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Music & Media's review of the year

2000 was the year the music industry took on board the measure of the poten-tial-and the menace-represented by the controversial technology for sharingdigital files online.

That technology, exemplified by file -sharing systems such as Napster,Gnutella and Freenet, has been at the centre of debate over the future of the

music industry and sparked seri-ous controversy during the year.

The importance of the technol-ogy has made it the first winnerof Music & Media's new Eventof the Year accolade. "This tech-nology offers to the music indus-try the most universal platformto distribute music in a digital

form-and thus will radically transform traditional business models," com-ments editor -in -chief Emmanuel Legrand.

As a framework for distributing music to the masses, file sharing unques-tionably works. Napster, the most user-friendly version, boasts a database ofmore than 38 million regular users of all ages. The US music industrylaunched legal proceedings against it for copyright infringement, but inNovember, Napster sealed a "strategic alliance" with Bertelsmann, whose goalis to transform the service into a subscription -based model. A full report onM&M's Event of the Year can be found on page 7.

Elsewhere in this special issue, we present M&M's exclusive year-end chartsand analysis (pages 8-13); focus on the talent which shone in 2000 (pages 14-15)and review key events and personalities of the year (pages 16-21). And M&Mstaffers and correspondents pick their favourite tunes of the year on pages 23-24.

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After five weeks on theEurochart Hot 100 Singleschart, Eminem's Stan(Aftermath/Interscope) isthe new No.1..

UK government 'bottles'radio ownership questionby Jon Heasman

LONDON - The UK's commercialradio sector has been expressing itsdisappointment that the government'sWhite Paper on CommunicationsReform has ducked the burning ques-tion of how it intends to reform owner-ship regulations.

The much -anticipated documenthad been expected to herald a majorliberalisation or even the abolition ofownership restrictions (as desired bythe major radio groups), both withinthe radio sector itself and with regardto cross -media ownership.

Instead, the White Paper-pub-lished on December 12-states merelythat the government "will consider [inconsultation with the Radio Authori-ty] the possibility of devising a sim-pler, fairer regime for radio ownershipto replace the current radio [owner-

ship] points system, or revoking thescheme completely." It then invitesinterested parties to submit theirviews on ownership issues.

Paul Brown,chief executive ofthe UK commer-cial radio tradebody the CRCA,tells M&M that,although actualdetailed propos-als for legisla-tion had not nec-essarily beenexpected in theWhite Paper, "we were looking forsome kind of signal on which way thegovernment wanted to go [on owner-ship regulation]."

He continues, "We haven't got that,and-candidly--by this stage of this

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M&M chart toppers this week

Eurochart Hot 100 SinglesEMINEM

Stan(Aftermath/Interscope)

European Top 100 AlbumsTHE BEATLES

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European Dance TraxxDAFT PUNK

One More Time(Virgin)

Universal's Tim Renner has'the courage to have fun'by Wolfgang Spahr & Adam White

HAMBURG - The man recentlydescribed as a "barbarian" by a high-ranking colleague is definitely inside

the gates now.He is Tim Ren-

ner, the 36 -year -old A&R-orientedGerman recordexecutive whoseprogress towardsthe upper eche-lons of the indus-try has been inex-

orable since 1992,when U96's DasBoot on Polydorbecame one of thefirst techno releas-es to explode intoGermany's popmainstream.

That recordwas an early call-ing card for Renner, who was Poly-dor's head of progressive music inHamburg at the time.

From January 1, he will becomecontinued on page 33

Extended contractfor Morris at UMGby Emmanuel Legrand

PARLs/NEw YORK - One of the firstmanagement decisions from the new-ly -created entertainment giant Viven-di Universal has been to secure theservices of Universal Music Groupchairman and CEO Doug Morris foran additional five-year tenure.

Morris, who oversaw the mergerwith PolyGram in 1998-99 and hasbeen at the helm of the world's largestrecord company ever since, still hadtwo -and -a -half years remaining in hisexisting contract.

The announcement was made

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

This year was heaven for magazines such as Music &Media.

Just think about it: the EMI -Warner Music merg-er and its subsequent abandonment; the AOL-TimeWarner proposal; Vivendi marrying Seagram andCanal+; Emap and GWR reshaping their organisa-tions; NRJ unsuccessfully bidding for RMC; Viva'scontinued expansion; the problems at Sony Music; acomplete shake-up of BMG's management; Bertels-mann proposing to Napster, and so on...

Such was the level of news events that M&M hasdecided to introduce this year its first ever "personal-ity/event of the year" accolade, designed to highlightthe most ground -breaking person or event of the yearin the opinion of this publication.

As far as people were concerned, there were threeserious contenders: Jean-Marie Messier, Mario Montiand Thomas Middelhoff. Messier because in less thansix months, he transformed his utilities group into anentertainment giant; Monti because his competition

department at the European Commission set theagenda in the EMI -Warner merger procedure; andMiddelhoff because he relentlessly tried to redefinehis business, not least by controversially teaming upwith Napster.

But after carefully reviewing the events of the yearwe came to the conclusion the "personality/event of2000" is...a new technology.

It was definitely the issue of file -sharing servicesthat best defined a year which produced an amazingturn of events. The significance of file -sharing anddigital downloads cannot simply be confined to thelegal battle over MP3.com, or even to the Napstercase. These technologies offer to the music industry auniversal platform on which to distribute music in adigital form-and thus radically transform tradition-al business models (see page 7).

If 2000 ushered in the age ofdigital awareness (and the year ofthe legal battle), it also opened thedoor to brand new legitimate busi-ness models which will almost cer-tainly come to fruition in the com-ing years. File -sharing representsthe way to the future-or at leastone of the ways.

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

Sweden to stage its own radio awardsby Johan Lindstrom

STOCKHOLM - The Swedish radioindustry is getting its very ownawards ceremony from next year.

Stora Radiopriset ,will takeplace in March 2001 and is thebrainchild of Swedish professionalradio body Radioakademin, whichhas teamed up for the event withmedia company Heart of Stock-holm. Stora Radiopriset will bebacked financially by broadcastingcompanies and trade organisationsin Sweden.

"We have had a good responsefrom all parts of the industry andwe're confident that we have theirsupport," says Radioakademin'schairman Sven Lundberg.

The awards ceremony will beheld on March 8 at Stockholm'scultural centre in Nalen, and will

have state-owned communicationscompany Teracom as its mainsponsor. A 45 -strong panel ofjudges will choose the winners of14 categories.

The categories include Best Pub-lic Service Station, Best Commer-cial Station, Best Community Sta-tion, Best Trailer/On-Air Promotionand Best Report/Documentary.There will also be further awards,divided into public, commercial andcommunity station categories, torecognise Personality Of The Year,

Best Music/Entertainment Showand Staff Member Of The Year.

"It has been important for us tofind the right categories to cover allparts of the radio business," saysRadioakademin vice chairmaninga Ramsten, "but I think we'vesucceeded." The board of the acad-emy will also award two specialprizes on the night.

Members of the judging panelfor the awards will include OveJoanson, former CEO of publicbroadcaster SR, and HC Ejemyr,former deputy CEO at the MTGmedia group, as well as the editorsof media magazines Vision andResume.

Taking the UK's Radio Academyas its prototype, the Radioakademinwas created in1992 with the aim ofcreating an independent forum forthe radio industry.

Nordic Web Radio starts life in Norwayby Kai R. Lofthus

OSLO - The Norwegian musicindustry is uncertain whether towelcome the November 29 debut ofNordic Web Radio (NWR), a new50/50 joint venture from NorwegianHot AC network Radio 1 and Inter-net portal Scandinavia Online.

The initial roll -out of five Inter-net -only channels on NWR's Min-Radio.com ("MyRadio.com") site,which also will serve as the domainname for yet -to -be -launched opera-tions in Sweden and Denmark,comprises B-2000 ("Today's SuperHit Music"); Boogie75 ("Soul,Funk, and Disco"); Glasnost84("New Wave and Pop"); Luna Zoo("Urban and Club"); and MustangAvenue ("Light Music and AC").

The FM feeds of the Clear Chan-nel Communications/Norsk Aller-owned Radio 1 and its affiliate sta-

tions The Voice (CHFt/Dance) andMerodi FM (soft AC) are also avail-able at MinRadio.com, along withlinks to the web streams of a num-ber of foreign music stations.

M&M understands that talkslast week between local labels'body IFPI Norway and NWR tostrike an agreement on the latter'sroyalty payments broke down, andthat record labels are now negoti-ating individually with NWR. Inthe absence of an established busi-

ness model, this is similar to thescenario in many other countrieswhere Internet -only radio is seek-ing to operate legitimately. Norwe-gian labels contacted by M&Mwere not prepared to make anypublic comment on the matter.

"We're interested in having thesame kind of dialogue with recordcompanies as traditional stationshave," says Leif Morten Synnevag,creative and programme directorat NWR. "We've contacted all rele-vant organisations and collectingsocieties and informed them aboutour activities."

The NWR site will rely on rev-enues from audio and banner adver-tising, and there will also be a facil-ity for users to stream specific songson demand and to buy these songson CD via SOL's price -comparisonshopping channel, which has linksto leading on-line retailers.

