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Shakira's Laundry Service(Epic) moves up to num-ber three and is thisweek's Sales Breaker onthe European Top 100Albums chart.

we taller oco rya IiM&M chart toppers this week

Eurochart Hot 100 SinglesPINK

Get The Pary Started(Arista)

European Top 100 AlbumsANASTACIA

Freak Of Nature(Epic)

European Radio Top 50ALANIS MORISSETTE

Hands Clean(Maverick/Warner Bros.)

European Dance Traxx110

Rapture(Made/Ministry Of Sound)

Inside M&M this week

DJs WHO DON'T SWITCH OFFRadio consultant Valerie Gellerargues that truly creative radioair talent should be engaged inshow prep 24 hours a day, sevendays a week. Pages 7-8

2001's WORLD-BEATERSFor the first time, M&M's sisterpublication Billboard has puttogether a top 20 chart of thebiggest albums world-wide in2001, based on record companyshipments. This unique piece ofdata makes for fascinating read-ing... Page 9

SOLID GOLD NICKELBACKRiding on the crest of the currentrock wave, Canadian rockers Nick-

elback are enjoy-ing widespreadsuccess with theirfirst European al-bum release, Sil-ver Side Up (Road-runner). Page 10

EMI starts to makecuts across EuropeA Music & Media staff report

LONDON - Country by country, EMI isrolling out its new management andoperational plan outlined on February7, leaving hundreds of employees indoubt about their futures.

The restructuring (M&M, February16) will mean the loss of "a fairamount" of jobs according to EMIRecorded Music vice-chairman DavidMunns, although he could not name afigure: "It's not just jobs, it's offices,systems. Virgin and EMI had a sepa-rate royalty accounting system.There's unnecessary clutter on thesystems side."

Munns acknowledges the risk ofdestabilising EMI's staff worldwide and

says this consideration to act as swiftlyas possible has been taken on board bythe company's top management. "Wewant everything done quickly," Munnstold M&M's sister publication Bill-board. "We know this is painful; weknow people are worried."

After the UK and Germany, detailsof the new structures have emerged forSpain and France. In the latter country,M&M has learned that Marc Lumbroso,president of Capitol France (formerlyEMI Music France) was asked to 'leavethe company following a February 12visit to Paris by the division's chairmanAlain Levy.

At time of going to press, no formalannouncement has been made by EMI

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Morissette and MTV join handsby Adam Howorth

LONDON - Alanis Morissette's thirdstudio album, Under Rug Swept, isshaping up to be another big seller forWarner Music Europe.

Described by the label's London -based marketing director for USrepertoire Paul McGhie as "a returnto form," its first cut, Hands Clean,spent two weeks at number one onM&M's European Radio Top 50 priorto its February 11 release. Impor-tantly, Warner has enjoyed goodaccess to the artist in Europe sincethe start of the year and has enlistedMTV as a key ally.

Brent Hansen, president and chiefexecutive of MTV Networks Europe,tells M&M: "MTV Europe certainlyconsiders Alanis Morissette to be acore artist. This week we taped an

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London CHR station 95.8 CapitalFM has launched a striking newTV ad campaign by French anima-tors Numero Six. "Their creativeexecution sees Capital's DJsswitching London 'on', and turn-ing London into one big party,"explains Capital FM managingdirector Andria Vidler. The ad alsofeatures a soundtrack by PaulOakenfold from his forthcomingalbum and will be worked throughall of Capital's jingles, sound bedsand promos to become synony-mous with the station.

Albarn launchesHonest Jon labelby Nigel Williamson

LONDON - Blur frontman DamonAlbarn is launching his own recordlabel, whose first flagship release willbe an album he recorded with a groupof African musicians whom he refersto as "my third group."

Albarn, who has spent the lastyear working on his phenomenallysuccessful Gorillaz project for EMI,

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

With Ken Berry having more time to go hiking and anew, down-to-earth management team of Main Levyand David Munns installed at EMI Recorded Music, itwas obvious to most observers that the venerable oldBritish lady that was EMI was in line for a major wake-up call. And by the sound of it, that call is exceeding allprevious expectations.

The harsh medicine that doctor Levy and professorMunns are administering to the body of EMI willundoubtedly leave some scarring, but is viewed bymany, not least in the company itself, as emergencytreatment that should have been carried out before.

But the point is that it hadn't-and it couldn'thave-been done.

There are at least two reasons. One was the pres-ence of a Virgin man, Ken Berry, at the top of the com-pany. The other was the painful process the companywent through with its unsuccessful proposed mergerwith first Warner and then BMG, which froze anychanges for over two years.

As long as Berry was there, Virgin's status as astand-alone label within the EMI empire was notlikely to be tampered with. First because it would

have undermined the free spirit of the companyRichard Branson built (and which persisted after hesold it): both labels never really mingled, and EMIwas perceived by the Virgin team as a gentrified,uncool company. Secondly, it was Berry's back-upplan and insurance policy that if things went wrongat EMI, Virgin could have been sold and he couldhave moved on.

When all the merger options had been explored andabandoned, Berry's position became untenable andthere was an urgency to slice into the fat of the compa-ny and look at Virgin and EMI from a structural pointof view.

For Levy and Munns, that was the only way forward.The dynamic duo's rush to get things done before the clo-sure of its financial year (in order to start with a cleanbalance sheet) is understandable. They reckon that theycan trim down the size of the company without affectingmassively its ability to deliver music.That was broadly what they did atPolyGram, and it didn't do too badlyfor them.

There is a human cost, however,as well as the risk of losing some ofthe free spirit that made Virgin adifferent record company. Once theyhave put the new structure andmanagement in place, all they needis hits. That's the hardest part!

Music & Media values its readers' opinions-you can e-mail the editor -in -chief at. elegrand@musicandmedia.co.uk

UK follows France in bucking trendby Gareth Thomas

LONDON - Following in the foot-steps of France, the UK's recordedmusic market bucked theglobal trend by registeringan increase in sales for2001, largely thanks to theperformance of local reper-toire.

Figures released byUK labels' body the BPIshow sales of pre-recordedmusic in the UK rose by5.3% in 2001 to £1.23 bil-lion (euros 2.02bn), anincrease the organisation describesas "impressive".

Album shipments grew by 4.4%in volume, with the top seven of thebest-selling albums all coming from

British artists. The best-sellingalbum of the year was Dido's NoAngel (Cheeky/BMG), which soldover two million copies in the UK

alone. Other top -sellingalbums came from EMI'sRobbie Williams, Tel -star's Craig David andGorillaz (Parlophone).

"Too much is made ofthe importance of eco-nomic factors in themusic market place,"says chairman and CEOof EMI Recorded Music &Ireland Tony Wadsworth.

"And it's often overlooked, thatwhen you have great music-guesswhat?-the market increases. It'sno coincidence that this comes at atime when UK music is doing bet-

ter overseas than for many years."A further feature of album sales

in 2001 was the impact of greatesthits collections, which accountedfor 23.5% of top 100 album sales.This was an increase on 17.9% in2000, despite the fact that a similarnumber of "best of titles werereleased in both years.

On the downside, singles ship-ments fell below the 60 million unitmark for the first time since 1993,although singles sold in the UKstill account for around a third oftotal European sales. And tworeleases achieved sales of over onemillion units: It Wasn't Me (Univer-sal) by Shaggy and TV "Popstars"group Hear'Say's Pure and Simple(Polydor), which was also thefastest -selling debut single.

McGee's Poptones joins forces with Telstarby Adam Howorth

LONDON - Poptones, the UK indielabel set up by ex -Creation boss AlanMcGee, is to set up a joint ventureimprint with the UK's largest inde-pendent label, Telstar Records.

Under the terms of the agree-ment, key acts signed to McGee'slabel will be provided with fundingand marketing resources by Telstar,whose roster includes Craig David,Mis-Teeq and De Nada.

Negotiations between the twocompanies began in November whenPoptones was forced to lay off itsworkforce due to "streamlining inline with current circumstances inthe music industry."

At the time, the company's shareprice had dropped from a first daytrading high of 2.75 pence (euros0.04) to 0.4 pence.

Following the Telstar news, andwith Swedish rock band The Hives(licensed to Poptones in the UK) cur-rently at numberseven in the UKalbum chartswith Your NewFavourite Band(Burning Heart),the Poptonesshare price roseto 1.36 pence.

The Hives,whose new singleHate To Say ITold You So also looks set to enterhigh in the UK charts, are the onlyPoptones act confirmed for the newimprint.

In a statement, Poptones chair-man Mike Blackburn said the moverepresented "an attractive way offunding Poptones into the future."

