9 FEELS LIKE HOME: DELUXE EDITION Nrah Jnes BLUE NOTE/EMM MUSIC VIDEO CD /DVD SHREK (PAN & SCAN SINGLE DISC) DREAMWORKS HOMEENTERTAINMENTNNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME VIDEO 990 Mike M ers Camern Diaz PG 9 LIVE AT MONTREUX 9 & 9 Stevie Ray Vaughan EPIC HOME VIDEO /SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT DVD SUPERMAN: VOLUME BOX SET ;ENIUS PRODUCTS %0 Nt Usted NR.9 LET IT ENFOLD YOU Senses Fail DRIVE-THRU VIDEONAGRANT 00.9 CD /DVD AROUND THE WORLD IN 0 DAYS ( WIDESCREEN) WALT DISNEY HOME ENTERTAINMENT/BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT Jackie Chan PG 9.9 LIVE AT DONINGTON AC /DC EPIC MUSIC VIDEO/SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.9 DVD _ THE BETTY BOOP SHOW: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 900 Animated NR.9 THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE (SPECIAL DISC EDITION) Grateful Dead MONTEREY HOME VIDEO DVD ' THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW: VOLUME BOX SET GENIUS PRODUCTS 909 Abbtt & Cstell NR.9.9 ON FIRE: LIVE AT THE BOWL Queen HOLLYWOOD MUSIC VIDEO/UNIVERSAL MUSIC & VIDEO DIST % 9.9 DVD 9 A CINDERELLA STORY (PAN & SCAN) WARNER HOME VIDEO Hilary Duff Jennifer Clidge PG.9 0 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC DVD: VOLUME Varius Artists CAPITOL VIOEO/EMM MUSIC VIDEO.9 DVD THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW VOLUME BOX SET r, FNIUS PRODUCTS 90 Andy Griffith NR.9 O RIMA gld cert f sales f,00 units fr vide singles; RIAA gld cart fr sales f 0,000 units fr SF r LF vides; L RIRA platinum cerf fr sales f 0,0 u its fr vide singles; RIRA platinum Cart fr sales 00,000 units fr SF r LF vides; O RIM gld cart fr,000 units fr SF r LF vides certified prir t April, 99; RIRA platinum cart fr 0,000 units fr SF r LF aldeas certified prir t April, , VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan Inc. 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34 Sngwriters & Publishers Musicals As Teaching Tls The TV dcumentary "Children Will Listen," which debuted n PBS Thanksgiving night, demnstrated the cmeback f musical theater in schls. It used a Kennedy Center prductin f Stephen Sndheim's "Int the Wds" by Washingtn, D.C., kids as its anchr. Sndheim's fairy-tale- inspired shw -which ends with the sng "Children Will Listen "-was part f the "Bradway Junir Cllectin" f musicals represented by Music Theatre Internatinal, a New Yrk - based theatrical licensr fr which SESAC c- chairman Freddie Gershn serves as chairman/ceo. "Children will listen -and I knw that they d," says Gershn, wh is als c- executive prducer f the SONDHEIM: KIDS USED HIS 'WOODS' dcumentary. He cites an evaluatin f New Yrk public schls serving pverty-level demgraphics that have participated in the Bradway Junir prgram, which he launched in 99. " l\v schls did `Guys and Dlls Junir' and ne did `Annie Junir,' " Gershn says. "We went back the fllwing year t bserve the children and interview parents, teachers and principals and saw persnal grwth and maturing in a prductive way. I'm nt talking abut turning a kid int Bernadette Peters r Nathan Lane r teaching them hw t read music r a script better. But in 'Annie,' fr instance, they learn abut the stck market crash, the Depressin, the New Deal, Herbert Hver and Franklin Delan Rsevelt -the things we take fr granted when we see the shw but that these kids are learning abut fr the first time." These histry lessns, Gershn adds, are delivered mre effectively via theater than the traditinal manner f the teacher lecturing in a classrm. Perhaps mre significant, hwever, is the scial instructin. "They als learn hw t get alng with each ther, self -cnfidence and discipline and scial behavir," Ger- shn cntinues. "Yu can't put n a shw if yu're rwdy, and this is the first time in their lives where they're put in an event where they Wrds& Music. By Jim Bessman have t wrk with each ther and share respnsibility. In effect, what they're ding is creating a micrcsm f sciety where they learn that everyne has different rles - whether they walk nstage r wrk the lights r sund -and hpefully we avid things like Clumbine where smene feels islated." Created simultaneusly is "a schl cmmunity," Gershn adds, invlving interactin with teachers and parents "wh might nt therwise shw up at schl unless they were called in t hear their kid was bad." But the Bradway Junir prductins have an impact n the crn - psers as well. "I tk Sheldn Harnick and Jerry Bck t see 'Fiddler n the Rf Junir' at a schl in New Yrk, with Tevye played by a Bangladeshi by and his wife played GERSHON: 'CHILDREN WILL LISTEN' by a Japanese -American girl, and the rest f the cast was mstly black and Latin kids," Gershn recalls. "When they sang `Traditin,' the audience was in tears because it was made up f families wh culd identify thrugh their wn traditins -and Harnick and Bck were crying because they never thught their legacy wuld live n like this. "I brught Sndheim t the Kennedy Center rehearsal and he just started t cry: A lt f them were inner -city kids wh reinvented the music t their wn sensibility and hip -hp culture, and he lved it because he felt his legacy was being adapted by them -and they were having a gd time." Sndheim appears in "Children Will Listen," as des Peters, wh starred in the riginal 9 Bradway prductin f "Int the Wds." "[Sndheim] was s prud because he feels that teaching is the mst wnderful thing yu can d," Gershn ntes. "He said that unless he had great teachers wh mentred him, he culdn't have gne anywhere." The "real stars" f "Children Will Listen," then, are the teachers, says Gershn, wh adds that the educatinal aspect f the Bradway Junir cncept, which emplys special bk, CD and vide editins f classic musicals geared fr ages -, will be furthered next year with a nvel music license. "In January, McGraw -Hill will intrduce it as part f their required arts and humanities bks," he says. "We gave them -fr the first time in histry- the 'minidramatic license': This breaks frm traditin because schls have never had the right t d a piece f a musical in the classrm t give an intrductin t the theater. Mrever, instead f suing students fr dwnlading, we've decided t intrduce children frm first grade n t a lessn called 'the C in a Circle' -the symbl fr cpyright. "We're teaching a new generatin f children abut the intellectual prperty right-which is a very difficult cncept fr adults t understand. But when little Jhnny puts a `C' in a circle and the year and his name next t a drawing he made in class, and his mther puts it n the refrigeratr t shw t daddy and his brthers, he can say that means they can't make cpies f it, that he wns it. Hpefully, a new generatin f yung peple will get new respect fr dwnlading and cpying." Cunting,000 Bradway Junir prductins s far, Gershn expects that with McGraw -Hill's help, 0,000-0,000 grade schls acrss the United States will use Bradway Junir materials. "They'll get the idea that rights exist -and theater can be fun," he says, "and by the end f day we'll keep alive the art frm f a shw with music while making better citizens f a new generatin." Hamiltn -Smith Elected APRS Chair The U.K. -based Assn. f Prfessinal Recrding Services has elected David Hamiltn -Smith t succeed Phil Dudderidge f Fcus - rite as its new chairman. HAMILTON- SMITH: CHINA BLUE FOUNDER Hamiltn -Smith funded audi pstprductin facility China Blue in Lndn, where he serves as managing directr /sund supervisr. He began his career at the legendary Olympic Studis under engineer /technical directr Keith Grant, where he recrded a brad range f music. He later wrked as a freelance engineer /prducer and as head f sund at Cmplete Vide, where he became a directr. China Blue recently pened a.- channel surrund mixing rm. "T me the APRS badge has always been a symbl f excellence in recrding," Hamiltn - Smith said in a statement. "In such challenging times fr all the audi industries, I am hping t take the assciatin int a new era f develpment, by prviding fcused prfessinal and new business advice t individual audi practitiners, and by reinvigrating the APRS prfile thrughut the industry." DISC MAKING: Disc Makers, a CD/ DVD replicatr fr independent artists, filmmakers and businesses, has upgraded its in -huse mastering facility, the SundLab. Engineer Jn Marc supervised the renvatin, installing Dynaudi M mnitrs. Als featured in the SundLab are SADiE and Snic Studi wrkstatins and Studi Mnitr. prcessing gear frm Weiss, TC Electrnic, Apgee, Gerge Massenburg Labs, Avaln Designs and Fcusrite. AES, CONTINUED (AGAIN): It is impssible t summarize the Audi Engineer Sciety's th cnventin, with its exhibitrs and mre than,000 attendees, in ne r tw clumns. Here, then, are a few mre bservatins frm the cnference, held Oct. - in San Francisc. Facility design and cnstructin firm Pelnis Sund displayed a prduct that may exemplify future cntrl rms, especially thse f wner -perated, digital audi wrkstatin -equipped persnal and hme -based studis. The UltiStatin is a handsme, cherry wd cnsle. It is prewired and preinstalled with API Audi micrphne and line - level preamplifiers, analg prcessrs and ther cmpnents. The analg frnt end t the signal path, ppular in DAW -based recrding, is elegantly hused n either side f the cnsle, the center f which is reserved fr DAW cntrller and mnitr. By Christpher Walsh The cnsle is hand -wired and custmizable. The mdel displayed at the cnventin featured API 00V input mdules n its left side, while the right side hused API 00 summing mixers and a 00 fur -bus cnsle master. Als at the cnfab, Prfessinal Audi Design, which exhibited with new strategic partner Walters - Stryk Design Grup (Studi Mnitr, Billbard, Oct. ), launched Reslutin Audi Electrnics. The new cmpany specializes in prducts that aim t capture the sund f classic analg, discrete audi hardware with the additin f mdern capabilities. Reslutin Audi Electrnics debuted with the ResPre - eight- channel micrphne preamplifier with ptinal digital utput card. Future prducts will include ne- and tw- channel versins knwn as DiPre BILLBOARD DECEMBER,00

35 9 Spanish vcalist Tamara pays tribute t Brazilian singer/ sngwriter Rbert Carls UNITED KINGDOM i EUROPE / ASIA / JAPAN / AUSTRALIA / AFRICA / CANADA 0 Jann Arden is ne f the artists champined by pineering Canadian radi statin CKUA r' OutKast's André 000 accepts ne f the grup's three awards. The MTV Eurpe Music Awards OutKast Wins Big At Rme Ceremny BY LARS BRANDLE ROME -Even befre the dust settled n the 00 MTV Eurpe Music Awards, held here Nv., rganizers had begun wrk n next year's event. "I have decided n a city," MTV Netwrks Eurpe president/ceo Brent Hansen tld Billbard, withut elabrating. "We're already planning the next ne. We're wrking n ideas that we want t mve away frm r lk tward implementing int the next shw. That's really crucial fr us." This year's EMA gala marked the secnd time the Viacm -wned netwrk has held its flagship Eurpean event in Italy; Milan hsted the awards in 99. OutKast was the big winner this year. The Atlanta -based du wn in the categries f best grup, vide and sng. The pair's single "Hey Ya!" (LaFace/Zmba) wn the vide and sng hnrs. The ther multiple award winners were Usher and British rck tri Muse. Usher, wh came t the event with fur nm - inatins, netted trphies fr best male artist and album fr "Cnfessins" ( LaFaceiZmba). Taste Media/Warner grup Muse scred best alternafive act and best U.K. and Ireland act. In al, trphies were handed ut, including reginal awards. MTV viewers vted n categries; the netwrk's staff decided the ther tw. Best female artist went t Britney Spears, while best pp went t Black Eyed Peas. Detrit rap grup D was named best hip -hp. Alicia Keys and Marn claimed the titles f best R &B and best new act, respectively. Perfrmers at the gala, which was hsted by hip -hp artist Xzibit, included Keys, Eminern, Beastie Bys, Italian pp singer Tizian Ferr, Swedish rckers the Hives and Scttish guitar band Franz Ferdinand. Actrs Sarah Michelle Cellar and Elisha Cuthbert, leading Italian ftballeralessandr del Pier and Aussie pp star Kylie Mingue were amng the award presenters. (Cntinued n page 0) EU Budget Bashed Business Seeks Funding Fr Music Initiatives BY EMMANUEL LEGRAND LONDON -Organizatins representing labels, cllecting scieties, publishers, artists and perfrmers have written t the Eurpean Cmmissin expressing cncern that there is still n allcatin fr music initiatives in the Eurpean Unin budget fr The pen letter was sent Nv. t Viviane Reding, the utging cmmissiner fr educatin and culture, and Jan Figel, cmmissiner -designate in charge f educatin, training, culture and multilinguism. Figel tk ver frm Reding Nv., fllwing the Eurpean Parliament's apprval Nv. f the cmmissiners that EC president- designate Jsé Manuel Barrs nminated t serve five -year terms. The letter was an initiative f Brussels -based lbbying grup the Eurpean Music r Office. "We are lking frward t wrking with the new cmmissiner," EMO secretary- general Jean- Françis Michel says. "There are a lt f expectatins frm the creative cmmunity." Michel adds that Reding's ffice acknwledged receipt f the letter, which als went t the culture ministers f all EU member states. The letter was endrsed by Eurpean rights - sciety umbrella grup GESAC, the Internatinal Cnfederatin f Music Publishers, the Internatinal Federatin f the Phngraphic Industry and Eurpean independent labels' bdy Impala. Mre than 0 ther natinal rganizatins als signed it. The letter relates t current discussins abut the EC budget fr In particular, it raises industry cncerns ver the "Culture 00" prgram, which will allcate EU funds t varius cultural initiatives during the perid. The EC manages a yearly budget that exceeds 00 billin eurs ($0 billin). FIGEL, LEFT. AN D REDING: CHALLENGE FORTHE EC In the cming mnths, a new generatin f cultural and audivisual prgrams will be established by the EC, the Eurpean Parliament and the EU's main decisin- making bdy, the Cuncil f the Eurpean Unin. Michel says there are indicatins that there will again be n specific budget within Culture 00 allcated t the creative industries. "Our initiative is [intended] t remind the cmmissin, the parliament and the cuncil that we prfessinals need a specific prgram that will take int accunt ur industries," Michel says. Nting that the EU music sectr "is an imprtant cntributr t ecnmic develpment, as well as t true cultural pluralism," the letter expresses regret that the EC has nt taken int cnsideratin "ur particu- lar scial and ecnmic specificities in its prpsals fr Culture 00." The signatries "urge" the EC, parliament and cuncil t revise the Culture 00 prpsal "t help musical creatin and its circulatin and t supprt prfessinal training in the industry." The EMO argues that there are still hindrances t the EU wrking as a single market - ntably legislative and scial issues that can affect crss -brder turing. The bdy suggests that several pilt prjects culd help address sme f these issues. An IFPI representative says the rganizatin is backing the EMO initiative because "IFPI has always been supprtive f pilt prjects t help artists tur and f the plans t establish a Eurpean Exprt Office in the United States." Accrding t the EMO, the Eurpean music industry in 00 amassed sales f 9. billin eurs ($. billin) and emplyed 0,000 peple. RIAD Prmtes Music DVD BY STEVE McCLURE TOKYO- Aiming t expand n increasing sales fr music DVDs, the Recrding Industry Assn. f Japan has launched its secnd annual campaign t prmte the frmat t cnsumers. At the same time, industry grups are creating a database that aims t simplify the music DVD rdering prcess fr retailers. The frmat is ne f the few grwth areas fr labels in the wrld's secnd -largest music market. In the first nine mnths f 00, RIAJ member cmpanies shipped. millin music titles n DVD, up % frm the crrespnding perid f 00. The whlesale value f thse shipments rse 9% t. billin yen ($. millin). The RIM campaign aims t further expand the market fr music DVD. "Sales f DVD players and ther hardware that can play DVDs, such as game cnsles, have been very strng (Cntinued n page 0) BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