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Dutch Edisons, Harp awards to mergeby Robbert Tilli

HILVERSUM - Holland'stwo main "official" musicindustry awards, the HarpsGala and the Edison MusicAwards, are to combine asThe Dutch Music Festival.

Industry insiders suggestthat the merger is anattempt to counter the grow-ing popularity of the TMFAwards, organised annuallyby Dutch music TV channelThe Music Factory.

The first edition of thenew event will be staged onFebruary 27 next year in theAmsterdam -based venueConvention Factory. Bothawards will continue to existas separate entities but will

now be presented at thesame location on the sameday. Dutch public broadcast-er TROS will be televisingboth awards for transmis-sion on two separate days,the Edisons on March 1 andthe Harps Gala on March 8.

Mercury Holland man-aging director Kees vanWeijen, chairman of theEdison Music Awards, says:"It will be a unique momentto present the two mostimportant music prizesunder the one umbrella ofthe Dutch Music Festival."

Jerney Kaagman, recent-ly appointed managingdirector at Conamus, thefoundation which promotesDutch music at home and

abroad, adds: "It's a bigchallenge for both organisa-tions to organise one bigawards event. But it fitswith the need for strongercollaboration within theDutch industry"

The Edison MusicAwards, backed by theDutch labels, are judged onartistic merit rather thansales. The Conamus-organ-ised Harps Gala featuresthe Golden Harp prize,which acknowledges theentire body of works of anartist, and the Silver Harpwhich celebrates new tal-ent. There is also the annu-al Export Prize for theDutch artist who has soldthe most internationally.

French act LudovicNavarre (a.k.a St.Germain)was recently presentedwith a platinum disc in Bel-gium, in recognition of50,000 sales in that territo-ry of his Blue Note albumTourist. Navarre (far right)is pictured with (l -r): EMIMusic Belgium managingdirector Erwin Goegebeurand St.Germain drummerChris Henry.

November brings in Platinum harvestby Paul Sexton

LONDON - In one of thebiggest ever PlatinumEurope bonanzas, some 22albums were bestowed withthe accolade by internation-al labels' federation IFPIlast month.

Fifteen titles graduatedto their one millionth Euro-pean sale, one hit doubleplatinum, four moved tothree million and tworeached the lofty heights offive million apiece (seetable for full list).

BMG's Eros Ramazzottipulled off a remarkable dou-ble whammy that includedthe five -millionth certifiedsale of his 1997 compilationEros and an almost instantfirst million for his new Ari-ola studio set Stilelibero,released only on October 23.

Producers on Stileliberoinclude two internationalhitmakers, Trevor Horn andRick Nowels, and plans callfor BMG to develop an Eng-lish -language version of thealbum next year, withRamazzotti's enthusiasticparticipation. "I do under-stand the difficulty of enter-ing these markets becauseof the language," saysRamazzotti, "but I amalready so overwhelmed bythe fact that across the con -

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BMG also included the, lat-est IFPI certification forSantana's Supernatural(Arista) phenomenon, whichhas now passed Europeansales of five million.

David Gray reached theEuropean million in Novem-ber with the IHT/East Westrelease White Ladder, con-tinuing a remarkable turn-around in the fortunes of theEnglish -born, Welsh -raisedsinger -songwriter, sevenand a half years on from theappearance of his firstalbum A Century Ends forHut/Virgin.

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PARIS - The Vivendi/Seagram merger is effective asof December 11, following a vote in favour by Canal+shareholders on December 8. To comply with Frenchregulation, Canal+ will be divided into two entities,with Vivendi Universal owning 49% of Canal+ SA,the company operating the pay -TV broadcaster.Under the new company structure, Canal+ chair-man/CEO Pierre Lescure will be responsible forCanal+ pay -TV operations, Universal Studios andthe company's theme parks. Vivendi Universal chair-man Jean-Marie Messier says he was delighted bythe shareholders' endorsement. "The merger hasbeen achieved in less than six months, which is arecord," he says.

SONY COMPLETES DUTCH RESTRUCTURING

HILVERSUM - Sony Music Holland officially openedits new Sony Music Local (SML) division in Hilversumon December 11. It completes six months of restruc-turing which has seen all local A&R, marketing andpromotion functions for Sony's Columbia, Epic andS.M.A.R.T labels move under one roof. FormerColumbia general manager and S.M.A.R.T. founderDaan van Rijsbergen will head up the eight -strongSML team. "The first part of the restructuring in Mayput all local A&R activities from the three labelsunder one Sony umbrella, whereas marketing andpromotion stayed with the original labels," explainsSML A&R, marketing and product manager WilbertMutsaers. "Now those marketing and product activi-ties have also been moved in under the Sony MusicLocal umbrella."

BONNIER BUYS AMIGO

STOCKHOLM - Bonnier Music, a division of Sweden'sBonnier Group, continues to expand following thecompany's acquisition of a majority stake in Swedishjazz, blues and folk label label Amigo. Founded 35years ago by brothers P -A and Jan Boquist, P -A's sonFredrik Boquist has been head of the indie for the pasttwo years, and will stay on as managing director of thecompany. In addition to its homegrown material,Amigo's foreign catalogue includes works from Cree-dence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty, Isaac Hayesand Miles Davis.

MOVING CHAIRS

GENEVA - Gabriel Felder has been appointed asnew head of programmes at Radio 105 Switzerland,replacing Alexander Kuszka. Felder has been a con-sistent part of the Swiss radio landscape over the last15 years and has also released an album as a popartist.STOCKHOLM - Ola Bergvall has joined the Stock-holm -based online video streaming channel MusicBri-gade.com as director of wireless and broadband. Hehas joined the company from his position as onlineservices manager for Chrysalis Music in London.

LONDON - Pete Simmons (pic-tured) is joining Chrysalis Radioas group head of programmes.Simmons moves from CapitalRadio, where he was programmecontroller, digital. A former pro-gramme controller of CapitalFM/London, Simmons had beenat Capital since 1983. He willreport to Chrysalis Radio group

programme director Jim Hicks.Ian Ramage has been promoted to general managerof London -based BMG Music Publishing. Ramagejoined BMG four years ago as director of A&R.

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YEAR IN REVIEW

The power of file sharing:M&M's event of the year

for swapping song files online -and the furore it has causedthroughout the music indus-try-make it the clear winner of

M&M's first Event of the Year for 2000.The most well-known file -sharing

systems, such as Napster, Gnutella,Freenet et al (see panel, far right),might be the scourge of the legitimatemusic industry, but they have certain-ly caught our attention.

Basically, the format allows con-sumers to upload musical recordingson to the Net. Once online, anotheruser is free to roam the Internet land-scape to download the tracks-with-out paying a cent.

As a framework for distributingmusic to the masses, file sharingworks. Napster, the most user-friendlyversion, boasts a database of more than38 million regular users of all ages. Theworld's biggest commercial online ser-vice provider, America Online, has nomore than 25 million subscribers.

This wide appeal was not lost onBertelsmann's chairman ThomasMiddelhoff who sealed a "strategicallaince" with Napster's founderShawn Fanning. Middelhoff is plan-ning to transform Napster into a sub-scription -driven model.

"Napster was certainly the wake-up call the record labels needed,"declared US -based Darryl Franklin,VP business and legal affairs atInterscope/A&M/Geffen during theB2B Music Online 2000 conference inLondon on November 30.

However, it's the abuse of file -shar-ing technology that detractors arebattling against. According toForrester Research, file -swappingsoftware will contribute substantiallyto the $3 billion the music industryexpects to lose to piracy by 2005.

The regular exchange of musicalworks for nothing is a painful thorn inthe side of today's $40 billion interna-tional music business. But the majorrecording labels and industry organi-sations refuse to let the wound to fes-ter and spent this year hitting backwith a vengeance.

As Jay Berman, chairman and CEOof industry trade group IFPI, pointsout: "It's easy to give something away[for free]. But can you develop a legiti-mate business model from it?" On theindustry's tough response to Napsterand MP3.com, IFPI's Berman makesno apologies. "I believe that the com-panies did exactly what they needed todo, which was to try to define why,within the current legal structure inthe United States, their rights werebeing violated," he explains. "The onlything that one can say in retrospect isthat maybe the companies should havebeen there earlier with their own offer-ings, but that's a very difficult thing-it's always more difficult to create alegitimate business model, than anillegitimate business model."

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The contentious issue of file -sharing has undoubtedly,been the main talking point for the music industry in 2000and is nominated by Music & Media as the Event of theYear. Juliana Koranteng looks at how the music industryhas responded to the advent of this new technology.

tems designed to search, track downand remove works illegally distrib-uted via the Web. There's a "need tocontinue responding to the growth ofpiracy in physical formats and devel-op tools to respond to Internet piracy,"Berman adds.

Yet, eliminate its abuse and file -sharing is considered a winning salesformat. Kevin Conroy, chief marketingofficer and president, new technologyfor BMG Entertainment, whose sistercompany BeCG (Bertelsmann e -Commerce Group) brokered thealliance with Napster, explains why.