McGee, who discovered Oasis,was unavailable for comment, buttold M&M last month: "Poptones

now has no staff and hasbecome a virtual office-mycouch, my mobile and mylaptop."

M&M understands thelabel still retains press offi-cer Susie Ember, and A&Rscouts Ian Johnsen andAlan Hake on a consultancybasis.

Telstar Music Groupmanaging director Jeremy

Marsh, and A&R director Pete Had-field, who negotiated the deal onbehalf of Telstar, said in a jointstatement: "Alan McGee is one ofthe great music industry visionarieswith a track record second to none.This new joint venture adds realmuscle to our A&R efforts."

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Emap moves to improve Performanceby Jon Heasman

LONDON - The Emap Per-formance Network (EPN)-part of UK media giantEmap-has announced anApril 1 shake-up of itsradio operations which willsee Mark Story appointedto the new position of man-aging director,radio and AndyRoberts (pictured)taking the groupprogramme direc-tor's role.

Story's new jobsees him takeresponsibility forall of EPN's radiointerests, including thedevelopment of new digitalradio brands. Previously, asMD of Kiss 100 (dance) andMagic 105.4 (soft AC), hisremit was confined to thecompany's flagship Londonstations. He reports to EPNmanaging director Dee Ford.

In addition to Story'sMD positions at Kiss andMagic, he had also beenhead of dance music forEPN. Story denies that hisappointment as radio man-aging director marks areturn to platform -specificmanagement at EPN, fol-lowing a content -specific

approach intro-duced in 2000. Hetells M&M that hesees his new postof radio MD interms of "wideningmy brief," andadds that he willstill have responsi-bilities related to

Kiss TV and Emap's dancemagazines.

Kiss 100 programmedirector Andy Roberts hasbeen promoted to groupprogramme director inplace of Phil Roberts, whois in discussions about anew role within the compa-

ny. Andy Roberts -whowith Story was responsiblefor the highly -successfulrelaunch three years ago ofKiss FM as the more main-stream Kiss 100 -will over-see Kiss 100 and Emap'seight "Big City" local FMstations. The Magic net-work will remain in thehands of programme direc-tor Trevor White.

The change in Emap'stop programmer follows adecline in audience for theBig City network in recenttimes -its 16.1% share oflistening in the fourthquarter of 2001 is sharplydown on the 20.2% share itenjoyed in the same quar-ter two years previously.

Story says the appoint-ment of Andy Roberts asgroup PD is a logical onegiven the rapport theyenjoyed together at Kiss,where he says Roberts'record "speaks for itself."

MTG shuts Wow! to boost Rix in Stockholmby Johan Lindstrom

STOCKHOLM - Sweden'sModern Times Group(MTG) has been re -aligningits radio portfolio followingits recent acqui-sition from theRTL Group ofStockholm sta-tions Wow! 105.5and Lugna Favorita (M&M,January 19).

As widely expected,MTG has closed down Mod-ern AC station Wow! andreplaced it with its nation-al Hot AC network Rix FM.It has also replaced theGothenburg outlet of itsCHR/Dance network PowerHit Radio with a local ver-sion of Lugna Favoriter.

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improved coverage for RixFM on Wow's former 105.5FM frequency, Rix FM'sweaker, existing Stock-holm frequency will even-tually be used for a newMTG service.

Of the move to replacePower Hit with LugnaFavoriter in Gothenburg.MTG Radio managingdirector Susanna Bervasays: "We know there's a big

demand among both listen-ers and advertisers [inGothenburg] for the for-mat. We think that LugnaFavoriter has the potentialto be as successful in

Gothenburg as ithas become inStockholm."

Half of thestaff at Wow!

105.5 were made redun-dant as a result of the clo-sure, while the rest willcontinue to work at MTGRadio. The sales staff of theformer RTL stations movedinto MTG Radio's offices inStockholm on February 7,but the ex-RTL program-ming department will haveto wait for a new LugnaFavoriter studio to be fin-ished.

NRJ looks to enter Bergen with Melodi dealby Kai R Lofthus

OSLO - French -ownedCHR network NRJ is in dis-cussions with soft AC sta-tions Melodi FM to shareits 104.1 FM frequency inBergen.

Norway's second -citycurrently has two commer-cially -operated frequencies:FM 105.8, which is exclu-sively held by the local hotAC -formatted station Radio1; and FM 104.1, which isshared among fivelicensees, but is dominatedby the Radio 1 -ownedMelodi FM, which broad-casts for 18 hours a day.

NRJ applied last year tomedia authority StatensMedieforvaltning (SMF) fora frequency -share withRadio 1 in Bergen, but wasunsuccessful.

"We have built ourfrequency graduallyover several years,"says Radio 1 Bergen'sstation manager FredOlav Johannessen, "but Iunderstand why NRJ wantedto share the frequency withus. It's because we have fouror five times as many listen-ers as the other frequency.They just want a portion ofour advertising money."

NRJ Norway's Oslo -based

managing director RichardMazeret declines to commenton the current situation withMelodi FM, except to saythat "we're currently weigh-

ing up all options."Any move by Melo-

di FM to share its pro-gramming -time withNRJ would be subjectto the approval of the

SMF.NRJ Norway operates

four stations in Norway,based in Nesodderi,Lillestrom (on the outskirtsof Oslo), Stavanger, andTrondheim. NRJ was alsorecently awarded a fre-quency in Halden.

CDNI THE BEATBETHELL, BLAXHILL JOIN CAPITAL RADIO

LONDON - Former head ofmedia at Ministry of Sound,James Bethell, has joinedthe UK's Capital Radiogroup as a strategy consul-tant. Bethell will adviseCapital on, among otherthings, the forthcomingconsolidation of the UK

radio sector. Bethell quit Ministry last October, fol-lowing the arrival of former Virgin Radio managingdirector David Campbell. Meanwhile, Ric Blaxill(pictured), a former producer of BBC TV show TopOf The Pops, has been named deputy programmecontroller at the group's flagship London CHR sta-tion, 95.8 Capital FM.

LOCAL REPERTOIRE LIFTS FINNISH SALES

HELSINKI - The value of music sales in Finland rose1.4% in 2001 to euros 68.1 million, partly thanks to a7.2% increase in the sales of local repertoire, accord-ing to local IFPI affiliate AKT. Sales of foreign reper-toire fell by 3.3%. Local repertoire in Finland nowaccounts for 47.8% of total value and 53.2% of units.Unit sales in 2001 dropped by 1.4% to 9.5 million,mainly due to a 48.6% dip in cassette unit sales. CDsales were up 2.6% to euros 65.6 million, with domes-tic CD sales gaining 9.6% in value.

NV GROUP BUCKS THE RADIO DOWNTURNPARIS - Frince's NRJ Group has announced rev-enues of euros 86.82 million for the first quarter of itsnew financial year (October to December 2001). Thefigure, representing a 4.1% rise in turnover comparedto the same period in 2000, has been put down to an

The company's inter-national revenues, however, dropped dramatically by23% from euros 11.8 million to euros 9.1 m in thesame period. In a statement, NRJ attributes this fig-ure to poor performances by its stations in Germanyand Sweden.

FIAT FIGURES FOR UNIVERSAL MUSIC

PARIS - Vivendi Universal (VU)'s media and com-munications businesses posted revenue of euros28.9 billion for the year ended December 31, 2001,a growth of 9% compared to the sameperiod of 2000. The group reports thatits music revenues of euros 6.56 bn"were essentially flat in 2001, repre-senting a strong performance in adown market." The company claimsto have grown its market share dur-ing 2001. It suffered from declines inLatin America (down over 20%) and aflat North American business, whilerevenues were up in Europe (+ 3%)and in the music publishing field (+ 11%). Jean-Marie Messier (pictured), chairman and CEO ofVU, said that revenues were in line with projectionsa year ago and the growth was "organic". For 2002,Messier says Vivendi's priority is internally -gener-ated growth, with revenue growth expected to be atleast 10%.

MOVING CHAIRSPARIS - NRJ Group has promoted Ines Fourny to bethe company's head of communications. She joined

NRJ in 1992 and was previouslypre'ss officer and in charge ofNRJ's internal communications.LONDON - Tom Land (pictured)has been appointed internationalproduct manager, Dreamworks,at Universal Music International.He reports to VP marketing,MCA and Dreamworks, NinaHansdotter.

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Red FM targets youth marketby Ann Scott

DUBLIN - Ireland's newestcommercial radio station,Red FM 104-106, is usingdance as a major weapon totarget the youth market inthe south of the Republic.