36 v 9 El l E ç 0 e m Billbard JAPAN ISOUNOSCAN JAPAN) //0 SINGLES HANA ORANGE RANGE SONY MUSIC CHIKIN RICE HAMADA MASATOSHI TO MAKIHARA R&C JAPAN LTD. GUITAR ZAMURAI NO UTA YOKU RATA PONY CANYON 000 NO TAMBOURINE /OUTSIDER ROSSO UNIVERSAL JIBUN NO TAME NI /FOR YOU (LTD EDITION) TOKIO UNIVERSAL REASON NARUMI TAMAKI KOKOROE ROAD OF MAJOR SONY MUSIC CUTTING EDGE LOVE IS HERE (CD + DVD) JANNE DA ARC AVER MASAYUME SPITS UNIVERSAL LOVE IS HERE JANNE DA ARC AVEX TRAX ALBUMS THE GOSPELLERS G0 KI /DON Al OOTSUKA LOVE JAM AVEXTRA)( Al OOTSUKA LOVE JAM LCD r DVD) AVER TRAX EMINEM ENCORE )LTD EDITION) UNIVERSAL BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS:MY PREROGATIVE LTD EDITION U HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB )LTD EDITION) SUGASHIKAO TIME (LTD EDITION) BMG DESTINY'S CHILD DESTINY FULFILLED (LTD EDITION) BENNIE K SYNCHRONICITY FOR UFE BRIAN WILSON SMILE NONESUCH/WARNER MUSIC SONY MUSIC BMG FUNHOUSE UNIVERSAL HITS OF THE WORLD.. AAEff- 9 0 t a B 9 '0 0 UNITED KINGDOM (THE OFFICIAL UK CHARTS CO.) //0 SINGLES I'LL STAND BY YOU GIRLS ALOUD POLYDOR LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA IF THERE'S ANY JUSTICE LEMAR SONY MUSIC WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? GWEN STEFANI INTERSCOPE ROOM ON THE RD FLOOR MCFLY UNIVERSAL JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE VERTIGO. ISLAND BABY ITS YOU JOJO FT. BOW WOW BLACK OCEAN RECORDS MY BOO /CONFESSIONS II USHER & ALICIA KEYS LAFACE0MBA CAR WASH CHRISTINAAGUILERA FT. MISSY EWOTT ALBUMS EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE JIVE IL DIVO IL DIVO SYCD DESTINY'S CHILD DESTINY FULFILLED COLUMBIA BLUE BEST OF BLUE INNOCENTNIRGIN SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS MERCURY RONAN KEATING 0 YEARS Of HITS POLYDOR KEANE HOPES AND FEARS ISLAND WESTLIFE ALLOW US TO BE FRANK S:MG DREAMWORKS v FRANCE ISNEP/IFOP/TITE-LIVE) //0 SINGLES FOUR TO THE FLOOR STARSAILOR CAPITOL LA RIVIERE DE NOTRE ENFANCE GAROU & MICHEL SARDOU COLUMBIA ENAMORAME PAPI SANCHEZ SCORPIO GENTLEMAN TRAGEDIE UP MUSIC/VARNER MUSIC LAISSEZ -MOI DANSER STAR ACADEMY MERCURY EN CHANTANT STAR ACADEMY MERCURY 9 SI SEULEMENT JE POUVAIS LUI MANQUER CALOGERO MERCURY LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA SIENTELO SPEEDY FT LUMIDEE VIRGIN 90 SHOWBIZ - THE BATTLE MATT POKORA ULM ALBUMS EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE FLORENT PAGNY BARYTON MERCURY SOUNDTRACK LES CHORISTES MARC MUSIC STAR ACADEMY STAR ACADEMY CHANTE MICHEL SARDOU DE PALMAS (GERALD) UN HOMME SANS RACINE POLYDOR TRAGEDIE A FLEUR PEAU UP MUSIC MERCURY FRANCOISE HARDY TANT DE BELLES CHOSES VIRGIN FRANK MICHAEL LA FORCE DES FEMMES UP MUSIC/WARNER MUSIC DESTINY'S CHILD DESTINY FULFILLED COLUMBIA BERNARD LAVILLIERS CARNETS DE BORD BARCLAY u t 9 0 e 9 0 v a a GERMANY Due t hliday deadlines, last issue's chart is repeated belw and n Cmmn Currency (MEDIA CONTROL) //0 SINGLES CALL ON ME ERIC PRYDZ DATA LIVING TO LOVE YOU SARAH CONNOR EPIC RUN WITH ME JEANETTE UNIVERSAL LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE PERFEKTE WELLE JULI ISLAND SYMPHONIE SILBERMOND MODULE CURTAIN FALLS BLUE INNOCENT/VIRGIN VERTIGO U ISLAND WAS ICH AN DIR MAG WILES HILBERT MUSIC ALBUMS ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS MERCURY BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS MY PREROGATIVE DEPECHE MODE REMIXES 'UI - '0 MUTE JULI ES IST JULI UNIVERSAL SEAL BEST OF99 -X WARNER BROS. SILBERMOND VERSCHWENDE DEINE ZEIT MODULE TINA TURNER ALL THE BEST PARLOPHONE VARIOUS ARTISTS LIVE AID WARNER BROS. CANADA ITALY SPAIN AUSTRALIA - ISOUNDSCANI /0/0 g (FIMUNIELSENI II// cn. a m Due t hliday deadlines, last Issue's chart is repeated belw and, x n Cmmn Currency ± "' g IAFYVE/MEDIA CONTROL) //0 g (ARIA) /J0 SINGLES SINGLES SINGLES SINGLES AWAKE IN A DREAM KALAN PORTER VIKBMG VERTIGO ( TRACK SINGLE) VERTIGO U ISLAND VERTIGO U ISLAND WHAT YOU WAITING GWEN STEFANI INTERSCOPE - FOR? 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SHANIA TWAIN ADRIANO CELENTANO TAMARA GREATEST HITS MERCURY/UNIVERSAL CI SEMPRE UN MOTIVO CLAN CELENTANO CANTA A ROBERTO CARLOS UNIVERSAL ENCORE INTERSCOPE DELTA GOODREM MISTAKEN IDENTITY EPIC DESTINY'S CHILD RENATO ZERO DESTINY FULFILLED COLUMBIA/SONY MUSIC FIGU DEL SOGNO EPIC NINA PASTORI NO HAY - ROBBIE WILLIAMS QUINTO MALO BMG GREATEST HITS CAPITOL VARIOUS ARTISTS ROBBIE WILLIAMS ROBBIE WILLIAMS MUCHDANCE - BRITNEY 00 BMG SPEARS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE JIVE ROD STEWART GIGI D'AGOSTINO CAMILO SESTO _ POWDERFINGER V h CAMILO SESTO N. SONY MUSIC FINGERPRINTS. THE BEST OF UNIVERSAL BRITNEY SPEARS EMINEM LUZ CASAL f BRITNEY SPEARS MAROON GREATEST HITS: MY PRERIGATIVE JIVE/BMG ENCORE INTERSCOPE SENCILIA ALEGRIA CAPITOL SONGS ABOUT JANE JBMG HILARY DUFF HILARY DUFF HOLLYWOOD/UNIVERSAL PAOLO CONTE ELEGIA ATLANTIC TRIANA JET SE DE UN LUGAR WARNER BROS. GET BORN CAPITOL SNOOP DOGG MG. BRITNEY SPEARS HITS: BRITNEY SPEARS c SOUNDTRACK IRHYIHM& GANGSTAI THE MASTERPIECE STMIMRNOGGYSTYU'LENEKNNMRSN GREATEST MY PREROGATIVE JIVE GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE JIVE JONES'S DIARY BRIDGET MERCURY 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS BIG SHINY TUNES EMI 9 LAURA PAUSINI RESTA IN ATLANTIC 9 EL ARREBATO S MISSY HIGGINS 9 ASCOLTO SUE SALGA EL SOL POR DONDE SUI CAPITOL THE SOUND OF WHITE EMI 0 PEARL JAM 0 TINA TURNER 0 JARABE DE PALO 0 LIVE REARVIEWMIRROR: ALL THE BEST PARLOPHONE GREATEST HITS 99 -W EPIC/SONY MUSIC UN METRO CUADRADO D.R.O. AWAKE: THE BEST OF UVE UNIVERSAL JIVE THE NETHERLANDS SWEDEN NORWAY SWITZERLAND W 0 (MEGA CHARTS BV) /9/0 SINGLES 00 ARABIAN NIGHTS CHIPZ UNIVERSAL ZINLOOS LANGE FRANS & BRAS B FT. NINTHE WALBOOMERS MUSIC VERTIGO 0 ISLAND WAT ZOU JE DOEN MARCO BORSATO & AU B POLYDOR LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA ALBUMS WITHIN TEMPTATION THE SILENT FORCE GUN SUPERS/BMG EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS DESTINY'S CHILD DESTINY FULFILLED COLUMBIA ANDREA BOCELLI ANDREA POLYDOR Hits f the Wrld is cmpiled at Billbard /Lndn. r (GU) /9/0 SINGLES I WON'T CRY EUN LANTO RODEO VERTIGO 0 ISLAND BORO BORO ARASH WARNER BROS. CALL ON ME ERIC PRYDZ DATA REAL TO ME BRIAN MCFADDEN ALBUMS ULF LUNDELL OK BABY OK CAPITOL EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE MODESTI/SONY MUSIC PETER JOBACK & GOTEBORGS SYMFONIKER STORYBOOK COLUMBIA MAGNUS UGGLA DEN TATUERADE GENERATIONEN COLUMBIA ROD STEWART STARDUST: GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK. VOLS JBMG II 9 S (VERDENS GANG NORWAY) //0 SINGLES CALL ON ME ERICPRYDZ DATA LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA FAKE YOUR BEAUTY BERTNEZETJTZ CAPITOL MY PREROGATIVE BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? 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37 AUSTRIA Ñ w (AUSTRIAN IFPI /AUSTflIA TOP 0 //0 SINGLES CALL ON ME ERIC PRYDZ DATA PERFEKTE WELLE JUU ISLAND LIVING TO LOVE YOU SARAH CONNOR EPIC JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE SYMPHONIE SILBERMOND BMG ALBUMS KIDDY CONTEST KIDS KIDDY CONTESTVOL0 BMG EMINEM ENCORE NTERSCOPE ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSAUS BEST WARNER BROS. TINA TURNER ALINE BEST PARLOPHONE DENMARK. -. g (IFPI /NIELSEN MARKETING RESEARCH) //0 SINGLES VERTIGO U ISLAND REAL TO ME BRIAN MCFADDEN MODESTI/SONY MUSIC WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? GWEN STEFANI INTERSCOPE LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE ALBUMS KIM LARSEN & KJUKKEN JUL &NYTAR EMI EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE JOHN MOGENSEN SAMLEDE VAERKER KICK MUSIK ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS LARS LILHOLT BAND DEN. DAG RECART FINLAND Due t hliday deadlines, last issue's chart is. repeated belw and n Cmmn Currency IYLE /0/0 SINGLES i MY PREROGATIVE BRITNEYSPEARS JIVE JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? GWEN STEFAN( INTERSCOPE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE KWAN MERCURY ALBUMS EPPU NORMAALI SABAN VUODEN PAASTAKIN HECTOR EI SELITYKSIA ALLSTAR POKO ANNE MATTILA UNIHEKKAA BWEBIRD CAROLA PARHAATTULKITSIJAN TAIVAL WEA AGENTS & JORMA KAARIAINEN...IS BEST VOL PARLOPHONE POLAND IZWIZEK PRODUCENTOW AUDIO VIDEO) /9/0 ALBUMS WILKI WATRA POMATON VARIOUS ARTISTS RADIO ZET- TYLKOWIELKIE PRZEBOJE LEONARD COHEN DEAR HEATHER COLUMBIA VARIOUS ARTISTS THE BEST SMOOTH EVER EMI KAZIK CZTERDZIESTY PIERWSZY KOMBI KOMBI IZABEUN SP MAGIC ROD STEWART STARDUST GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK VOLS BMG PAWEL KUKIZ I PIERS( PLYTA PIRACKA EMI VARIOUS ARTISTS SMOOTH JAZZ CAFE IZABEUN SOUNDTRACK BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY MERCURY BELGIUM /FLANDERS Due t hliday deadlines, last issue's chart is repeated belw and n Cmmn Currency IPROMUVII I (/0/0 SINGLES FEMME LIKE U K -MARO EAST WEST 9 CAR WASH CIRRISONA AGOIEERA FT. MISSY EWOTT DREAMWORKS MY PREROGATIVE BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE CALL ON ME ERIC PRYOZ BAT/ MINISTRY OF SOUND ZU GELOOFT IN MIJ ANDR, HAZES EMI ALBUMS i ANDRE HAZES JAAR - HET ALLERBESTE VAN EMI ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS CLOUSEAU VANBINNEN EMI OZARK HENRY THE SAILOR NOT THE SEA EPIC 9 PLACEBO ONCE MORE WITH FEEUNG: SINGLES '%W VIRGIN - (RIMI //0 PORTUGAL ALBUMS PHIL COLLINS LOVE SONGS, A COMPILATION OLD A TINA TURNER ALL THE BEST PARLOPHONE ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS O -ZONE DISCO -ZONE MEDIA SERVICES/TIME BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE RUSSELL WATSON AMORE MUSICA DECCA WARNER BROS. JIVE ADRIANA CALCANHOTO ADRIANA PARTIMPIM POLYDOR EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE 9 0 IVETE SANGALO MTV AO VIVO MERCURY 0 MAROON SONGS ABOUT JANE TFl (MAHASZ) J/BMG HUNGARY /9/0 SINGLES CSAK EGY EKSZAKA VOLT AGNES VANILLA PRIVATE MOON RECORDS SOME KIND OF MONSTER EP METAWCA VERTIGO JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE SHAKE THAT! SCOOTER EDEL VERTIGO U ISLAND ALBUMS OLAH IBOLYA EGY SIMA, EGY FORDITOTT CSALOGANNY EMI BMG MATYI ES AN HEGEDUS 0PENGO EMI GASPAR LAC( HAGYD MEG NEKEM A DALT EMI TANKCSAPDA A LEGJOBB MERGEK BEST OF 99 SONY MUSIC 9 0 NE W 0 0 ARGENTINA ICAPIFI //0 ALBUMS LUIS MIGUEL MEXICO EN LA PIEL WARNER BROS. ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS EMI RICOS Y MOCOSOS RICOS Y MOCOSOS WARNER BROS. LOS NOCHEROS NOCHE AMIGA MIA EMI THE ROLLING STONES LIVE LICKS EMI ROD STEWART STARDUST: GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOKVOL VARIOUS ARTISTS ESP D- MODE DBN BERSUIT VERGARABAT DE LA CABEZA CON BERSUIT UNIVERSAL BABASONICOS INFAME POPART DISCOS CATUPECU MACHU EL ROMERO IMPERFECTO EMI COMMON CURRENCY A weekly screcard f albums simultaneusly 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 EMINEM E rcnl I II DESTINY'S CHILD Destin Fufilled (B) BRITNEY SPEARS Neatest Flits My Per gative (B) TINA TURNER All The Best (E) SHANIA TWAIN Greatest Hits (U) 9 9 RHO 0 Billbard EUROCHARTS Eurcharts are cmpiled by Billbard frm the natinal singles and album sales charts f Eurpean cuntries. Due t hliday deadlines, last issue's singles and albums chan is repeated belw and n Cmmn Currency x 9 '0 " ' ' - - ' //0 SINGLES SALES JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE VERTIGO 0 ISLAND LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA CALL ON ME ERIC PRYDZ DATA MY PREROGATIVE BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE CURTAIN FALLS BWE INNOCENTNIRGIN GENTLEMAN TRAGEDIE UP MUSIC/WARNER MUSIC CAR WASH CHRISTINAAGUILERA FT MISSY EWOTT OREAMWORKS LAISSEZ -MOI DANSER STAR ACADEMY MERCURY MY BOO /CONFESSIONS II USHER & AUCIA KEYS LAFACE0MBA LIVING TO LOVE YOU SARAH CONNOR -CELL/SONY MUSIC FOUR TO THE FLOOR STARSAILOR CAPITOL RUN WITH ME JEANETTE UNIVERSAL EN CHANTANT STAR ACADEMY MERCURY K- MRARO OP MUSIC/WARNER MUSIC ENAMORAME PAPI SANCHEZ PLANET RECORDS OBSESION AVENTURA PREMIUM WONDERFUL JA RULE FT R.KELLY & ASHANTI DEF JAM PERFEKTE WELLE JUU ISLAND THESE WORDS NATASHA BEDINGFIELD ALBUM SALES ROBBIE WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS CHRYSALIS EMINEM ENCORE INTERSCOPE PHONOGENIC/BMG BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE JIVE SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS MERCURY TINA TURNER ALL THE BEST PARLOPHONE WESTLIFE ALLOW US TO BE FRANK S/BMG R.E.M. AROUND THE SUN DEPECHE MODE REMIXES' -'0 MUTE RONAN KEATING 0 YEARS Of HITS POLYDOR WARNER BROS. SEAL BEST OF 99 - WARNER BROS. PHIL COLLINS LOW SONGS, A COMPILATION OLD A ATLANTIC ROD STEWART STARDUST:GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK, V0L J/BMG LAURA PAUSINI RESTA IN ASCOLTO ATLANTIC ANDREA BOCELLI ANDREA POLYDOR RAMMSTEIN REISE, REISE POLYDOR GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT REPRISE PLACEBO ONCE MORE WITH FREUND SINGLES VAN VIRGIN LEONARD COHEN DEAR HEATHER COLUMBIA ANASTACIA ANASTACIA DAYUGHT/EPIC FLORENT PAGNY BARYTON MERCURY RADIO AIRPLAY Mnitred Radi Airplay infrmatin frm Eurpean cuntries as mnitred and tabulated by Nielsen Music Cntrl. Nielsen //0 THE REASON HOOBASTANK MERCURY THIS LOVE MAROON J/BMG SHE WILL BE LOVED MAROON J/BMG THESE WORDS NATASHA BEDINGFIELD SICK AND TIRED ANASTACIA DAYUGHT/EPIC LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD SONY VERTIGO. ISLAND JUST LOSE IT EMINEM INTERSCOPE I BELIEVE IN YOU KYLIE MINOGUE PARLOPHONE LEAVING YORK R.E.M. WARNER BROS. LEAVE (GET OUT) JOJO BLA OCEAN RECORDS PHONOGENIC/BMG CALL ON ME ERIC PRYDZ MINISTRY OF SOUND LET'S GET IT STARTED BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE MY HAPPY ENDING AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA CAR WASH CHRISTINA AGUIURA FEATMLSSY EUJOTT DREAMY/0MS WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? GWEN STEFANI INTERSCOPE REAL TO ME BRIAN MCFADDEN SONY YOU HAD ME JOSS STONE VIRGIN MY PREROGATIVE BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE MY BOO USHER & AUCIA KEYS LAFACFROMBA/BMG Glbal U.K. Charts Culd Belng T Elvis Sny BMG U.K. will launch an ambitius singles release campaign next year t mark the 0th anniversary f Elvis Presley's birth n Jan.. The cmpany's RCA label will reissue each f Presley's U.K. N. singles weekly, in chrnlgical rder, as limited -editin CDs r 0 -inch vinyl discs. The campaign will begin Jan. with "All Shk Up" and "Jailhuse Rck" and will end April with 00 hit "A Little Less Cnversatin." "All Shk Up" cmes with a bx that can hld all singles in either frmat; this makes it ineligible fr the U.K. chart under current rules. All ther singles in the series have the ptential t chart. Sny BMG U.K. marketing directr Darren Hendersn ntes, "This will be the first time ne artist will release this number f chart singles cnsecutively in such a shrt space f time, ptentially having hit singles in fur mnths." TOM FERGUSON ALWAYS TAMARA: Spanish bler singer Tamara emerged in 000 as the first signing f defunct Spanish label MuXXIc. TAMARA: COVERS CARLOS ON FOURTH SET Three albums later, with glbal shipments exceeding millin units, the 0- year -ld has issued "Tamara Canta Rbert Carls" (Universal), featuring sngs frm the '0s -'0s heyday f Brazilian singer /sngwriter Rbert Carls. The album was recrded in Ri de Janeir, Brazil, and was released Nv. in Spain. It entered the Media Cntrl chart at N. and has shipped 0,000 units t date, accrding t the label. "Tamara shwed five years ag that she dminates the Suth American Spanish- language bler," says Claire Imucha, a label manager at Universal Spain. "S we suggested she tackle Rbert Carls' rmantic Prtuguese -language sngs. She was delighted -her mama used t sing [these] sngs t her as a kid." The album rlls ut in Latin Glbal Pulse. Tm Fergusn, Editr ffergusfl@eu.billbard.cm America this mnth, with a U.S. release scheduled fr 00. HOWELL LLEWELLYN GOING DIEF: Billing itself as "the five bastard children" f Brian Wilsn and "glitch -hp" act Prefuse has paid ff fr Danish experimental rck utfit Diefenbach. Within hurs f using that descriptin n a dem tape sent earlier this year t Lndn -based dance indie Wall f Sund, the band signed t the label's hip alternative imprint, We Lve Yu. The album "Run trip Fall" came ut Nv. in the United Kingdm; a fllw -up album will appear in early 00. "Discvering Diefenbach was like meeting an ld friend wh has lived next dr t yu all yur life," Wall f Sund managing directr Mark Jnes says. "[The album] fuses s many elements f music that has mved me ver the years." "Run Trip Fall" is available fr glbal licensing. The band will tur Eurpe early next year. CHRIS BARRETT HAPPY AT HOME: Veteran Italian vcalist Adrian Celentan culd have expanded his ppularity utside the cuntry years ag, executives suggest, if nt fr his refusing t travel. Yet expectatins are high fr Celentan's latest album, "C'è Sempre un Mtiv" (Clan/Sny BMG), released Nv. in Italy. "The initial shipment is 0,000," Sny BMG Italy president Franc Cabrini says, adding that this is the label's biggest shipment this year. "Our sales target is millin cpies." Celentan has a cult fllwing "frm Russia and Argentina," accrding t Cabrini, wh says the new set is rlling ut in at least 0 territries. Amng its tracks is a Prtuguese - language duet with Cape Verde singer Cesaria Evra n a versin f Celentan's 90s hit "Il Ragazz Della Via Gluck. MARK WORDEN BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

38 GIVaI Measuring CKUA's 'Wrth Film, Bk Dcument Indie Canadian Radi Statin's Appeal BY LARRY LeBLANC TORONTO -Fr seven decades, independent cmmunity radi statin CKUA Edmntn, Alberta, has been a twering presence lcally and acrss Canada. It has prvided significant early expsure t such western Canadian artists as Jann Arden and k.d. lang, as well as t thse frm ther parts f the cuntry, including Bruce Cckburn, Natalie MacMaster and Clin Linden. CKUA's histry is the subject f a new ne -hur dcumentary by lcal filmmakers Lrna Thmas and Lisa Miller and f a 00 University f Alberta Press bk by Marylu Walters, bth titled "Radi Wrth Fighting Fr." The film, featuring interviews with Arden, Daniel Lanis, Harry Manx and Ricky Skaggs, airs Dec. in Canada n the Brav channel. Thmas was inspired t make the film after CKUA briefly shut dwn in 99. "One f my friends was s distraught," she recalls. "S I started lking int the histry f the statin." During a rally that year f 00 CKUA supprters, which appears in the dcumentary, Arden said, "If statins like this start disappearing, I'll start disappearing. What my music is all abut will disappear." Funded in 9, CKUA was Canada's first public bradcaster. It initially perated frm ne rm n the University f Alberta campus in Edmntn and was staffed by amateur radi enthusiasts. It is nw carried acrss Alberta n AM and FM via transmitters and attracts mre than 0,000 listeners weekly. It als bradcasts in western Canada n select satellite prviders and is simulcast n the Internet. While its headquarters are in Edmntn, the statin has a studi in Calgary. It perates with full-lime staffers, cntracted prducer/hsts and an annual perating budget f $. ARDEN:UKUA SUPPORTER millin Canadian ($. millin). With a limited cmmercial license, CKUA is financially supprted by listener dnatins (fr % f its budget), prgram advertising, subscriptins and crprate partnerships. CKUA's diverse prgramming includes blues, jazz, alternative rck and classical. "Over 0 CDs cme in weekly frm all ver the wrld," the statin's music directr Peter Nrth says. "Annuncers then select what they want t play. We play almst every musical genre." Hlger Petersen, hst f CKUA's "Natch'l Blues" prgram fr years and president f Stny Plain Recrds, says, "It's increasingly rare in radi that annuncers play music that they select" "CKUA is fantastic," says Trnt - based Bernie Finkelstein, president f True Nrth Recrds and manager f Cckburn. "The supprt they give us is enrmus. Jel Kreker's album 'Meldrama' reached N. there recently, and they've been there fr Blackie & the Rde Kings, as well as fr Bruce starting in the '0s." Ian Gilchrist, directr f sales and marketing fr Runder Recrds Grup Canada, says CKUA is the cuntry's nly utlet "that resembles a [U.S.- style] triple -A statin." Supprters tk t Edmntn's streets in 99 when the statin clsed fr five weeks. In 99, a private fundatin had taken ver the statin frm the prvincial gvernment-which had perated it since the '0s -in exchange fr $. millin Canadian ($ millin) in transitinal funding. Tw years later, the statin's bard chse t clse it t avid bankruptcy. Hwever, a grassrts mvement called SOS (Save Our Statin), spearheaded by the CKUA staff, tppled the bard and relaunched the statin. Mre than $ millin was raised in 0 days t keep the utlet alive. Thmas says, "The crisis was a new beginning in terms f listener supprt and passin fr the statin." Yvette Ray, radi prmtin representative fr Mint Recrds in Trnt, says, "CKUA is a gd example f what a cmmunity statin shuld be." CKUA GM Ken Regan agrees. "One f the statin's defining characteristics is that it listens t its audience. Our fcus is rted in the cmmunity." SLINE. THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK IN BRIEF Seven Japanese labels sent warning letters Nv. t Internet service prviders, demanding that they disclse the names f individuals wh have allegedly upladed unauthrized music files t the Internet. A statement frm the Recrding Industry Assn. f Japan identifies the seven labels as Victr Entertainment, Universal Music, Tshiba -EMI, Warner Music Japan, Avex and Sny Music Entertainment (Japan) divisins Sny Music Recrds and Defstar. The names f the ISPs invlved have nt been revealed. "If the ISPs dn't cperate, we will then cnsider the pssibility f legal actin," an RIM representative says. STEVE McCLURE Casey Dnvan, a - year -ld Abrigine frm Sydney, has wn the secnd editin f TV talent shw "Australian Idl," earning a cntract with Sny BMG Entertainment Australia. Her debut album is due Dec.. Dnvan wn the viewers' vte during a live telecast Nv. frm the Sydney Opera Huse that attracted almst millin viewers t the Ten Netwrk. The figures fr the entire run f the series were up % frm last year and generated advertising revenue f $ millin Australian ($9. millin), accrding t Ten. CHRISTIE EUEZER Australia's Jet and Britain's Keane are the frnt -running internatinal acts fr the 00 MTV Asia Awards, with three nminatins each. The awards are set fr Feb., 00, in Bangkk, Thailand. Asian acts Siti Nurhaliza (Malaysia), Stefanie Sun (Singapre) and Jay Chu (Taiwan) each received nminatins fr the furth cnsecutive year. Viewers f MTV's eight channels in the regin will vte n f the 9 categries. An MW-appinted panel will decide the thers. STEVE McCLURE Prepaid vuchers fr Napster are being sld in,000 U.K. retail utlets thrugh a deal with Pst Office, a whlly wned subsidiary f the United Kingdm's main pstal service, Ryal Mail Grup. The vuchers frm Pst Office, which sells pstage stamps and related items and ffers welfare and banking services, cntain a cde that can be redeemed at napster.c.uk. The vuchers can be used fr subscriptin services r dwnlads. The deal fllws a similar partnership between Rxi -wned Napster and British electrnic gds retailer Dixns Grup (billbard.biz, Oct ). The vuchers are aimed at attracting gift buyers and custmers wh d nt have credit cards. LARS BRAN DLE Fr the latest breaking news, g t billbard.biz. MIV EMAs Cntinued frm page Like they have fr each editin befre it, rganizers f this year's EMAs had ne mantra: bigger, better, blder. "We've always gt t try and build n what we did befre," said Hansen, wh has verseen each ceremny since the inaugural EMA event in 99 in Berlin. "We had a pretty gd balance f artists this year," he said. "There was a very gd crss -sectin f what wrks fr the Eurpean cntinent." The event has traditinally drawn criticism fr seeming t favr U.S. acts, particularly as perfrmers. Hwever, MTV Netwrks Internatinal senir VP f music Harriett Brand insisted, "Natinality is nly a factr in that we try t represent as much talent frm Eurpe as we can. "Artists that wrk acrss the cntinent have tended t be largely American," she added. "[But] there's always space in the shw fr hmegrwn talent." PURPOSE -BUILT Fllwing the psitive receptin f last year's frmat in Edinburgh, Sctland, rganizers again decided n a temprary tent structure fr the shw rather than using the existing facilities at Rme's Tr di Valle racecurse. RIAD Cntinued frm page recently," a RIM spkesman says. "It's a gd idea t remind cnsumers that they can als enjy music DVDs n these players." The "Kiite Miyu!" (Let's See What It Sunds Like!) music DVD blitz gt under way Nv.. Key aspects f the prmtin include in -stre psters and "There isn't a suitable venue f this size indrs in Rme," said the shw's executive prducer, Richard Gdfrey. "In terms f the temprary structure, it wrked very well as an experiment last year." T entice MTV t bring its party t Rme, the lcal gvernment met sme f the cst f cnstructing the,000- capacity venue. "A city like Rme is lking t attract mre yung peple," fliers at,00 music retailers natinwide and ad campaigns n the Web sites f Yah Japan (yah.c.jp) and the RIM (riaj.r.jp). Retailers are welcming the return f the campaign. Pete Chapman, prduct and marketing directr at HMV Japan, says his cmpany is giving ut RIAJ prmtinal material with every music DVD purchase. Chapman ntes that DVD is ne f the mst psitive aspects in what cntinue t be "difficult" trading cnditins. He says the frmat "perfrmed Hansen said. "They want mre vibrant yung peple t experience the place's histry and culture. By us being able t d a really great shw -and utilize the twn at the same time -[that] des the trick fr them." Alng with the awards ceremny, MTV staged a simultaneus free public cncert utside the Cliseum amphitheater, featuring Anastacia, the Cure, Hbastank and lcal extremely well fr us last year. And we are seeing strng like -fr -like increases again this year." Hwever, he adds, "as fr being the savir f the industry, we'll have t see." Reflecting the slid grwth in DVD and rising sales fr music and nnmusic titles, Japan Music Data and trade bdy the Japan Vide Sftware Assn. are creating a RIM- linked DVD database. Tky -based JMD is a jint venture between the RIM and Japan Distributin System, a Sny Music Entertainment (Japan) -affiliated music artists Carmen Cnsli and Elisa. The 00 EMA shw was bradcast live by MTV Eurpe, which reaches an estimated 0 millin husehlds in territries. The shw will be rebradcast thrugh MTV's wrldwide netwrk f music channels and syndicatin partners. The event was spnsred by Replay Blue Jeans, L'Oreal Paris Studi Line, Hewlett- Packard and Ft Lcker. sftware warehusing peratin. JMD already cllates detailed album infrmatin and prvides it fr a fee thrugh a database called e -CTATS t Japanese music retailers and distributrs. They then use the infrmatin as a reference surce when rdering. The new DVD database will be similar, with such added infrmatin as prgram length, cntent, prductin year and cast details. A spkesman says it will be available by the end f Nvember BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

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(Unauthrized Bigraphy f Rakim)" and "Bridging the Gap." He als aurally embraces his 9- year -ld daughter n "Me & Yu (Dedicated t Destiny)." Jining Nas n this excursin are prducers L.E.S., Salaam Remi, Chucky Thmpsn, Q -Tip and Buck - wild. Guests include Kelis, Amerie, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Dug E. Fresh, Maxwell, Nas' father, nted jazz musician Olu Dara, and Nas alter eg Scarlett. An MTV regular, Nas says balancing street credibility and cmmercial success exerts less pressure than what he puts n himself. "The pressure cmes frm me," he says. "After yu put ut a lt f wrk, yu have t challenge yurself t d smething new that feels gd r makes yu cry. That's what I want my music t d. I beat myself up abut that a lt. Hip -hp fans aren't the audience that was there when hip -hp was real in the '0s." "Nas bserves frm many different perspectives," says Lisa Ellis, GM f Sny Urban Music/Clumbia. "That's what defines him. Fr nce yu're getting a glimpse f his many parts." Acknwledging that it is harder t sell a duble -CD in tday's retail market wing t value and pricing, Ellis says the label began its marketing campaign earlier this summer. That kickff invlved tw street singles: "Thief's Theme" and "Yu Knw My Style." "Bridging the Gap" featuring Olu Dara is the set's first frmal single, with a vide directed by Diane Martel. It is N. 9 n the Ht R &B/Hip -Hp Singles & Tracks chart. The duble -CD set retails fr $9.9. "It was a mve we needed t make fr urselves even mre than fr ur fans," Nas says abut cllabrating with his dad n "Bridging the Gap." "It was ne hell f an experience and a milestne mve fr hip -hp tying tgether the father /sn relatinship, his musical backgrund and hw it relates t me." A majr cmpnent f the label's marketing campaign is the recrd's cver. Emplying a Last Supper mtif, it depicts Nas in different guises, all seated arund the same table. The cver figures prminently in the label's print, lifestyle and street prmtin. Prir t its release, the album has already garnered cverage frm utlets including Blender, Rlling Stne, The Surce, The Ave, XXL and Entertainment Weekly, amng thers. In keeping with his grassrts image, Nas is back perfrming; he recently wrapped a stpver at the Huse f Blues in Ls Angeles. Accrding t Ellis, Nas typically fllws an album release with a rad tur cvering the tp 0 markets. In the meantime, Nas is eyeing a return t acting-smething he hasn't dne since his debut in the 999 mvie "Belly." He's als cntemplating a fllw-up t the 000 gld -certified cmpilatin "QB Finest" as well as recrding ther artists n Ill Will. "I plan t be ccupying myself with a lt f different things 0 years frm nw," Nas says. "It's hard t maintain a career in hip -hp as an artist, but I still plan t be ding that." The Beat Cntinued frm page NOTICES /ANNOUNCEMENTS will be bradcast n Fx frm Alltel Stadium in Jacksnville, Fla. This marks a repeat appearance fr the singer. McCartney perfrmed "Freedm" at the Super Bwl's pregame ceremnies in 00. SIGNINGS: New West has signed Ben Lee and will release his label debut Feb.. Lee previusly recrded fr Grand Ryal and Capitl... Telarc has inked a deal with Ls Super Seven. Guests n the grup's March label debut, "Heard It n the X," include Lyle Lvett, Jhn Hiatt and Delbert McClintn... "American Idl" cntestant Latya Lndn has signed with Peak Recrds. She ges int the studi in January with a tentative release date f summer 00. OOPS: Last week, we stated that the Nirvana bxed set, 'With the Lights Out," features previusly unreleased sngs. The actual tally is : The tunes represent Sub Pp's cntributin t the set. DON'T MISS THIS VERY SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S ISSUE THE YEAR IN MUSIC & TOURING 00 Billbard's annual Year in Music & Turing issue is the ultimate resurce tl - referenced year -rund by tp industry executives and music fans alike. This duble hliday issue is the issue fr yur "A List Real Estate" and Cmmercial Space Marketing! Each year this year -end editin is ur tp seller with a tw week newstand life yu are sure t get maximum bang fr yur BUCK!' Issue date: December th - Deadline: December th MAKE SURE YOUR ADVERTISING SPACE IS RESERVED FOR THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE WITH BONUS CIRCULATION AND EXTENDED STAND COVERAGE. Call: Jeff Serrette r Mark Wd ILA] BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