"File sharing offers consumersease of use, a tremendous selection ofmusic from around the world and cre-ates a community for music fans," hesays. "These characteristics make filesharing a potentially important mar-keting and sales tool."

The file -sharing phenomenon isencouraging the development of sys-

tems that aim to track down musicbeing exchanged illegitimately online.They include UK -based SoundWrapand US -based CantaMetrix. Evenonline music service emusic.com hascreated a search engine that locatesits licensed songs when Napster usersexchange them without permission. Inthe New Year, UK -based Wippit.com islaunching what it describes as asecure system that enables users toswap only music files labelled withelectronic identification tags.

Berman concludes: "I think that sofar, from the perspective of the reso-lution of the MP3.com case, the proofis in the pudding and I'm confidentthat it is exactly the way the Napsterthing will turn out. We will get afavorable court decision indicatingour rights and Napster will have tofigure how to create a legitimate busi-ness model out of an idea that obvi-ously has popular appeal."

Key HappeningsThe lawsuitThe Recording Industry Associationof America (RIAA) and its members,including the five majors, suedNapster for copyright infringementlast December. Napster lost the casedespite arguing that its software didnot make unauthorised copies sincethe system only allowed consumersto exchange what they already had.The result of Napster's appeal isstill pending. In November, Napstergrabbed the headlines again afterforming an alliance with BeCG, thee -commerce unit of media giantBertelsmann. Bertelsmann agreedto drop its part of the lawsuit andencourage the other majors to do so.

The embarrassmentThe embarrassment set in whenAmerica Online (AOL) acquired

Nullsoft, a software company whosefounders also invented Gnutella.The planned merger with TimeWarner will make AOL the owner ofWarner Music Group, which hap-pens to be suing Napster. WhileAOL has asked Gnutella's founderto stop its development, thePandora's Box has already beenopened with a host of Gnutella off-shoots already in cyberspace.

The death blowScour Inc. has been forced to file forbankruptcy. Both Listen.com-which happens to be funded by thefive majors-and Liquid Audio havemade bids in the region of $5m forScour's assets. The ability to swapfull-length movies via the Scour'ssoftware unleashed the wrath ofboth the RIAA and the MPAA.

The share fileNapster(www. napstencom)Unveiled May 1999 and inventedby teenage student ShawnFanning, Napster is the mother ofall music file -sharing systems. Keyto its success is a central serverthat allows users to inform eachother about the music they own orwant. The existence of a centralserver also means the anti -piracypolice can shut it down.

Gnutella(www.gnutella.wego.com)Introduced last year and developedby Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper,who founded US software special-ist Nullsoft and invented Winampdigital music player. Technicallymore difficult to use than Napster,because there is no central serverto connect searchers of music filesto other Gnutella users. This alsomakes it difficult for anti -piracypolice to control or shut down.Gnutella's open system alsoallowed any Internet geek to cre-ate his or her own improved ver-sion. So we now have, among oth-ers, Newtella, N-tella, Bodetella,Gnotella and GNUqnutella.

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Freenet(www.freenet.sourceforge.net)Although still being developed,Freenet has the potential to be agreater threat to the music indus-try than Napster. Founder IanClarke, currently known as the"data anarchist." But could soon bedubbed the data antichristbecause, unlike Gnutella, Freenetguarantees complete anonymity.

Scour Exchange(www.scour.com)Launched in December 1997, thisis very similar to Napster. Butwhile the latter focuses on musicfiles, Scour enables users toexchange any type of media files,including movies.

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Santana and Britney dominate sales chartsArtists both young-notably the unstoppableBritney Spears-and old-in the form of veteranCarlos Santana-foundsuccess in this year'scharts, when variety wasthe watchword, as SidStavenes Dove reports.

t was a Smooth, almost Supernaturalsuccess for Santana this year. Theveteran guitarist reached the peak ofhis long career with the Clive DavisA&R'ed album, released in 1999, but

which made the bulk of its impact in2000.

Supernatural (Arista/BMG) has sofar been certified five times platinumin Europe and is this year's top albumin Music & Media's year-end chart(see opposite page). It also containedthree singles (Maria Maria, Smoothand Corazon Espinado) which wereboth sales and airplay successes.Santana also tops the Artist Album-with three chart placings-and MaleArtist categories. He would also sure-ly win the "come back of the year" cat-egory, if it existed.

Aside from Santana's impressivetrack record, the year's charts weredominated by a combination of estab-lished and new artists, new sounds andmore conventional pop, continentalEuropean and Anglo-American acts.

The pop genre showed artists itsstrength with a massive sweep of thecharts not only by the Jive family ofartists (Britney Spears, BackstreetBoys, N'Sync), but also by the likes ofWestlife (RCA), Ronan Keating(Polydor) and even the Corrs (143/Lava/Atlantic), who confirmed theirinternational appeal with In Blue win-ning the Group Albums category (seepage 10). They had four albums in thecharts by over the curse of the year.

Pop phenomenonThe pop phenomenon of the year wasundoubtedly Britney Spears, who hasindeed done it again, with the year'snumber three album, number sevensingle and the winner in three cate-gories-Female Artist Albums,Female Artist Singles, and Top ArtistSingles (with no less than five titlescharting throughout the year).

Just like the previous year, therewere quite a few invitations to MoveYour Body in this year's Europeanrepertoire. Aside from the aforemen-tioned track by Italy's Eiffel 65,Mousse T and Welsh veteran TomJones got the best of the dancefloorwith Sex Bomb (Gut/V2).

Significantly, the much covetedposition at the top of the year-endSingles chart is occupied by aEuropean act, Finnish sensationBomfunk MC's, with Freestyler(Epidrome/Sony). The band also topthe Group Singles and ContinentalArtists Singles categories. OtherEuropean winners include France'sModjo, UK's Sonique and the mighty

Vengaboys from the Netherlands.Anastacia also made an impressive

European debut this year, with I'mOutta Love (Epic), M&M's numberfour single of 2000. Sony may havehad a tough year, yet they managed tobreak two significant new acts inBomfunk MC's and Anastacia.

British guitar rock is representedby Travis, Coldplay, Radiohead andOasis. The new wave of British acts,including Craig David and DavidGray, is starting to build following intheir homeland and abroad.

Overall, it was a year without amajor seller but with consistent salesfrom established acts such as Bon Jovi,Whitney Houston, Red Hot ChiliPeppers, Madonna, and Moby, whoenjoyed one of the most outstandingsuccesses of the year with Play (Mute). M&M's year-end charts are com-piled by adding the number of points

accumulated by each title (album orsingle) during its charting life in theEurochart Hot 100 Singles and theEuropean Top 100 Albums charts.This system, which gives a snapshotof the year, tends to favour albumswith a long shelflife such as the RedHot Chili Peppers' Californication,rather than albums with very strongsales in a small period of time. Thisexplains why The Beatles' 1 is onlyplaced at number 46, as it only had afour -week chart presence when thecompilation was calculated.

Pop is flavour of the year on European radiopop, in its various different guises, was theindisputable flavour of the first year of the ' newmillennium on European radio.

Whereas last year's top of the pops was the Cheiron-produced Britney Spears' smash hit Baby One More Time(Jive), this year's of pop are The Corrs.The Irish group are now firmly established on radio, andBreathless spent an incredible 23 weeks in the chart-five of which at number one-before it was outplayed byIrresistible (both 143/Lava/Atlantic).

Madonna has grazed on the radiochart with permanent presence for threeyears. In 2000, American Pie(Maverick/Warner) spent 23 weeks inMOTs European Radio Top 50 airplaychart and came second in M&M year-endairplay compilation chart (see page 13).The track managed five non-consecutiveweeks in the number one spot, regularlyswapping positions with All Saints' PureShores (London), the fifth most playedtrack on European radio this year.Madonna's Music has so far spent 19weeks in the radio top 50, whereas Don'tTell Me (both Maverick/Warner) is thecurrent number one.

As in 1999, almost half of the songsin the chart come from US signings.Continued output from acts such asBritney Spears, Backstreet Boys andBon Jovi combined with the return ofSantana-who featured heavily onplaylists with the hits Maria Maria,Smooth and Corazon Espinado (allArista)-and fellow Latinos RickyMartin and Enrique Iglesias, keep thepercentage high. At the other end ofthe spectrum, the likes of Eros Ramazzotti's Fuoco NelFuoco (Ariola) at 82 and Paola & Chiara's Vamos ABailar at 91, both enjoyed support from radio acrossEurope despite being sung in Italian.

2000 was also the year that brought UK garage toEurope. Craig David's 7 Days (Telstar) is still in thechart after 18 weeks, and Artful Dodger's radio hits Re -Rewind and Movin' Too Fast have now been followed byPlease Don't Ttirn Me On (all ffrr) into the radio top 50.Accessible dance continued to be a radio favourite duringthe year, thanks to continental European successes suchas Modjo's Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (Barclay), Spiller's

Groovejet (Positiva) and Fragma's Toca's Miracle (GangGo Music) bouncing from the Ibiza summer season intothe dark European autumn.