Launched last month,Red FM is aimingits mix of dance,R&B, rock, pop andcontemporary Irishmusic at 15 -34 -year -olds in Corkcity and county.

"We are gearedtowards givingCork somethingcompletely new and excit-ing, and look forward tohaving a huge presence inthe lives of young people inthe city and county," saysHenry Condon (pictured),chief executive of Red FMwho, in his previous role as

programme director at UKrock station Virgin Radio,was known by his on -airname of Henry Owens.

Every weekday eveningthe station is airing a danceshow, Dance Your PantsOff, from 18.00-22.00. PeteTong's Wise Buddah-pro-

duced syndicateddance show, Essen-tial Selection, willbe broadcast onFriday nights. Thatwill be followed byanother Wise Bud-dah dance show,Roger Sanchez'sRelease Yourself.

DJ Stevie G presents athree-hour R&B show onSaturdays, while Pink OnRed, features club musicand a guide to Cork's gayscene.

A total of euros 3.5 mil-lion has been invested in

Red FM, which is hoping tolure listeners away fromthe well -established CorkAC station County Sound96 FM. The most recentradio listening figures,released by ratings bodyJNLR, show County Soundattracted 59% of the audi-ence in Red FM's targetmarket. Red FM aims towin over 20-25% of thatmarket in its first year.

Condon is confident thegoal can be achieved. "Ourmarket research highlightsvery clearly the hunger forchange among Cork's youngpeople in particular," hesays. "It also brings intofocus the appetite for afresh, music -driven, radioalternative in Cork. RedFM will offer Cork's youth aradio station designed tomeet their needs for thevery first time."

Agnieszka Chylinska, lead singer of Sony Music Poland act ONA, was recentlypresented with a prestigious Paszport Polityki Award by weekly magazine Poli-tyka for being the artist of 2001. ONA's latest album Mrok attained platinum sta-tus in Poland just one month after its release last year. Pictured (1-r) are: Mar-garet Maliszewska (MD, Sony Music Poland); Jerzy Baczynski (editor -in -chief,Polityka); Agnieszka Chylinska; and Miroslaw Peczak (Polityka journalist).

French focus for Norway's By: armby Kai R Lofthus

OSLO - The Norwegianmusic industry conferenceBy:Larm is expanding, withsome 40% of the 800 dele-gates expected to come fromthe rest of Scandi-navia and Europe.

In this its fifthyear, By:Larm, to beheld from March 7-10in Kristiansand onthe southern coast ofNorway, will focus onScandinavia and France.There will be performancesby a number of French acts,including Bertrand Burgalat,Fugu, Infused, and DJs fromthe F Communications label.There will also be a seminardedicated to the French mar-ket.

"The reason for selectingFrance this year is that the

Norwegian music scene iswhere France historicallywas-and I believe thatNorway will reach the samestatus France currentlyenjoys," says By:Larmfounder Erlend Mogard

Larsen (pictured).Other seminars

this year include ses-sions on radio (mod-erated by Music &Media), artist man-agement (led by theCardigans manager

Petri Lunden), touring, gov-ernment funding, artist pro-motion, music publishingand sponsorship.

There will also be perfor-mances by artists from Swe-den such as Bad Cash Quartetand multiple Grammis-nomi-nated rap act Fattaru, andfrom Denmark includingEnvelope and Baby Woodrose.

In its first five years,By:Larm has establisheditself as a significant event inNorway, both in terms of help-ing raise the general level ofself-confidence within theindustry and identifying thenext wave of local talent. Sev-eral internationally -knownNorwegian artists-includingBriskeby, Royksopp, SondreLerche, Big Bang, Cato SalsaExperience and St Thomas-played By:Larm before break-ing through commercially.

Says Larsen: "I think we'vebeen good at helping to liftseveral artists one step fur-ther by never exceeding 100performing artists per year.Other similar shows inEurope usually book up to 500bands, but there just aren't500 notable new artists fromthe UK, the Netherlands orGermany every year."

ON THE BEATFONKY FAMILY SIGNS DEAL WITH BMG

PARIS - French hip hop col-lective Fonky Family (pic-tured) have signed a long-term publishing deal withBMG Music PublishingFrance. The deal coversrecords to be released by

Fonky Family, as well as by its individual members LeRat Luciano, Sat, Don Choa, Menzo and Felo, and theworks composed and produced by members Pone andDjel. The collective was previously signed to EMIMusic Publishing France/Cote Obscur, which retainsthe publishing rights to their previous works. FonkyFamily have a label deal with Sony Music France'surban imprint SMALL. Several projects are due forrelease in 2002 and 2003.

IFPI GREECE NAMES STAMBOULIS GMATHENS - Warner Music Greece veteran Ion Stam-boulis has been named general manager of local labels'body IFPI Greece. Panos Maravelias, managing direc-tor of independent Greek label Lyra, takes over aschairman. In his newly -created post, Stamboulis, whomost recently served as IFPI Greece president and ismanaging director of Warner Music Greece, will beresponsible for implementing IFPI's strategies on alocal level. "Our main goals are to fight piracy, protectcopyright and foster respect for the industry," he tellsM&M. Stamboulis says he is especially concerned withthe issue of CD piracy ahead of the 2004 OlympicGames in Athens.

P4 INCREASES ITS AUDIENCEOSLO - P4 Radio Hele Norge, the national commercialAC station in Norway which last year sacked its pres-ident/CEO Cecilie Norland, has increased its dailyreach to 29%, up from last year's 25%, according to offi-cial ratings figures from Gallup. The station still rankssecond behind public national AC station NRK P1 butis ahead of public national CHR station NRK Petre. P4recently launched a new morning show, hosted by P4veteran Tor Andersen and Bjorn Faarlund, who joinedP4 after a 15 year stint with Radio 1 Oslo.

BRITS FINALISE UNE-UPLONDON - The final line-up of artists to perform atthe Brit Awards 2002 has been confirmed. Among theartists to play at London's Earls Court on February 20are Jamiroquai's Jay Kay, who is to perform a duetwith fellow Sony act Anastacia, while Shaggy and AliG will perform their new single collaboration MeJulie. Other performers include The Strokes, Kylie,Gorillaz, So Solid Crew and Sting, who will receive theOutstanding Contribution award on the night.

Internet in -siteThe Official UK Charts

www.theofficialcharts.com

The Official UK Charts Company, previously knownas the Chart Information Network, has timed thelaunch of its website to co-incide with the 50thAnniversary of the Official UK Singles Chart. A briefhistory of the charts makes for interesting reading, asdo the charts themselves. Also on offer is a questionand answer area, chats, competitions, polls and more.A timeline and a clickable map of the United Kingdomdisclose an eccentric selection of trivia, but the invita-tion for users to submit entries will undoubtedly fill inthe gaps of this ambitious and promising concept. Thecompany plans to expand the site further and use ele-ments of it as the basis for a TV show, a radio pro-gramme, a CD and a book.

Chris Marlowe

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Homework pays for air talentFor even the most naturally gifted radio presenters, someform of show prep-no matter how informal-is anessential ingredient for creating a winning show. In anextract from her book The Powerful Radio Workbook,radio consultant Valerie Geller, who has coached pre-senters involved in both talk radio and personality -based music radio, gives some advice on programmeplanning.

Ageneral would never gointo battle without aplan. A surgeon wouldnever go into the oper-ating room without a

preliminary work -up. Yet it is sur-prising how many air personalitiesshow up for work and just wait tosee what happens. Some days youmight get lucky, but for succeedingover the long haul, show prep isessential. If a talent is prepared, itdoes not matter if he or she slidesin at 11:59. The host can still do agreat show.

It is very easy to do radio on abusy day when many interestingthings are happening. The art ofthe job is to be fantastic on air andcreate powerful radio when there isvery little going on. These are thedays when show prep is key.

It also helps the show if the pre-

senter, programmer and producerall understand clearly who the tar-get audience is. Show prep is aprocess that does not begin whenyou get into the station in themorning, but rather involvesobserving life all throughout theday, week and year in order to findsubjects.

The best personalities and showproducers compile their materialfrom various sources in addition tolife experience: articles from maga-zines or the newspaper, writtenideas, and items discovered fromthe Internet.

Everyone has his or her ownway of organising show prep mate-rials, but if a host or presentersounds consistently disorganisedon the air, try coming up withanother system. If a host is pre-pared but cannot access an item

during the on -air performance, allthat prep is wasted and the showcan wander.

Creative talent, 24 hours a day,seven days a week, are constantlyengaged in show prep. Everythingin their lives, what they read, eat,feel, experience and even dream,all this goes into their shows. A topprofessional can talk about any-thing, but it helps if there is somegenuine interest or the presentercan find a personal connection tothe topic.