41 _ JUST Infinity Edict Peeves Indies r Billbard ' D W. Street NE, Washingtn. D.C. 00 DECEMBER VIDE THE MOST- PLAYED CLIPS AS MONITORED BY NIELSEN BROADCAST DATA gistems New Ons" are thse clips with six r acre plays fr the first time in the chart week CMT 0 Cmmerce Street Nashville, TN 0 M N R (IV, TURVIIPHP Fr week ending NOVEMBER, 00 Bradway, New Yrk NY 00 Bradway. New Yrk, NY 00 Independent prmters are up in arms ver the news that New Yrk - based Infinity is severing all ties with them, Phyllis Stark reprts in Billbard Radi Mnitr. One cuntry indie says, "It's getting harder and harder fr the legitimate indies t participate in this business." The Infinity decisin fllws the same mve Clear Channel made in April f last year. And the timing appears t be smart, what with reprts f New Yrk Attr- ney General Elit Spitzer investigating recrd labels and radi fr pssible payla. Independent prmters and radi statins were served with subpenas as well, surces tld Billbard in early Nvember. f/' i Tuned In Radi. iinfnty Bradcasting Crpratin Meanwhile, surces within Infinity say the cmpany has capped its cmmercial lads at spts per hur in mrnings (and a ttal f "interruptins" per hur, including such items as paid weather spnsrships) and spts per hur ( ttal "interruptins") in ther dayparts. Hwever, a spkeswman says a cmpanywide sptlad plicy des nt exist acrss Infinity's radi statins. She cnfirmed that the cmpany has reduced sptlads n a case -by -case basis. On the sptlad issue, Infinity nce again is fllwing CC's lead. The San Antni -based bradcaster annunced earlier this year that it wuld play fewer cmmercials, fewer prms and d shrter spt breaks at all f its statins. WEB RADIO: Paul Heine reprts in Billbard Radi Mnitr that Evan Harrisn has left as VP /GM f AOL Music and the AOL Radi Netwrk, t spearhead a new Clear Channel Internet initiative. Harrisn sees CC's,00 radi statins as the "frnt dr" t a wider, deeper nline experience. Once users enter, they'll have access t statin -branded riginal cntent, music vides and a gateway t a large, diverse menu f ther Internet radi statins. Simulcasting radi signals n the Web nly scratches the surface f the cmpany's Internet plans, Harrisn says. CC intends t cast a wider net, catering t specific tastes with separate, Web -nly variatins f existing radi statins. By Marc Schiffman mschiffman@billbard.cm It als expects t ffer Web statins created by cre artists and nes based n subgenres f a frmat. And, like AOL and ther nline radi services, CC plans t "build a netwrk f statin experiences that are classified by genre." Harrisn ntes that each user "cmes in thrugh a different dr... Once yu get in, yu can [navigate] yur way arund this cmplete music wrld with fferings that span genres," as well as explre deeper niches in each genre. Fr example, Harrisn says, "Yu're cming in thrugh [tp 0 WHTZ New Yrk] and because yu're lyal t the Z00 brand and the type f music they play, first and fremst, that shuld be the experience when yu get there," he says. "But frm there, if yu chse, as a music fan, t cast a wider net, yu'll have that pprtunity." CLEARCHANNEL Harrisn says alternate, Web - nly variatins f statins like Z00 wuld still include the statin's persnalities in sme frm. He envisins persnalities at CC statins directing listeners t the statin's Web site t see an artist's acustic perfrmance, an interview sht in the statin's studi r a vide premiere- advertiserspnsred, f curse. "The nline experience will rund ut the ffering," Harrisn says. "By definitin, the nline experience will be ne where the cnsumer is in the driver's seat, and they'll be able t chse what they want t d and when they want t d it." 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43 .9%, 0 Recrd week fr Christmas set puts Clay Aiken atp Christian list Charts SALES / AIRPLAY / TRENDS / ANALYSIS Interscpe hlds N. I at Mdern Rck as Jimmy's 'Pain' rises Eminem Up; U On Deck Numbers frm the first tw days f the tracking perid had chart watchers cautiusly predicting that Eminem's "Encre" wuld reap sales f 0,000-00,000. Thrw cautin t the wind, as the album clcks a whpping,000 units. That brings the rapper's tw -week ttal t almst. millin, just abut even with the tally that "The Eminem Shw" rang in a similar number f days. Like the new ne, that 00 set hit stres with an ff -cycle release date. The hliday schedule has Billbard ging t press earlier than usual, but numbers psted during the first few hurs that U's new album was n sale have sme retailers predicting that Interscpe will enjy back -t -back 00,000 -plus weeks next issue. It practically ges withut EMINEM: AN 00,000 SALES ENCORE saying that the band's "Hw t Dismantle an Atmic Bmb" is expected t bw at N.. At least ne retailer thinks U culd exceed 900,000 cpies, which wuld be just rewards cnsidering the wall -t -wall marketing that has taken place since lead single' Vertig" hit radi and itunes in early Octber. Even if it falls shy f 00,000, the album is destined t register U's biggest -yet Nielsen SundScan week. Irnically, the title that scred its previus high -"All That Yu Can't Leave Behind" -was nt amng the band's five N. ls. Instead, that 000 release had t settle fr a peak f N., with,000 in its first week, having arrived the same week as Jay -Z's charttpping "The Dynasty Rc La Familia" and OutKast's "Stanknia." Each bwed abve the half -millin mark. Overthe Cunter. e By Geff Mayfield gmayfield@billbard.cm CATCHING UP: Three albums that gt pushed t early bws last issue reach the tp 0 in their first full week f sales, with Destiny's Child's "Destiny Fulfilled" leaping 9 - (9,000 cpies), Lil Jn & the East Side Byz' "Crunk Juice" cranking - (,000) and Chingy's "Pwerballin' " rlling -0 (0,000). Fr Lil Jn, that represents a career -best sales weeks. In the midst f thse hip- hppers, "American Idl" alumnus Clay Aiken rallies the best debut week f any Christmas album in the Nielsen SundScan era. He enters The Billbard 00 at N. with 0,000, besting the,00 that Garth Brks' "The Magic f Christmas" had when it bwed at N. n the big chart. Further evidence that Christmas is cming: Nt ne, nt tw, but three bxed sets enter The Billbard 00 at the same time. The bx scre has the Beatles entering at N., Bn Jvi starting at N. and Michael Jacksn bwing at N.. And, Chris Btti rides Oprah Wmfrey's raves fr a - (Cntinued n page ) Market Watch A Weekly Natinal Music Sales Reprt 0-0 c WEEKLY ALBUM SALES 00 _ 00 \ A A, t,a 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun iii Aug Sep Oct Nv Cec WEEKLY UMT SALES.: Albums Stre Singles Digital Tracks This Week,,000 9,000.,000 Last Week,,000 99,000 ;,000 Change Ç 0 % a.0% Q.% This --- Week 00,,000,000,000 Change a.% x-'.% 9.% YEAR -TO-DATE ALBUM SALES (rnillins) YEAR -TO -DATE SINGLES SALES fl (minins) DIGITAL L TRACKS.9 m 00. m 00 I 00 I.9m STORE m. - III,.m YEAR -TO -DATE OVERALL UNIT SALES Chant Ttal,9,000,90,000 '.% Albums 9,00,000,,000.% Stre Singles 0,,000,,000.9% Digital Tracks,90,000,,000 - YEAR -TO -DATE SA d S BY ALB FORM Change :D,,000,9,000.0% tassette,,00,0,000 -.% ther,9,000,,000 <.9% YEAR- TO-DATE CURRENT ALBUM SALES,.., 00.9 m m YEAR- TO-DATE CATALOG ALBUM SALES w+.., m m S e YEAR-TO-DATE SALES BY ALBUM CATEGORY f- Char- Current 9,,000,900,000.a/B Catalg 9,,00( 9,,000.% Deep Catalg,9,000,,000 Q.% Nielsen SundScan cunts as current nly saler within the first mnths f an album's release ( mnths fr classical and;azz albums.. Mies that stay in the tp half f The Billbard 00, hwever, remain as current. Titles iler than mnths are catalg. Deep catalg is a subset f catalg fr titles ut mre than mnths. Fr week ending //0. Runded figures., Cmpiled frm a natinal amlef retail stre and NI Nielsen rack sales reprts cllect.d aid prvided by..,. Hliday Spirit Buys Aiken By debuting at N. n The Billbard 00, Clay Aiken's "Merry Christmas With Lve" (RCA) ties Celine Din's "These Are Special Times" as the highest- debuting hliday albums f all time. Aiken's Christmas CD als debuts at N. n Tp Hliday Albums and Tp Christian Albums. Din's "These Are Special Times" debuted at N. the week f Nv., 99, and ultimately spent tw weeks at N.. With an NBC special airing Dec., Aiken has the ptential t tie r surpass that mark. MOOD MUSIC: "My B" (LaFace) by Usher and Alicia Keys is N. n The Billbard Ht 00 fr a sixth week. That gives Usher weeks at N. in 00, making him the nly artist t rule the Ht 00 fr mre than six mnths. As reader Larry Dhgee f Frest Grve, Ore., pints ut, Usher als hlds the all -time recrd, which includes charts preceding the Ht 00 mniker, which was rlled ut by Billbard Aug., 9. Usher has nw passed Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, which spent weeks at N. in 90 with three singles: "In the Md," "Tuxed Junctin" and "The Wdpecker Sng." Usher has racked up his tally with fur singles. Prir t "My B," he was N. this year with "Yeah!," "Bum" and "Cnfessins Part II." Chart Beat. By Fred Brnsn CURB WITH ENTHUSIASM: The highest debut n Ht Dance Radi Airplay is Wynnna's remake f Freigner's "I Want t Knw What Lve Is," at N.. That means three cuntry artists signed t the Curb label - Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes and Wynnna -are appearing n seven nn- cuntry Billbard airplay frmat charts. McGraw is listed n Mainstream Tp 0, Adult Tp 0, Ht Rap Tracks, Rhythmic Tp 0 and Ht R &B/Hip -Hp Singles & Tracks with "Over and Over," his duet with Nelly, as well as n Adult Cntemprary with "Live Like Yu Were Dying." Rimes debuts n AC this issue with her cver f Brenda Lee's classic "Rckin' Arund the Christmas Tree." THE GREAT PRETENDERS: British pp femme grup Girls Alud debuts at N. n the U.K. singles chart with "I'll Stand by Yu" (Plydr). When the riginal versin by the Pretenders was released in 99, it peaked at N. 0. The nly Pretenders single t reach ple psitin in the United Kingdm was "Brass in Pcket" in 99. Chrissie Hynde, wh wrte "I'll Stand by Yu," has had tw N. hits, but she was nt with the Pretenders either time. A versin f Snny & Cher's "I Gt Yu Babe" recrded with UB0 tpped the U.K. chart in 9, and an update f the Judds' "Lve Can Build a Bridge" by Hynde, Cher and Neneh Cherry with Eric Claptn went t N. in 99. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

44 - SARA DECEMBER 00 W W c Billbard T E BILLBOARD 00 Sales data cmpiled by._ MPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL b Nielsen SOOndSCan Title %e NUMBER Weeks At Number I = W O >c E N ÿ d á á Y.á' ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL 9 KORN Greatest Hits Vl. - i IMMORTAL/EPIC 900/SONY MUSIC (.9 Ea CD) di EMINEM Encre 0 9 LOS LONELY BOYS Ls Lnely Bys 9 SHADY /AFTERMATH 00' /INTERSCOPE.9/9.9 OR/EPIC 90%/SONY MUSIC (.9 CD) [M] It GREATEST GAINER $ 9 KENNY CHESNEY When The Sun Ges Dwn i 9 - BNA 0 /RLG.9/.9) DESTINY'S CHILD Destiny Fulfilled Q ASHLEE COLUMBIA99/SONY SIMPSON MUSIC Autbigraphy.% EQ CD) GEFFEN 009/INTERSCOPE (.9 CD) - LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ Crunk Juice 0 lip ALICIA KEYS The Diary Of Alicia Keys EME 90'/TVT.9/.9 J '/RMG (.9/.9) -J HOT SHOT DEBUT à: VARIOUS ARTISTS CLAY AIKEN Merry Christmas With Lve 0 A Nw UNIVERSAL/EMI /SONY MUSIC/ZOMBA 000/UME (.9 CD) BON JOVI 00,000,000 Bn RCA /RMG ( Jvi Fans Can't Be Wrng... CD) 9 ISLAND 00/UME(9. % CONVOI SHANIA TWAIN Greatest Hits 0 BROOKS & DUNN The Greatest Hits Cllectin II MERCURY 000NMGN (.9 CD) ARISTA NASHVILLE /RLG CD) SNOOP DOGG R &G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece THE KILLERS Ht Fuss DOGGYSTYLE/GEFFEN 00' /INTERSCOPE (.9) ISLAND 00/IDJMG ( CD) - TOBY KEITH Greatest Hits 9 MICHAEL MCDONALD Mtwn Tw 9 OREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) 00MUMGN.9 CD) MOTOWN 00/UMRG.% CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS Nw EMI /UNIVERSAL/SONY BMGOMBA e A PERFECT CIRCLE amotion O 00/CAPITOL ( CD) VIRGIN 0 (.9 CD /DVD) USHER Cnfessins - BEE GEES Number Ones LAFACE 9/ZOMBA 0.9/) POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL 00/UME (.9 CD /DVD) 9 _`- PACESETTER * - ELTON JOHN Peachtree Rad ROCKET/UNIVERSAL 00 /UMRG (.9 CD) CO CHINGY Pwerballin' 0 9 CAPITOL 9' 0 JOSH GROBAN ( CD) Clser /REPRISE 0/WARNER BROS. ( CD) 0 GEORGE STRAIT 0 Number Ones al RAMMSTEIN Reiss, Raise MCA NASHVILLE 0009NMGN.9 CD) - BRITNEY SPEARS Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prergative JIVE 90MBA (.9 CD) 9 NELLY Suit DERRTY/FO' REEL 00IU/UMRG.9/.9 ROD STEWART Stardust... The Great American Sngbk Vl. III J /RMG (.% CD) RAY CHARLES Genius Lves Cmpany m HEAR 0/CONCORD.9 CD) T PEARL JAM rearviewmirrr: Greatest Hits EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC 9.9 EG CD) GRETCHEN WILSON Here Fr The Party EPIC (NASHVILLE) 9090/SONY MUSIC ( EEL CO) 9 RAY CHARLES Ray (Sundtrack) WMG SOUNDTRACKS /ATLANTIC 0/RHINO.9 CD) MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Christmas Celebratin AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 00 (.9 CD) 0 - JA RULE R.U.LE. THE INCJDEF JAM 0 009' /IDJMG CD) GREEN DAY American Idit REPRISE '/WARNER BROS. (.9 CD) - ANDREA BOCELLI Andrea PHILIPS 00/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP CD) - FABOLOUS Real Talk DESERT STORM/ATLANTIC /AG (.% CD) REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL 009NMRG.9 CD) - SEAL Best WARNER BROS. (.% CD) 9 0 R. KELLY & JAYZ Unfinished Business JIVE /DEF JAM 009.OMBA/IDJMG (9/. % GOOD CHARLOTTE The Chrnicles Of Life And Death DAYUGHT/EPIC 9 OR 99/SONY MUSIC 0.9 Ea CD) VELVET REVOLVER Cntraband RCA 99/RMG.9 CD) 0 N " c. COLLECTIVE SOUL Yuth EL 000.% CD) 9 : KEITH URBAN Be Here CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 9.% CD) 9 QUEEN LATIFAH The Dana Owens Album VECTOR /FLAVOR UNIT 0/INTERSCOPE.9 CD) GUNS N' ROSES Greatest Hits GEFFEN 00/INTERSCOPE (. %CDI 0 ; BRAD PAISLEY Mud On The Tires ARISTA NASHVILLE 00/RIG 9/. % c 9 BREAKING BENJAMIN We Are Nt Alne,. -_.,' HOLLYWOOD (.9 CD) m SOUNDTRACK Bridget Jnes: The Edge Of Reasn GEFFEN %0/INTERSCOPE (.9 CD) 0 m MICHAEL W. SMITH Healing Rain REUNION %.% CD) Title Z O á Ñ á á i 0 TIM MCGRAW Live Like Yu Were Dying CURB %.%CD) HILARY DUFF Hilary Duff HOLLYWOOD (.9 CO) MAROONS A' Sngs Abut Jane OCTONE/J 000 /RMG.9 CDI [N] NEIL YOUNG Greatest Hits - WARNER BROS. 9 ).9 CD) SOUNDTRACK Shrek GEFFEN/DREAMWORKS 00/INTERSCOPE (.% CD) 0 JIMMY EAT WORLD Futures INTERSCOPE 00' (.9 CD) 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS WOW Hits 00: Of The Years Tp Christian Artists And Hits WORD /PROVIDENT 0/EMICMG (.9 CD) YOUNG BUCK Straight Outta CaShville G- UNIT009r /INTERSCOPE.% CD) 9 0 SIMPLE PLAN Still Nt Getting Any... LAVA 9/AG.9 CD /DVD) 9 RASCAL FLATTS Feels Like Tday LYRIC STREET 09 /HOLLYWOOD (.% CD) 0 BIG & RICH Hrse Of A Different Clr WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 0/WRN.9 CD) TRICK DADDY Thug Matrimny: Married T The Streets SLIP -N- SLIDE /ATLANTIC r /AG.9/.9 SHO'NUFF- MUSICLINE/LAFACE 9.0MBA.9/.% TRANS- SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA The Lst Christmas Eve LAVA 9I/AG.% CO) 0 0 ' - CIARA Gdies 9 NELLY Sweat DERRTY/FO' REEL %'NMRG.9((.%) THE BEATLES The Capitl Albums Vl. APPLE 9/CAPITOL (9.9 CO) E CELINE DION Miracle e EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC (.9 ES CD),0 HEATSEEKER IMPACT,- - CHRIS BOTTI When I Fall In Lve COLUMBIA 9/SONY MUSIC.9 EQ CD) [/ SOUNDTRACK Themeaddict: WWE The MUSIC V COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC.9 Ea CDNV0 9 EDITION One Lve BAO BOY 00' /UMRG 0.9 CD) 0 A PERFECT CIRCLE emotive VIRGIN 0.9 CD) 9 AVRIL LAVIGNE Under My Skin RCA 9/RMG (.9 CD) JOJO JJ DA FAMILY/BLACKGROUND 00/UMRG ( CD) CD.- '' LARRY THE CABLE GUY A Very Larry Christmas Q JACK /WARNER BROS. INASHVILLE) 9/WRN CD) SWITCHFOOT The Beautiful Letdwn COLUMBIA % % /SONY MUSIC.9 EQ CD) JEREMY CAMP Restred BEC 9 (,% CD) SOUNDTRACK The Plar Express WARNER SUNSET/REPRISE 09/WARNER BROS. (.9 CD) 9 BLACK EYED PEAS Elephunk AGM 00/INTERSCOPE 9 CD) 9 - LUIS MIGUEL Mexic En La Piel WARNER LATINA 9T/.9 CD) 0 - JOHN MELLENCAMP Wrds & Music: Jhn Mellencamp's Greatest Hits ISLANDNTV % /UME 9.9 CO /DVD) 0 NORAH JONES Feels Like Hme BLUE NOTE 00'.9 CD) PING YANG TWINS My Brther & Me COLLIPARK 9//, %CDNVD) 9 LINKIN PARK Metera WARNER BROS. 9.9.% CD) - SOUNDTRACK The Spngebb Squarepants Mvie NICK /SIRE.9 CD) 0 - LEANN RIMES What A Wnderful Wrld CURB 9.% CD) B LL COOL J The DEFinitin DEF JAM 0099 /IDJMG 0 ).% CD) 9 9 KEANE00zn9. Hpes And Fears % CD) [x] YELLOWCARD Ocean Avenue CAPITOL 9.9 CD) - BARENAKED LADIES Barenaked Fr The Hlidays 9 90 '. - DESPERATION 0/WARNER EROS..% CD) EVANS Restless RCA NASHVILLE 0/RLG (.9/.%) 9 JOHN MAYER Heavier Things AWARE /COLUMBIA % /SONY MUSIC.% EQ CD) 9 9' CHEVELLE This Type Of Thinking (Culd D Us In) EPIC 90/SONY MUSIC 0 Ea CO) 9 MARILYN MANSON Lest We Frget: The Best Of INTERSCOPE 00.% CD) 9 ANTHONY HAMILTON Cmm n' Frm Where I'm Frm SO SO DEF 0/ZOMBA (.% CD) 9 9 JIMMY BUFFETT License T Chill MAILBOAT /RCA 0/RLG.% CD) 9 - `r VANESSA CARLTON Harmnium - AGM %0/INTERSCOPE.9 CD) 9 BLAKE SHELTON Blake Sheltn's Barn & Grill WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) BIWRN CD) BILLBOARD DECEMBER. 00

45 W W e, ÿ g á N x r-v ó 9 ' ALAN JACKSON ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL ARISTA NASHVILLE 0/RLG.9 CDI 99 0 KEITH URBAN A 00 NORAH JONES 9 BLUE NOTE 0B.90 CDI IN] CD,. RELIENT K CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 90 9/.9 GOTEE 9/CAPITOL.9 CDI 0 ROD STEWART J 0/RMG.9/.9 OD RUFUS WAINWRIGHT DREAMWORKS 00/INTERSCOPE.9 CO /DVD) 0 MOS DEF 0 SUM RAWKUS/GEFFEN 00 /INTERSCOPE (.9 CD) ISLAND 009/IOJMG.9 CDI MARTINA MCBRIDE 0 TOBY KEITH RCA NASHVILLE 0/RLG (.9/.9 DREAMWORKS INASHVILLEI 0 /UMGN.9/ RYAN CABRERA E.VLAJATLANTIC 0/AG.9 CD) JOSS STONE S -CURVE 999' 09 CD) EVANESCENCE WIND -UP 0.9 C 00 9 MODEST MOUSE EPIC /SONY MUSIC.9 ES CD) [N] - TONY BENNETT 9 LIL WAYNE RPM/COLUMBIA 90/SONY MUSIC.9 EQ CD) CASH MONEY 00 /UMRG.9 CD) 9 ANITA BAKER BLUE NOTE 0(.9/.9 I 00 - FRANK SINATRA REPRISE /WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING 0.9 CD) JOHN LENNON CAPITOL (.9 CD) CD BEYONCE COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC.9 EQ/.90) 99 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE REPRISE B/WARNER BROS. (.9 CDI [N] PAPA ROACH THE USED EL TONAL/GEFFEN 00 / INTERSCOPE.9 CD) REPRISE 9/VARNER BROS..9 CO) 0 DEAN MARTIN CAPITOL CO) 0 JILL SCOTT 0 LLOYD BANKS HIDDEN BEACH /EPIC 9'/SONY MUSIC.9 ED CDI G -UNIT WB /INTERSCOPE.9/9) : 09 9 CROSSFADE JESSICA SIMPSON COLUMBIA 0/SONY MUSIC.9 EQ CD) FG /COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC (.9 EU CD) IN] 0 SOUNDTRACK WALT DISNEY CDI 0 THE ROLLING STONES VIRGIN.9 CD) 0 O BOWLING FOR SOUP 9 0 SO HOOBASTANK ISLAND 00/IDJMG.9 CD) SILVERTONE/JIVE 9/ZOMBA 9 CDI 0 9 á.: THE BEACH BOYS CAPITOL 0 (.9 COI ' CASTING CROWNS BEACH STREET 0/REUNION. CD) [N] 0 9 SOUNDTRACK FOX/EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC.9 ELI CD) 0 R. KELLY JIVE 0/ZOMBA.9099) LONESTAR (ED 0 ' BNA 9 /RG (.9 CDI VARIOUS ARTISTS MADACY KIDS) 0/MADACY 0.9 CO) OD GAVIN DEGRAW 9 0 z w W t - Title Y n N iq n What I D IC 0 KIDZ BOP KIDS á c. tr, ARTIST Title IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL RAZOR & TIE CD) Glden Rad 0 0 BRIAN WILSON BRIMEIINONESUCH 9/WARNER BROS. 9.9 CDI Cme Away With Me 9 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC WAG.9 CDI IN] MMHMM 0 SEETHER WIND -UP 00.9 CDI As Time Ges By... The Great American Sngbk Vl. II 0 0 ELLIOTT SMITH ANTI - /EPITAPH.90 CDI Want Tw 0 a MICHAEL JACKSON MJJ /EPIC 900/SONY MUSIC 99 EQ CD /DVDI z O á ó - - Kidz Bp Smile Leave A Whisper Disclaimer II Frm A Basement On The Hill 9 The Ultimate Cllectin The New Danger VARIOUS ARTISTS A Windham Hill Christmas: I'll Be Hme Fr Christmas WINDHAM HILL /BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 0.9 CD) Chuck 0 ItED TOBYMAC Martina 9 AKON FOREFRONT 0.9 CDI SRC /UNIVERSAL 0000 /UMRG.9 CDI Shck'n Y'AII CD 9 JESSE MCCARTNEY HOLLYWOOD 0 (.9 CO) Take It All Away 9 FRANZ FERDINAND DOMINO /EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC.9 EO CDI [N] Mind Bdy & Sul 0 NICKELBACK Fallen 0 INTERPOL ROADRUNNER 00 /IDJMG 0.9.9) MATADOR.( 9 CD) Gd News Fr Peple Wh Lve Bad News - SOUNDTRACK The Art Of Rmance LIVE SUMTHING ELSE 0.9 CD) RADIOACTIVE 00/INTERSCOPE.9 CD /DVDI Tha Carter ItED 9 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN SPARROW 9 (.9 CD) My Everything SLIPKNOT ROADRUNNER /IDJMG.9 CDI The Christmas Cllectin 0. TERRI CLARK Acustic 0 ''t MERCURY 0090 /UMGN.9 CD) JUANES A Dangerusly In Lve 9 JUVENILE Three Cheers Fr Sweet Revenge Getting Away With Murder 0 9 _ - ( SURCO 00/UNIVERSAL LATINO ( CDI CASH MONEY 00NMRG (.9 CD) PITBULL DIAZ BROTHERS 0/TVT.9/.9) TALIB KWELI RAWKUS /GEFFEN 000' /INTERSCDPE(.9 CO) In Lve And Death 9 KANYE WEST Din: The Essential Dean Martin SHERYL CROW ABM 00 / INTERSCOPE 09 CDI ROC- A- FELLA/DEF JAM 000 /IDJMG.9/.9) Beautifully Human: Wrds And Sunds Vl. 0 SNOW PATROL POLYDOR/A &M 00 / INTERSCOPE.9 CD) [N] The Hunger Fr Mre Ew CHRIS ISAAK Crssfade 09 BIG & RICH WICKED GAME/ REPRISE 99/WARNER BROS.SB CD) WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) 90/RN.9 DVD /CDI In This Skin DIERKS BENTLEY The Princess Diaries : Ryal Engagement GRUPO CLIMAX MUSART 09 /BALBOA.9 CDI [N] CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 9.9/.9) The Best Of The Rlling Stnes: Jump Back' HILARY DUFF BUENA VISTA 00/HOLLYW000.9 CDI A Hangver Yu Dn't Deserve 99 - LENNY KRAVITZ The Reasn 0 CAKE VIRGIN.9 CDI COLUMBIA 99 /SONY MUSIC (.9 EG CDI The Very Best Of The Beach Bys: Sunds Of Summer SOUNDTRACK CASABLANCA/UNIVERSAL 009/UMRG.9 CD) Casting Crwns 9 SOUNDTRACK DREAMWORKS /GEFFEN 00A/INTERSCOPE (.9 CDI Garden State 0 - GEORGE JONES BANDIT 0.9 CD) Happy Peple /U Saved Me VANESSA WILLIAMS LAVA 999/A.9 CDI Let's Be Us Again GARY ALLAN Care Bears: Hliday Hugs! VARIOUS ARTISTS Ttally Hits 00 Vl. UMS STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP/WARNER MUSIC GROUP /WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING (.9 CDI J /RMG.9 CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS WALT DISNEY 9 (.9 CD) GUERILLA BLACK CZAR /VIRGIN.9/.9) 0 9 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS FONOVISA /UG.9 CDI THREE DAYS GRACE JIVE 9/ZOMBA (.9 CDI [N] :) 0 MAROONS OCTONE/J /RMG.9 CDI 09 9 SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD (9 CD) 90 SOUNDTRACK 9 TRAIN WARNER SUNSET 9 /WARNER BROS..9 CDI COLUMBIA 90/SONY MUSIC 0.9 ED CD) 9 ALAN JACKSON ARISTA NASHVILLE 0/RLG.9 CD) CD SBOYS SPARROW CO) CD NBN MANDY MOORE EPIC 9 /SONY MUSIC.9 EQ CD) 9 9 JET MCA NASHVILLE 000 /UMGN.9/.9) ELEKTRA 9Y /AG (.9 CO) BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY RUTHLESS (.9 CDI Charit - Stripped 9 TAKING BACK SUNDAY Radi Disney Jingle Jams Guerilla City VICTORY.9 CD) TRACE ADKINS CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) 0 (.9/.9) DURAN DURAN EPIC 9900/SONY MUSIC 9 CDI Razn De Shra CD MONOXIDE PSYCHOPATHIC 0 (9 CD) [N] Three Days Grace LIL SCRAPPY/TRILLVILLE..0.Acustic (EP) 9 9,. BME/REPRISE /WARNER BROS..9 CDI SHEDAISY A Cinderella Stry 9 9 JAY -Z A LYRIC STREET 0/HOLLYWOOD (.9 CD) ROC- A- FELA/DEF JAM 00/IDJMG (.9/.9 The OC: Music Frm The OC: Mix 90 ett RE -ENTRY MICHAEL MCDONALD Alive At Last Greatest Hits Vlume II 9 I 9 - MOTOWN 00 /UMRG.9 CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS UNIVERSAL SPECIAL MARKETS 9/TIME LIFE.9 CDI RANDY TRAVIS WORD -CURB /WARNER BROS. (.9 CD) Devtin 9 - VARIOUS ARTISTS DIM 0 (.9 CD) The Best Of Mandy Mre 99 9 R.E.M. WARNER BROS CD) RE -ENTRY BARRY MANILOW CONCORD 9 CDI Welcme T Diverse City Truble Beautiful Sul 0 Franz Ferdinand The Lng Rad Antics Hal Awake: The Best Of Live All Things New Vl. : (The Subliminal Verses) Greatest Hits Mi Sangre The Greatest Hits M.I.A.M.I. (Mney Is A Majr Issue) The Beautiful Struggle The Cllege Drput The Very Best Of Sheryl Crw Final Straw Chris Isaak Christmas Big & Rich's Super Galactic Fan Pak (EP) 90 Dierks Bentley Za Za Za 9 Metamrphsis Baptism Pressure Chief Shall We Dance? Shark Tale 0 Years Of Hits Silver & Gld See If I Care Get Brn Greatest Hits Where Yu Want T Be Cmin' On Strng Astrnaut Chainsmker LP 9 The King Of Crunk & BME Recrdings Present Sweet Right Here The Black Album Have A Fun Christmas Passing Thrugh Mtwn 9 Las Mas Bailables Del Pasit Duranguense Arund The Sun Manilw Scres: Sngs Frm Cpacabana And Harmny Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America IRIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album 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 symbl indicates album's 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. RIM Latin awards: O Certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or). A Certificatin f 00,000 units ( Platin). A' Certificatin f 00,000 units (Multi -Platin). *Asterisk Indicates LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CD prices fr gmg 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. Heetseeker Impact shws albums remved frm Heatseekers this week. `N] indicates past r present Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SaundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