This year also surprisingly brought a wave of Finnishmusic to the airwaves. Bomfunk MC's Freestyler(Epidrome) spent 16 weeks in the radio top 50, and is alsothe fourth most played single in the year-end BorderBreakers chart. Darude's Sandstorm (16 Inch Records)was a huge summer hit and HIM's Join Me (RCA) is atnumber 11 in the Border Breakers chart.

Border Breakers are singles by con-tinental European signings which scoreairplay on stations outside their coun-try of signing, so this chart is directlyrelated to a record's ability to cross bor-ders and appeal to an audience beyondits home market.

Eagle -Eye Cherry tops the chartwith Are You Still Having Fun?, whichis also the 20th most played record onEuropean radio in 2000. The SwedishNew Yorker also topped the BorderBreakers chart in 1998, with SaveTonight (both Diesel).

Last year Sweden had 29 tracks inthe year-end Border Breakers chart,but this time it only has 16. But forevery loser there must be a winner, andthat accolade goes to Germany, thebiggest country with 21 entries. A -ha,French Affair, ATC, Sasha andReamonn all contribute to total.Meanwhile Dutch dance acts had theirusual impact, with Vengaboys, AliceDeejay and Rednex leading the way.

France had a remarkable year withno less than 14 titles charting in the

Top 100 Border Breakers, most of them from the elec-tronica genre, including Modjo's No.1 European hit Lady(Hear Me Tonight) (Barclay), Daft Punk's One More Time(Virgin), Superfunk's Lucky Star (Labels/Virgin) and BobSinclar's I Feel For You (Yellow/East West).

Norway's three tracks in last year's year-end chartamazingly all reappear in 2000: Where I'm Headed,Unforgivable Sinner, and Sitting Down Here, all byVirgin's Lene Marlin, are all still spinning on Europeanradio stations, with the latter just sneaking into theyear-end radio top 100.

Siri Stavenes Dove

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EUROCHART HOT 100 SINGLES 2000

Artist Title Label

1 Bomfunk MC's Freestyler Epidrome/Sony2 Santana Maria Maria Arista3 Tom Jones & Mousse T. Sex Bomb Gut/V2

4 Anastacia I'm Outta Love Epic5 Bon Jovi It's My Life Island

6 Eiffel 65 Move Your Body Bliss Co.

7 Britney Spears Oops! I Igld It Again Jive8 R. Kelly If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time Jive9 Yannick Ces Soirees La La Tribu/Sony

10 Eminem The Real Slim Shady Interscope11 Madonna American Pie Maverick/Warner Bros.12 Sonique It Feels So Good Serious/Universal13 Modjo Lady (Hear Me Tonight) Barclay14 Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again Virgin15 Madonna Music Maverick/Warner Bros.16 French Affair My Heart Goes Boom RCA17 Britney Spears Born To Make You Happy Jive18 Anton Aus Tirol feat. DJ Otzi Anton Aus Tirol EMI19 Sting feat. Cheb Mami Desert Rose A&M20 Alizee Moi...Lolita Polydor21 D'Avilla/Sargue/Baguet Les Rois Du Monde Mercury22 All Saints Pure Shores London23 Britney Spears Lucky Jive24 Vengaboys Sha Lala Lala Violent/Various25 Daniel Levi L'Envie D'Aimer Mercury26 ATC Around The World Kingsize/Hansa27 Limp Bizkit Take A Look Around Interscope28 Melanie C. I Turn To You Virgin

29 Darude Sandstorm 16 Inch/Various30 Sisqo Thong Song Def Soul31 W. Houston & E. Iglesias Could I Have This Kiss Forever Arista32 Rednex The Spirit Of The Hawk Jive33 Superfunk Lucky Star Labels/Virgin34 Bloodhound Gang The Bad Touch Geffen35 Cecilia Dara & Damien Sargue Aimer Baxter/universal36 Helene Segara Y A Trop De Gens Qui T'Aiment Orlando/East West37 Gabrielle Rise Go!Beat/Polydor38 Robbie Williams Rock DJ Chrysalis39 Aaliyah Try Again Virgin

40 Mary Mary Shackles (Praise You) Columbia41 Spiller Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) Positiva42 Metallica Nothing Else Matters Vertigo43 Backstreet Boys Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely Jive44 Toni Braxton He Wasn't Man Enough LaFace/Arista45 The Corrs Breathless 143/Lava/Atlantic46 Celine Dion That's The Way It Is Epic/Columbia47 Mariah Carey feat. Westlife Against All Odds Columbia48 'N Sync Bye Bye Bye Jive49 Shania Twain Man! I Feel Like A Woman Mercury50 Aqua Cartoon Heroes Universal51 Alice Deejay Back In My Life Violent/Jive52 Ronan Keating Life Is A Rollercoaster Polydor53 Gigi D'Agostino The Riddle BXR/Media54 Helene Segara Elle, Tu L'Aimes Orlando/East West55 Backstreet Boys Shape Of My Heart Jive56 S Club 7 Bring It All Back Polydor57 Ricky Martin & Meja Private Emotion Columbia58 Macy Gray I Try Epic

59 Destiny's Child Say My Name Columbia60 Saian Supa Crew Angela Source/Virgin61 Lady Easy Love (Stay The Night) Dance Pool62 Christina Aguilera What A Girl Wants RCA63 Black Legend You See The Trouble With Me Rise

64 Vengaboys Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine) Violent/Various65 Five We Will Rock You RCA66 Craig David 7 Days Wildstar/Edel67 U2 Beautiful Day Island68 Santana Smooth Arista69 Britney Spears You Drive Me Crazy Jive70 Blink 182 All The Small Things MCA71 Westlife I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun RCA72 Sash! Adelante X-It/Edel73 Zlatko Ich VermiB Dich (Wie Die Halle) Hansa74 Moby Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad Mute75 Fragma Toca's Miracle Gang Go Music76 Marc Anthony You Sang To Me Columbia77 Jessica Simpson I Wanna Love You Forever Columbia78 Stefan Raab Maschen-Draht-Zaun Edel79 Axelle Red Parce Que C'Est Toi Virgin80 HIM Join Me Terrier/BMG81 Sonique Sky Serious/Universal82 Lara Fabian I Will Love Again Epic83 Baha Men Who Let The Dogs Out Edel84 Lauryn Hill feat. Bob Marley Turn Your Lights Down Low Columbia85 Assia Elle Est A Toi Virgin86 Lou Bega Mambo No. 5 Lautstark/BMG87 Jennifer Lopez Let's Get Loud Work/Columbia88 Tina Arena Les 3 Cloches Columbia89 Gigi D'Agostino Bla Bla Bla BXR/Media90 Craig David Fill Me In Wildstar/Edel91 Reamonn Supergirl Virgin92 Enrique Iglesias Rhythm Divine Interscope93 Jan Eissfeldt Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwannn EMI94 Ayman Mein Stern East West95 Ricky Martin She Bangs Columbia96 Zlatko & Jurgen GroBer Bruder RCA97 Mauro Picotto Komodo/Save Your Soul BXR/Media98 Chicane Don't Give Up Xtravaganza99 Disiz La Peste J'Pete Lea Plombs Barclay100 Puff Daddy Satisfy You Bad Boy/Arista

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EUROPEAN TOP 100 ALBUMS 2000Artist

1 Santana2 Moby3 Britney Spears4 Eminem5 The Corrs6 Bon Jovi7 Red Hot Chili Peppers8 Tom Jones9 Whitney Houston10 Shania Twain11 Celine Dion12 Madonna13 The Corrs14 Macy Gray15 Craig David16 Sting17 Eric Clanton & B.B. King18 Enrique Iglesias19 Anastacia20 Melanie C.21 Mark Knopfler22 Britney Spears23 Metallica24 Travis25 Robbie Williams26 Vengaboys27 AC/DC28 Ronan Keating29 U230 Gabrielle31 Aqua32 Ry Cooder33 George Michael34 Dr. Dre35 Toni Braxton36 HIM37 Luna Pop38 Cher39 Blink 18240 Westlife41 David Gray42 Helene Segara43 Lenny Kravitz44 A* Teens45 Limp Bizkit46 The Beatles 147 Era Era 248 Soundtrack Mission: Impossible 249 Coldplay Parachutes50 Morcheeba Fragments Of Freedom51 Gigi D'Agostino L'Amour Toujours52 Helmut Lotti Out Of Africa53 Hevia Tierra De Nadie54 Enigma The Screen Behind The Mirror55 A -Ha Minor Earth, Major Sky56 Musical Romeo & Juliette57 Barry White The Ultimate Collection58 Tracy Chapman Telling Stories59 Guano Apes Don't Give Me Names60 Eros Ramazzotti Stilelibero61 Radiohead Kid A62 Oasis Standing On The Shoulders...63 Iron Maiden Brave New World64 Alanis Morissette Unplugged65 The Olsen Brothers Wings Of Love66 Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There...67 Bryan Adams The Best Of Me68 S Club 7 S Club69 Texas The Greatest Hits70 Bomfunk MC's In Stereo71 Richard Ashcroft Alone With Everybody72 Andrea Bocelli Sacred Arias73 Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies74 Adrian Celentano lo Non So Parlar D'Amore75 Pearl Jam Binaural76 Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines Of God77 Manu Chao Clandestino78 Eiffel 65 Europop79 Moloko Things To Make And Do80 Queen Greatest Hits III81 Limp Bizkit Significant Other82 Julio Iglesias Noche De Cuatro Lunas83 Destiny's Child The Writing's On The Wall84 Sonique Hear My Cry85 Five Invincible86 Reamonn Tuesday87 Johnny Hallyday Sang Pour Sang88 St. Germain Tourist89 Pur Mittendrin90 Die Toten Hosen Unsterblich91 Musical Les 10 Commandements92 Gloria Estefan Alma Caribena/Carribean Soul93 Marc Anthony Marc Anthony94 Cypress Hill Skull & Bones95 Patrick Bruel Juste Avant96 &Ilse Onkelz Ein Bones Marchen97 Scorpions & Berliner Philharmoniker Moment Of Glory98 Louise Attaque Comme On A Dit99 Laura Pausini Tra Te E Il Mare100 Wolfgang Petry Konkret