Good talent utilises everythingincluding their personal experi-

ting boring or too private.You can go personal, even dis-

cuss people you know or have comeinto contact with. The only rule isthat no one should be allowed tohurt others or endanger them inany way. Not only can there belegal consequences to giving specif-ic information about people's pri-vate lives, but there can be securi-ty issues as well.

Often a little camouflageenables more creative and dramat-ic storytelling without riskingsomeone physical harm or emotion-al embarrassment. What is your

"Creative talent, 24 hours a day,seven days a week, are constantlyengaged in show prep."

ences and relationships.So how personal can you get? This

is a huge question. No one wants tohear the boring minutia of your life,but the more personal you go, themore universal the subject becomes.There is a big difference betweenpersonal and private. The answer isas personal as you can without get-

- Valerie Geller,consultant

point? If entertaining your audi-ence is the goal, then does it reallymatter if something happened toyour wife or "a woman I know..."?Try the approach: "The story youare about to hear is true, but thenames have been changed to pro-tect the innocent." Tell the truth.Never be boring.

Rules for powerful show prep1. Go with the momentIf something spontaneous happens onthe air that is better than what youhave prepared, go with it! You wouldhappily take a detour to see some-thing interesting while travelling.The magic moments on radio-abreaking news story or a fabulouscaller-happen when you least expectthem, and when they occur it is won-derful. Although there is no substi-tute for walking into the station thor-oughly prepared, you must also bewilling to throw that stack of stuff outof the window when something irre-sistible turns up.

2. Why are we doing this?What is your purpose for today's top-ics? Always have a specific reason forwanting a guest. Avoid "guest -o -mania." If a guest has been bookedfor you, know the reason. Ask theproducer, "What has this persondone? Why is he or she special?"

Never promise a guest a setamount of time on the air. Giveyourself an "out" in case the personis dull. Instead, when you pre-arrange the interview, just ask for"a few minutes" of his or her time.

Also, make it clear that becausethis is live radio, it is always possiblethat a guest may be pre-empted by abreaking story. You have now pro-tected yourself from the potentiallyembarrassing situation of having to

dump a guest if he or she is boring orif a bigger opportunity arises.

I am frequently asked for a ruleabout guests. Unless you are doingan interview -based show, I adviseusing guests as spice. Like great

seasoning in a bland meal, guestscan be wonderful. Good guests canmake a show, but they must be gift-ed communicators with passionand something relevant to say.

The best guests are people whohave some kind of unique personalexperience, with a story to tell,rather than just being experts intheir field.

3. Warning to managersManagers, particularly those ori-ented to sales or goals and results,like to hear guests on the air inorder to feel that the host and pro-ducer have done some work to book

the show and justify their salaries.They like to see bodies at desks foreight hours a day.

Many broadcast managers donot come from creative back-grounds. Because of this, often

managers feel most comfortableseeing people working.

We are accustomed to believingwhat we see. Management have ahard time accepting that a talentfighting with his or her mechanic isactually doing show prep, but it canbe true. A manager may not under-stand that if you are having the tyrechanged on your car, you can actuallybe doing show prep for your airshift.

Broadcasting is not school, or afactory job where we punch in oureight hours a day. Radio work is dif-ferent, more like art than manufac-turing. A gallery owner would notcall an artist at 8:45 in the morning

and ask, "Are you at your easel yet?How many brushes have you used?"The only hard rule is: be preparedand on time for your show.

What listeners respond to is thefinished product. Radio peoplework very differently. Our productis on the radio. Our preparation isreal but invisible.

4. Be preparedIdeas come at anytime, anywhere.Always be prepared. Carry a taperecorder or note pad at all times.Don't forget spare batteries for thattape recorder. If we were workingas photographers, we would alwayshave a camera ready. But we workin radio and our medium is sound.When was the last time youthought to yourself, "I wish I had atape recorder right now?" They aresmall and inexpensive. Get one.Carry it. If you are not comfortablecarrying a tape recorder, at leastkeep paper and pen handy so thatyou can jot down a great ideabefore it is gone. Great ideas comein the shower, the car, wake you upat night. Write them down.

5. Make friends outside the businessHang out with normal people. If youonly associate with other broadcast-ers, you limit your vision. Expandyour horizons. Talk to everyone. Yourinner circle should contain people

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who do other work and have a varietyof interests and experiences. Listen tothem. Find out what they are think-ing, worrying about, and talkingabout. It will help your show tremen-dously. Read everything. Watcheverything. Hang out with creativepeople, and learn from them. Studycreative performers outside of radio.

6. Know your targetKnow your audience. Do the listen-ers have a lifestyle that is differentfrom the presenter's? Probably so.Perhaps a host lives in a busy urbancentre, whereas the bulk of the sta-tion's listeners are in the suburbs orrural areas. You need to know whatgoes on where they live too. Readthe local newspapers, and drivearound to get a feeling for the area.Attend functions. Meet people. Getto know your city. Eat where yourlisteners eat: shop where they shop.Stay curious, alive, and interested.Check out the Internet.

7. Take a test driveDiscuss show ideas with somebodyelse. Prep is much easier when youhave the luxury of working with atalented producer. He or she canhelp form questions you will ask on

air and points you will make toengage your audience. Try bounc-ing the ideas off anyone aroundyou: the call screener, the pro-gramme director, someone in news,or the station's security guard. Itmay help you focus on what is real-ly interesting about the topic, ortake it in a different direction.

8. Prep warningDo not do your show before the show.Testing out an idea should not be con-fused with rehearsing a monologue.Save your actual performance for thelive microphone. It won't sound asgood the second time around.

9. Be generous with othersIf you have found a topic thatwould be perfect for somebody elseat the station, pass it along. Leavethe article, book, note, etc in thatperson's mailbox, or give him orher a call. The success of a stationdepends on the efforts of all its cre-ative members.

10. ExperimentBreak rules if you can come upwith a more successful method.Take what works for you, and leavethe rest.

Creating Powerful Radio:a checklist

Before you go on air with a topic ask:

Is it relevant? Does it matter?

Do you care?

Do the listeners care?

What will I do if this topic gets boring?

Do I have a fall -back plan?

Valerie Geller, president of GellerMedia International broadcast con-sulting, is the author of two books:Creating Powerful Radio: ACommunicator's Handbook and ThePowerful Radio Workbook: ThePrep, Performance & PostProduction Planning. Both are avail-able from www.gellermedia.com.She will be travelling in Europe inMarch and again in May 2002. Forstations interested in contactingher: email vgeller@aol.com or tele-phone: (+1) 212 580 3385.

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2001: A global sales odysseyTie

global pie of legitimaterecord sales may be shrinking,but it was still a multi-plat-num meal for many in 2001. In

fact, for a pair of acts -the UK'sDido and the US's Linkin Park -itwas a proper banquet, as their debutreleases became the biggest albumsin the world last year, at 8.6 millionand 8.5 million copies shipped,respectively. A third newcomer, AliciaKeys, also saw her opening effort rateas one of the top titles of the year.

The Global 20 represents the firsttime that Billboard has ranked theworld's biggest albums of a calendaryear, based on figures supplied byrecord companies. These figures -shipments to the trade -largely rep-resent the only globally consistentinformation available, and are alsothe basis on which the InternationalFederation of the PhonographicIndustry (IFPI) annually calculatesthe volume and value of the world-wide recorded music business.

Health warningFor their part, the five multinationalrecord companies track and reportsales in various ways, as do the world'sindependent labels. The data behindThe Global 20 may be subject to this"health warning" but is arguably agood indicator of the year's top albums.

Dido earned her global crown a full30 months after No Angel was issuedby Arista Records in the US, and 14months after its UK release in theUK. The album shipped 1.7 million

The Global 20The following are 2001's biggestalbums worldwide according to ship-ments based on Common Currency, theBillboard weekly scorecard of border -crossing hits. The figures are in mil-lions, denoting the total global ship-ments for each album, as supplied bythe relevant record companies.