46 Week SOUNDTRACKSM ECZ 0ER w w Billbard" TOP INTERNET ALBUM SALES TM Sales data and internet sales reprts cmpiled by b ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Nielsen SundScan Title NUMBER 'r At Number EMINEM SHADY /AFTERMATH 00/INTERSCOPE Encre CLAY AIKEN RCA/RMG Merry Christmas With Lve i SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY000AIMGN Greatest Hits TOBY KEITH DREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) 00nIUMGN Greatest Hits ROD STEWART J ier/eyu Stardust.. The Great American Sngbk Vl. III DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA 99/SONY MUSIC Destiny Fulfilled THE BEATLES APPLE9/CAPITOL The Capitl Albums Vl. RAY CHARLES A HEAR/CDNCORD Genius Lves Cmpany U INTERSCOPE00 Hw T Dismantle An Atmic Bmb - 9 I RAY CHARLES WMG SOUNDTRACKS/ATLANTIC0/RHINO Ray (Sundtrack) CHRIS BOTTI COLUMBIA9/SONYMUSIC [N] When I Fall In Lve 0 ANDREA BOCELLI PHILIPS 00/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP Andrea USHER LAFACE9/ZOMBA Cnfessins 9 NEIL YOUNG WARNER BROS. 9 Greatest Hits TIM MCGRAW A CURB Live Like Yu Were Dying PEARL JAM EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC rearviewmirrr. Greatest Hits BON JOVI ISLAND 00/UME 00,000,000 Bn Jvi Fans Can't Be Wrng... JOHN LENNON CAPmL Acustic MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 00 Christmas Celebratin 9 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE000MIMGN 0 Number Ones SOUNDTRACK WARNER SUNSET/REPRISE 9/WARNER BROS. The Plar Express MICHAEL JACKSON MJJ /EPIcauace/SONYMUSIC The Ultimate Cllectin JOHN MELLENCAMP ISLANDArrv00/UME Wrds & Music: Jhn Mellencamp's Greatest Hits 0 BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE9/ZOMBA Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prergative PINK MARTINI HEINZ [N] Hang On Little Tmat - ó z mw m g DECEMB0 ER 0. Billbard TOP TITLE RAY (RAY CHARLES) Sales data cmpiled by NUMBER Nielsen SundScan - e IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Weeks At Number WMG SOUNDTRACKS/ATLANTIC 0/RHINO THEMEADDICT: WWE THE MUSIC V COLUMBIA 9/SONY MUSIC, THE POLAR EXPRESS WARNER SUNSET/REPRISE 9/WARNER BROS. BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON GEFFEN 00/INTERSCOPE SHREK GEFFEN/DREAMWORKS 00 /INTERSCOPE 9 THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE NICK/SIRE THE PRINCESS DIARIES : ROYAL ENGAGEMENT WALT DISNEY 099 > GARDEN STATE FOX/EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC A CINDERELLA STORY HOLLYWOOD THE OC: MUSIC FROM THE OC: MIX WARNER SUNSET 9/WARNER BROS. ELF LINE 90 HALO SUMTHING ELSE 0 SHALL WE DANCE? CASABLANCA/UNIVERSAL 009NMRG 0 SHARK TALE DREAMWORKS /GEFFEN 00/INTERSCOPE DORA THE EXPLORER NICK /M STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP THE CHEETAH GIRLS (EP) WALT DISNEY 0 0 BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? A LOST HIGHWAY /MERCURY 009/IDJMG ALFIE VIRGIN 9 9 BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR: THE MOVIE WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) /WRN CI 9 THAT'S SO RAVEN WALT DISNEY 0 TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE ATLANTIC 9/AG 0 SPIDER -MAN COLUMBIA 9/SONY MUSIC GOING ON 0 HOLLYWOOD SHREK DREAMWORKS 0:0/INTERSCOPE THE PUNISHER: THE ALBUM WIND -UP 09 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. imalbums with the greatest sales gain this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIM) 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 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). A' Certificatin f 00,000 units (Multi- Platin). 'Asterisk indicates vinyl available. [N] indicates past r present Heatseeker tide 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. THE BILLBOARD 00 Al (LISTED BY ARTISTS) Trace Adkins 9 Clay Aiken Akn Gary Allan Anita Baker Llyd Banks Barenaked Ladies 9 The Beach Bys 0 The Beatles Bee Gees Tny Bennett Dierks Bentley Beynce Big & Rich 0, Gavin DeGraw Black Eyed Peas Destinys Child Andrea Bcelli Celine Din Bne Thugs -N- Harmny Hilary Duff, Bn Jvi Duran Duran 90 Chris Bth Bwling Fr Sup Breaking Benjamin Brks & Dunn Jimmy Buffett 9 Vanessa Carltn 9 Casting Crwns Steven Curtis Chapman Ray Charles, Kenny Chesney 9 Chevelle 9 Chingy 0 Ciara Terri Clark Grup Climax Cllective Sul Crssfade Sheryl Crw Eminem Evanescence 0 Sara Evans 90 Fablus Ryan Cabrera 0 Franz Ferdinand 9 Cake 0 Gd Charltte Jeremy Camp Green Day Jsh Grben 0 Guerilla Black 9 Guns N' Rses 9 Anthny Hamiltn 9 Hbastank 9 Interpl Chris Isaak Alan Jacksn 9, Michael Jacksn Ja Rule 0 Jay -Z 9 Jet Jimmy Eat Wrld Eltn Jhn 9 JJ Gerge Jnes Nrah Jnes, 00 Juanes Juvenile Keane Tby Keith, 0 R. Kelly R. Kelly & Jay -Z Alicia Keys Kidz Bp Kids 9 The Killers Km Lenny Kravitz 9 Larry The Cable Guy Avril Lavigne Jhn Lennn Lil Jn & The East Side Byz Lil Scrappy/Trillville 9 Lil Wayne Linkin Park Live LL Cl! Ls Lnely Bys Lnestar Barry Manilw 00 Mannheim Steamrller 9 Marilyn Mansn 9 Marn, Dean Martin Jhn Mayer 9 Martina McBride 0 Jesse McCartney Michael McDnald, 9 Tim McGraw Jhn Mellencamp 0 Luis Miguel 9 Mdest Muse Mnxide 9 Mandy Mre Ms Def 0 My Chemical Rmance Nelly, New Editin 9 Newsbys Nickelback 0 Brad Paisley 0 Papa Rach 9 Pearl Jam A Perfect Circle 0, Pitbull 9 Queen Latifah R.E.M. 99 Rammstein Rascal Flatts 9 Relient K 0 LeAnn Rimes The Rlling Stnes Jill Sctt Seal Seether SheDaisy 9 Blake Sheltn 9 Shinedwn Simple Plan Jessica Simpsn Ashlee Simpsn 0 Frank Sinatra Slipknt Ellitt Smith Michael W. Smith Snp Dgg Snw Patrl Marc Antni Slis 0 SOUNDTRACK Bridget Jnes: The Edge Of Reasn A Cinderella Stry Garden State Hal The OC: Music Frm The OC: Mix The Plar Express The Princess Diaries : Ryal Engagement Shall We Dance? Shark Tale Shrek The Spngebb Squarepants Mvie Themeaddict: WWE The Music V Britney Spears Rd Stewart, 0 Jss Stne 09 Gerge Strait Sum 0 Switchft Taking Back Sunday Talib Kweli 0 Three Days Grace tbymac Train Trans -Siberian Orchestra Randy Travis 9 Trick Daddy Shania Twain Keith Urban, 99 The Used 0 Usher 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Care Bears: Hliday Hugs! Have A Fun Christmas 9 Las Mas Bailables Del Pasit Duranguense 9 Nw Nw Radi Disney Jingle Jams Ttally Hits 00 Vl. A Windham Hill Christmas: I'll Be Hme Fr Christmas WOW Hits 00: Of The years Tp Christian Artists And Hits Velvet Revlver Rufus Wainwright 0 Kanye West Vanessa Williams Brian Wilsn 0 Gretchen Wilsn Yellwcard Ying Yang Twins Neil Yung Yung Buck Over The Cunter Cntinued frm page vault, with a % gain, after playing her shw's wedding episde. Despite all the firewrks, album vlume is dwn frm the same 00 frame fr a 0th straight week. PRICE CHECK: In September f last year, when album sales shwed grwth fr the first time since 000, artists like Jhn Mayer, Mary J. Blige and DMX helped draw cnsumers back t stres. Thse gains ver weeks frm the prir year als cincided with the news that Universal Music & Vide Distributin wuld reduce pricing n mst f the frnt -line CDs frm Universal Music Grup -wned labels. Althugh retailers were initially cl t Universal's JumpStart prgram, the annuncement generated waves f attentin frm the cnsumer press. As verall album gains AZSt-lilL UNIVERSAL MUSIC S VIDEO DISTRIBUTION cntinued thrugh the first eight mnths f this year, cmpany executives frm chairman Dug Mrris n thrugh have mre than nce psited that cnsumers' perceptin f lwer prices influenced thse psitive cmps. There may be sme merit t that claim. Fr the first time in my years with the Billbard chart department, the suggested prices psted n The Billbard 00 shw a dwnward trend frm the prir year. On last issue's chart, CDs with a list (r equivalent price) f $.9 still represented the mst prminent tag amng thse 00 titles, but there were 99 at that level, dwn frm in the same week last year. The premium -level price f $9.99 is als less prevalent, with seven f thse n last issue's Billbard 00, cmpared with in the issue dated Nv. 9, 00. That's ntable, because in mst prir years, the dllar- higher premium tag wuld becme mre cmmn as labels cnstantly sught t creep tward a higher shelf price. liv lwer tiers have becme mre frequently emplyed. The Billbard 00 sprted 9 at $.9 and 0 at $.9 last week, cmpared with ne and, respectively, a year prir. The dwnward trend plays n Heatseekers, t, but is less bvius n Tp Pp Catalg (which appeared last week n billbard.cm as it alternates in the magazine with Tp Hliday Albums). Last issue's Heatseekers list had nly seven f 0 titles at $.9 r mre, while there were at that price weeks earlier. By cntrast, mre than half f the titles n last week's 0- psitin catalg list sat at $.9 r $.9, with at the frmer and 0 at the latter. That's abut even with last year's cmparable chart, when there were $.9 titles and a dzen at $.9. Beynd the JumpStart initiative, let's nt frget that music is the nly cnsumer categry where the mst in- demand items are always discunted. New albums by big -name acts have always been a music merchant's magnet, and never mre s than nw. Accrding t a reprt cmmissined by Pricewaterhuse- Cpers and presented at the Natinal Assn. f Recrding Merchandisers cnventin, half r mre f albums sld in the United States are rung by chains that tut the cheapest sale prices, primarily Wal -Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City and Target. Take a lk at circulars frm three f thse chains that hit hmes Sunday, Nv., affecting the tracking week reflected by this issue's charts. N less than current frnt -line albums were discunted t $9.9 -$.99, with six f thse simultaneusly featured in fliers frm Target and the tw electrnics chains. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

47 DECEMBER 00 a BiLIbqj TOP POP, catalog TM :. Sales data cmpiled by l OD D Ni SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL NUMBER I GREATEST GAINER Title Week At Number I VARIOUS A ARTISTS NOW That's What I Call Christmas! : The Signature Cllectin EMI /UNIVERSAUSONY MUSIC/ZOMBA 09 /CAPITOL 9.9 CD) s FRANK SINATRA, DEAN MARTIN & SAMMY DAVIS JR CAPITOL 0 (.9/ 9 Christmas With The Rat Pack VARIOUS ARTISTS A Nw That's What I Call Christmas! EMI /ZOMBA/SONY MUSIC /UNIVERSAL 0 /UMRG 9 CDI HARRY CONNICK, JR. COLUMBIA 900/SONY MUSIC.9 EG CO) RAY CHARLES RHINO9 (.9 CO) TRANS- SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LAVA 9/AG.9/.9 [N] ROD STEWART A J 009/RMG (.9/.9) BURL IVES MCA SPECIAL PRODUCTS /UME. Harry Fr The Hlidays The Very Best Of Ray Charles Christmas Eve And Other Stries It Had T Be Yu... The Great American Sngbk Rudlph The Red -Nsed Reindeer CELINE DION A These Are Special Times CD) 0 MUSIC/EPIC 9 /SONY MUSIC 9 EQ/.9 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 90 (.9/.9 Kidz Bp Christmas THE BEATLES 9 APPLE 9/CAPITOL (.9/.9) FRANK SINATRA Classic Sinatra: His Great Perfrmances 9.90 CAPITOL 0 I.9/.9) ELTON JOHN Greatest Hits ROCKET /UTV 0/UME 9.9 CO) ELVIS PRESLEY RCA SPECIAL PRODUCTS 9 9 CD) BING CROSBY MCA SPECIAL PRODUCTS /UME 9.9I PINK FLOYD 0 CAPITOL 00 (09 /.9) It's Christmas Time White Christmas Dark Side Of The Mn BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS.p Legend: The Best Of Bb Marley And The Wailers TUFF GONG /ISLAND 90 /UME.9/.9) HOT SW) SOUNDTRACK LINE 90.9 CD) VARIOUS ARTISTS RCA /RMG (.9 CD) MARTINA MCBRIDE A RCA NASHVILLE /RLG ( MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER A' AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE.9 CDI TRANS- SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LAVA /AG (.9/.9) JOSH GROBAN /REPRISE 9/WARNER BROS. (.9 CD) [N] VARIOUS ARTISTS Elf American Idl: The Great Hliday Classics WORD.CURB /EMICMG /PROVIDENT 0/WARNER BROS. 9 CD) White Christmas Christmas Extrardinaire The Christmas Attic Jsh Grban WOW Christmas EMINEM e The Eminem Shw WEB /AFTERMATH /990/INTERSCOPE.9/.9) RASCAL FLATTS A LYRIC STREET 0 /HOLLYWOOD.9/.9) QUEEN AT HOLLYWOOD.9/.9) TIM MCGRAW A CURB 9 (.9/.9) AC/DC.0 LEGACY/EPIC 000/SONY MUSIC 0.9 EEL CD) MARIAH CAREY COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC 0.9 ES/.9) Melt Greatest Hits Greatest Hits Back In Black Merry Christmas BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND Greatest Hits CAPITOL /.9) 9 RAY CHARLES Anthlgy RHINO 9.9 CO) 0 LINKIN PARK [Hybrid Thery] WARNER BROS. (.9/.9) AVRIL LAVIGNE Let G ARISTA 0/RMG (9 CD) 0 METALLICA, ELEKTRA /AG (.9/9) Metallica LED ZEPPELIN Eatiy Days & Latter Days: The Best Of Led Zeppelin Vlumes One And Tw ATLANTIC 9/AG 9. C ELVIS PRESLEY RCA 09 /HMG.9/9.9) KENNY CHESNEY BNA 0/RLG (.9 CD) HILARY DUFF BUENA VISTA 09/WALT DISNEY.9 CDI[N] Elvis: 0 # Hits All I Want Fr Christmas Is A Real Gd Tan Santa Claus Lane U A The Best Of ISLAND /IOJMG.9/.9 HARRY CONNICK, JR. A When My Heart Finds Christmas COLUMBIA 0/SONY MUSIC.9 EO/.9) EMINEM A9 WEB /AFTERMATH 909 /INTERSCOPE.9/9) The Marshall Mathers LP THE BEATLES IV Sgt- Pepper's Lnely Hearts Club Band APPLE /CAPITOL.9/.9 LARRY THE CABLE GUY PARALLEL/HIP-0 00/UME.9 CD) COLDPLAY A' CAPITOL 00 (.9/.9) STEVIE WONDER MOTOWN /UTV0/NME (.9 CDI BARRY MANILOW BMG HERITAGE 000 (.90/.90) Lrd, I Aplgize A Rush Of Bld T The Head The Definitive Cllectin Ultimate Manilw 0 LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ Kings Of Crunk BME 0/.9/.9) ALAN JACKSON ARISTA NASHVILLE 9/RLG /.9) 9 MERCYME INO /CURB (.9 CD) [N] Let It Be Christmas Almst There DECEMBER 00 Bill W I- g Q c c TOP Sales data cmpiled by ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING CROSSFADE HEATSEEKERS Nielsen SundScan LABEL Title A> NUMBER `' Weeks AO Number l FG /COLUMBIA /SONY MUSIC.9 EQ CD) Crssfade SNOW PATROL Final Straw POLYDOR /A &M 00 / INTERSCOPE 9 COI = HOT SHOT DE t. MONOXIDE PSYCHOPATHIC 0 9 CD) Chainsmker LP HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL White Peple ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC 9'A0.9 CD) PINK MARTINI Hang On Little Tmat HEINZ.9 CD) $- GREATEST GA: Live Frm Anther Level ISRAEL AND BREED INTEGRITY GOSPEUEPIC 9/SONY MUSIC.99 ED en, 0 THE POSTAL SERVICE Give Up SUB POP 9. 9 CD) SKINDRED Babyln BIELER BROS./LAVA 90/AG.9 COI MF DOOM RHYMESAYERS ENTERTAINMENT CD) MM..Fd 9 K -PAZ DE LA SIERRA Pensand En Ti 00I0 09/UG CD) THE BABY EINSTEIN MUSIC BOX ORCHESTRA Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics BUENA VISTA 0/WALT DISNEY.9 CDI 9 THE ALCHEMIST st Infantry ALC 9 /KOCH 9 CD) CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA Miles De Vces En Viv FONOVISA /ÚG.9 CO) i0 LYFE JENNINGS Lyfe -9 COLUMBIA 909/SONY MUSIC 9 EG CO) MUSE Abslutin TASTE MEDIA /WARNER BROS..9 CD) MADELEINE PEYROUX Careless Lve ROUNDER 9 9 CD) THE GAME Untld Stry GET LOW.9 CD) 9 JUAN LUIS GUERRA Para Ti VENE 000 /UNIVERSAL LATINO 09 CD) MARTHA MUNIZZI The Best Is Yet T Cme MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 (.9 CD) HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS The Silence In Black And White VICTORY 0 CD) ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ A Crazn Abiert SONY DISCOS 9.9 ES CD) 9 MONCHY & ALEXANDRA Hasta El Fin JON 9/09V DISCOS 9 ES CD) THE CHARIOT Everything's Alive, Everything's Breathing, Nthing Is Dead, Nthing Is Bleeding SOLID STATE /T OTH O NAIL. 0 FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD LVL IV EPIC 99/SONY MUSIC.9 ES CD) DON FRANCISCO Mi Hmenaje Gigante A La Musica Nrtena UNIVISION 0 /U (9 CD) DONALD LAWRENCE & CO. I Speak Life VERITY /ZOMBA.9/.9 J MOSS The J Mss Prject GOSPO CENTRIC 00/ZOMBA (.9 CO) MARTHA MUNIZZI When He Came MARTHA MUNIZZI CO) VICENTE FERNANDEZ Tesrs De Cleccin SONY DISCOS EQ CD) CD) ALEJANDRO SANZ Grandes Exits 9-0 WARNER LATINA 90.9 CD) 9 ROY JONES, JR. PRESENTS BODY HEAD BANGERZ Bdy Head Bergen: Vlume One BODY HEAD /UNIVERSAL 000 /UMRG (. CD) JENNIFER PENA Hustn: Rde Live UNIVISION 0/UG.9 CD) 0 SCISSOR SISTERS Scissr Sisters UNIVERSAL 00 /UMRG.9 CD) RAY LAMONTAGNE Truble RCA 9/RMG.9 CD) 9 LE TIGRE This Island LE TIGRE/STRUMMER 00 /UMRG 9.9 CD) MINDY SMITH One Mment Mre VANGUARD 9.9 CD) 0 SUGARLAND Twice The Speed Of Life MERCURY 00NMGN.9 CD) 0 PHILLIPS, CRAIG AND DEAN Let The Wrshippers Arise INO /EPIC 99/SONY MUSIC 0.9 Ell CD) - NEKO CASE The Tigers Have Spken ANTI - 0/EPITAPH (.9 CD) BUTCH WALKER EPIC 9 /SONY MUSIC (9 ES CD) Letters 0 BARLOWGIRL Barlwgirl FERVENT CD) THE WIGGLES KOCH (.9 CDI Yummy Yummy LUNYTUNES La Trayectria MAS FLOW 000 /UNIVERSAL LATINO.9 CDI - UNDEROATH They're Only Chasing Safety SOLID STATE /TOOTH PETER CINCOTTI CONCORD.9 CD) & NAIL.9 CD) On The Mn DUELO Mi Histria Musical UNIVISION 00/UG 9 CDI LOS CAMINANTES SONY DISCOS ER CD) RISE AGAINST GEFFEN 009 / INTERSCOPE 9.90 CD) CHRIS RICE ROCKETOWN 00.9 CD) Tesrs De Cleccin: Puras Rancheras Siren Sng Of The Cunter Culture Shrt Term Memries LOS BUKIS L Mejr De Nstrs 9-9 F0N0VISA /UG (.9 CD) DECEMBER gills,z.,.. y. w Y sti g - CD a u'i. TOP INDEPENDENT IVI TM Sales data cmpiled by L i Nielsen SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title `, ` NUMBER 'I I GREATEST GAINER Weeks AtNumberl LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ BME 00/ 9/9) Crunk Juke MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Christmas Celebratin AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 00 (.9 CO) :: HOT SHOT Utbu COLLECTIVE SOUL EL CDI Yuth YING YANG TWINS My Brther & Me COLLIPARK YIVT.9CD/OVD) VARIOUS ARTISTS Care Bears: Hliday Hugs! MADACY KIDS) 0 /MADACY.9 CD) ELLIOTT SMITH Frm A Basement On The Hill ANTI - /EPITAPH 9 CD) INTERPOL Antics MATADOR.9 CD) - SOUNDTRACK Hal SUMTHING ELSE 0 (.9 CD) PITBULL M.I.A.M.I. (Mney Is A Majr Issue) DIAZ BROTHERS 0/TVT.9.9) ì 9 GRUPO CLIMAX Za Za Za MUSART 09 / BALBOA.9 COI nil - GEORGE JONES 0 Years Of Hits -. BANDIT 0 (.9 CO) BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY RUTHLESS.9 CD) Greatest Hits 9 TAKING BACK SUNDAY Where Yu Want T Be VICTORY.9 CD) MONOXIDE PSYCHOPATHIC 0.9 CD) [N] Chainsmker LP PINK MARTINI Hang On Little Tmat HEINZ.9 CDI [N] 9 THE POSTAL SERVICE Give Up SUB POP 9. 9 CORN] MF DOOM RHYMESAYERS ENTERTAINMENT 00 (.9 CDI MM..Fd 0 TOM WAITS Real Gne ANTI - /EPITAPH (.9 CDI 0 THE BALLCHEMIST] st Infantry SHADOWS FALL The War Within CENTURY MEDIA 0.9 CD) - RAY CHARLES Ray Charles Celebrates A Gspel Christmas With The Vices Of Jubilatin! URBAN WORKS 0 / MADACY 99 CD) The Hard Way DOGGYSTYLE 0`/TVT 9/ THE GAME Untld Stry GET LOW 9 C0[] LIL' ROMEO Rmeland NO LIMIT /KOCH 9/.9 9 MARTHA MUNIZZI The Best Is Yet T Cme MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 (.9 CD) [N] FLOGGING MOLLY Within A Mile Of Hme SIDEONEDUMMY. 9 COI HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS The Silence In Black And White VICTORY 0 (.9 CD) [N] VARIOUS ARTISTS Enjy Every Sandwich: The Sngs Of Warren Zevn ARTEMIS (.9 CD) AFI AFI NITRO 9.9 CD) 0 DARYL HALL JOHN OATES Our Kind Of Sul U -WATCH 00 (9 CD) KOTTONMOUTH KINGS SUBURBAN NOIZE.9 CD /DVDI The Kttnmuth Experience 9 SENSES FAIL Let It Enfld Yu DRIVE-THRU 00/VAGRANT 0.9 C0 /DV0 - MARTHA MUNIZZI When He Came MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 (.9 CD) [N] JACKI -O Pe Little Rich Girl POE BOY 0/ 9 COI - NOFX The Greatest Sngs Ever Written (By Us) EPITAPH.9 CD) 9 MINDY SMITH One Mment Mre VANGUARD 9.9 CDI[N] VARIOUS ARTISTS Here Cmes Santa Claus UNITED AUDIO.9 CD) 9 - NEKO CASE.secD)[x] The Tigers Have Spken ANTI- - VARIOUS ARTISTS Hellcat Recrds Presents...Give'Em The Bt IV HELLCAT 0/EPITAPH (.9 CDI STRAYLIGHT RUN Straylight Run VICTORY 9.9 Cm THE WIGGLES KOCH (.9 CD)[N] Yummy Yummy CLEDUS T. JUDD Biplar And Prud KOCH CD) THE DIPLOMATS PRESENT JIM JONES On My Way T Church DIPLOMATS 0 /KO CH CDI IL 0 YING YANG TWINS Me & My Brther COLLIPARK 0/ 9 CDI NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Abattir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus ANTI 9 /EPITAPH CD) [M] THE ARCADE FIRE Funeral MERGE.9 COI INSANE CLOWN POSSE Hell's Pit PSYCHOPATHIC 0.90 CD /DVDI L DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Transatlanticism BARSUK..9 CD) 9 - ATREYU The Curse VICTORY (.9 CO) 0 THE SHINS Chutes T Narrw SUB POP 0'.9 CO) Catalg albums are - year - d titles that have fallen belw N. WO n The Billbard 00 r re- issues f lder albums. Ttal WLCMS Clursn reflects cmbined weeks de 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 00 f The Billbard 00. If a Heatseekers tide reaches that level, it and the act's subsequent albums.: in immediately ineligible appear n the Heatseekers char Tp Independent Albums are current tides that are sld via independent distributin, including thse that are fulfilled via majr branch distributrs. INIAlbums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 album units (Gld). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIM certificatin fr net shipment ee 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 RIAA multiplies shipments by the number f discs amb tapes RIAA Latin awards: Certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or). L Certificatin f 00,000 units ( Platin). A' Certificatin f 00,000 units (Muni- Platin). Asterisk indicates vinyl LP is available. Mst tape prices, and CO prices fr BMG and WEA labels, are suggested lists. Tape prices marked EQ and all ther CD price!, are equivalent prices, which are prjected frm whlesale prces. Greatest Gainer Shws chart's largest unit increase. (N] indicates pastr present Heatseeker title. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