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THE YEAR'S BEST SELLERS BY CATEGORY

EUROPEAN TOP 10 SINGLES

TOP 10 ARTIST SINGLES1 Britney Spears Oops! I Did It Again, Born To Make You Happy, Lucky,

Stronger, You Drive Me Crazy (Jive)2 Madonna American Pie, Music, Don't lkll Me (Maverick/Wamer Bros.)3 Santana Maria Maria, Smooth, Corazon Espinado (Arista)4 Bomfunk MC's Freestyler, B -Boys & Fly Girls, Uprocking Beats (Epidrome/Sony)5 Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again, I iten To You, Northern Star,If That Were Me (Virgin)6 Eiffel 65 Move Your Body, Blue, Too Much Of Heaven (Bliss Co.)7 Tom Jones Baby, It's Cold Outside, You Need Love Like I Do, Sex Bomb, Mama

Told Me Not To Come, Burning Down The House (V2)8 Vengaboys Sha Lala Lala, Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine), Uncle John

From Jamaica, Cheekah, Bow Bow (Violent/Various)9 Eminem The Real Slim Shady, The Way I Am, Stan (Aftermath/Interscope)10 Sonique It Feels So Good, Sky,1 Put A Spell On You (Serious/Universal)

TOP 10 FEMALE ARTISTS1 Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again, Born To Make You Happy, Lucky,

You Drive Me Crazy, Stronger (Jive)2 Madonna American Pie, Music, Don't Tell Me (Maverick/Warner Bros.)3 Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again, I Turn To You, Northern Star,

If That Were Me (Virgin)4 Sonique It Feels So Good, Sky, I Put A Spell On You (Serious/Universal)5 Anastacia Not That Kind, I'm Outta Love (Epic)6 Helene Segara Il Y Trop De Gens Qui T'Aiment, Elle, Tu L'Aimes,

Parlez Moi De Nous (Orlando/East West)7 Christina Aguilera What A Girl Wants, Genie In A Bottle, Come On

Over Baby (All I Want Is You), I Turn To You (RCA)8 Whitney Houston I Learned From The Best, It's Not Right But It's OK,

My Love Is Your Love, Could I Have This Kiss Forever, If I Told You That (Arista)9 Mariah Carey Against All Odds, Heartbreaker, Thank God I Found You (Columbia)10 Shania Twain Man! I Feel Like A Woman, That Don't Impress Me

Much, Don't Be Stupid (Mercury)

TOP 10 MALE ARTISTS SINGLES1 Santana Maria Maria, Smooth, Coinzon Espinado (Arista)2 Tom Jones Baby It's Cold Outside, You Need Love Like I Do, Sex Bomb,

Mama Told Me Not To Come, Burning Down The House (GutN2)3 Eminem The Real Slim Shady, The Way I Am, Stan (Aftermath/Interscope)4 R. Kelly If I Could Turn Back The Hands If Time, I Wish, Only The Loot

Can Make Me Happy (Jive), Bad Man (LaFace/Arista)5 Yannick Ces Soirees La, Fais Ce Qull Plait (Saint Germain/Sony)6 Gigi D'Agostino The Riddle, Bla Bla Bla, La Passion, Another Way (BR/Media)7 Robbie Williams Rock DJ. She's t The One I It's Only Us, Kids (Chrysalis)8 Anton Aus Tirol feat. DJ Otzi Anton Aus nrol, Gemma Bier Trinken (EMI)9 Sting feat. Cheb Mami Desert Rose (A&M)10 Daniel Levi L'Envie D'Aimer (Mercury)

TOP 10 GROUPS1 Bomfunk MC's Freestyler, B -Boys & Fly -Girls, Uprocking Beats (Epidrome/Sony)

2 Eiffel 65 Moue Your Body, Blue, The Much Heaven (Bliss Co/Various)3 Vengaboys SholaIe,Fusilwa Tk &w Ibnl Skirt Uncle John From Jamaica, Cheekah Bow Bow (Violent Various)

4 Bon Jovi It's My Life, Say It Isn't So, Thank You For Loving Me (Mercury)5 Backstreet Boys Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely, Shape Of My

Heart, The One, Larger Than Life (Jive)6 Modjo Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (Barclay)7 All Saints Pure Shores, Black Coffee (London)8 French Affair My Heart Goes Boom, Do What You Like (RCA)9 S Club 7 Bring It All Back, Reach, Duo In A Million /You're My Number One, Natural, Never Had

A Dream Come True, S Club Party (Polydor)

10 ATC Around The World, My Heart Beats Like A Drum (Kingsize/Hansa)

TOP 10 CONTINENTAL ARTISTS1 Bomfunk MC's Freestyler, B -Boys & Fly -Girls, Uprocking Beats (Epidrome/Sony)2 Eiffel 65 Move Your Body, Blue, Too Much Heaven (Bliss CoNarious)3 Vengaboys Sha La La, Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine), Uncle John

From Jamaica, Cheekah Bow Bow (Violent Various)4 Yannick Ces Soirees La, Fais ce Qu'll Te Plait (Sony)5 Helene Segara Il Y Trop De Gens Qui T'Aiment, Elle, Tu L'Aimes,

Parlez Moi De Nous (Orlando/East West)6 Gigi D'Agostino The Riddle, Bla Bla Bla, La Passion, Another Way (BXR/Media)7 Modjo Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (Barclay)8 French Affair My Heart Goes Boom, Do What You Like (RCA)9 ATC Around The World, My Heart Beats Like A Drum (Kingsize/Hartsa)10 Anton Aus Tirol feat. DJ Otzi Anton Aus Tirol, Gemma Bier Trinken (EMI)

EUROPEAN TOP 10 ALBUMS

TOP 10 ARTIST ALBUMS1 Santana Supernatural (Arista), The Ultimate Collection (Sony

Music TV), Sacred Fire (Island)2 The Corrs In Blue, Unplugged, Talk On Corner, Forgiven Not

Forgotten (143/Lava/Atlantic)3 Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again, Baby...One More Time (Jive)4 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope)5 Moby Play, Play I The B -Sides (Mute)6 Bon Jovi Crush, Cross Roads (Mercury)7 Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication, Blood Sugar Sex

Magic (Warner Bros.), What Hits?! (EMI)8 Tom Jones Reload (Gut/V2), Gold (Universal TV)9 Shania Twain Come On Over, The Woman In Me (Mercury)10 Whitney Houston Whitney - The Greatest Hits, My Love Is Your Love (Arista)

TOP 10 FEMALE ARTISTS ALBUMS1 Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again, Baby...One More Time (Jive)2 Shania Twain Come On Over, The Woman In Me (Mercury)3 Whitney Houston Whitney - The Greatest Hits, My Love Is Your Love (Arista)4 Celine Dion All The Way...A Decade Of Song, The Collectors

Series Vol. 1, Au Coeur Du Stade (Epic/Columbia)5 Madonna Music, The Immaculate Collection, Ray Of Light (Maverick/Warner Bros.)6 Macy Gray On How Life Is (Epic)7 Anastacia Not That Kind (Epic)8 Gabrielle Rise (Go!Beat/Polydor)9 Toni Braxton The Heat (LaFace/Arista)10 Cher The Greatest Hits (WEA)

TOP 10 2000 MALE ARTISTS1 Santana Supernatural (Arista), The Ultimate Collection (Sony

Music TV), Sacred Fire (Island)2 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP, The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope)3 Moby Play, Play/The B -Sides (Mute)4 Tom Jones Reload (Gut/V2), Gold (Universal TV)5 Eric Clapton Riding With The King, Chronicles:The Best Of Eric Clapton (Reprise)6 Craig David Born To Do It (Wildstar/Edel)7 Sting Brand New Day (A&M)8 Robbie Williams Sing When You're Winning, I've Been

Expecting You, Life Thru A Lens (Chrysalis)9 Enrique Iglesias Enrique (Interscope)10 Mark Knopfler SailingTo Philadelphia (Mercury)

TOP 10 GROUPS1 The Corrs In Blue, Unplugged, Talk On Corner, Forgiven Not

Forgotten, (143/Lava/Atlantic)2 Bon Jovi Crush, Cross Roads (Mercury)3 Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication, Blood Sugar Sex