L Dido/No Angel (Arista) 8.6m2. Linkin Park/Hybrid Theory

(Warner Bros.) 8.5m3. Destiny's Child/Survivor

(Columbia) 7.8m4. ShaggylHotshot (MCA) 7.2m5. Britney Spears/Britney (Jive) 7.0m6. Jennifer Lopez/J.Lo (Epic) 6.8m7. Alicia Keys/Songs In A Minor (J)

6.7m8. Enya/A Day Without Rain (WEA)

6.6m9. 'N Sync/Celebrity (Jive) 6.5m10. Staind/Break The Cycle

(Flip/Elektra) 5.6m11. Michael Jackson/Invincible (Epic)

5.4m12. Janet Jackson/All For You (Virgin)

5.0m13. Backstreet Boys/The Hits -

Chapter One (Jive) 5.0m14. Madonna/GHY2 (Maverick) 4.9m15. Creed/Weathered (Wind-up) 4.9m16. Pink Floyd/Echoes-The Best Of

Pink Floyd (EMI) 4.8m17. Robbie Williams/Swing When

You're Winning (Chrysalis) 4.4m18. Usher/8701 (Arista) 4.4m19. Madonna/Music (Maverick) 4.1m20. Soundtrack/Moulin Rouge

(Interscope) 4.0m

Worldwide record salesmight be falling, but therewere some notable bigsellers during the calendaryear 2001. Adam White ofM&M's sister publicationBillboard reviews the mag-azine's first ever rankings.copies in 2000 -almost entirely in theUS -and then rolled around theworld. Its cumulative shipments sincerelease now exceed 10.5 million,according to Arista VP of internation-al marketing Frances Georgeson.

In the "open big, burn fast" envi-ronment that the global music busi-ness has become, the 2001 achieve-ment of No Angel may be a record notsoon broken. En route to becomingthe top album in the world last year,it spent a remarkable 33 weekslodged simultaneously inside the top10 of three or more of the 10 leadingmusic markets. No other releasematched that status or longevity dur-ing the calendar year. Only threeother albums -by Shaggy, Enya, andDestiny's Child -sustained three ormore simultaneous top 10 occupan-cies for half as long as Dido.

Warner Bros. released Linkin Park'sHybrid Theory considerably later thanArista issued No Angel, but it swiftlytook the album -and the band -to theworld. Between January andSeptember last year, the six -piece spent12 weeks outside the US on promotionchores. The result: Hybrid Theoryshipped 3.7 million copies outside theUS in 2001, complementing its domestictally of 4.8 million. The performanceincludes almost one million units movedin the UK. Warner Bros. senior VP ofinternational Steve Margo asks, "Whenwas the last time a rock record sold thatmany [copies] in England?"

Seasoned starsThe Global 20 features its share ofseasoned campaigners -Madonna(with two albums), Michael and JanetJackson, Pink Floyd -but the bulk ofslots were taken by artists who wereunknown 10 years ago. As for reper-toire source, the US is home to 13 ofthe 18 acts, the UK to three, andIreland and Jamaica to one apiece.

To qualify for inclusion in TheGlobal 20, an album must first havefigured on the Billboard CommonCurrency, the weekly scorecard ofalbums that simultaneously attaintop 10 chart status in three or moremarkets from the following list: theUS, Japan, the UK, Germany, France,Canada, Spain, Australia, Italy, andthe Netherlands. According to themost recent data available from theIFPI, these countries account for 82%of global prerecorded music sales.

To produce The Global 20, totalworldwide sales of the qualifyingalbums were requested from therecord companies and results rankedaccordingly. The figures were taken

Global hits by corporate groupBMGDidoAlicia KeysUsherWestlifeFaithless

EMI

8.6m6.7m4.4m2.7m0.7mSource: BMG

Janet JacksonPink FloydRobbie WilliamsGorillazThe Beatles

SONY

5.0m4.8m4.4m3.8m3.4mSource:EMI

Destiny's ChildJennifer LopezMichael JacksonAerosmithTrain

7.8m6.8m5.4m3.0m2.8mSource: Sony

UNIVERSALShaggy 7.2mEnrique Iglesias 4.0mNickelback 4.0mSoundtrack:Moulin Rouge 3.6mAndrea Bocelli 3.6m

Source: Universal

WARNERLinkin ParkEnyaStaindMadonna(GHV2)Madonna

INDEPENDENTS

8.5m6.6m5.6m4.9m4.1m

Source: Warner

Britney Spears`N SyncBackstreet BoysCreedTool

7.0m6.5m5.0m4.9m2.5m

Source Indie companies

as the companies' gross shipments tothe trade during the calendar year.

For most of the titles shown, therepertoire -owning company is thesource of the sales information. But insome markets, an album may havebeen released through different out-lets. For example, the total figure forMoulin Rouge combines shipments

Snapshot: Dido

Territory ShipmentsUK 2,186,000US 2,159,000France 885,000Germany 464,000Australia 362,000Canada 267,000Italy 258,000The Netherlands 124,000Japan 120,000Spain 100.000

Source: Arista Records

from Universal Music Group affiliatesand from independent FestivalMushroom Records, which released thealbum in Australia and New Zealand.

The breakdown by corporate group(see chart, top), shows the top albumsfrom each of the five majors and fromindependents. As with The Global 20,the albums listed met the BillboardCommon Currency criteria. Each ofthe majors' top three titles graduatedto The Global 20, with the exception ofWarner (all five of its titles did so) andUniversal. The latter placed Hotshotin the upper reaches of the worldwideranking, as well as Moulin Rouge.

But the world's largest record com-pany did not have any shortage of bor-der breakers, including albums byEnrique Iglesias and Nickelback (4

million apiece); Andrea Bocelli, LimpBizkit, D12, Blink -182, and BridgetJones's Diary soundtrack (all at over 3million, with Limp Bizkit's cumulativetotal now at 11 million); Bee Gees andMary J. Blige (2.7 million each); U2(2.5 million, for a cumulative 10 mil-lion); and Bob Marley and the Wailers'One Love -The Very Best of BobMarley and the Wailers at 2.4 million.

The impact of the Marley compila-tion reiterates the value of hits pack-ages. In 2001, at least a half -dozen'such releases performed stronglyworldwide, including Madonna'sGHV2, Backstreet Boys' The Hits -Chapter One, and Bee Gees' TheirGreatest Hits -The Record.

Global winnerAnother worldwide winner, RobbieWilliams' Swing When You'reWinning, was not issued by EMI inthe US, but its shipments in Europe,Australia and elsewhere were suffi-ciently robust to lift the album intoThe Global 20, with 4.4 million units.

Among the live albums that cir-cumnavigated the globe were those bySting (2.3 million), Bon Jovi (2.1 mil-lion), and Radiohead (2 million).Meanwhile, Sony Music shipped925,000 pieces of Bruce Springsteenand the E Street Band's Live in NewYork City, a two -disc set.

Regarding music trends, 2001 wasclearly a year in which pop, rock, andR&B took the big numbers. Americanrap and hip -hop does travel, yet seldomto multi -platinum levels outside theUS But the recent exception wasEminem's The Marshall Mathers LP (acumulative 16 million units worldwide,including 2.3 million last year) and hisD12 combo, whose Devil's Nightshipped 3.3 million units in 2001.

As for the record industry's globalpie, the data in The Global 20 under-lines that -despite the popularity ofall these artists -there is a problem.Consider that No Angel, the No. 1album worldwide in 2001, shippedfewer copies than the No. 1 album inthe US alone in 2000: No StringsAttached by 'N Sync. Clearly, theangel's needed in the kitchen.

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Silver turns to gold for Nickelback in Europeby Siri Stavenes Dove

Three million albums and counting has pro-duced a return of much more than nickels anddimes in the US for Roadrunner's Canadianrockers Nickelback.

The band's sophomore album, and firstEuropean release, Silver Side Up, came out onthe Continent in October, selling half a millionunits to peak at number six on M&M'sEuropean Top 100 Albums chart. The record iscertified gold in Germany, Denmark,Switzerland, Austria and the UK, where thefirst single-How You Remind Me-is yet to bereleased, on February 25. Chart success else-where gave the single a number 12 position onthe M&M Eurochart Hot 100 Singles.

On February 12 Nickelback kicked off aEuropean tour in London-where it winds up onMarch 16 which is " a combination of touringand promo," according to Roadrunner VP inter-national marketing Paolo D'Alessandro. Inaddition to the live dates, the four -piece are toperform on the UK's Top Of The Pops andCD:UK television shows, while in Italy theirconcert will be filmed and broadcast on MTVSupersonic. The footage will then be repackagedand serviced to all European feeds under theMTV Total Request Live banner. The multi -pur-pose tour also takes in an appearance at theEcho awards in Germany.

Formed in 1996, Nickelback comprises broth-ers Chad and Mike Kroeger, their cousinBrandon and friend Ryan Vikedal. The bandreleased their debut album, The State, on theirown label in 1999, before signing a contractwith Roadrunner after the single, Leader Of

Men, went Top 20 in Canada. On Silver Side Upproduction duties are shared by Pearl Jam pro-ducer Rick Parashar and Randy Staub, who haspreviously worked with Metallica and U2.