48 - W ALBUMST ALBUMSTM 'ECZ 0ER Bibard TOP BLUES ALBUMS TM r. H S Sales data cmpiled by Om ARTIST IMPRINT& NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL Nielsen SundScan Title NUMBER =,'ßf- Weeks At Number GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Greatest Hits: 0 Years Of Rck CAPITOL 90 SUSAN TEDESCHI Live Frm Austin TX WEST 0 AEROSMITH Hnkin' On Bb COLUMBIA 0'/SONY MUSIC ' ERIC CLAPTON Me And Mr Jhnsn DUCK/REPRISE 'PNARNER BROS. KEB' MO' Peace: Back By Ppular Demand OKEH/EPIC 9 /SONY MUSIC [N] b NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS Hill Cuntry Revue ATO 9 MARVIN SEASE Playa Haters MALACO RAY CHARLES Music Legends: Ray's Blues BM 0 9 SOUNDTRACK Lightning In A Bttle LEGACY /COLUMBIA 90 /SONY MUSIC 0 KEB' MO' Keep It Simple OKEH /EPIC 0 /SONY MUSIC [N] 0 MAVIS STAPLES Have A Little Faith ALLIGATOR 99 ETTA JAMES Blues T The Bne RCA VICTOR 0 STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE Stevie Ray Vaughan And Dbule Truble The Cllectin LEGACY /EPIC /SONY MUSIC THEODIS EALEY Stand Up In It IFGAM 0 R.L. BURNSIDE A Bthered Mind c-pncsiim 0, DEC EMB0 ER 0 ti Bibxid d TOP REGGAE ALBUMS, Sales data cmpiled by ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL SKINDRED BIELER BROS. /LAVA 90/AG [Ni KEVIN LYTTLE ATLANTIC 0NAG VARIOUS ARTISTS MAS FLOW 000/UNIVERSAL LATINO IVY QUEEN PERFECT IMAGE 0 /UNIVERSAL LATINO SOUNDTRACK MOSA MAVERICK /WARNER BROS. LATINRAVA 0 DJ NELSON FLOW I000/UNIVERSAL LATINO [N] DON OMAR VI 0 [N] BEENIE MAN SHOCKING VIBES 9NIRGIN VARIOUS ARTISTS J &N 90 /SONY DISCOS 0 DON OMAR VI0 [N] SOUNDTRACK ATLANTIC /AG 9 NORIEGA t' FLOW 000 OR 0 /CUTTING /UNIVERSAL LATINO VARIOUS ARTISTS VP 90N/AG BOB MARLEY DECZMER ' MADACY 0 Biipd TOP WORLD Sales data cmpiled by ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER/DISTRIBUTING LABEL TWELVE GIRLS BAND PLATIA ENTERTAINMENT USA / RIVER VARIOUS ARTISTS WINDHAM HILL /OMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP VARIOUS ARTISTS WINDHAM HILL90/BMG STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP DANIEL O'DONNELL OPT)/ MEDIA 0 ZAP MAMA LUAKA BOP 900/WARNER BROS. [Hi DANIEL O'DONNELL DPW MEDIA BEBEL GILBERTO ZIRIGUIBOOM 0 /SIX DEGREES [N] 0 CIRQUE DU SOLEIL CIRQUE GU SOLEIL 00 9 SOUNDTRACK EDGE/DG 009/UNIVERSAL CLASSICS GROUP I BEBO & CIGALA CALLE /BLUEBIRD 90/RCA VICTOR GIRLS BAND NEXTAR /V VARIOUS ARTISTS MOUNTAIN APPLE 0 JAKE SHIMABUKURO HITCHHIKE 0 GIPSY KINGS ROSA PASSOS NONESUCH 9IAVARNER BROS. SONY CLASSICAL 90/SONY MUSIC Nielsen SundScan Title NUMBER :. ` Weeks At Number l Babyln Kevin Lyttle Lunytunes Presents La Misin : The Take Over il Nielsen SundScan Real 0 First Dates Damel Flw La Discteka The Last Dn: Live, Vl. Back T Basics Reggaetnhits 00 The Last Dn After The Sunset Cntra La Crriente Reggae Gld 00 The Best Of Bb Marley Title NUMBER g Weeks At Number Eastern Energy The Very Best Of Celtic Christmas The Celtic Circle Welcme T My Wrld Ancestry In Prgress Sngs Of Faith Bebel Gilbert Le Best Of Cirque Du Sleil The Mtrcycle Diaries Lagrimas Negras Freedm The 0 Greatest Hawai'i Music Albums Ever Walking Dwn Rainhill Rts Amrsa eecz >c H Q BER Y W hbe S < Billbard TOP CHRISTIAN Sales data cmpiled by IN Nielsen SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL! NUMBER /HOT SHOT DEBUT -- = Week At Number CLAY AIKEN RCA /PROVIDENT Merry Christmas With Lve SWITCHFOOT COLUMBIA/SPARROW 9 /EMICMG The Beautiful Letdwn JEREMY CAMP BEC/EMICMG [N] Restred MICHAEL W. SMITH REUNION 00 /PROVIDENT Healing Rain VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD /PROVIDENT 0 /EMICMG WOW Hits 00: Of The Years Tp Christian Artists And Hits RELIENT K GOTEE/CAPITOL9 /EMICMG MMHMM CASTING CROWNS BEACH STREET /REUNION 0/PROVIDENT tn] Casting Crwns SBOYS SPARROW /EMICMG Devtin 9 ) TOBYMAC FOREFRONT /EMICMG Welcme T Diverse City 9 9 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN SPARROW9 /EMICMG All Things New - RANDY TRAVIS WORD- CURB/WARNERBROS/WORO -CURB Passing Thrugh, 0 AMY GRANT WORD -CURB Greatest Hits: ISRAEL AND BREED INTEGRITYGOSPEL9/WORD.CURB [N] Live Frm Anther Level 0 Ana -$T GREATEST GAINER $-,Fi THIRD DAY ESSENTIAL0 /PROVIDENT Wire ç SMOKIE NORFUL EMI GOSPEL 9 Nthing Withut Yu VARIOUS ARTISTS INTEGRITY /MARANATHAI /IN09/WORO -CURB Integrity's )Wrship Next A Ttal Wrship Experience CHRIS TOMLIN SIXSTEPS /SPARROW /EMICMG Arriving m POINT OF GRACE WORD-CURB/WARNER BROS /WORD-CURB I Chse Yu 9 SELAH CURBNJORD -CURB Hiding Place JEREMY CAMP BEC 9 /EMICMG [N] Carried Me: The Wrship Prject VARIOUS ARTISTS INO 9/TIME LIFE I Can Only Imagine: Ultimate Pwer Anthems Of The Christian Faith 0 MARTHA MUNIZZI MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 [N] The Best Is Yet T Cme MERCYME IN09/WORD.CURB Undne - MICHAEL W. SMITH REUNION 009 /PROVIDENT The Christmas Cllectin GAITHER VOCAL BAND GAITHER MUSIC GROUP 9/EMICMG Best Of The Gaither Vcal Band THE CHARIOT SOLID STATE/TOOTH & NAIL/EMICMG [N] Everything's Alive, Everything's Breathing, Nthing Is Dead, Nthing Is Bleeding DONALD LAWRENCE & CO. VERITY/PROVIDENT [N] I Speak Life ' 0 J MOSS GOSPO CENTRIC 00/PROVIDENT [N] The J Mss Prject 9 0 MARTHA MUNIZZI MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 [N] When He Came JUMPS SPARROW 0 /EMICMG Dreaming In Clr ;a PHILLIPS, CRAIG AND DEAN INS 0/WORD-CURB (Ni Let The Wrshippers Arise 0 CASTING CROWNS BEACH STREET /REUNION 009/PROVIDENT Live Frm Atlanta BARLOWGIRL FERVENT 00/PROVIDENT [N] Barlwgirl VARIOUS ARTISTS FERVENT 00/PROVIDENT Abslute Favrite Christmas 0 FRED HAMMOND VERITY /JIVE/PROVIDENT Smethin "But Lve SWITCHFOOT RE: THINK/SPARROW /EMICMG The Early Years: VARIOUS ARTISTS EMICMG /PROVIOENT00/WORD -CURB WOW Wrship (Red) 9 UNDEROATH SOLID STATE/TOOTH B NAIL /EMICMG [N] They're Only Chasing Safety 9 PILLAR FLICKER /EMICMG Where D We G Frm Here C, CHRIS RICE ROCKETOWNW /PROVIDENT [HI Shrt Term Memries DECEM0ER,a < 'O rs., Billbard, TOP GOSPEL Sales data cmpiled by L 9 Nielsen SundScan ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL Title á' NUMBER /GREATEST GAINER,t,''' Weeks At Number ISRAEL AND BREED INTEGRITY GOSPEL/EPIC 9/SONY MUSIC [N] Live Frm Anther Level SMOKIE NORFUL EMI GOSPEL 9 Nthing Withut Yu BEN HARPER AND THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA VIRGIN0 There Will BeALight RAY CHARLES URBAN WORKS 0 /MAOACY Ray Charles Celebrates A Gspel Christmas With The Vices Of Jubilatin! MARTHA MUNIZZI MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 [N] The Best Is Yet T Cme DONALD LAWRENCE & CO. VERITY/ZOMBA (N] I Speak Life J MOSS GOSPO CENTRIC 000MBA [N] The J Mss Prject 9 MARTHA MUNIZZI MARTHA MUNIZZI 000 [N] When He Came i 9 FRED HAMMOND VERITY /JIVE/ZOMBA Smethin "But Lve r 0 KIERRA KIKI SHEARD EMI GOSPEL90 [N] I Owe Yu POOH AND THE YOUNG INSPIRATIONS OPHIR 09 Say The Wrd 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD /EMICMGNERITY9/ZOMBA WOW Gspel 00 - GEORGE HUFF WORD CURB /WARNER BROS, My Christmas (EP) DEITRICK HADDON TYSCOTNERITY9/ZOMBA [N] Crssrads CECE WINANS PURESPRINGSGOSPEL /IN09O /SONYMUS]C Thrne Rm NICOLE C. MULLEN WORD- CURB/WARNERBROS. [N] Everyday Peple BISHOP PAUL S. MORTON TEHILLAH/LIGHT90 /COMPENDIA [N] Seasns Change VICKIE WINANS VERITY/ZOMBA Di] Bringing It All Tgether 9 9 THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS & THEIR SUPERSTAR FRIENDS BLACKBERRY9 /MALACO SulLink Live 0 MEN OF STANDARD MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND GOSPEL09/MAIACO lt'sa New Day THE STRAIGHT GATE MASS CHOIR BAJADA0 Expectatins: I'll Praise 0 0 DOROTHY NORWOOD MALACO Stand On The Wrd VARIOUS ARTISTS DEXTERITY SOUNDS 9/EMI GOSPEL Bishp T.D. Jakes Presents: He- Mtins BYRON CAGE G0PO CENTRIC 0E/ZOMBA [N] Byrn Cage TONEX & THE PECULIAR PEOPLE VERITY /JIVE/ZOMBA Out The Bx TYE TRIBBETT & G.A. INTEGRITY GOSPEUCOLUMBIA 909/SONY MUSIC [Ni Life % 0 BISHOP PAUL S. MORTON & THE FGBCF MASS CHOIR TEHILLAH /LIGHT9 /COMPENDIA [N] Let It Rain SOUNDTRACK MUSIC WORLD /COLUMBIA90/SONY MUSIC The Fighting Temptatins DONNIE MCCLURKIN VERITY99/ZOMBA Dnnie McClurkin... Again VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD- CURBBmNYARNER BROS. All Star Gspel Hits Vlume : Praise & Wrship T ` HOT SHOT DEBUT.: VARIOUS ARTISTS WORD-CURB 0/WARNER BROS All Star Gs el Hits: Christmas 9 SHARROND KING TRU- VINE09 /OPHIR Dedicated VARIOUS ARTISTS INTEGRITY GOSPEUGOSPO CENTRIC/EPIC 90 /SONYMUSIC Gtta Have Gspel! TURKS & CAICOS MASS CHOIR MEEK0 Behld! Live In Chicag EDDIE RUTH BRADFORD JUANA/KNIGHT 00/MALACO T Clse T The Mirrr JOHN P. KEE TYSCOTNERITY9/ZOMBA[N] The Clr Of Music 9 9 THE RANCE ALLEN GROUP TVSCOT0/rASEIS The Live Experience VICKI YOHE PURESPRINGS GOSPEL 0/EMI GOSPEL [N] I Just Want Yu THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS BLACKBERRY/MALACO Still Here r JONATHAN BUTLER MARANATHAI /CORINTHIAN 0/PROVIDENT The Wrship Prject Title ALBUMS.. Albums with the greatest sales gains this week. Recrding Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certificatin fr net shipment f 00,00 alb m units (G dl. RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f millin units (Platinum). RIAA certificatin fr net shipment f 0 millin units (Diamnd). Numeral fllwing Platinum r Diamn symbl indicates album's multi -platinum level. Fr bxed sets, and duble albums with a running time f 00 minutes r mre, the RIAA mukiplie shipments by the number f discs and /r tapes. RIAA Latin awards: Certificatin fr net shipment f 00,000 units (Or). A Certificatin f 00,000 units ( Platin). A' Certificatin f 00,000 units (Multi- Platin). *Asterisk indicates LP is available. Greatest Gainer shws chart's largest unit increase. Heatseeker Impact shws albums remved frm Heatseekers this week. [N] indicates past r present Heatseeker title. 000, VNU Business Media, Inc., and Nielsen SundScan, Inc. All rights reserved BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