Magic (Warner Bros.), What Hits?!(EMI)4 Metallica S&M (Vertigo)5 Travis The Man Who, Good Feeling (Independiente/Sony)6 Vengaboys The Platinum Album I Up & Down - Greatest Hits (ViolentNarious)7 Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavored

Water/Significant Other (Interscope)8 Westlife Westlife/Coast To Coast (RCA)9 AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip (Elektra)10 U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind (Island)

TOP 10 CONTINENTAL ARTISTS1 Vengaboys The Platinum Album / Up & own - Greatest Hits (ViolentNarious)2 Helmut Lotti Out Of Africa, Latino Classics, Goes Classic, Goes

Classic III (Piet Poelen/Various)3 Andrea Bocelli Sacred Arias, Verdi, Sogno, Romanza (Sugar/Universal)4 HIM Razorblade Romance, Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 (Terrier/BMG)5 Luna Pop Sque'Rez (Banana Records/Universal)6 Johnny Hallyday Sang Pour Sang, 100% Johnny Live A La

Tour Eiffel, Olympia 2000 (Live), Johnny Chante Hallyday(Mercury)7 Hevia Tierra De Nadie, Al Otro Lado (Hispavox)8 Helene Segara Au Nom D'Une Femme (Orlando/East West)9 Era Era 2 (Mercury)10 Abba Gold - Greatest Hits, The Complete Singles Collection (Polar)

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EUROPEAN RADIO TOP 100 2000 BORDER BREAKERS TOP 100 2000Artist Title Label Artit Title Label Country

1 The Corrs Breathless 143/Lava/Atlantic 1 Eagle -Eye Cherry Are You Still Having Fun? Diesel/Polydor Sweden2 Madonna American Pie Maverick/Warner Bros. 2 Modjo Lady (Hear Me Tonight) Barclay France3 Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again Virgin 3 A -Ha Summer Moved On WEA Germany4 Toni Braxton He Wasn't Man Enough LaFace/Arista 4 Bomfunk MC's Freestyler Epidrome/Sony Finland5 All Saints Pure Shores London 5 Faros Ramazzotti Fuoco Nel Fuoco Ariola Italy6 Britney Spears Oops! I aid It Again Jive 6 Gigi D'Agostino The Riddle BXR/Media Italy7 Robbie Williams Rock DJ Chrysalis 7 French Affair My Heart Goes Boom RCA Germany8 Sonique It Feels So Good Serious/Universal 8 Aqua Cartoon Heroes Universal Denmark9 Tom Jones & Mousse T. Sex Bomb Gut/V2 9 Manu Chao Bongo Bong - Je Ne T'Aime Plus Virgin France10 Bon Jovi It's My Life Mercury 10 ATC Around The World Kingsize/Hansa Germany11 Mary Mary Shackles (Praise You) Columbia 11 HIM Join Me Terrier/BMG Finland12 Madonna Music Maverick/Warner Bros. 12 Eiffel 65 Move Your Body Bliss Co. Italy13 Anastacia I'm Outta Love Epic 13 Lene Marlin Sitting Down Here Virgin Norway14 Santana Maria Maria Arista 14 Paola & Chiara Vamos A Bailar Columbia Italy15 Ronan Keating Life Is A Rollercoaster Polydor 15 Lene Marlin Where I'm Headed Virgin Norway16 Ricky Martin & Meja Private Emotion Columbia 16 Vengaboys Uncle John From Jamaica Violent Netherlands17 Modjo Lady (Hear Me Tonight) Barclay 17 Eagle Eye & Neneh Cherry Long Way Around Diesel/Polydor Sweden18 Whitney Houston & George Michael If I Told You That Arista 18 Aqua Around The World Universal Denmark19 Melanie C. I Run To You Virgin 19 Superfunk Lucky Star Labels/Virgin France20 Eagle -Eye Cherry Are You Still Having Fun? Diesel/Polydor 20 Sasha Let Me Be The One WEA Germany21 Britney Spears Lucky Jive 21 Bomfunk MC's B -Boys & Fly Girls Epidrome/Sony Finland22 U2 Beautiful Day Island 22 Sash! feat. Tina Cousins Just Around The Hill X-It/Edel Germany23 Janet Jackson Doesn't Really Matter Island 23 Darude Sandstorm 16 Inch Records/Various Finland24 Kylie Minogue Spinning Around Parlophone 24 Alice Deejay Will I Ever Violent/Various Netherlands25 Jennifer Lopez Let's Get Loud Work/Columbia 25 Andreas Johnson Glorious Metronome/Warner Sweden26 Britney Spears Born To Make You Happy Jive 26 Rednex The Spirit Of The Hawk Jive Netherlands27 All Saints Black Coffee London 27 Superfunk The Young MC Labels/Virgin France28 Craig David 7 Days Wildstar/Edel 28 Black Legend You See The Trouble With Me Rise Italy29 Whitney Houston & Enrique Iglesias Could I Have This Kiss Forever Arista 29 Roxette Salvation Roxette Recordings/EMI Sweden30 Backstreet Boys The One Jive 30 Eiffel 65 Too Much Of Heaven Bliss Co. Italy31 Spiller Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) Positiva 31 Lene Marlin Unforgivable Sinner Virgin Norway32 Destiny's Child Say My Name Ruffhouse/Columbia 32 Daft Punk One More Time Labels/Virgin France33 A -Ha Summer Moved On WEA 33 Alice Deejay Back In My Life Violent/Various Netherlands34 Mariah Carey feat. Westlife Against All Odds Columbia 34 Vengaboys Sha Lala Lala Violent/Various Netherlands35 Gabrielle Rise Go!Beat/Polydor 35 The Olsen Brothers Fly On The Wings Of Love CMC Denmark36 Morcheeba Rome Wasn't Built In A Day East West 36 Nek Ci Sei Tu WEA Italy37 French Affair My Heart Goes Boom RCA 37 The Lawyer I Wanna MMM... Time/Sony Italy38 Gabrielle When A Woman Go!Beat/Polydor 38 Bob Marley vs. Funkstar De Luxe Rainbow Country Club Tools/Edel Denmark39 Christina Aguilera What A Girl Wants RCA 39 Reamonn Supergirl Virgin Germany40 Texas In Demand Mercury 40 Benjamin Diamond In Your Arms/We're Gonna Make It Epic France41 Spice Girls Holler Virgin 41 Lou Bega I Got A Girl Lautstark/BMG Germany42 Sisqo Thong Song Def Soul 42 Gigi D'Agostino Another Way BXR/Media Italy43 Moloko The Time Is Now Echo 43 Negrocan Cada Vez Blanco Y Negro Spain44 Sting feat. Cheb Mami Desert Rose A&M 44 Lou Bega Mambo Mambo Lautstark/Hansa Germany45 Backstreet Boys Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely Jive 45 A* Teens Super Trouper Stockholm Sweden46 Aaliyah Try Again Virgin 46 A -Ha Minor Earth, Major Sky WEA Germany47 Enrique Iglesias Be With You Interscope 47 Marque One To Make Her Happy Edel Germany48 Lara Fabian I Will Love Again Columbia 48 Sash! Adelante X-ItfEdel Germany49 Santana Smooth Arista 49 Phoenix If I Ever Feel Better Source/Virgin France50 Toploader Dancing In The Moonlight Sony S2 50 Gigi D'Agostino La Passion EP BXR/Media Italy51 ATC Around The World Kingsize/Hansa 51 Underdog Project Summer Jam Loop Dance/Universal Germany52 Oasis Go Let It Out Big Brother/Sony 52 A* Teens Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Stockholm Sweden53 Craig David Fill Me In (Err 53 Vengaboys Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine) Violent/Various Netherlands54 Chicane Don't Give Up Xtravaganza/Sony 54 DJ Mendez Razor Tongue Stockholm Sweden55 Marc Anthony You Sang To Me Columbia 55 Lady Easy Love (Stay The Night) Dance Pool France56 Eminem The Real Slim Shady Interscope 56 Lutricia McNeal Fly Away Arcade Sweden57 Sonique Sky Serious/Universal 57 Laura Pausini Tra Te E 11 Mare CGD Italy58 Christina Aguilera Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) RCA 58 Kim Lucas All I Really Want Exe Records Italy59 Toni Braxton Spanish Guitar LaFace/Arista 59 Kent Musik Non Stop RCA Sweden60 Richard Ashcroft A Song For The Lovers Hut/Virgin 60 Axelle Red Parce Que C'Est Toi Virgin Belgium61 Macy Gray I Try Epic 61 Natural Born Hippies Am I Not Sweet Iceberg Denmark62 'N Sync Bye Bye Bye Jive 62 Anggun Still Reminds Me Epic France63 Bomfunk MC's Freestyler Epidrome/Sony 63 French Affair Do What You Like RCA Germany64 Savage Garden Affirmation Columbia 64 Prezioso feat. Marvin Tell Me Why BXR/Media Italy65 Jessica Simpson I Think I'm In Love With You Columbia 65 ATC My Heart Beats Like A Drum Kingsize/Hansa Germany66 Ricky Martin She Bangs Columbia 66 Laid Back Sunshine Reggae 2000 EMI -Medley Denmark67 Whitney Houston I Learned From The Best Arista 67 Worlds Apart Language Of Love EMI France68 Eiffel 65 Move Your Body Bliss Co. 68 DJ Mendez Fiesta (House Party) Stockholm Sweden69 Moby Natural Blues Mute 69 Alice Deejay The Lonely One Violent/Various Netherlands70 Celine Dion That's The Way It Is Epic/Columbia 70 Lady Violet Inside To Outside New Music Italy71 Madison Avenue Don't Call Me Baby VC Recordings/Sony 71 Mirah Gotta Go Home WEA Sweden72 Reamonn Supergirl Virgin 72 Sasha Chemical Reaction WEA Germany73 'N Sync It's Gonna Be Me Jive 73 t Hevia Busindre Reel Hispavox Spain74 Backstreet Boys Shape Of My Heart Jive 74 Jessica Folcker To Be Able To Love You Jive Sweden75 M2M Don't Say You Love Me Atlantic 75 Bob Sinclar I Feel For You Yellow/Warner France76 Bon Jovi Say It Isn't So Mercury 76 ATB The Summer Universal Germany77 Hanson If Only Mercury 77 Aqua Bumblebees Universal Denmark78 Lenny Kravitz Again Virgin 78 Ace Of Base C'Est La Vie Mega/Polydor Denmark79 Artful Dodger Movin' Too Fast ffrr 79 The Moffats Bang Bang Boom EMI Germany80 Fragma Toca's Miracle Gang Go Music 80 Etienne De Crecy Am I Wrong? V2 France81 Samantha Mumba Gotta Tell You Wild Card/Polydor 81 Kim Lucas Let It Be The Night DBX Italy82 Eros Ramazzatti Fuoco Nel Fuoco Ariola 82 Jarabe De Palo Depende Virgin Spain83 Christina Aguilera I Turn To You RCA 83 Modern Talking China In Her Eyes Hansa Germany84 'N Sync I'll Never Stop Jive 84 Axelle Red Bimbo A Moi Virgin Belgium85 Superfunk Lucky Star Labels/Virgin 85 Jarabe De Palo Agua Virgin Spain86 Santana Corazgn Espinado Arista 86 Juice Not In Love EMI -Medley Denmark87 Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication Warner Bros. 87 Rollergirl Luv U More Universal Germany88 Savage Garden Crash And Burn Columbia 88 Jean -Michel Jarre C'Est La Vie Epic France89 Sasha Let Me Be The One WEA 89 Andreas Johnson People Metronome/Warner Sweden90 Kylie Minogue On A Night Like This Parlophone 90 E -Type Campione 2000 Stockholm Sweden91 Paola & Chiara Vamos A Bailar Columbia 91 Etienne Daho La Nage Indienne Virgin France92 Aqua Cartoon Heroes Universal 92 Andreas Johnson The Games We Play Metronome/Wamer Sweden93 Gigi D'Agostino The Riddle BXR/Media 93 Wamdue Project You're The Reason Airplane Italy94 Moby Porcelain Mute 94 Ann Lee Ring My Bell X -Energy Italy95 The Corrs Radio 143/Lava/Atlantic 95 The Tamperer feat. Maya Hammer To The Heart Time Italy96 Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue Kids Chrysalis 96 Paul Johnson Get Get Down Rise Italy97 TLC Dear Lie LaFace/Arista 97 Masterboy I Like To Like It Polydor Germany98 Pink There You Go LaFace/Arista 98 Neja Fairytale New Music Italy99 Lene Marlin Sitting Down Here Virgin 99 Boney M Sunny Hansa Germany100 Blink 182 All The Small Things MCA 100 A° Teens Dancing Queen Stockholm Sweden