As in the US, Nickelback have benefited fromradio support in Europe. "We had some resis-tance from radio to start with, because of theformats, but they have completely opened upnow," says D'Alessandro. How You Remind Mesits at number 11 in the European Radio Top 50chart. One mainstream station that never haddoubts about playing the track is CHR stationNRJ Stockholm in Sweden which playlisted itas early as November 13.

"We were one of the first stations in Europeto play it," confirms head of music FrederikSeverin. "We think the tune is fantastic. It's oneof our most -played songs-it's on the A -list andgets 82 spins a week, it's an incredibly populartune." He adds, "I believe there are a few morehits on the album." Other important radio sup-port comes from BBC Radio 1 (CHR) in the UK,Eins Live (CHR) in Germany and Radio 3 FM(CHR) in the Netherlands.

D'Alessandro continues, "I don't think thisalbum has any limits. It's impossible to say howmuch it can sell. We like the fact that it hasbeen a slow seller. There are so many one -hitwonders around-two months and they are out.That's not what Roadrunner is about,we are arock label. Rock is here to stay and to createcareers, not to produce one -hit wonders."

Forthcoming single Too Bad comes out inApril, followed by a third single-"depending onhow long the first two last," says D'Alessandro."That's the great thing about working for a rocklabel, you can always count on people liking it."

Jovanotti preaches salvationby Mark Worden

Even if he claims he was only try-ing to get people to discuss thewar in Afghanistan, 35 -year -oldItalian singer Jovanotti hasshown an enviable flair for pro-moting his current single,Salvami (Soleluna/Mercury). Thesong, which was written in thewake of 11 September and wasreleased on January 18, has aclear pacifist message and, inorder to get this across, the artistappeared on no less than 38 TVshows in one week in January.Cleverly, he then proceeded to usea collage of these appearances asthe video to the single.

Jovanotti's TV marathonkicked up quite a media storm ashe was attacked by pro -warguests on some of the shows, butthe result is a hit single and proofthat all publicity is good publicity.More importantly perhaps, theartist succeeded in bringingattention to a musical product ina country where industry execu-tives constantly complain aboutthe lack of TV openings for theirartists. Unsurprisingly, expecta-tions are high for the Jovanotti'stenth album, 11 Quinto Mondo,which was released on February 1and went straight to No.1 in theItalian sales charts.

Jovanotti's career began at the

age of 19 in the mid -1980s as a DJon the CHR network Radio Deejay.Now, as a performer, he has toppedItaly's airplay charts withSalvami, and admits that "radiohas been very important". BettySenatore is a presenter on (RAI)Radio 2, where Salvami enjoys"high rotation status". "Salvamicurrently occupies the number one[airplay] spot," she tells Music &Media. "Jovanotti has done some-thing that is both original andmarvellous. He got to play on chatshows that don't normally havemusic, although I think he gen-uinely wanted to promote the anti-war cause."

One of the most controversialelements of Salvami is the refer-ence to Jovanotti's fellowTuscan, the New York -based writerOriana Fallaci, who caused offenceby claiming Muslims were inferiorand that no mercy should be shownin Afghanistan. She also expressedadmiration for the individualcourage of the September 11 hi-jackers. In Salvami, Jovanottirefers to her as, "The journalistand writer who loves war becauseit reminds her of when she wasyoung and beautiful." As a resulthe was mauled on one TV show bythe Berlusconi government's assis-tant minister of culture, VittorioSgarbi, but Jovanotti seems tohave taken it in his stride.

"Music is very compartmen-talised, with protected zones andthis is something that the indus-try encourages. Yet the artists Iadmire are groups like theBeatles who broke this mould bybringing music out to society as awhole. This is what I tried to do, alittle naively perhaps, but I knewI would come under attack,"Jovanotti says.

Jovanotti's much talked abouthit single has also helped detractattention from the fact that hisprevious album, Lorenzo Live(2000), was a flop at retail. StefanoZappaterra, who recently succeed-ed Claudio Buja as head of A&R atUniversal Music Italy, comments:"We're not remotely worried aboutthis album. We've given it a doubleplatinum shipment."

Similarly, Universal hopesthat Il Quinto Mondo could be aborder breaker. Says Zappaterra,"It's getting a simultaneousrelease in Switzerland and theGSA countries, while most of therest of Europe will be releasing itfrom March onwards. Holland andBelgium have traditionally beengood markets for him and we'verecorded at least six of the album'ssongs in Spanish." As for salespredictions, Zappaterra considers"a total of a million units inEurope would be a great result forthis album."

TESTOF TIME

An unlikely popstar, moustachioed53 -year old jazz singer JohnLarkin, aka Scatman John, shot tofame in early 1995 with noveltydance record Scatman (IcebergRecords/RCA). Originating fromLA, Larkin's material was signedto Iceberg Records in Denmarkand licenced to RCA Germany forthe rest of the world. "It was hugein Denmark because it was signedto a local label," says programmedirector at Radio ABC (CHR) inRanders, Denmark Morten Bach."It exploded back then. We were onit right from the start." For a nov-elty track, which often isrigidly tied to a certain period intime, Scatman has survived wellas a one -hit wonder. Seven yearson, Bach keeps the track on thestation's recurrent rotation. "Butthe question is for how long,because it is a novelty numberafter all," he adds.

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Heaven ACH.D.E.NL43 7 DJ Sammy & Yanou - Universai/Vak Music (Warner Chappell)

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Always On Time UKIRL39 41 3 Ja Rule feat. Ashanti Douglas - Del Jam (Universal/ DJ Irv/ Aurelius)

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Millesime FWA101 14 5 Pascal Obispo - Epic (Not Listed)

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AM To PM CILDEFIN.FL.NCIRLIAL.N.S28 26 6 Christina Milian - Def Soul / Edel (Murlyn / Universal)

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Anastasia ACH.CZE.D.DKE.FIN.FL.F.UKGRil.HVN.IRL.I.NLNPOL.P.S.WA1 1 11 Freak Of Nature - Epic

Robbie Williams ACH.CZE.D.DKE.FL.F.UKGRE.KNIRLI.NLN.POL.P.S.WA

2 2 12 Swing When You're Winning - Chrysalis

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0 Shakira A.CH.D.E.FIN.FLGRE.NL.N.WA8 12 Laundry Service/Servicio De Lavaderia - Epic I ColumbiaChemical Brothers ACH.CZE.D.E.FINFL.F.UKGRE.IRLINL.S.WA0 3 2 Come With Us - VirginSoundtrackACH.CZE.D.DKEFIN.FLEUKG .HUKIRLNL.N.POL.S.WA

5 4 11 The Lord Of The Rings - RepriseEnrique Iglesias ACH.D.DKE.FLUK.HUIVIRL.NL.POLY

' Escape - Interscope

0 Nickelback FIN.FLUKIRLLNL.N.S.WA7 6 Silver Side Up -RoadrunnerPink ACH.D.DKFINYL.UK.HILINL.WA8 5 2 M!ssundaztood - AristaBro'Sis A.CH.D

9 9 2 Never Forget (Where You Come From) - PolydorLipkin Park A.CII.CZE.D.DKFIN.FL.F.UKGRE.HUN.HiLLNL.N.POLS.WA

10 10 56 Hybrid Theory - Warner Bros.OStereophonics

14 10 Just Enough Education To Perform - V2UKIRLNL

0 13 14 Britney JiveBritney Spears ACHCZE.D.DKE.FINFLEIKGRIKRONIRLINLAPOLP.S.WADido

16 58 No Angel - Cheeky I Arista

0 Ja Rule21 6 Pain Is Love - Del JamCH.FL.F.UKGRE.IRL. WA

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Alicia Keys ACH.D.DKE.FL.F.UICIRLLIVL.P.S.WA15 11 25 Songs In A Minor - JWestlife ACH.D.DK.FLUK.IRLIVLS* 17 13 World Of Our Own - RCA/ InterscopeDie Toten Hosen

17 12 3 Auswartsspiel - JKP/East WestACH.D

0 20 7 LAlbum - MercuryStar AcademyCH.F WA

Scooter A.CH.CZE.D.FIN.HUN.IV.S19 28 5 Push The Beat For This Jam - Sheffield Tunes I Edel

Kylie Minogue ACH.D.E.FINFLUKFIUN.IRLNL.POL.S0 25 19 Fever - ParlophoneEa

27 21 AnyDay Without Rain - WEA

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CH.E.F7N.LIVL.S.WALaura Pausini22 19 17 The Best Of Laura Pausini - E Ritomo Da Te - CGD