49 ";;'.gillbard SINGLES AND TRACKS SONG INDEX. Chart Cdes: CS (Ht Cuntry Singles); Hi (Ht w Singles); LT (Ht Latin Tracks) and RBH (Ht R &B Hip/Hp Singles). TITLE (Publisher - Licensing Org.) Sheet Music Dist., Chart, Psitin., STEP (Ryalty Rightings, ASCAP / Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music tt, ASCAP /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI /Bubba Gee, BMI /Nntime Tunes, BMI /Mass Cnfusin, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP), WBM, Ht 9; RBH 9 9 (Zmba, ASCAP /Drp Yur Pants, ASCAP /Matzh Ball, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /East Side Jhnny N- Ass, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI), HL /WBM, Ht KINGS (LW, ASCAP) RBH 9 -A- AHORAQUIEN (Wrld Deep, BMI /Sny /ATV Latin, BMI /Blueplatinum, ASCAP/Sny/ATV Discs, ASCAP) LT AIN'T NOTHING WRONG (First Avenue, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP / Demis Ht Sngs, ASCAP /Edmnds, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /ECAF, BMI/Sny/ATV Sngs, BMI /Antni Dixn's Muzik, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI /E D Duz It, BMI /Irving, BMI), HL /WBM, RBH ALL I EVER NEEDED (Bret Michaels Sngs, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI), WBM, CS AMERICAN IDIOT (WB, ASCAP /Green Daze, ASCAP), WBM, Ht ANDAR CONMIGO (Llein, BMI / Dble Acuarela Sngs, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI/WB, ASCAP) LT 0 AWFUL, BEAUTIFUL UFE (EMI April, ASCAP /Pittsburg Landing, ASCAP /Cbum, BMI /Harley Allen Music, BMI), H L /WBM, CS ; Ht -B- BABY GIRL (Dirkpit, BMI /GreaterGd, ASCAP /Jenniter Nettles, ASCAP /Telegrammusic, ASCAP) CS BABY IT'S YOU (First Avenue, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP / Demis Ht Sngs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Irving, BMI /E D Duz It, BMI /Antni Dixn's Muzik, ASCAP /Shag, SESAC), HL, Ht BACK WHEN (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP), HL /WBM, CS ; Ht BALLA BABY (Chingy Music, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Empty Huse, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH BIG CHIPS (Zmba Sngs, BMI / R.Kelly, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP/Carter Bys, ASCAP/ENOT, ASCAP /Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP), HL/WBM, Ht ; RBH BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD (Careers-BMG, BMI /Flyd's Dream, BMI /Jeff Diggs, BMI /Bug, BMQ, HL, CS zz BOTTLE ACTION (Brandywine, ASCAP /Playmaker Music, BMI /Regina's Sn, ASCAP /Dieniahmar Music, ASCAP) RBH 9 BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS (WB, ASCAP /Green Daze, ASCAP), WBM, Ht BOYZ N THA HOOD (Delmar Arnaud Musiq, BMI /Nate Dgg, BMI /Jbete, ASCAP) RBH 9 BREAKAWAY (Friends Of Seagulls, ASCAP /Five Card, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /G Matt, ASCAP/Alm,ASCAP/Avril Lavigne, SOCAN), HL/WBM, Ht BREAKING THE HABIT (Zmba, ASCAP /Chesterchaz, ASCAP /Big Bad Mr. Hahn, BMI /Nndisclsure Agreement, BMI /Rb Burdn, BMI /Kenji Kbayashi, BMI /Pancakey Cakes, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI), WBM, Ht BREATHE (J. Brusc, ASCAP /Desert Strm, BMI /F.O.B., ASCAP /N.Q.C., ASCAP /Alm, ASCAP), HL, Him= RBH BREATHE, STRETCH, SHAKE (Masn Betha, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Cyphercleff, ASCAP), HL, Ht 9 BREATHE, STRETCH, SHAKE (Masn Betha, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Cyphercleff,ASCAP), HL, RBH BRIDGING THE GAP (III Will, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /Salaam Remi, ASCAP/EMI April, ASCAP /Oda, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Ht 9; RBH 9 BRING EM OUT (Carter Bys, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Wamer -Tamerlane, BMI /Dmani And Ya Majesty's Music, ASCAP /Swizz Beatz, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Ht ; RBH BROKEN (Seethe, BMI /Dwight Frye, BMI), WBM, H00 THE BUMPER OF MY S.U.V. (Painted Red, BMI) CS -C- CALL MY NAME (Cntrversy, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL, H009; RBH CANT WAIT (Demis Ht Sngs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Sny /AN Sngs, BMI /Antni Dixn's Muzik, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI /EZ Duz It,ASCAP /Strange Mtel, ASCAP /Alm, 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, RBH THE CHANCE (WB, ASCAP /Cal IV, ASCAP), WBM, CS CHARLENE (Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Tappy Whyte's, BMI /Bat Future, BMI), HL, Ht ; RBH THE CLOSER I GETTO YOU (Ensign, BMI /Scarab, BMQ RBH 9 COLD (Sugarstar, BMQ Ht COME HOME SOON (Emert, ASCAP /Dylan Jacksn, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP), WBM, CS COMO TU (Gaira Bay, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP) LT CONTGO YO APRENDI A OLVIDAR (Universal Musica, ASCAP /Le Musical, SACM) LT COSA DEL DESTINO (BMG Sngs, ASCAP) LT t COWGIRLS (Universal -PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP /Green Wagn, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /Animal Fair, ASCAP / Fat Cactus, ASCAP), H L CS CRUNK MUZIK (Cpyright Cntrl / Killa Cam, BMI /Heatmake, BMI) RBH -D- DAME OTRO TEQUILA (F.I.P.P., BMI) LT DAMMIT MAN (Marimber, ASCAP /Diaz Brthers Music, BMI) RBH DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE (Beynce, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP /Fray, SESAC /EWM, SESAC), HL, Ht ; RBH DARE YOU TO MOVE (Sugar Pete, ASCAP /Meadwgreen, ASCAP /EMI Christian Music Grup, ASCAP), HL, Ht t9 DAUGHTERS (Sny /AP/Tunes, ASCAP /Specific Harm, ASCAP), HL, Hi DAYS GO BY (Guitar Mnkey, BMI /Cburn, BMI /Universal, ASCAP /Lanark Village Tunes, ASCAP), HL/WBM. Ht DELANTE DE MI (EMI Blackwd, BMI) LT 9 DE RODILLAS (Ventura, ASCAP) LT DESDE QUE LLEGASTE (SACM Latin, ASCAP) LT DE VIAJE (Sny/ATV Discs, ASCAP) LT 9 DIARY (Lellw, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Bk Of Daniel, ASCAP), HL, Ht 9; RBH DICEN POR AHI (Brantunes, ASCAP/Sny/ATV Discs, ASCAP) LT DON'T BREAK MY HEART AGAIN (Green hrse, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Stlen Taylr, ASCAP), HL, CS DON'T LET ME DIE (Zmba Sngs, BMI /R.Kelly, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /Carter Bys. ASCAP /ENOT, ASCAP /Sny/AN Tunes, ASCAP/EKOP, BMI/Spanadr Music, BMI), HL /WBM, RBH 9 DROP I/EMI Black- wd, BMI/The Waters Of Nazareth, BMI /Raynchaser, BMI), HL, Ht ; RBH t DUELE EL AMOR (Gente Nrmal,ASCAP /Warner Chappell, SACM) LT -E- ENCORE (Eight Mile Style, BMI /Ain't Nuthin' Gin' On But Funking, ASCAP /Elvis Mamb, ASCAP /Bltter, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Bat Future, BMI /Jenellerene, BMI /Hard Wrkin Black Flks, ASCAP / Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH ESCUCHA ATENTO (WB, ASCAP /SGAE, ASCAP /Impatt Edizini, ASCAP) LT ESTAAUSENCIA (Kike Santander, BMI) LT9 ESTA LLORANDO MI CORAZON (Edimnsa,ASCAP) LT.F. FALL TO PIECES (Slash & Cash, ASCAP /Ready Set G, ASCAP /Pimp Music, ASCAP /DracSrum Music, ASCAP /DTK Music, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP), WBM, Hl FEEL SO GOOD (Razah Mil, ASCAP /Feed Da Family, BMI /Madazbrthers, ASCAP /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI), wd WC, WBM, RBH 90 FINE (Wet Pink Pub, Blackwd, BMI /E BMI /Da Crippler, BMI), HL, RBH 99 FLAP YOUR WINGS (Jackie Frst, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /The Waters Of Nazareth, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Careers -BMG, BMI/Raynchaser, BMI), HL, RBH FOREVER, FOR ALWAYS, FOR LAVE (EMI April, ASCAP /Uncle Rnnie's, ASCAP /Barry Platnick, ASCAP), HL, RBH FOR REAL (fizp, BMI /Eliza's Vice, ASCAP) RBH FOUR WALLS (blamer- Tamerlane, BMI /Megalex, BMI /Orten, BMI /R. Jseph, BMI /Sn OfStin, BMI /EMI Lngitude, BMI), WBM, CS FUEGO (King Of Bling, BMI /Universal -Musica Unica, BMI/C.K. Jintz, BMI /DHG, BMI /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI /JD, ASCAP) LT t -G- GASOUNA (Ls Cangris, ASCAP) Ht 9; RBH 9 GET BACK (Universal, ASCAP /Ludacris, ASCAP /Elizab Music, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER (Viva La Cucaracha, ASCAP /DreamWrks Sngs, ASCAP) Ht GIRLS (Killa Cam, BMI /Jhnny Handsme, BMI /Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP), HL, RBH GIVE A UM! BIT (Alm, ASCAP/ Delicate, ASCAP), HL, Ht GO D.J. (Mney Mack, BMI) Hl t; RBH GOD'S WILL (Sny /ATV Sngs, BMI /BMG Sngs, ASCAP), HL, CS GONE (Gttahaveable, BMI /Lve Mnkey, BMI /Sngs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI /Sny /AN Tree, BMQ, HL, CS GOODIES (White Rhin, BMI/Christpher Garrett, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Ryalty Rightings, ASCAP /Music Publishing tt, ASCAP /C'Amre, BMI /Me & Marq,ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /Kumbaya, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Ht t; RBH t GOTTA GO SOLO (Octber th, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Kharatry, ASCAP /Pattnium, BMI) RBH GOTTA HAVE IT (Shakur Al -Din, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Sticky Green, ASCAP /Cpyright Cntrl /Chad Hamiltn, BMI /Warner-Tamerlane, BMI / Stayin High Music,ASCAP /Alm,ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH GRITA CONMIGO (Pilt, ASCAP /Unique Hits, ASCAP /Universal Musica, ASCAP) LT -H- HASTA EL FIN DEL MUNDO (Rubel, ASCAP /Universal Musica, ASCAP /Crasngs, ASCAP) LT HEAVEN (Either Or Music, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Garza Brs. Music, BMQ, HL, Ht HE GETS THAT FROM ME O B Daniel, ASCAP /Water Bund, ASCAP /Daniel Music, ASCAP /Cpyright Slutins, ASCAP/Murrah, BMI), HL /WBM, CS HEY NOW (MEAN MUGGIN) (Virginia Beach, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP), WBM, Ht 9; RBH HOLD YOU DOWN (A. Maman Music,ASCAP /P. Nid, BMI /Careers -BMG, BMI /Carmenskinds Music, ASCAP /Meldic Thught, ASCAP /EMI Unart Catalg, BMO, HL, RBH HOLY WATER (Big Lve, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /As Yu Wish Music, BMO, WBM, CS 9 HOME SWEET HOLIDAY INN (EMI April, ASCAP /Sea Gayle, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP), HL, CS HOW AM I DOIN' (Skrnk Bnk Tunes, BMI /Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP), HL, CS ; Hl HOW DOES IT FEEL? (Anita Baker Music, ASCAP /Barry's Meldies, ASCAP) RBH HOW DO YOU GET THAT LONELY (Black In The Saddle, ASCAP /Giantslayer, ASCAP /Murrah, BMI), WBM, CS HOW WE DO ( Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /J. Taylr Fr BlackWallstreet, ASCAP /EachiTeacht, ASCAP /Ain't Nuthin' Gin' On But Funking, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Elvis Mamb, ASCAP /Bltte, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Ht ; RBH HUSH (LL Cl J, ASCAP /Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP /Marcus Aurelius, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /White Chclate Jamz, BMI /White Chclate Grvz, ASCAP /White Chclate Beatz, ASCAP), HL Ht ; RBH -- I AIN'T SCARED (Black In The Saddle, ASCAP /Warner- Tamerlane, BM O, WBM, CS 9 I CHANGED MY MIND (She Wrte It, ASCAP /BMG Sngs,ASCAP /Please Gimme My Publishing, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Jhn Legend, BMI /Slmn's Wrk, ASCAP /Universal -PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP /Screen Gems -EMI, BMI /Cherry River, BMI), HL, Ht ; RBH I DON'T WANT TO BE (G. DeGraw Music, BMI /Warner - Tamerlane, BMO, WBM, Ht IF HEAVEN (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Purple Crayn, ASCAP), HL, CS IF I AIN'T GOT YOU (Lellw, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH 0 IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND (Cpyright Cntrl / Airead Lewis, ASCAP) RBH I HATE EVERYTHING (Midnight Express, ASCAP /Bigger Picture, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /Nvember One Sngs, BMI /Ratpack, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI), WBM, Ht I'LL TAKE THAT AS A YES (THE HOT TUB SONG) (Sngs Of Mighty Isis Music, BMI /Vista Larga Music, k BMI /Sefir Vicente Music, BMI /Haber Crpratin, BMI) CS I'M A SAINT (Msaic Music, BMI / Mrhter's Sack Of Sngs, BMI /Sngs Of Bud Dg, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP), HL, CS I MAY HATE MYSELF IN THE MORNING (Cal IV, ASCAP) CS I'M SO FLY (Llyd Banks, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Virginia Beach, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Danja Handz Muzik, SESAC) RBH 9 IN A REAL LOVE (EMI April, ASCAP /VassarSngs, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Mrs. Lumpkins Pdle, ASCAP), HL, CS 0; Ht INSPIRATION (Old Desperads, ASCAP/ND, ASCAP) CS INVISIBLE (Ser -Ca, BMI) LT I SMOKE, I DRANK (9WL, BMI /Drugstre, ASCAP /Ten Cunt, BMI) H00 ; RBH I THINK THE WORLD NEEDS A DRINK (Sny /AN Acuff Rse, BMI /Lavender Z Music, BMI /Sny /AN Tree, BMI), HL, CS 9 I TRY (Pen Skills, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Jhn Legend, BMI /Mary J. Bilge, ASCAP /Universal -MCA, ASCAP /Please Gimme My Publishing, BMI /Cherry River, BMI), HL, RBH 9 IT'S GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME (Sny /AN Tree. BMI /Katy's Own Music, BMI), HL, CS I'VE GOT YOUR MAN (STB, ASCAP) RBH I WOULD CRY (Msaic Music, BMI /Sngs Of Otis Barker, ASCAP /Sngs Of Msaic, ASCAP) CS -J - JUST LIKE YOU (EMI April, ASCAP / Days Grace, SOCAN /Ndles Fr Everyne, SOCAN), HL, Ht 9 JUST LOSE IT (Eight Mile Style, BMI /Martin Affiliated Music, BMI /Ain't Nuthin' Gin' On But Funking, ASCAP /Elvis Mamb, ASCAP /Bltte, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP /Bat Future, BMI /Jenellerene, BMI /Irving, BMI /Hard Wrkin Black Flks, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH -K- KARMA (Bk Of Daniel, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Lellw, ASCAP), HL, Ht 90; RBH KARMA (Llyd Banks, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Regime, ASCAP /Chappell & C., ASCAP /Jay's Enterprises, Inc., ASCAP / Cent, ASCAP), HL/WBM, Ht ; RBH KING OF THE DANCEHALL (EMI Blackwd, BMI /Universal -Sngs Of PlyGram Internatinal, BMI /Tny Kelly, ASCAP /Maurice Gregry, BMI), HL, RBH KNUCK IF YOU BUCK (Wrld Wide Platinum, BMI) Ht 9; RBH 9 -L- LA LOCURA (Nueva Ventura, ASCAP /Sny /AN Discs, ASCAP) LT LAS AVISPAS (Elyn, BMI) LT LASTIMA ES MI MUJER (BMG Sngs, ASCAP /San Angel, ASCAP) LT LEAN BACK (Sctt Strch, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP /Tuff Jew, ASCAP /Remynisce Music, ASCAP /Reach Glbal, ASCAP /IeyAnd Ryan Music, BMI /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI), WBM, Ht ; RBH LENTO (Llein, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Dble Acuarela Sngs, ASCAP /Warner Chappell, SACM) LT LET ME BE YOUR ANGEL (Ctillin, BMI /Brass Heart, BMI /W B, ASCAP /Walden, ASCAP /Gratitude Sky, ASCAP), WBM, RBH t LET ME LOVE YOU (Sctt Strch, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP /Pep -Sul Music, ASCAP /R.H. Cmpund, ASCAP) Ht ; RBH LET'S GET IT STARTED (will.i.am, BMI /Jeepney, BMI /Nawasha Netwrks, BMI /Hisak Sngs, BMI /Tun, BMI /EI Cuban, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Cherry River, BMI), CLM /HL Ht LET'S GO (New Men & C., PRS /First N' Gld, BMI /Trick N' Rick, BMI /Stayin High Music, ASCAP /Lil Jn 000 Music, BMI /TVT, BMI /Black By Hatchet, BMI /WB, ASCAP /Y A Daddy, ASCAP /Alm, ASCAP /Warner -Tamerlane, BMQ, HL /WBM, Ht ; RBH t LET THEM BE LITTLE (Haneli, BMI /Sny /AN Tree, BMQ, HL, CS UKE A BOSS (The Waters Of Nazareth, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Chase Chad, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Slim Thug, BMQ, HL, RBH LOCKED UP (Byefall Music, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH LONG, SLOW KISSES (Warner -Tamerlane, BM I/Smith Haven, BMI /New Wrks, BMI /The New Cmpany Sng Grup, BMI /Kid Lips Music, ASCAP /RPM, ASCAP), WBM, CS LOSE MY BREATH (Rdney Jerkins, BMI /LaShawn Daniels, ASCAP /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Christpher Garrett, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Beynce, ASCAP /Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP /Kelendria, ASCAP /Michelle MW, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Carter Bys, ASCAP), HL, Hn ; RBH LOVERS AND FRIENDS (Lil Jn 00í Music, BMI /NT, BMI /White Rhin, BMI /U.R. IV, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Ludacris, ASCAP /Michael Sterling, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH -M- MAKE UP (WaltEd, BMI) RBH A MANOS LLENAS (TN Edicines, BMI) LT ME AND CHARLIE TALKING (Sny /ATV Tree, BMI /Revelle B, BMI /Tiltawhirl, BMI /Carnival, ASCAP/Heartfair, ASCAP), HL, CS ME DEDIQUE A PERDERTE (Sny /AN Discs, ASCAP) LT MIEDO (Vander America, BMI /Fat, ASCAP) LT MI MAYOR SACRIFICIO (Crisma, SESAC) LT MOCKINGBIRD (EMI Unart Catalg, BMO, HL, CS MONDAY MORNING CHURCH (Cwby Chrds Music, ASCAP /Wrld Huse Of Hits, ASCAP). CS ; Ht MR. MOM (Sny /AN Tree, BMI /Harbinism.cm, SESAC /Super ID, ASCAP /Tp Mule, ASCAP /Sassy Mule, ASCAP /Dn Pfrimmer, ASCAP /The Lving Cmpany, ASCAP /Wizen, ASCAP), HL, CS ; His MUD ON THE TIRES (EMI April, ASCAP /Sea Gayle, ASCAP), HL, CS ; Ht MY BOO (EMI April, ASCAP /Shaniah Cymne, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Manusee, ASCAP /Lellw, ASCAP /U.R. IV, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP /Phenix Ave, ASCAP), HL, Ht t; RBH MY HAPPY ENDING (Alm, ASCAP /Avril Lavigne, SOCAN /Sntrack, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI), HL, Ht MY PLACE (Jackie Frst, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Publishing Designee, BMI /EMI Hastings Catalg, BMI /Jbete,ASCAP /Wamer -Tamerlane, BMI), HL /WBM, Ht ; RBH.N. NADA VALGO SIN TU AMOR (Peemusic III, BMI /Camalen, BMI) LT NA- NANA -NA (Jackie Frst, ASCAP /Bubba Gee, BMI /Nntime Tunes, BMI /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Ostaf, BMI/Sundtrn Tunes, BMO, WBM, RBH YORK (Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Slavery, BMI /Jseph Cartagena, ASCAP /Jae'wns, ASCAP /lustin Cmbs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Dade C. Prject Music, BMI /Universal, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP /Ensign, BMI /WB, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Ht ; RBH 9 NO CREO QUE TU (Rightsng, BMI /Intersng, ASCAP) LT NO END IN SIGHT (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Big Red Tractr, ASCAP /Bigger Picture, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP), WBM, CS NOLIACLAP (Breka Music, BMI /Zachnick, BMI) Ht ; RBH NO PROBLEM (Lil In 000 Music, BMI /TVT, BMI /Swizle, BMI) RBH NOTHIN'BOUT LOVE MAKES SENSE (Steel Wheels, BMI /Destn, ASCAP /Brrr..., ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP /Nvember Sngs, ASCAP), HL /WBM, CS ; Ht NOTHING ON BUT THE RADIO (WB, ASCAP /Fl Hearted Meldies, ASCAP /Odiesngs, ASCAP /Shrt Stry Lng, ASCAP), WBM, CS ; Ht NOTHIN'TO LOSE (Alm, ASCAP /Kevin Savigar, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Chaggy Buss, ASCAP), HL, CS NUMB /ENCORE (Zmba, ASCAP /Chesterchaz, ASCAP /Big Bad Mr. Hahn, BMI /Nndisclsure Agreement, BMI /Rb Burdn, BMI /Kenji Kbayashi, BMI /Pancakey Cakes, BMI /Carter Bys, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Ye Wrld Music, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Ht.0. OH (Ryalty Rightings, ASCAP/ Hitc Suth, ASCAP /Music tt, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Dirty Dre, ASCAP /Ludacris, ASCAP /Universal- PlyGram Internatinal Tunes, SESAC /Jahgae Jints, SESAC), HL, RBH OJALA QUE TE MUERAS (Ser -Ca, BMI) LT OKAY (White Rhin, BMI /Drugstre, ASCAP /Peertunes, SESAC /Hale Yeah, SESAC /Sngs Of Peer, BMI /Mrningsidetrail, ASCAP /Nivea B. Hamiltn, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP), WBM, RBH ONE MIWON TIMES (Ghett Pp 0, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP), HL, RBH ONE THING (Finger Eleven, SOCAN /Renfield, ASCAP), WBM, Ht ONLY U (Pkietts, ASCAP /Baeza, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Marcus Aurelius, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /DI kv, BMI), HL, Ht ; RBH z ON THE WAY DOWN (RiHp, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Playin Hky, ASCAP /Little Minx Music, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP), HL, Ht ORDINARY PEOPLE (Jhn Legend, BMI /will.i.am, BMI /Cherry River, BMQ, CLM /HL, RBH OVER AND OVER (Jackie Frst, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /KK's Basement, ASCAP /Hitc Suth, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH OYE MI CANTO (SP Beatz In Da Hd, ASCAP /Off Da Yelzabulb, BMI /GemSta, ASCAP /Big Mat, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane, BMI /My Sulmate Sngs, ASCAP), WBM, Ht;RBH -p- PAPER ANGELS (Nashville DreamWrks Sngs, ASCAP /Paper Angels, ASCAP/Sunchaser, ASCAP /Cherry Lane, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Sea Gayle, ASCAP), CLM /HL, CS PARTY FOR TWO (Universal -Sngs Of PlyGram Internatinal, BMI /Ln Ech, BMI /Out Of Pcket, ASCAP /Zmba, ASCAP), HL /WBM, CS 9; Ht PASOS DE GIGANTE (Warner- Tamerlane, BMI) LT PERDIDOS (J&N, ASCAP) LT PORQUE ES TAN CRUEL EL AMOR (Sny /AN Discs, ASCAP /Arjna Musical, ASCAP) LT tt QUE DE RARO TIENE (Gemini's Musical, SACM /Universal Musica, ASCAP) LT QUE NO ME FALTES TU (Universal Musica, ASCAP /Prdemus, ASCAP) LT 9 QUE SEAS FELIZ (PHAM, BMI /Peer Internatinal, BMI) LT t QUIERO SABER DE TI (Universal Musica, ASCAP /Prdemus, ASCAP) LT z (REACH UP FOR THE) S N I (Cpyright Cntrl) Ht t REAL BIG (Mney Mack, BMI) Ht 9; RBH THE REASON (Spread Yur Cheeks And Push Out The Music, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP), WBM, Ht RED CARPET (PAUSE, FLASH) (Zmba Sngs, BMI /R.Kelly, BMI), WBM, RBH RESTLESS (Sixteen Stars, BMI) CS 9 REVENGE OF A MIDDLE -AGED WOMAN (Cal IV, ASCAP /BergBrain, ASCAP /Gravitrn, SESAC) CS A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME (Aliarse Music, BMI) RBH -s- SHE WILL BE LOVED (Careers -BMG, BMI /February Twenty Secnd, BMI /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Valentine Valentine, ASCAP), HL, H00 SHORTY WANNA RIDE (Muth Full O' Gld, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /Lil In 000 Music, BMI /TVT, BMI), HL, Ht t; RBH SI LAVES (WB, ASCAP /Muziekuitgeveris Artemis BV, BMI) LT SO COLD (Breaking Benjamin Music, ASCAP /Seven Peaks, ASCAP) Ht 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 Music, ASCAP), HL, Hl 0; RBH SOMBRAS (SADAIC Latin, BMI /Rightsng, BMI) LT SOME BEACH (Scarlet Mn, BMI /Black In The Saddle, ASCAP/Giantslayer, ASCAP) CS ; Ht 9 SOMEBODY TOLD ME (The Killers, ASCAP /Universal- PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, Ht SOME CUT (Smte, ASCAP /Lil In 000 Music, BMI /TVT, BMI) RBH 9 SON DE AMORES (WB, ASCAP) LT SO SEXY CHAPTER II (UKE THIS) (Zmba Sngs, BMI /R.Kelly, BMI /Stayin High Music, ASCAP /Alm, ASCAP /Gtta Have It, ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH 9 SPOILED (BMG, PRS /Sng Chef, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Like Father Like Sn Music, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI), HL /WBM, RBH STAYS IN MEXICO (Tkec Tunes, BMQ, HL, CS ; H00 9 STILL (Shaniah Cymne, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Babyby's Little, SESAC /Nntime Suth, SESAC /Wamer, SESAC/Naked Under My Clthes, ASCAP /Chrysalis,ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH SUDS IN THE BUCKET (Mike Curb, BMI /Sngs Of Mraine, BMI /Curb Sngs, ASCAP /Mraine Music, ASCAP), WBM, CS ; Ht 9 -T- TAKE ME HOME (Remynisce Music, ASCAP /Reach Glbal, ASCAP /Geddy, ASCAP /Dade C. Prject Music, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI /Jey And Ryan Music, BMI /Alm, ASCAP /Warner -Tamerlane, BMI /Gtta Have It, ASCAP), HL /WBM, Hi ; RBH TE BUSCARIA (Simn Music Temple, ASCAP) LT TEMPTED TO TOUCH (Mustard Seed Interna, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Salaam Remi, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP), HL, Ht 9; RBH 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 THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT (Trinifld, PRS /Careers -BMG, BMI /Big Lud Shirt, ASCAP), HL, CS ; Ht THIS LOVE (Careers -BMG, BMI /February Twenty Secnd, BMI /Valentine Valentine, ASCAP), HL, Ht 9 TODO EL MO (EMI April, ASCAP /Warner -Tamertane, BMI) LT TONIGHT (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Lehsem Music, ASCAP /Music & Media Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, CS TRIP AROUND THE SUN (Mighty Nice, BMI /AI Andersngs, BMI /Bluewater, BMI /Brutunes, BMI /Bug, BMI /Warner- Tamerlane, BMI /Universal, ASCAP /Sharndipity, ASCAP), WBM, CS z 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 /Bvin, ASCAP), HL, RBH TRYING TO FIND ATLANTIS (Chris Waters Music, BMI /Sny /AN Tree, BMO CS 9 TU CARCEL (Crisma, SESAC) LT 9 TU NUEVO CARINITO (Le Musical, SACM /Universal Musica, ASCAP) LT -u - U MAKE ME WANNA Oae'wns, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Rye Sngs, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Sctt Strch, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP /Tuff Jew, ASCAP), HL, Ht ; RBH UN AMOR ENTRE DOS (Pastr Musical, SESAC /BMG Sngs, SESAC) LT THE UPSIDE OF BEING DOWN (EMI Blackwd, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /Black In The Saddle, ASCAP /Giantslaye, ASCAP), HL, CS 0 USED TO LOVE U (Jhn Legend, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMI /Please Gimme My Publishing, BMI /Cherry River, BMQ, HL, Him ; RBH -V- VALIO LA PENA (Wrld Deep, BMI /Sny /AN Latin, BMI /Sny /AN Tunes, ASCAP) LT VERTIGO (Universal- PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP), HL, Ht EL VIRUS DEL AMOR (Prim, BMI) LT VITAMIN R (LEADING US ALONG) (W B, ASCAP /Lef- Ber,ASCAP), WBM, Ht VOLVERE (TRO- Essex, ASCAP) LT t VUELVE CONMIGO (EMI April, ASCAP) LT -war WELCOME TO MY UFE (WB, ASCAP /Wet Wheelie, SOCAN /High- Maintenance, SOCAN /Stinky Music, SOCAN /Drp Out, SOCAN /Slutty, SOCAN /Lanni Tunes. SOCAN /Warner Chappell, SOCAN), WBM, Ht WE UKE THEM GIRLS (LP Byz, BMI /White Rhin, BMI /Big P, BMI) RBH 9 WESTSIDE STORY O. Taylr Fr BlackWallStreet, ASCAP /EachiTeacht, ASCAP / Cent, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Ain't Nuthin' Gin' On But Funking, ASCAP /Sctt Strch, ASCAP /TVT, ASCAP /Tuff Jew, ASCAP /Music Of Windswept, ASCAP/Bltter, ASCAP /Elvis Mamb,ASCAP), HL /WBM, RBH WHATEVER Oatcat, ASCAP /Blue's Baby, ASCAP /Universal, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Tuched By Jazz, ASCAP /Kylah Prald Musicwrks, ASCAP) RBH WHAT'S A GUY GOTTA DO (Fray, SESAC /MR, SESAC /EMI April, ASCAP /Didn't Have T Be, ASCAP /Sea Gayle, ASCAP), HL, CS WHAT SAY YOU (Sixteen Stars, BMI /Seven Peaks, ASCAP /Chunky Style, ASCAP) CS WHAT U GON' DO (Ail Jn 000 Music, BMI/TVT, BMI /White Rhin, BMI /Swizle, BMI) Ht ; RBH WHAT WE DO HERE (Cancelled Lunch, ASCAP /Universal- PlyGram Internatinal, ASCAP) RBH WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? (Harajuka Lber Music, ASCAP /Stuck In The Thrat, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP), HL, Ht WHAT YOU WON'T DO FOR LOVE (EMI Lngitude, BMI /Lindseyanne, BMI /The Music Frce, BMI) RBH 9 WHEN I THINK ABOUT CHEATIN' (Sny /AN Crss Keys, ASCAP /Hsiermama Music, ASCAP /WB, ASCAP /Wamer -Tamerlane, BMQ, HL /WBM, CS WHERE I BELONG (Nashville DreamWrks Sngs, ASCAP /Mnkey Feet, ASCAP /Cherry Lane, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP /Animal Fair, ASCAP /Careers- BMG, BMI /Silverkiss, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /Macad, BMO, CLM /HL, CS WHERE WERE YOU (Divine Mill, ASCAP/WB, ASCAP /Kharatry, ASCAP /I Want My Daddy's Recrds, ASCAP /Mnsn Music, SESAC /Jahqae Jints, SESAC /Nn -Affiliated, SESAC/Mycanae, ASCAP), WBM, RBH WHY? (Jae'wns, ASCAP /Justin Cmbs, ASCAP /EMI April, ASCAP /Tappy Whyte's, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /luvenile Hell, ASCAP /BMG Sngs, ASCAP /EMI Virgin, ASCAP), HL, RBH THE WOMAN WITH YOU (BMG Sngs, ASCAP /Mrs. Lumpkins Pdle, ASCAP /Careers-BMG, BMI /Asierfra, BMI), HL, CS ; Ht WONDERFUL (Slavery, BMI /Sngs Of Universal, BMI /DJ Irv, BMI /Ensign, BMI /Zmba Sngs, BMI / R.Kelly, BMI /Careers-BMG, BMO, HL /WBM, Ht ; RBH -Y- YA NO QUEDA NADA (Nriega, BMI) LT YOU DON'T KNOW (EMI Blackwd, BMI/Rdney Jerkins, BMI /Fred Jerkins Ill, BMI /EMI April, ASCAP /Chrysalis, ASCAP /Iazz Nixn, ASCAP /Famus, ASCAP / LaShawn Daniels, ASCAP) RBH 9 YOU DON'T LIE HERE ANYMORE (Silvery Dg, BMI /E Ticket, BMI /API Cuntry Music, BMI /Sngs Of Nashville DreamWrks, BMI /Still Wrking Fr The Wman, ASCAP /MXC, ASCAP /Cherry River, BMQ, HL, CS YOU DO YOUR THING (Sny /AN Acuff Rse, BMI /Careers-BMG, BMI /SagrabeauxSngs, BMI), HL CS YOU'RE MY BETTER HALF (WB, ASCAP /Dylan Jacksn, ASCAP /Guitar Mnkey, BMI /Cburn, BMI), WBM, CS ; Ht YOU'RE MY EVERYTHING (Anita Baker Music, ASCAP /Sctie Music, ASCAP /Ridgeway Sisters, ASCAP) H00 99; RBH YOU'RE THE ONE (Dlla Figga, ASCAP /Marsky, BMI /Janice Cmbs, BMI /EMI Blackwd, BMO, HL, Ht 9; RBH BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