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A year of quality AND quantityMake no mistake, 2000 hasproved a bumper year forcontemporary music.Quality and quantityhave been evident in

equal measure and even combined onalbums by the likes of U2 (UniversalIsland) and Eminem (Interscope).

Every year spawns new move-ments and 2000 was no different. Inthe UK, garage evolved from theunderground onto national airwavesand into the charts under the expertguidance of Artful Dodger (FFRR) andpin-up singer Craig David (Wildstar).Across the Channel, French electroni-ca found itself at the top of theEurochart Hot 100 thanks to Modjo(Barlcay/Universal) and Daft Punk(Virgin). Meanwhile St Germain(Blue Note/EMI) came up with one ofthe albums of the year and Madonnaendorsed the genre by hiring the pro-duction talents of Mirwais (Naive) forMusic (Maverick/Warner Bros).

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International Heavyweights

Eminem(Interscope)His name is...we know already! MarshallMathers, aka Slim Shady, aka Eminem,has managed to achieve what few US rap-pers have done before and that's crackEurope (M&M, issue 30). The break-through came with The Real Slim Shadysingle which followed the million -sellingMy Name Is and went top 10 in eight of themajor territories on the Continent andnumber one on the Eurochart Hot 100.The single was taken from The MarshallMathers LP which itself went to numberone on the European Top 100 Albumschart and spawned a potential Christmasnumber one single in the UK with Stan.Interscope puts the rapper's phenomenalcrossover appeal down to his colourfulvideos and rebellious lyrics, but the fact heis also the first credible white rapper has,ironically, played a part in gaining accep-tance on the Continent.

Bon Jovi(Mercury/Universal)Big hair, big choruses, big sales. Not a lot'schanged in Bon Jovi's world since theyfirst hit the big time back in the '80s in aflash of tight trousers and hairspray. Thisyear they celebrated 17 years in the busi-ness and worldwide sales of 80 millionwith the release of Crush, UniversalMusic's biggest release since its mergerwith PolyGram and the band's first albumfor five years (M&M, issue 23). It wentstraight in at number one in the EuropeanTop 100 Albums having topped six majorterritories in its first week, and has soldthree million copies to date in Europealone.

Moby(Mute)Although released in 1999, Play byAmerican dance maestro Moby deservesrecognition in this year-end issue forstorming back into the European Top 100Albums at number 3 in May, 2000 (M&M,issue 20). Impressively it remains in thetop 30 having gone three times platinumand spending over 50 weeks on the chart.

2000 was a millennium year for many acts. AdamHoworth looks back without anger while M&M writersreview the performances of some of the year's mostremarkable successes.

Gently bubbling under the surfaceis the alternative country -folk frater-nity-featuring Badly Drawn Boy(Twisted Nerve/XL), Grandaddy (V2),Elliott Smith (Dreamworks) andLowgold (Nude)-who should shapethe landscape for guitar music overthe next 12 months. Over in the US,sportz metal of the variety peddled byLimp Bizkit (Interscope), Slipknot(Roadrunner) and the BloodhoundGang (Geffen) was not only makingthe transition to European radio butfilling arenas at the same time. Thebiggest US export east though wasrap in the form of the prodigalEminem, who became one of the firstartist in history to take the genre tothe top of the charts across Europe.

Outside of the US, Germany has provedthe biggest market for Moby, second tothe UK, but every major European terri-tory has come on board for the artist andhis independent English label Mute.Moby's skill is in blurring the boundariesbetween dance, rock and pop while pro-ducing an end product that is equally asappealing to each market. A string of big -selling, atmospheric singles-Why DoesMy Heart Feel So Bad?, Porcelain andNatural Blues-and a triumphant liveappearance at Privilege in Ibiza have con-firmed Moby as a suitably eclectic star fora new century.

U2(Island)Not only do they have arguably the bestmanager in the business, U2 this year ben-efitted from being on the biggest label inthe world behind the launch of their newalbum All That You Can't Leave Behind(M&M, issue 48). The result saw the bandsell five million copies in less than twoweeks and go to number one in 31 differ-ent countries-an achievement their man-ager Paul McGuinness told M&M heranked as the pinnacle of his career todate. Still working the first single off thealbum, Beautiful Day, the band will start aworld tour in the US next March, in a cam-paign their manager believes should spana further five singles, taking them throughto Christmas 2001.

Radiohead(Parlophone)The follow-up to OK Computer-regardedby many in the industry as one of thegreatest albums of all time-was alwaysgoing to be a stiff challenge. Radiohead'sresponse was to change their formula andadopt an avant garde, piece meal approachto constructing music that left criticsdivided. Their supporters saw Kid A as atriumph of invention over staid guitarmusic while their detractors regarded thealbum as an easy cop out by a band thathad run out of melodic ideas. Consumerson the other hand bought the record in

The year in pictures (from top):Eminem, Moby, Limp Bizkit,Britney Spears, Madonna.'

Winners in the "where did theycome from?" category includeAmerican singer Anastacia with I'mOutta Love (Epic), UK guitar slingersColdplay with Parachutes(Parlophone), and Finnish actsDarude with dance classic and debutsingle Sandstorm (16 Inch Record)and chart toppers Bomfunk MC's(Epidrome/Sony).

2000 was also the year of the bigcomeback. Bon Jovi returned afterfive years and went straight to the topof the European charts with Crush(Mercury). U2 did the same with AllThat You Can't Leave Behind, whileRadiohead exceeded all expectationswith their eagerly -awaited fourthalbum Kid A (Parlophone) which not

only dominated European charts butalso took the top spot in the US.