P.O.D.33 5 Satellite - Atlantic

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Creed34 34 12 Weathered - Epic

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Sting A.CH.CZED.E.F.HUN.IRLLIVL.POL.P.WA35 31 14 ...All This Time A&Af

29Jean -Jacques GoldmanChansons Pour Les Pieds - Columbia

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Zucchero43 38 21 Shake - PolydorCH.FL.I.WA

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0, No Doubt56 6 Rock Steady - InterscopeACH.D.UKIVL.N.S

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72 52 14 jtriEfpeicr LopezCH.D.FL.FUKGRE.IRL.NL.S.WA

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47 2 Dedicated - Kontor/EdelAD

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62 59 4 Not That Kind - EpicA.CH.D.FL.NL

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0 Backstreet Boys72 15 Greatest Hits: Chapter One - Jive CH.UKPWhitney Houston

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67 68 8 ((IL:8z Friends - S4 I Sony

92Jools Holland UKIRL

54 12 Small World Big Band - Warner Strategic Marketing

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2Within TemptationMother Earth - DFSA/Zomba

Bad Religion97 87 3 The Process Of Belief - Epitaph

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Lel, Avec Le Coeur Ou Rien - Columbia

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maptvaragmakeentS00m......, SALES

week 09/02 Top National Sellers ©VNU Business MediaUNITED KINGDOM GERMANY F,RA N C E ITALYTW LW SINGLes1 1 Enrique Iglesias - Hero (Interscope)2 NE No Doubt feat. Bounty Killer - Hey Baby (Interscope)3 2 Pink - Get The Party Started (Arista)4 5 Puretone - Addicted To Bass (Gut)5 NE Alien Ant Farm - Movies (Dreamworks)6 6 Ja Rule feat. Ashanti Douglas - Always On Time (Def Jam)

7 3 Al - Caught In The Middle (Columbia)8 NE Jakatta - So Lonely (Rulin)9 4 Britney Spears - Overprotected (Jive)

10 7 Flip &FM/Kelly Llorena - True lave Never Dies (All Around The World)

TW LW Ainums1 2 Enrique Iglesias - Escape (Interscope)2 3 Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform (V2)3 5 Ja Rule - Pain Is Love (Def Jam)4 1 Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (Virgin)5 4 Pink - M!ssundaztood (Arista)6 7 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (Chrysalis)

7 10 Hives - Your Favourite New Band (Peptones)8 15 Nickelback - Silver Side Up (Roadrunner)9 14 Frank Sinatra - A Fine Romance - The Love Songs Of (WEA)10 NE BoyzilMen - Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection (Universal)

TW LW SINGLES1 1 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Epic)2 2 Pink - Get The Party Started (Ariola)3 5 Nickelback - How You Remind Me (Roadrunner/Universal)

4 4 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Epic)5 10 Ben feat. Gim - Engel (Hansa)6 3 Enya - May It Be (WEA)7 7 Scooter - Ramp! The Logical Song (Ede()8 9 No Doubt feat. Bounty Killer - Hey Baby (Motor)9 6 R. Kelly - The World's Greatest (Jive/Zomba)

10 8 R.Williams & N. Kidman - Somethin' Stupid (EMI)TW LW ALBUMS1 1 Bro'Sis - Never Forget (Where You Come From) (Polydor)

2 4 Shakira - Laundry Service (Epic)3 3 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Epic)4 2 Die Toten Rosen - Auswartsspiel(East West)5 6 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (EMI)6 7 E Nomine - Finsternis (Polydor)7 9 Nickelback - Silver Side Up (Roadrunner/Universal)8 5 Pink - M!ssundaztood (Ariola)9 8 Soundtrack - The Lord Of The Rings (WEA)

10 11 Sarah Connor - Green Eyed Soul (Epic)

IV LW SINGLES1 NE Star Academy - Gimme Gimme Gimme (Island)2 1 Star Academy - La Musique (Island)3 2 M.Lavoine & C.Marocco - J'Ai Tout Oublie (Mercury)4 4 Pascal Obispo - Millesime (Epic)5 3 Mylene Farmer & Seal - Les Mots (Polydor)6 14 Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame (Virgin)7 8 L5 - Une Etincelle (Mercury)8 6 Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule - I'm Real (Epic)9 5 Billy Crawford - Trackin' (V2)

10 9 Alicia Keys - Fallin' (BMG)TW LW ALBUMS1 1 Star Academy - L'Album (Island)2 2 L5 - L5 (Mercury)3 9 Dido - No Angel (BMG)4 3 Jean -Jacques Goldman - Chansons Pour Les Pieds (Columbia)5 5 Florent Pagny - 2 (Mercury)6 10 Yannick Noah - Yannick Noah (Columbia)7 6 Lara Fabian - Nue (Polydor)8 7 De Palmas - Marcher Dans La Sable(Polydor)9 8 Lorie - Pres De Toi (EGP/Sony)

10 13 Pascal Obispo - Millesime (Live 00/01) (Epic)

TW LW SINGLES1 1 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Epic)2 4 R.Williams & N.Kidman - Somethin' Stupid (EMI)3 2 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG Ricordi)4 3 Jovanotti - Salvami (Mercury)5 7 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Epic)6 5 Linkin Park - In The End (WEA)7 6 DB Boulevard - Point Of View(Airplane/WEA)8 9 Alicia Keys - Fallin' (BMG Ricordi)9 10 Britney Spears - Overprotected (Jive/Zomba)

10 20 Groove Armada - My Friend (Jive/Zomba)TW LW ALBUMS1 NE Jovanotti - II Qunito Mondo (Mercury)2 1 Laura Pausini - The Best Of E Ritomo Da Te(CGD)3 2 Biagio Antonacci - 9/Novi2001 (Mercury)4 4 Zucchero Fornaciari - Shake (Polydor)5 5 Olmo - Olmo & Friends (S4/Sony)6 22 Aerosmith - Young Lust - The Anthology (Universal)7 7 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Epic)8 3 Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (Virgin)9 13 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (EMI)

10 12 Subsonica - Amorematico (Columbia)

SPAIN HOLLAND FLANDERS SWEDENTW LW SINGLES

1 3 Pink - Get The Party Started (Ariola)2 1 Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (Virgin)3 NE Zucchero Fornaciari - Balla (Sexy Thing) (Polydor)4 2 Operation Triunfo - Mi Musics Es Ts Voz (Vale Music)5 5 Hampenberg - Ducktoy (Polydor)6 4 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (EMI)7 7 Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence (Virgin)8 6 Shakira - Suerte (Columbia)9 NE Vanessa - Puedo Ser (Jive/Zomba)

10 10 Sugarless - Abre Tu Sonrisa (Zero Records)TW LW Ainums1 NE Operation Triunfo - Singles Gala 11 (Vale Music)2 1 Operation Triunfo - Singles Gala 10 (Vale Music)3 3 Operation Triunfo - Album (Vale Music)4 2 Operation Triunfo - Singles Gala 9 (Vale Music)5 5 Shakira - Servicio De Lavaderia (Columbia)6 4 Operation Triunfo - Singles Gala 8 (Vale Music)7 6 Estopa - Destrangis (Ariola)8 10 Café Quijano - La Taberna De Buda (WEA)9 9 Operation Triunfo - Singles Gala 6 (Vale Music)

10 14 Soundtrack - The Lord Of The Rings (WEA)

TW LW SINGLES1 2 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Epic)2 1 Marco Borsato & Sita - Lopen Op Het Water (Polydor)3 7 Within Temptation - Ice Queen (Zomba)4 4 DJ Boozywoozy - Party Affair (Digidance)5 6 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)6 5 Kate Winslet - What If (EMI)7 3 Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours (III Fly With You) (Media)

8 10 R. Kelly - The World's Greatest (Jive/Zomba)9 8 Brooklyn Bounce - Club Bizarre (Epic)

10 12 Gordon & Re -Play - Weet Dat lk Van Je Hon (SW/Sony)

TW LW ALBUMS1 NE Various Artists Huwelijk Willem -Alexander (Univesal Classics & Jazz)

2 1 Blof - Blauwe Ruis (EMI)3 2 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (EMI)4 3 Within Temptation - Mother Earth (Zomba)5 8 Shakira - Laundry Service (Epic)6 6 Enya - A Day Without Rain (Warner)7 5 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Epic)8 7 R3 - Tele-Romeo (BMG)9 13 Jan Keizer - Going Back In Time (Mercury)

10 9 Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits - The Record (Polydor)

TW LW SINGLES1 1 Marco Borsato & Sita - Lopen Op Het Water (Polydor)2 24 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Epic)3 2 Nickelback - How You Remind Me (Roadrunner)4 3 Kate Winslet - What If (EMI)5 4 Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours (I'll Fly With You) (Media)6 5 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)7 6 Enrique Iglesias - Hero (Universal)8 7 R.Williams & N.Kidman - Somethin' Stupid (EMI)9 9 Christina Milian - AM To PM (Universal)

10 8 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Epic)TW LW A.m.