50 I Charts Recent Tracks Mark Return Of Traditinal Cuntry Thrughut cuntry music's cmmercial histry, which dates back t the mid- 90s, the debate ver style has blmed perennially. A case study f that nging discussin practically leaps ff the Ht Cuntry Singles & Tracks chart this issue, as tw f the three fastest -rising titles n the list are traditinal cuntry ballads belnging t newcmer Gretchen Wilsn and reliably traditinal superstar Alan Jacksn. Invariably, the cuntry charts are dtted with an amalgam f styles, including the mre traditinal fare fund in Wilsn's piercing anthem f self -cntrl, "When I Think Abut Cheatin'," and the melismatic widwer's grief expressed in Jacksn's "Mnday Mrning Church" (with prminent backing vcals by traditinalist sngstress Patty Lveless). Owing much t her meteric rise t stardm this year and a bne - chilling perfrmance f the sng at the Nv. 9 Cuntry Music Assn. Awards, Wilsn's sng cllects Air - pwer stripes and rises - in its sixth chart week. Cncurrently, Jacksn's single (which als gained imprtant expsure n the CMA shw) hps - after eight weeks n the list. Alngside Keith Urban's six -week chart run with the prgressive cuntry rcker "Yu're My Better Half" (9 -), the tw ballads are the yungest titles t ppulate the tp 0, where the average chart stay this issue is mre than weeks. Hw is it pssible that these tw stylistic thrwbacks -ften characterized by mdern -day purists as an under -appreciated, underdg brand f cuntry-are nt nly playing alngside the frmat's mre prgressive sunds but als thriving and beating chart dds? The answer is fairly straightfrward if yu ask WSM -FM Nashville PD Jhn Sebastian. "It desn't matter t the cuntry listener whether a sng is pp r traditinal r rck- leaning. They respnd t great sngs," he says. While that may be true, many in the cuntry industry and a significant number f fans d plenty f hand - wringing ver the cntinued relevance f the style they lve. Sebastian adds, "We in the [business] get t wrapped up in veranalyzing whether a sng is t this' r t that,' and [we] ften frget t just listen t the sng and feel it like regular flks" d. Althugh the city Sebastian's statin serves is the cuntry music mecca, rank -and -file Nashvillians have a lng histry f leaning as readily t rck and R &B as t cuntry. Hwever, Sebastian ntes that Wilsn's steel- drenched ballad "is a bna fide, hme run smash accrding t my research," which sufficiently girds his cnfidence in WSM- FM being the leading statin in detectins during the tracking week, with plays. (The clsest frmat reprter played the track times.) In terms f audience penetratin fr Wilsn's sng, it is equally telling that a sphisticated, urbane market like Ls Angeles, which isn't typically knwn as a traditinal cuntry htbed, is the leader. KZLA finishes the tracking perid with. millin f Wilsn's.9 millin ttal impressins. (The nearest is KILT Hustn with,000 impressins.) Althugh the sanctity f cuntry's mst revered traditins will apprpriately (and predictably) be hashed and rehashed alng Music Rw and ut in the radi and audience hinterland, the vitality with which these tw examples f thse virtues are sprinting up the chart prtends that thse cherished traditins are just fine, thank yu. DEC ER 0 `RADIO' TUNES IN TO NO. : The three biggest gainers n Ht Cuntry Singles & Tracks are parked inside the tp five, including Gary Allan's chart -tpping "Nthing On but the Radi," which hps - with the third -largest increase (00). Kenny Chesney's runner -up, "The Wman With Yu" ( -), has the secnd - largest increase (9), while Blake Sheltn's "Sme Beach" takes the biggest increase () and mves -. SinglesMinded Silvi Pietrlung silvi@billbard.cm Minal Patel Wade Jessen MAINSTREAM Billbard TOP 0TM Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) ''0 NUMBER 'ny Over And Over SWLALNat NELLY FEAT TIM MCGRAW DEWY FO REEUCURBAIMRG Breakaway KELLY CLARKSON (WALT DISNEY/HOLLYWOOD) it 'tir My B USHER AND ALICIA KEYS ILAFACE/ZOMBAI w Lse My Breath DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA Just Lse It EMINEM (SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPEI w I Dn't Want T Be GAVIN DEGRAW J/RMG Dare Yu T Mve SWITCHFOOT (COLUMBIA) itr Baby It's Yu JOJO IDA FAMILY /BLACKGROUND /UMRG) She Will Be Lved MAROONS IOCTONEJJ/RMGI Gdies 'd FAA CIABA FEAT PETEY PABLO ISHO NUFFMUSICLINFMFACF/ZDMBAI Brken SEETHER EEAT. AMY LEE (WIND-UP) w Let's G TRICK DADDY (SUP'NSLIDEJATLANTIC) Welcme T My Life * SIMPLE PLAN (LAVA) My Happy Ending AVRIL LAVIGNE IRCNRMG) On The Way Dwn RYAN CABRERA IE VLA /ATLANTIC) Drp It Like Its Ht M SNOOP DOGS FEAT PHARRELL IDDGGYSTYLE /GEFFEN) What Yu Waiting Fr? GWEN STEFAN) (INTERSCOPEI Let's Get It Started BLACK EYED PEAS (ABM/INTERSCOPEI Oye Mi Cant w N.OA.E. ROC -A -FE 9 EFJA IDJMG 'd BOWLING FOR SOUP ISILVERTONE /JIVE0MBA JOY IN `PAIN': Interscpe becmes the first label in seven years t place back -t -back N. is n the mdem rck chart as Jimmy Eat Wrld supplants U's "Vertig" by climbing - with "Pain." Capitl was the last label with successive N. is in December 99 when Everclear's "Everything t Everyne" gave way t Marcy Playgrund's "Sex and Candy." STOP AND START: This issue marks the first week f the 00 chart year fr all Billbard charts. Sme 00 DECEMBER 00 Billbard ADULT TOP 0TM N Nielsen Y w w W Ñ Bradcast Data Systems TITLE E_- ARTIST(IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL) ryyt NUMBER :et She Will Be Lved,... II Ws AMA MAROONS IDCTDNE/J/BMS) BM One Thing FINGER ELEVEN (WINO -UPI A'rE Give A Little Bit, Daughters 0 9 GOO GOO DOLLS WARNER BROS.I it JOHN MAYER (AWARE/COLUMBIA) it BOWLING FOR SOUP ISILVERTONEIJIVEZUMBA) it My Happy Ending AVRIL LAVIGNE (FICA/RMG) tui On The Way Dwn... CO O 9 Dare RYAN CABRERA IE.VLAJATLANTICI w Breakaway KELLY CLARKSON IWALT DISNEY /HOLLYWOOD) Yu T Mve SWITCHFOOT (COLUMBIA) MI 0 The Reasn CD i HOOBASTANK (ISLAND /IDJMG) Lady 0 Heaven LENNY KRAVITZ (VIRGIN) LOS LONELY BOYS (OR/EPIC) tr AsA (Reach Up Fr The) Sunrise DURAN DURAN (EPIC) Brken e SEETHER FEAT. AMY LEE (WINO-UP) FtA Vertig UNTERSCOPEI m Mre Than Lve 0 Cllide LOS LONELY BOYS (OR/EPIC) HOWIE DAY (EPIC) 0 Smebdy Tld Me THE KILLERS (ISLAND /IDJMS) 9 Pieces Of Me Q Disappear ASHLEE SIMPSON GEFFEN) HOOBASTANK (ISLAND/DJMG) Pi w chart champins will be hnred Dec. at the Billbard Music Awards, t be held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The shw will air at p.m. ET/PT n Fx. MAINSTREAM TOP 0 RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL SNOOP DOGG FEAT PHARRELL Drp It Like It's Ht GEFFEN KELLY CLARKSON W Since U Been Gne RMG y EMINEM W Mckingbird INTERSCOPE RECENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL SEETHER r0 en WIND -UP WWIMPLfT PLAN - LAVA AeVIcRI L,AVIILGfNE Nbdy s Hme RMG YAN CABRERA TrrueeLATLANTIC Onl OcOWCO RD i HÓOBASTANK Disappear IDJMG DaugNNOLU JmZ/ce DauhtersCLU M B IA WARNER BONub/Enr RS Ladÿ KRAVITZ VIRGI ADULT TOP 0 RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL NO SONGS SHOWED HIT POTENTIAL THIS WEEK RECENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL KELLY CLARKSON urea awa HOLLYWOOD Dare u Mve COLUMBIA LENNY ay KRAVITZ VIRGIN SEkETHER LOWWBrken WIND -UP Emc Brhe g(z eat A.M Lite LAVA MBIA Cmplete 00 artist, title and label rankings will appear in ur Year in Music and Turing issue dated Dec., which hits newsstands Dec. and billbard.cm Dec.. PROVIDED BY ADULT CONTEMPORARY RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL NO SONGS SHOWED HIT POTENTIAL THIS WEEK RECENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL AnsiVweerr Theee Sk.YNW.UMRG Inn Live Live Yu Were Dying CURB KELLY CLrRKSON NNWrea away e LOVed RMG JOSH GROBAN Believe REPRISE JrheCÚE COLUMBIA BDan each cttrrs Dt ll BeTIA r UIMRGD g,wart FEAT. STEVIE hat n erful Wrld RMG LñrLñg Wayl T Gó IDJMG woi DE GLENCAMP MODERN ROCK RELEASES WITH HIT POTENTIAL THE USED All That I've Gt REPRISE KORN Anther Brick In The Wall EPIC. DOORS DOWN Let Me G UMRG RECENTLY TESTED SONGS WITH HIT POTENTIAL PAPA ROACH Cars GEFFEN IDKw CCOMBAS YEAR ROEPRISHE COI -leed AND CAMBRIA pd e ummer COLUMBIA RISE AGAINST Give It All GEFFEN BLINK ways - GEFFEN Sngs are blind tested nline by PrmuSSUad uslng multuié I.Stens and a natinwide sample f carefully rriled music cnsumers. Sngs are rated n a - scale; final results are based n weighted psitives. Sngs with a scre ' 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 list f current sngs with Hit Ptential, cmmentary, plls and mre, please visit W 00. Prmsquad and HitPredictr are trademarks f Think Fast LLC. DECEMBER 00 ADULT Billbard CONTEMPORARYTM 9 0 Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL) ^Y` NUMBER Heaven IB Wks. N I LOS LONELY BOYS OR/EPICI Yu'll Think Of Me KEITH URBAN (CAPITOL) dr 00 Years FIVE FOR FIGHTING (AWARE/COLUMBIA) In My Daughter's Eyes. MARTINA MCBRIDE )RCA NASHVILLE) w Dn't Let Him Steal Yur Heart Away PHIL COLLINS (FACE VALUE/RHINO / ATLANTICI This Lve MAROON IOCTONE/J/OMG) w White Flag 'if DIDO (ARISTA/RMG) I'll Be Arund DARYL HALL JOHN OATES ILI- WATCH) w Lve's Divine SEAL (WARNER BROSI Ain't N Muntain High Enugh MICHAEL MCDONALD MDTDWN/SMRG The First Cut Is The Deepest SHERYL CROW ABM/INTERSCOPEI Answer In The Sky ELTON JOHN (ROCKET/UNIVERSAWMRGI I MA This One's Fr The Girls MARTINA MCBRIDE )RCA NASHVILLE) Drift Away UNCLE KRACKER FEAT DOBIE GRAY LAVA Live Like Yu Were Dying it TIM MCGRAW (CURB) Breakaway KELLY CLARKSON (WALT DISNEY/HOLLYWOOD) tr She Will Be Lved MAROONS IOCTONE/J/RMGI MI The Reasn HOOBASTANK (ISLAND/IDJMG) w Believe JOSH GROBAN (WARNER SUNSET /REPRISE) If I Ain't Gt Yu ALICIA KEYS IJ/RMGI w DECEMBER 00 Billbard w _ O O ti 0 CD 9 MODERN ROCKTM Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL) ' NUMBER Pain I WkAtNa MMY EAT WORLD )INTERSCOPEI Bulevard Of Brken Dreams* GREEN DAY (REPRISE) Vertig IINTERSCOPEI Vitamin R (Leading Us Alng) CHEVELLE (EPIC) Cld S Cld CROSSFADE (FG/COLUMBIA) BREAKING BENJAMIN (HOLLYWOOD) 0 Ocean Breathes Salty* MODEST MOUSE (EPIC) Getting Away With Murder PAPA ROACH (EL TONAL/GEFFEN) Mr. Brightside THE KILLERS IISLANDflOJMGI 9 Fall T Pieces VELVET REVOLVER (RCA/RMG) American Idit PARTY DAY (REPRISE) IM Lk What Yu've Dne ;ET IELEKTRNATLANTIC) I'm Nt OK (I Prmise) CHEMICAL ROMANCE (REPRISE) Persnal Jesus '.'VRILYN MANSON (INTERSCOPEI Slw Hands '.'f RPOL IMATADOR/BEGGARS CROUPI Breaking The Habit KIN PARK (WARNER BROS.) 0 This Fire -..NZ FERDINAND (OOMINO/EPICI Scars -:.: ROACH IEL TONAL/GEFFEN) w Smebdy Tld Me -E KILLERS ISLAND /IDJMGI Hme HARE DAYS GRACE (JIVE/ZDMBA) Cmpiled frm a natinal sample f data supplied by Nielsen Bradcast Data Systems. mainstream tp 0, adult tp 90, adult cntemprary and mdem ck statins are 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 whit has been n the chart fr mre than 0 weeks will generally nt receive a bullet even if R registers an increase in detectins. Sngs belw the tp n Adult Tp 0 and Adult Cntemprary are remved frm the chart after weeks. All fur radi charts run at deeper lengths in Airplay Mnitr, Billbard Infrmatin Netwrk, and billbard.cm. 'Of indicates title earned HitPredictr status in research data prvided by Prmsquad. 00, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

51 Fuzzy Math Cntinued frm page the whlesale cst dwn t $.9 n initial rders, Target is still lsing $.0 n each unit sld, nt including whatever cperative advertising dllars it received frm Universal Music Enterprises. Target als was aggressive with a $9.9 price n the Bn Jvi bxed set, which carried the same bxlt cst and discunts as the Nirvana bx. With retail circulars shwing the ccasinal $.99 price fr hit titles during the last few mnths, music specialty merchants nnetheless were surprised t see Circuit City cme ut with an $.99 tag fr nine albums, including the new U set, "Hw t Dismantle an Atmic Bmb." But at press time, merchandisers were wrried abut what that wuld mean fr pricing n Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving and the traditinal start f the hliday shpping seasn. Trans Wrld Entertainment had the U album priced at $.99 in its in -stre circular, but that was with a rebate, and nly abut % f custmers are said t actually redeem that discunt. Nevertheless, "I think the shit is ging t hit the fan n [Black] Friday," ne majr -label senir distributin executive says. "Between the big bxes, $.99 will likely be the nrm," but prices culd g even lwer. Last year n Black Friday, DVD players served as the main lss leader in DigtaI Cntinued frm page expected grwth f satellite radi and webcasting, which culd yield an annual figure clse t $0 millin by 00. SundExchange is the first perfrmance- rights rganizatin in the United States t cllect and distribute digital audi transmissin ryalties t artists and sund -recrding cpyright wners. The grup represents mre than 00 recrd cmpanies and thusands f recrding artists. Part f its gal, accrding t Simsn, is t seek ut indie labels and artists wh are wed ryalties fr sund recrdings played n satellite r cable TV music services r satellite radi services r streamed during nninteractive webcasts and t sign them up as members. SundExchange's member services include track -level accunting f perfrmances and cllectin and distributin f freign ryalties. The fall allcatin includes ryalties frm cable and satellite TV music services Muzak, Music Chice and DMX; satellite bradcasters XM and Sirius; and, fr the first time, ryalties frm webcasting and ephemeral licensing. It is als the first allcatin f ryalties frm Netherlands perfrmance - rights rganizatin SENA and frm SOMEXFON, the Mexican neighbring- mst hliday advertising, but music was als aggressively priced. Circuit City held a $9.99 sale fr every album in the stre, while Best Buy had five superstar titles at $.99 fr the first six hurs f business, with stres pening at a.m. This year, mst merchants say they expect t see $.99 in all circulars, with sme f the big bxes ging even further and hlding an all -day r partial -day sale at that price. But sme merchants fear that $.99 culd be prminently featured, t. Mst majr -label CDs carry a whlesale bxlt cst between $.0 and $.0. At Universal Music Grup, which has the JumpStart prgram, CDs whlesale fr $9.9 fr mst frnt -line titles and $0. fr superstar releases. But any way yu cut it, the circular prices represent lss -leadering. "It's bviusly ging t be a very cmpetitive Christmas seasn, yes, even mre than last year," says Bryan Everitt, directr f music purchasing at 0 -stre Hastings Entertainment in Amarill, Texas. "I'll never understand why the httest cmmdity in ur business is the cheapest," says Brian Yatzer, VP f merchandising at -unit, New Yrk - based Altitunes. "In any ther business it is the mst expensive." But Brett Wickard, president f the 0 -unit Bull Mse chain in Prtland, Maine, was excited by the pprtunity presented by Target's pricing n the Nirvana bxed set. "I am sending everyne n my staff int Target with credit cards," he says. rights sciety, fr the independent labels they represent. SundExchange has allcated mre than $. millin since its first distributin in fall 00. The webcasting ryalties cllected fr are the subject f a challenge in the U.S. Curt f Appeals fr the District f Clumbia Circuit and will be distributed fllwing the reslutin f that appeal. Earlier this mnth, SundExchange and tw ther nncntractual ryaltyfunds grups sent ut the call t featured and nnfeatured artists t cntact the grups befre the end f the year fr pssible ryalties wed. If the artists dn't act sn, under the rules they might lse that mney. Accrding t SundExchange, there are,000 "lst" featured recrding artists wh are wed ryalties but cannt be cntacted because f incrrect r missing current addresses. The prf is in the pudding fr Kenn Ellner, the frmer singer f influential '0s garage band the Cunt Five. After seeing a SundExchange ad that listed the grup amng the lst acts, Ellner, nw a music attrney, cntacted the rganizatin, signed up and will receive ryalties. Amng the many acts that have nt yet claimed their SundExchange funds are 90s girl grup the Shangri -Las and rap grup Black Sheep. Acts and labels that are nt yet members can visit sundexchange.cm fr details. Meanwhile, merchants say fears that street -date vilatins wuld be rampant fr the secnd week in a rw prved t be unfunded, as every majr chain held street date n the Nv. release schedule. But mst merchants and distributin executives still wrry abut what will happen in the cming weeks. Other merchants debate whether the release schedule is strng enugh t help make the year a merry ne. "In rder t have a successful hliday seasn, yu need strng rck and pp releases" as well as ht rap and hip -hp titles, says Jerry Kamiler, music divisinal merchandise manager fr Trans Wrld Entertainment. While there are plenty f strng hip -hp recrds n the hliday schedule, Kamiler says it is t early t tell hw the rck and pp releases will hld up. The industry has had a run f 0 straight dwn weeks, after being up.% in album sales year -t -date thrugh Sept., accrding t Nielsen SundScan. In the 0 weeks since then, album sales have declined.% cmpared with the crrespnding Kazaa Cntinued frm page file sharing. They als want t recver cmpensatin fr past illicit dwnlads, estimated by sme t be wrth billins f dllars. The suit targets Sharman Netwrks; LEF Interactive; Altnet, which delivers s- called "piggyback" technlgy with Kazaa; Altnet -affiliated Brilliant Digital Entertainment; Sharman CEO Nicla Hemming; Altnet CEO Kevin Bermeister; and tw technlgy directrs. The liability phase f the trial begins Nv. 9. If the labels succeed, they will prceed t the damages phase. If they fail, sme fear that Australia culd becme a haven fr PP distributrs. The actin widens the ptential net arund the tech cmpanies. Unlike pending cpyright -infringement cases brught in the United States against Sharman, the suit asserts additinal claims fr misrepresentatin t the public, uncnscinable cnduct and civil cnspiracy t inflict harm. Sharman has refused t reveal its wnership. Althugh it has ffices in Australia, Sharman was frmed in the island state f Vanuatu, a n -tax haven where the secrecy f private cmpanies is sacred, imprper disclsure f financial infrmatin t thers is subject t criminal prsecutin and tax infrmatin is nt shared with any utside jurisdictin. This makes the trial intriguing t bservers wh wnder what will be revealed in the evidence seized during the Feb. raids n the tech cmpanies, their key executives, universities and several Internet service prviders. After a six -mnth inquiry by the Music Industry Piracy Investigatin unit f the Australian Recrd Industry Assn., the labels secured a s- called Antn Piller rder permitting a surprise search f ffices and hmes t avid any ptential lss r destructin f evi- perid last year. Year -t -date sales are nw up by nly.%. Despite a full week f sales fr the new Eminem and Destiny's Child releases and ther titles that suffered frm street -date vilatins (Billbard, Nv. 0), the week ending Nv. was nt strng enugh t help the industry regain its mmentum. Fr the week, album sales were dwn. %, with U.S. retailers mving. millin units vs.. millin in the crrespnding week last year. "If this week's releases dn't [turn it arund], g take thse taxi driving lessns," Newbury Cmics buyer Carl Mell says. "It's hard t tell hw sales are ding s far tday [Nv. ]. Yu can't expect a single release t crrect everything." Still, Mell is ptimistic because there were even mre releases Nv. than there were the prir Tuesday. But Hastings' Everitt says the chain has been very pleased with music sales. "As messed up as the th was with street -date vilatins, we are very happy with the verall perfrmance f thse titles. Eminem has certainly met ur expectatins." dence. The infrmatin gathered has yet t be revealed t the public. Als f interest is the bundling f Altnet sftware with Kazaa and hw that sftware perates. Past reprts indicate that the technlgy in effect frms a new PP netwrk separate frm, but cnnected t, Kazaa that permits the sharing f advertisements and ther digital files. This may mean that the cmpanies can cntrl hw files are shared ver the PP netwrks- including thse shared by alleged cpyright infringers. Michael Weiss, CEO at StreamCast, which distributes PP sftware Mrpheus, says: "Kazaa has, unfrtunately, perpetuated the `bad actr' steretype that Hllywd has attempted t brand all f the PP develpers [with] -but Mrpheus desn't bundle spyware, r ther pernicius sftware that is nearly impssible fr a user t remve - such as the Altnet sftware." The applicants expect t begin calling witnesses n the pening day f the trial, MIPI GM Michael Speck says. Witnesses include investigatrs, frensic experts, recrd cmpany emplyees and academics in cmputer science and ecnmics. The "respndent" cmpanies are nt expected t prduce evidence; they will mst likely challenge the applicants' evidence, Speck adds. U.S. LITIGATION Sharman has been munting a vigrus fight against the entertainment industry in the United States. Sharman and LEF Interactive are als defendants in the U.S. District Curt suit brught by film studis, majr labels, sngwriters and publishers in Ls Angeles against Grkster and StreamCast Netwrks fr secndary cpyright infringement. In ne aspect f that case, Grkster and StreamCast were held nt liable by the Ninth Circuit Curt f Appeals fr the decentralized versins f their PP sftware. A petitin seeking review by the U.S. Supreme Curt is pending. Eminem's "Encre" sld,000 units fr the week, giving him the N. spt n The Billbard 00. "Destiny Fulfilled" frm Destiny's Child scanned 9,000 cpies t mve up t N., while N. title "Crunk Juice" by Lil Jn Si the East Side Byz mved,000 units. The Nv. release schedule included albums by U, Gwen Stefani and Ruben Studdard, the Nirvana bxed set, a Jessica Simpsn Christmas album and a hits set frm Creed. Dave Alder, executive VP at Virgin Entertainment Grup, wuld like t have seen mre spacing f key titles acrss the seasn. "The DVD [releases] will help ur cause; they are spread ut mre evenly." Overall, it's t early t predict hw the seasn will turn ut, but Alder says the midnight sales Virgin Megastres held fr the Nv. Super Tuesday releases "give us cause t be ptimistic." But ne majr -label distributin executive fears that the nly thing keeping 00 frm ending flat, r even dwn, is that this is a -week year. As fr Sharman, it initially challenged U.S. jurisdictin, claiming that it did nt cnduct business in the States. The District Curt rejected the argument, hlding in January 00 that Sharman's distributin f its sftware t U.S. residents, amng ther activity, required the cmpany t defend itself in the United States. In respnse, Sharman filed a cuntersuit against the entertainment cmpanies, alleging varius antitrust vilatins fr refusing t license their wrks t Sharman's partner Altnet -a cmpany claiming t sell licensed entertainment thrugh the Kazaa netwrk. Thse claims were thrwn ut by the curt in July 00; the curt held that Altnet -nt Sharman -was refused the licenses and that Altnet wasn't a party t the suit. Subsequently, the curt permitted Sharman t include claims that the entertainment cmpanies infringed Sharman's cpyrights and vilated ther rights by using Kazaa sftware t transmit and dwnlad spfed r crrupted files. Since that case is still pending, any evidence in the Australian trial establishing Kazaa as a centralized PP netwrk culd affect Sharman's liability in the U.S. federal curt. Sharman Netwrks cntends that Kazaa is a legitimate technlgy used legally. An article by Sharman's Hemming claims that "hundreds f artists... independent recrd labels and mvie studis, as well as sftware and game develpers, are using Kazaa t distribute their prducts fr sale t millins f users wrldwide" even thugh the "vast majrity f majr labels and studis still wn't adapt." Jay Berman, chairman/ceo f the Internatinal Federatin f the Phngraphic Industry, says, "We strngly supprt these claims [made by the labels] and will be watching the Australian trial with great interest." Fr nging trial cverage, visit billbard.biz and entertainmentlawweekly.cm. BILLBOARD DECEMBER,