1 7 Shakira - Laundry Service (Epic)2 1 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Epic)3 2 Nickelback - Silver Side Up (Roadrunner)4 3 Clouseau - En Dans (EMI)5 4 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Warner)6 5 Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (Virgin)7 NE Zornik - The Place Where You Will Find Us (EMI)8 10 System Of A Down - Toxicity (Columbia)9 9 Soundtrack - The Lord Of The Rings (Warner)

10 6 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (EMI)

TW LW SINGLES1 1 Mikan Hellstrum - Luften Bor I Mina Steg (MNW)2 2 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Sony)3 NE Markoolio & Excellence - Vi Ska Vinna (Bonnier)4 7 Nickelback - How You Remind Me (Roadrunner/Universal)5 3 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)6 4 Britney Spears - Overprotected (Jive/Zomba)7 5 E -Type - Life (Stockholm)8 6 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Sony)9 8 A* Teens - Heartbreak Lullaby (Stockholm)10 9 Peaches - Rosa Helikopter (Bonnier)TW LW Auuvnsu

1 1 Weeping Willows - Into The Light (Virgin)2 3 Nickelback - Silver Side Up (Roadrunner/Universal)3 2 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Sony)4 5 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (EMI)5 4 Sophie Zelmani - Sing And Dance (Sony)6 13 Soundtrack - The Lord Of The Rings (Warner)7 7 Dr. Hook - Sharing The Night Together(EMI)8 NE P.O.D. - Satellite (Warner)9 6 Pain - Nothing Remains The Same(Stockholm)

10 8 Westlife - World Of Our Own (BMG)

DENMARK NORWAY FINLAND IRELANDTW LW SINGLES1 1 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Sony)2 3 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)3 5 Linkin Park - In The End (Warner)4 2 Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours (I'll Fly With You) (Iceberg)5 NE Al - Caught In The Middle (Sony)6 4 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Sony)7 12 No Doubt feat. Bounty Hiller - Hey Baby (Universal)8 NE P -Control - Clown Song (Iceberg)9 8 EyeQ - The World Outside My Door (EMI -Medley)

10 11 R.Williams & N.Kidman - Somethin' Stupid (EMI)Tw LW ALBUMS

1 1 Saybia - The Second You Sleep (EMI -Medley)2 3 Kim Larsen & Kjukken - Sange Fra Glemmeboken (EMI)

3 2 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Sony)4 4 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Warner)5 5 Nickelback - Silver Side Up (Roadrunner/Universal)6 11 Soundtrack - The Lord Of The Rings (Warner)7 NE Jupiter Day - Jupiter Day (Sony)8 6 Soundtrack - En Kort - En Lang (EMI -Medley)9 17 Simple Minds - The Best Of (Virgin)

10 9 Safri Duo - Episode II (Universal)

TW LW SINGLES1 1 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Sony)2 2 Scooter - Ramp! The Logical Song (Edel)3 3 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)4 4 Al - Caught In The Middle (Sony)5 6 Lambretta - Bimbo (Universal)6 5 Nd Doubt feat. Bounty Killer - Hey Baby (Universal)7 7 E -Type - Life (Universal)8 8 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Sony)9 9 R.Williams & N.Kidman - Somethin' Stupid (EMI)

10 16 Nickelback - How You Remind Me (Roadrunner/Universal)TW LW ALBUMS1 1 Scooter - Push The Beat For This Jam (Edel)2 NE Shakira - Laundry Service (Sony)3 2 Secret Garden - Once In A Red Moon(Universal)4 NE Tungtvann - M(rketid (EMI)5 4 Morten Abel - Come Back & Love You Forever (Virgin)6 3 Bonnie Tyler - Greatest Hits (Norske Gram)7 6 Elvis Presley - The 50 Greatest Love Songs (BMG)8 8 Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa Til Haar (Music Producers)9 5 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Warner)

10 9 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (EMI)

TW LW SINGLES1 1 69 Eyes - Dance D'Amour (Poko)2 2 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Sony)3 NE Scandinavian Music Group - Kun Tuuli Oh Video (BMG)4 NE Kotiteollisuus - Rakastaa/Ei Ralasta (Johanna Kustannus)5 3 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)6 8 Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away (Spinefarm)7 6 Norther - Released (Spinefarm)8 12 Kapteeni 6-Ni - Tiettya Tunnelmaa (Wolfram Records)9 5 HIM - Heartache Every Moment (BMG)

10 NE Tulenkantajat - Oodi B-Boylle (Poko)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Spede & G. Pula -Aho - Pure Nentias! (EMI)2 4 Soundtrack - The Lord Of The Rings (Warner)3 NE Charon - Downhearted (Spinefarm)4 8 E -Type - Euroforever (Universal)5 2 Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (Warner)

6 3 Juice Leskinen - Vaiti, Aivan Hiijaa (Johanna Kustannus)

7 14 Pink - M!ssundaztood (BMG)8 27 Shakira - Laundry Service (Sony)9 17 Chris Rea - The Very Best Of (Warner)

10 5 Tiktak - Jotain Muuta (Universal)

TW LW SINGLES1 1 Enrique Iglesias - Hero (Interscope)2 2 Gigi D'Agostino - La Passion EP (Zyx)3 NE Westlife - World Of Our Own (RCA)4 3 Pink - Get The Party Started (Arista)5 4 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (Polydor)6 10 Christina Milian - AM To PM (Def Soul)7 7 Afroman - Crazy Rap (Universal)8 5 Kate Winslet - What If (Liberty/EMI)9 9 Britney Spears - Overprotected (Jive)

10 8 Stereophonics - Handbags & Gladrags (V2)TW LW ALBUMS

1 4 Enrique Iglesias - Escape (Interscope)2 3 Westlife - World Of Our Own (RCA)3 1 Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (Virgin)4 2 Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform (V2)5 5 The Pogues - The Best Of The Pogues (Warner Strategic Marketing)

6 9 Blue - All Rise (Virgin)7 NE Damien Rice - 0 (DRM)8 8 Pink - M!ssundaztood (Arista)9 18 Enya - A Day Without Rain (WEA)

10 7 Robbie Williams- Swing When You're Winning (Chrysalis)

SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA PORTUGAL CZECH REPUBLICTW LW SINGLES

1 1 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Sony)2 10 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)3 2 Garou & Celine Dion - Sous Le Vent (Sony)4 4 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Sony)5 5 Billy Crawford - Trackin' (V2/TBA)6 3 Sarah Connor - From Sarah With Love(Sony)7 8 Nickelback - How You Remind Me (Roadrunner/Musikvertieb)8 6 Kate Winslet - What If (EMI)9 7 &Williams & N.Kidman - Somethin' Stupid (EMI)

10 9 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (EMI)TW LW ALBUMS

1 1 Gotthard - One Life One Soul - Best Of Ballads (BMG)2 2 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Sony)3 3 Shakira - Laundry Service (Sony)4 4 DJ Antoine - DJ Antoine (MusikVertrieb)5 9 Nickelback - Silver Side Up (Roadrunner/Musikvertrieb I

6 8 DJ Energy - Synthesis (Warner)7 5 Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning (EMI8 13 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Warner)9 6 Bro'Sis - Never Forget (Where You Come From) (Universal)

10 15 Pink - M!ssundaztood (BMG)

TW LW SINGLES1 2 Shakira - Whenever Wherever (Sony)2 9 Pink - Get The Party Started (BMG)3 1 Nickelback - How You Remind Me (Roadnuater/Musica)4 10 Scooter - Ramp! The Logical Song (Edel)5 3 Kate Winslet - What If (EMI)6 7 Anastacia - Paid My Dues (Sony)7 6 Jan Wayne Meets Lena - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Universal)

8 4 R.Williams & N.Kidman - Somethin' Stupid (EMI)9 5 Bro'Sis - I Believe (Universal)

10 8 Sarah Connor - From Sarah With Love (Sony)TW LW ALnUMS

1 5 Shakira - Laundry Service (Sony)2 1 Bro'Sis - Never Forget (Where You Come From) (Universal)

3 3 Anastacia - Freak Of Nature (Sony)4 2 Nickelback - Silver Side Up (Roadrunner/Musica)5 4 Pink - M!ssundazto