52 Latin Execs Cntinued frm page Fuerte Grup with Rich Isaacsn, funder f Lud Recrds. Fuerte, based in New Yrk, bills itself as a music prmtin and lifestyle marketing cmpany fcusing n secnd- and third -generatin Latins. But Fuerte als incrprates management, prmtin, prductin and, eventually, a recrd label. "Yu have t lk at the multiple surces f revenue and pprtunities," Blair says. Fr nw, Fuerte's biggest surce f revenue is the management f such clients as Rselyn Sanchez and Cabas. The marketing cmpany is right behind. Yu dn't need a label, Blair says, but having ne "puts yu in the midst f everything that's ging n." Miguel Trujill, frmer VP /GM f Mbile Cntinued frm page Amng the prpsed slutins were gvernment lbbying, cmpulsry licensing schemes and eliminating the middleman, which is usually the aggregatr. ThinkAndLink CEO Gerd Lenhard, wh is als senir adviser f media rights technlgies, tssed in the cncept f "music like water," where cnsumers pay fr music in ne way r anther -as they d fr water -but nt every time they use it. SIMILAR LATIN CONCERNS During the "Latin Heat" rundtable, panelists raised many f the same cncerns. "It's a jungle ut there," said Luis Samra, CEO fr Wireless Latin Entertainment, referring t the travails aggregatrs g thrugh t clear licenses fr Latin music. "We've even had t g t penitentiaries t get signatures," he added, drawing laughter frm the audience. Panelists agreed music is by far the mst ppular dwnladable cntent and that the biggest bstacle fr the rapidly grwing Latin mbile industry is making that cntent available. At a mre general, and heartfelt, level, panelists thrughut the day spke f hw, in the scramble t get mbile dllars, artists and their craft ften fall thrugh the cracks. "My cncern is the de- emphasis n music," attrney Jay Cper f Greenberg Traurig said, citing the game industry, where manufacturers cmmissin new music fr hire rather than paying apprpriate licensing fees when develping games based n majr films. Fr breaking news, analysis, jbs and newsletters visit: ZAMORA, LEFT, AND GEORGE: RADIO IS FOCUS OF LABEL'S MARKETING BUDGET EMI Latin's reginal Mexican divisin, als recently created his wn label, Mexa Music, which Sny will distribute under a deal with Sny Nrte and cncentrates n reginal Mexican music. Currently, Texas-based Trujill is cncentrating n generating revenue thrugh the prmtin and marketing arm f his cmpany, which he has put t wrk fr small independents. Once he starts t sign acts in January, he says, the bjective will be t d mre than just market their albums. "The artists wh cme abard bviusly agree the industry is passing thrugh tugh times, resurces are scarce and they have t cntribute t all areas," he says. WORKING WITHIN THEIR MEANS Regardless f where the rev- Ryalties Cntinued frm page setting f rates." Sens. Orrin Hatch, R -Utah, and Patrick Leahy, D -Vt., intrduced the bill in the Senate. Rep. Lamar Smith, R- Texas, intrduced the bill in the Huse. Reps. Jhn Cnyers Jr., D- Mich., and Hward Berman, D- Calif., were c- spnsrs. LOST IN THE LOGJAM Other industry cpyright and anti -piracy measures failed t attain passage in the legislative lgjam f the lame -duck sessin. Left behind fr next sessin were six industry bills incrprated in similar cpyright mnibus pack- Cleman Cntinued frm page made his perfrming debut at Carnegie Hall befre he was 9. He turned tward jazz after graduating frm the New Yrk Cllege f Music in 9 -when bp was gaining in ppularity -and went n t play enue initially cmes frm, the real challenge fr these executives -if they decide t frge ahead n the label side -lies in prmting and marketing their albums n an indie budget. Fr Zamra's SGZ, which is cncentrating n urban trpical acts, radi prmtin is essential and eats mst f the marketing budget. He ntes that the trpical market is relatively small and easier t wrk than pp and reginal Mexican. In fact, the self- titled single ff SGZ's first release, Tit Nieves' "Fab - ricand Fantasias," hit N. n the Billbard Latin Trpical /Salsa Airplay chart in the Aug. issue, driving healthy sales f the album. Nw, Zamra is fcusing n the new album by Charlie Cruz. Cming up in early 00 is Ciclón Bananer. "I'm ging t radi with ne r tw recrds n a quarterly basis," Zamra says. "We try t cncentrate n putting ut really, really gd recrds. Things that musically make sense fr radi." A bnus is Gerge's expertise as a prducer wh has lng made radi hits. Anther exec n the indie bandwagn is frmer BMG U.S. Latin managing directr Francisc Villanueva, whse Mck & Rll label is limited mainly t cambia snidera. Based in Miami, the peratin launched in 00 and is nw building its management arm. In cntrast t such fcused rsters, Llrd's Ole has a wide range f acts. His strategy is t break acts at the reginal level befre ging natinal. "Befre yu spread a recrd int ages, ffered in the Senate and Huse, even thugh sme sectins were vetted t remve bjectinable language. Accrding t Hill insiders, the ban against cmmercial- skipping was remved frm the Family Mvie Act, H.R.. Language that critics said lwered the standards f cpyright infringement was taken ut f the Piracy Deterrence in Educatin Act, H.R. 0. And the Prtecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Exprpriatin Act, S., which wuld have allwed the Department f Justice t file civil suits n behalf f cntent cmpanies, was als yanked. Even with the changes, nne f the mnibus bills gt the blessing f either chamber. The Inducing Infringement f Cpyrights Act, better -knwn as the with Ella Fitzgerald and sax legend Illinis Jacquet, amng thers. Cleman even wned a nightclub fr a time. "Never run a jazz club unless yur mther is behind the till," became a favrite Clemanism. After the success f the finger - snapping hit "Witchcraft" in 9, Cleman turned mst f his attentin t cmpsing. Cmmenting n his passing, ASCAP president/chairman Marilyn a lt f markets, yu have t identify what yur target market is, wrk it there, and nce yu get the respnse, try t spread it t ther markets," Llrd says. "That's the manner in which an independent can really feel what the market is telling it and keep a cst -effective apprach t the business." Whatever their radi prmtin strategy, each label still faces the challenge f getting their releases int sufficient retail lcatins. Fr Llrd and Zamra, the slutin is fund in persnal relatins with the labels and majr distributrs that handle their sales effrts. Ole is distributed thrugh Universal Music & Vide Distributin under an agreement with indie label Lideres. Llrd wrks with Lideres in UME Cntinued frm page the majr labels. Warner Music Grup is reprtedly develping a similar venture. UMe says the new venture recgnizes the grwing pprtunity in digital distributin, as dwnlad sales are expected t exceed 00 millin this year. "It's hard t imagine that every label will nt have a similar dwnlad -nly imprint at sme pint sn," Resnikff says. Initially, UMe Digital is signing nly acts with cmpleted albums. The deals are designed t be shrt Induce Bill, S. 0, which targeted peer -t -peer peratrs but was ppsed by the tech and cnsumer electrnics industries as being verreaching, never gt ut f Senate cmmittee. It will be the subject f hearings early in the first sessin in the 09th Cngress, which cnvenes in January. BLOCK THAT ACT Artist grups and unins were successful in blcking the Bradcast Decency Enfrcement Act, S. 0, intrduced by Sen. Sam Brwnback, R -Kan., frm cming t the Senate flr as a "unanimus cnsent" bill during the lame -duck sessin. Representatives f the Recrding Artists' Calitin, AFTRA and the Creative Calitin cnvinced several members t keep a "hld" in place n the bill. Bergman says, "Cy's intellect and integrity, cupled with his warmth and humr, made him a vital and effective presence n the ASCAP bard f directrs fr cnsecutive years, mre than half f his life. "On a persnal nte, he was a great friend and great cllabratr. Over the last year, Cy, Alan and I wrte the scre fr a new musical, `Like Jazz,' which is planned fr Bradway in 00. T wrk with him a significant way, including helping t fund the sales effrt. He says 0% f Ole's "time and investment" is fcused n retail. SGZ is distributed by Sny thrugh a deal struck with Sny Nrte in June. Befre his Warner tenure, Zamra was VP /GM f Sny Discs frm 99 t 99. And what d all f these frmer majr -label bigwigs miss the mst? Individually, they cite benefits like wrking with majr stars, enjying financial clut and having smene else's pckets t cver the payrll. "I make the rules," Blair says. "If I have an idea, I g dwn that path." But, he pints ut, "when the American Express bill cmes, I have t pay it." term, and in many cases the artists will wn their masters. Cntracts are based n the delivery f albums, nt singles. Resnikff says the value f UMe Digital is its marketing strength. Label acts will be prmted in larger UMe marketing effrts like genre - riented print advertising campaigns and initiatives t place music in TV shws, films and cmmercials. Vides, where applicable, will be sent t such nline streaming services as Launch, AOL and mtv.cm. "Yu culd nt really affrd t spend a lt f mney marketing these individual titles alne," Resnikff says. "By cmbining these recrds with the recrds we are traditinally marketing, we have a much better way t reach ut." The measure, stripped f media vilence and bradcast wnership prvisins, wuld have increased the fines fr bradcasters airing indecent prgramming frm $,00 t $00,000. Mre trubling fr the artists' grups was the prvisin that wuld have raised fines fr "individuals " -n -air persnalities, recrding artists and even sprts figures -frm $,000 after a warning t $00,000 with n warning. There was n "mitigating circumstances" language. The bradcast lbby als succeeded in chipping away at the bill, having a "three strikes and yu're ut" license revcatin sectin remved and inserting "mitigating circumstances" language that wuld weigh fines against a cmpany's size and ability t pay. was t watch a creatr in ttal cmmand f his art. We will miss him - his vice, his friendship, his music." Cleman was elected t the ASCAP bard in Octber 9 and was active fr decades in ASCAP and music industry affairs, frequently traveling t Washingtn, D.C., supprting the interests f cpyright wners. He is survived by his wife, Shelby, and their daughter, Lily Cy. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

53 Indecency Cntinued frm page bradcast, cmmn carrier, etc.) "is nt a relevant cnsideratin" in the impsitin f prgramming r public - interest rules, nr is whether satellite radi perates as a bradcast r subscriptin service. In fact, the FCC put satcasters n ntice in 99 that it "may adpt additinal public- interest requirements at a later date." Levine -the wner f KUSR -AM Beverly Hills, Calif.; KTIM -AM Piedmnt, Calif.; and classical KMZT Ls Angeles -als cntends that satellite radi is subject t Title f the U.S. Cde, Sectin, which prhibits bradcasting indecent material between the hurs f a.m. and 0 p.m. Blstering his case is the fact that sme spectrum that satellite peratrs use was granted withut an auctin, placing it in the prvince f the public airwaves. Since that slice f spectrum was laned, nt bught, it belngs t the peple and, the argument ges, the FCC can attach indecency regulatins t it. Andrew Schwartzman f the Media Access Prject agrees that the FCC has the authrity t apply the indecency statute t satellite. But, he adds, "t d it, they wuld have t change their wn current rules, and I'm nt s sure they wuld d it n their wn, withut pressure frm Cngress. "The Cmmunicatins Act defines subscriptin service bradcasting differently than bradcasting," Schwartzman says. "The FCC has the pwer t change that. But als... wuld it hld up in curt is anther matter." Jhn Crigler, a cmmunicatins attrney with Garvey, Schubert & Barer, says Levine's argument "wn't be enugh t persuade the FCC that it nevertheless shuld exercise that authrity." Nashville Scene Cntinued frm page wrked with Tritt at Falcn -Gdman in the mid -990s and has spent the past five years wrking as his tur manager. RECENT S: Kix Brks f Brks & Dunn was elevated frm president t chairman f the Cuntry Music Assn. bard f directrs. He succeeds Charlie Andersn, president/ceo f Andersn Merchandisers, wh reached the end f his term as chairman but remains n the Viacm Settles With FCC The Federal Cmmunicatins Cmmissin and Viacm have reached a $. millin indecency settlement ver three prpsed fines and tw thers already upheld n appeal. Dismissed by the agreement are pending FCC indecency investigatins against the cmpany and any indecency cmplaints filed by listeners r viewers befre the decree's effective date. Excluded frm the settlement is the $0,000 prpsed fine fr the Super Bwl halftime shw incident. As part f the agreement, Viacm admits that sme f the material that it bradcast was indecent. In additin t the $. millin payment t the U.S.'heasury, Viacm has cmmitted t implementing a cmpanywide cmpliance plan aimed at preventing future vilatins. Amng the pending matters cvered by the cnsent decree are a $,00 fine fr Opie & Anthny's Sex fr Sam syndicated radi bradcast, which riginated n W New Yrk; a $,00 fine fr a Hward Stern shw that aired in March n WKRK Detrit; and a secnd Opie & Anthny fine f $,000. In a statement abut the agree- The FCC, Crigler ntes, has all kinds f latent authrity. Fr example, it has had jurisdictin t regulate indecency and prfanity since passage f the Cmmunicatins Act f 9 but did nt act n indecency until the 90s and did nt declare any bradcast prfane until this year's cntrversial decisin regarding U singer Bn uttering an expletive during the 00 Glden Glbe Awards. The issue is "nt whether r nt the cmmissin might have this latent authrity but whether r nt there is bard as a directr. ABC Radi/ Atlanta market manager Victr Sansne becmes the bard's new president. Capitl Recrds Nashville president/ceo Mike Dungan was named president -elect, and will take ver fr Sansne in a year. Tim Wipperman, chief creative fficer f Equity Music Grup, was elected secretary/treasurer. Amng thse newly elected r appinted t the bard are artists Sara Evans and Brad Paisley, sngwriter Aimee May and new Warner Brs. Nashville executive VP Bill Bennett. In ther news, the E.W. Scripps C. has cmpleted its $0 millin purchase f cable channel Great American Cuntry frm Jnes Media Netwrks. The sale was first annunced in Octber. ment, Viacm said: "We have nw reslved all utstanding matters befre the KC relates t indecency except fr the Super Bwl. While we deeply regret the incident invlving Janet Jacksn, we believe that a gvernment fine fr an unintentinal bradcast is unfair and unwarranted, and we are challenging that decisin. This cnsent decree allws us t mve frward and t fcus ur effrts in this area by serving ur viewers and listeners with techniques t safeguard live bradcasts, such as cutaways and vide and aldi delays:' CONSENT DECREE PRECEDENTS As it did earlier this year with Clear Channel and Emmis, the FCC's latest cnsent decree invlves a series f requirements fr Viacm. The cmpany must purchase and install delaysystems and edit "ptentially prb_ematic live prgramming" n it TV statins and n the CBS and UFN netwrks. It als must adpt similar safeguards at Infinity's radi statins. Viacm als agrees t cnduct indecency -t aining sessins fr its air talent and emplyees wh "materially enugh plitical impetus at this pint t exercise that authrity," Crigler says. Were the FCC t, at the behest f Cngress, extend indecency enfrcement t satellite, it may be incnsistent with the Cnstitutin. "It's the First Amendment that is the mre severe limitatin n what the FCC can d," Crigler says. WE THE PEOPLE Squaring indecency restrictins n subscriptin radi with the First Amendment culd be difficult. When the Supreme Curt upheld the FCC's pwer t regulate indecency in the landmark Pacifica case f the 90s, it cited the "pervasive" nature f free, ver -the -air bradcasting t justify its ruling. But the "pervasiveness" argument breaks dwn when talking abut satellite radi, a Senate staffer familiar with the issue says. "Satellite radi is a paid service," the staffer says. "Yu elect t have it, yu elect t buy it and yu elect t turn it n. It's smething that yu chse." Rn Rdrigues, senir directr f public relatins fr Sirius Satellite Radi, says the cmpany's subscriptin -based service has "a built -in safeguard against peple wh wuld therwise be accidentally tuning [in] indecent prgramming." Rdrigues adds that it is reasnable t assume that peple wh subscribe knw that Sirius ffers uncensred prgramming, since the prduct is participate in prgramming decisins." Ging frward, if a Viacm - wned statin receives an indecency NAL, the cmpany agrees t suspend and put int remedial training the emplyees respnsible fr the material in questin and cnduct an internal investigatin. When the air talent returns, his r her shw wuld be subject t n -air delay. Shuld the NAL lead t a frfeiture rder, the emplyees invlved wuld face further disciplinary actin, up t and including terminatin. These cnditins aren't as stringent as thse placed n Clear Channel r Emmis, which FCC Cmmissiner Kevin Martin nted in his cncurring statement. "This cnsent decree des nt have all f these prtectins," Martin said, referring t the CC and Emmis decrees, which were identical t each ther. "I am cncerned that this cnsent decree is significantly different and may be less f a deterrent fr future vilatins. Mrever, by requiring less f Viacm than we have required f thers, we may be treating thse ther cmpanies unfairly." PAUL HEINE marketed that way. The safeguard invlves a parental blcking feature. On lder Sirius radis, subscribers can enrll in the "family pack," which blcks mre risqué channels, such as Raw Dg and sme hip -hp utlets. On newer Sirius radis, passwrd- enabled subscribers can blck individual channels. Rdrigues ntes that listeners need a credit card t subscribe and that the majrity f credit card hlders are lder than. `INCREASING TENSION' Speaking at the Natinal Assn. f Bradcasters Radi Shw in Octber, FCC Cmmissiner Kevin Martin said there is "increasing tensin" ver different decency standards fr bradcasters and paid subscriptin services transmitted thrugh cable and satellite. The Republican cmmissiner said it is a subject the FCC "will have t face -whether r nt there shuld be changes made t level the playing field." Demcratic FCC Cmmissiner Jnathan Adelstein says, "The curts have held that there's a different standard fr subscriptin services, s it's difficult fr us t argue that we wuld have the authrity t g after subscriptin services. "I knw that this might nt seem fair frm the perspective f ver -the -air bradcasters r frm the perspective f peple that dn't necessarily distinguish between the tw. But we have t be careful nt verstep the bunds f ur authrity, r we risk having what limited authrity we have slapped dwn by the curts." A leading authrity n the subject, wh wrte the recent Viacm reply brief in the indecency frfeiture case ver the Janet Jacksn incident at the Super Bwl, agrees it wuld be difficult fr the FCC t act n indecency in the satellite realm. "The FCC desn't have the authrity t write uncnstitutinal rules," First Amendment attrney and frmer FCC cunsel Bb Crn- Revere says. Crn -Revere says federal lawmakers culd push fr a change in the upcming 09th Cngress. He pints t Sen. Jhn B. Breaux, D -La., wh intrduced an amendment t an indecency bill in March that wuld make satellite and cable subject t the same FCC fines as bradcast statins. That amendment was defeated in cmmittee - and never made it int the bill. The issue, he says, "is very bipartisan. Even at the cmmissin -wh has been pushing hard fr bigger fines? The Demcrats." WILL CONGRESS ACT? Crigler says the debate is likely t "languish unless a plitical impetus gathers arund it... This is the kind f thing that smetimes peple pile n t and, if it gains that kind f impetus, the cmmissin wuld prbably take it mre seriusly. My hunch is that it will take sme push, nt just frm the bradcast industry r individual licensees, but a push frm Cngress." Just because Republicans cntrl Cngress and the White Huse des nt mean the gvernment is anxius t venture int this First Amendment minefield. Artist grups and unins successfully blcked the Bradcast Decency Enfrcement Act, S. 0, frm cming t the Senate flr as a "unanimus cnsent" bill during the Nv. lame -duck sessin in the Huse f Representatives. Several members f the Huse were cnvinced t keep a "hld" in place n the bill (see stry, page ). "The Huse and the Senate feel strngly that the FCC shuld be given mre authrity in hw it exercises its discretin," Crigler says. "It's likely that in the cming year, Cngress will give the FCC mre authrity t fine bradcasters. It's hard t knw whether they will als cme back t this questin [f extending indecency rules t satellite and cable services] that was discussed by the Huse and Senate subcmmittees last summer." Additinal reprting by Bill Hlland in Washingtn, D.C. Fr breaking news, analysis, jbs and newsletters visit: V vnu business publicatins President & CEO: Michael Marchesan; Chief Operating Officer. 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54 'The Revenue That Cmes Frm Shiny Things That Spin Is Risky' BY MICHAEL PAOLETTA Larry Miller and Michael Caplan, c- funders f New Yrk -based independent recrd label Or Music, have plenty t celebrate. Next year, the label, which als has a publishing divisin (Or Music Publishing), will mark its third birthday, and it has already brken its first act in a big way. In 00, Or Music released the self -titled debut album by then - reginally knwn Texas guitar rck tri Ls Lnely Bys. Like ther Or releases, it was handled by Sny's RED Distributin. As buzz n Ls Lnely Bys was building, Or partnered n the prject with Epic/Sny, which rereleased the album earlier this year. The Or/Epic disc peaked at N. 9 n The Billbard 00 in the July issue and has sld. millin units, accrding t Nielsen SundScan. In July, Or Music partnered with EMI Music Publishing fr wrldwide administratin f Ls Lnely Bys. Or has released albums frm acts that include Jhn Cale and Twer f Pwer, as well as the benefit cmpilatin "Pr Vida: A Tribute t the Sngs f Alejandr Escved." Next year, Or will issue the debut fulllengths frm Pitty Sing and British utfit Pure Reasn Revlutin. Variety has been the spice f CEO Miller's career. Starting as a DJ (listen t that vice!), he mved t radi sales and marketing, then became a pineering Internet executive with AT &T and Reciprcal. Miller and Caplan a frmer senir VP f A &R at Epic wh serves as Or's president -are attempting t ffer artists the best f bth wrlds: the distributin muscle f a majr and the creative freedm f an independent. "It is a mdel that wrks fr Michael and Larry," RED Distributin senir VP f prduct develpment Alan Becker says. Nw, he adds, thers are trying "t cpy this frmula they have created." Billbard talked with Miller abut what Or has accmplished and its future prspects. Q. Yu launched Or Music in a pst -Sept., 00, wrld, when music ventures were finding it difficult t get financial supprt. In fact, yu culdn't have picked a mre difficult time t start a label. Hw were yu able t secure funding? A. The nly wrse prperty I culd have been shpping fr funding at the time wuld have been an Internet music business. I remember walking int ne investr's ffice. Halfway thrugh the pitch, he lked frm the PwerPint up t me and said, "Oh, this is just a recrd cmpany and a music publishing business, right? It's nt Internet anything, right?" He understd that we weren't abut fundamentally changing the way peple acquire, cnsume r discver music. And given sme f the things I've been invlved with ver the last 0 years, it was a fair questin t ask. Q. Nw that yu have linked with Sny, has it invested in Or? A. N. We capitalized this cmpany with private -equity investrs wh are utside the music business. These are institutinal investrs wh are lking at a return eventually and wh als thught it might be fun t be invlved in the music business. Q. What is Epic /Sny's invlvement with Ls Lnely Bys? Des the majr handle distributin, marketing and prmtin? A. It's all f the abve, and it is fr this artist nly. The deal includes all Ls Lnely Bys albums up thrugh the end f the riginal Ls Lnely Bys/Or Music agreement, which is ne plus fur albums. Q. Is there mre t the relatinship with Sny? A: Fr the length f ur new distributin agreement, which ges thrugh 00, Sny and we can decide t upstream prjects and put them in this jint -venture bx. Thse releases that get entered int this jint - venture bx are then distributed by Sny Music. The Last rd A A &A With Larry Miller Larry Miller: Career Highlights 99: lins WCAS Cambridge, Mass., as music directr /DJ 9: Hired by start-up WHIZ (00) New Yrk as prductin manager 9: Becmes directr f affiliate relatins at NBC rck netwrk the Surce 9: Named GM f sales and marketing at NBC Radi Entertainment 99: JinsTribune's WQCD (CD0.9) New Yrk as creative directr 99: Appinted managing directr f AT &T Slutins Media & Entertainment cnsulting practice 99: Becmes VP f market develpment at AT &T Labs and c- funds AT &T ab music 999: Merges AT &T ab music team with Reciprcal, where he is named president 00: Appinted managing directr /entrepreneur in residence at Chazen Capital Partners 00: Funds Or Music with Michael Caplan and serves as CEO Q. D yu see this kind f upstreaming as a way fr independent labels t survive and mve frward? A. There is a perceptin amng sme peple at majrs -wh are smewhat insulated frm life at small labels -that "independent" is anther wrd fr "just hasn't gne ut f business yet." And I beg t differ. Fr the smaller independent wh may be lk- ing t use upstreaming as a way t stay in business r share sme f the risk f staying in the new -artist develpment business, it is abslutely smething t cnsider. Q. D yu see labels like Or acting as A&R surces fr majrs? A: The new, mre cnslidated majr -label business that nw exists reminds me f the mvie business. When cmpared t the music industry, Hllywd has, in recent years, been ding deals like this mre publicly and with mre fanfare. I see Or Music as mre f a Miramax r New Line than a Disney r Time Warner. In the music industry, there is almst a pejrative cnntatin t being an A&R surce fr a majr. But in the mvie business, it's called being Miramax r New Line. I wuld be delighted t becme the Miramax r New Line f the recrd business while als expanding beynd ur cre recrd business int ther related businesses that may include merchandising r management. [That] said, we're fcused n publishing as the next thing. Q. Where des the Internet fit int this landscape? A. In due curse, there will be mre channels and devices fr discvering and cnsuming music than ever befre. What we dn't have yet are mre ways f mnetizing all f that music. Ultimately, it's abut a cnsumer falling in lve with a piece f music that fundamentally changes the way he r she feels. As Michael is fnd f saying, "If peple wake up ne mrning and decide they want t get music thrugh their refrigeratrs, we'll be there, t." Q. On the eve f 00, what d the wrds "independent label" mean? A. Independent is typically preceded by the wrd "fiercely." Ging int 00, I'm nt sure what "fiercely independent" means. Des it mean that ne is fiercely cmmitted t passinately finding and releasing music in ne genre? Des it mean ne is fiercely cmmitted t railing against the majrs because "majr bad/indie gd "? These rules dn't apply anymre. Sme peple are trying t reinvent the business wheel by ding five -page cntracts r 0/0 artist ryalty splits. Our cntracts are typically pages lng. They are multi -album -and I dn't mean ne plus ne. They are typically nt licenses. They are traditinal deals. We want t build a substantial, rbust, prfitable cmpany. The revenue stream that cmes t a cmpany frm selling shiny things that spin is risky. The revenue that accrues t a cmpany frm the publishing side f the business, nce a recrd is n its way, is far less risky. Over time, music publishing assets behave like real estate, which is why music publishers have been able t apply lts f different financing strategies tward grwing and expliting their catalgs. Q. D yu have an exit strategy planned fr Or -like selling t Sny, perhaps -in a year r tw? A. I am having mre fun than I've ever had in my life. And I knw Michael wuld say the same thing. The freedm and passin we have here is great. We have n plans t sell the cmpany. Of curse, if Sny r smene else were t cme alng and make us an ffer we culdn't refuse, we wuld have t cnsider it like any businesspersn wuld. Q. What is yur advice t smene pening an indie label tday? A: Think lng and hard abut the benefits and risks f being in the business and d nt undercapitalize the cmpany. The fact is, cmmitment and capitalizatin shuld g withut saying. The single greatest attribute just as imprtant as cmmitment and maybe mre imprtant than capitalizatin -is passin. Passin fr the music and the artists and passin fr this business. BILLBOARD DECEMBER, 00

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