Other big hitters who maintainedtheir profiles as truly global acts wereMadonna, The Corrs with In Blue(143/Lava/Atlantic), and the ubiqui-tous Britney Spears who replicatedthe success of Baby One More Time byrecording a similar sounding follow-up in the form of Oops!...I Did ItAgain (Jive). In a year when everyonefrom Poptones CEO Alan McGee toGeorge Michael and Bono werebemoaning the seeming omnipotenceof pure pop, two of its finest examplesRobbie Williams and Kylie Minoguehit the top of the charts both indepen-dently and together on the duet Kids(Chrysalis).

All in all quite a year and, with mil-lions upon millions of units shifted andstyles as diverse as St Germain andAlejandro Sanz (WEA) enjoying com-mercial currency, popular music movesinto 2001 with a clean bill of health.

droves, despite there being no singlerelease, taking it high into the top 10 in 14of the key European markets in its firstweek of release and straight in at numbertwo in the European Top 100 Albums.Famously, Kid A also took the act fromOxford in England to the top of theBillboard 200 in the US.

Limp Bizkit(Interscope)On the back of six million sales in the US,Limp Bizkit dented Europe with their sec-ond album Significant Other. Initially lin-gering in the lower reaches of theEuropean Top 100 Albums chart, therecord shot up to number seven in Julyafter both radio and TV picked up on thesingle Take A Look Around which doubledas the soundtrack to Hollywood block-buster Mission Impossible 2. The Bizkit'sthird album Chocolate Starfish And TheHotdog Flavored Water peaked at numberone in M&M's album chart in November.Current single My Generation went on salein October and the forthcoming Rollin' willbe in the shops in January.

Britney Spears(Jive)Teen star Britney has shown this year thatshe is far from a one -hit wonder with hersecond album Oops!...I Did It Again mir-roring the success of Baby One More Time.The title track went to number one in theEurochart Hot 100 prior to the albumlaunch in Paris in May (M&M, issue 21),then the album itself took the top spot asdid follow-up single Lucky. Current singleStronger is enjoying enormous supportfrom radio. Britney's European tour thisautumn also ensured the singer was neverfar from the limelight in Europe for long.Britney even has a Christmas present forher followers-she features on the compi-lation album Platinum Christmas with thetrack My Only Wish (This Year).

Madonna(Maverick/Warner Bros)After her successful collaboration with UKdance producer William Orbit, Madonnarepeated the formula with French elec-tronica whizzkid Mirwais. The result wasMusic which, released in September, had

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sold over 12 million units worldwide attime of press. The video to accompany thesingle Music was on heavy rotation onMTV and on domestic TV music channels.Her live performances at the MTV EuropeAwards in Stockholm and, triumphantly,at the Brixton Academy in London weretwo masterly crafted marketing strokesthat helped push the album back into thehigher levels of the charts. It capped ayear when her cover of Don MacLean'sAmerican Pie also reached number one inthe Eurochart Hot 100 Singles, despite aless than rapturous reception from critics,but with strong support from Europeanradio.

European Champions

Anastacia(Epic)Coupling an authentic '70s R&B vocal per-formance with an MTV friendly face,Anastacia Newkirk took Europe by stormthis summer (M&M, issue 44). Under thedirection of Epic executive VP DaveMassey in New York, Anastacia dominatedthe Eurochart Hot 100 Singles with debutrelease I'm Outta Love and sold over onemillion units of her album Not That Kindon the Continent within its first threemonths of release. She also topped the sin-gles charts in Australia and dented the UKtop ten in September. Epic's Europeanoffices put her success down to a majornew talent singing a great song and-importantly-promotional access to theartist. If Epic can replicate Anastacia'sEuropean success in her domestic marketin 2001, the likes of Britney and Madonnawill have new a rival.

Coldplay

M&M first alerted its readership to thetalents of young London four -pieceColdplay back in the Spring New TalentSpotlight (M&M, issue 15). At the timethey had released just two singles TheBlue Room EP and Bigger Stronger, bothof which displayed an effortless gift with amelody combined with some deft guitarwork, without troubling the chart watch-ers too much. After some triumphant festi-val appearances, Coldplay topped the UKsingles and album charts with Yellow andParachutes respectively, the latter peakingat number 12 on the European Top 100Albums. In the space of 12 months theband have gone from being unknown toone of the largest live draws in the UK. IfEMI can keep the momentum up with therelease of the act's sophomore album,Coldplay can join Travis in carrying theflag for British guitar music.

Badly Drawn Boy(Twisted Nerve/XL)Another indie act that's gone from obscuri-ty to widespread acclaim in 2000 isManchester's Damon Gough, aka BadlyDrawn Boy (MM, issues 32 & 39).Ploughing similar acoustic, country tingedfurrows as Elliott Smith, BDB crossedover on the back of his Mercury MusicPrize-winning debut album The Hour OfBewilderbeast. Renowned for the oftenextended length of his live shows, theBadly Drawn Boy album offers similargood value for money featuring 18 trackswith a distinctive, uncontrived feel tothem. Despite the oxygen of publicity theMercury Music Prize generates, the wool-ly -hatted Gough has not seen huge salesfor The Hour Of Bewilderbeast. However,the feeling at the Beggars Banquet -ownedXL label is these are still early days for anartist whose songwriting is already beingcompared to the likes of Beck and JohnLennon.

Eros Ramazzotti(BMG)Eros Ramazzotti has succeeded wheremany Italian artists have failed-to gainpan-European success (M&M, issue 45).This year's album Stilelibero (BMG/Ariola)has consolidated his popularity, withEuropean sales topping the 1.7 millionmark. the album has maintained a con-stant top five position in M&M's EuropeanTop 100 Albums since its release at the endof October and all of this a full three yearsafter his last studio album, ErosRamazzotti. The Roman artist has workedhard to achieve this level of popularity,having recorded his first single fully 18years ago. Un Angelo Non E, his new sin-gle, has already gone to radio and gets itsofficial release on January 22.

UK Garage2000 was the year that garage emergedfrom the UK underground of clubs andpirate radio to achieve chart success(M&M, issue 17). The ball began rollinglast year with The Artful Dodger's Re -Rewind (Public Demand) and gainedmomentum this year with hits such asSweet Female Attitude's Flowers (WEA),MJ Cole's Crazy Love (Talkin' Loud) andThe Architects' Body Groove (Go!Beat), allof which featured strongly in M&M'sEurochart. BBC CHR Radio 1 fuelled thecraze with its Sunday morning show pre-sented by top garage producers The DreemTeam. With the recent release in the US ofSFA's Flowers and a garage compilation, itwill be interesting to see whether this UKphenomenon can achieve global success.

Gigi D'Agostino(BXR/Media Records)This year the name Gigi D'Agostino wentfrom being familiar in Italy to well-knownacross Europe. Early tracks by the south-ern Italian dance artist, signed to indielabel BXR/Media Records, made littleimpression outside his native country. Butin March Bla Bla Bla entered the M&MEurochart Hot 100 Singles, followed inApril by The Riddle, a dance reworking ofthe Nik Kershaw track from the 1980s.Both tracks are taken from D'Agostino'ssecond album L'Amour Toujours, whichhas spent over 30 weeks on the M&MEuropean Top 100 Albums chart. The mostrecent single from the album, La Passion,is also doing well. Media Records sub -labelBXR is hoping its "The Sound Of TheFuture" slogan will continue to hold true.

The Finnish waveDarude (16 Inch Records) andBomfunk MC's (Epidrome/Sony)Along with The Bomfunk MC's, Darude,aka Ville Vertanen, has put Finland firmlyon the pop music map. His first singleSandstorm (16 Inch Records) gained mas-sive dancefloor status in his home countryand went straight in to the Eurochart Hot100 Singles at number 8 back in June.Following a distribution deal with UK'sNeo Records it became the first everFinnish record to enter the top five in theUK singles chart, when it debuted at num-ber 3. Like the Bomfunk MC's' Freestyler,M&M's Top single of the year, Sandstormis a slow -burner and will have been on theM&M chart for 26 weeks by the end of theyear. The latest single Feel The Beat hasbuilt on that success. The album BeforeThe Storm was released in September inFinland, where it has already gone plat-inum, and is set for release in the UK inthe Spring.

The year in pictures (from top):Anatacia, Coldplay, Badly DrawnBoy, Eros Ramazzotti, BomfunkMC's, Darude, Kylie, RobbieWilliams.

French ElectronicaMusic sounds better when it's from Francethese days...Madonna-an expert in latch-ing on to the music vibe of the times-hadalready sent the right signal by teamingwith composer/producer Mirwais on Music.But with two number one hit singles atopof the Eurochart Hot 100 this year, Modjo'sLady (Barclay/Universal) and Daft Punk'sOne More Time (Labels/Virgin), Frenchelectronica has made an impressive returnto form and proven that the 1997-98 wavespearheaded by Daft Punk and Air was nota fad (M&M, issue 47). The success of the"French touch" is not limited to the afore-mentioned. Names as Bob Sinclar (Yellow/Eastwest), Benjamin Diamond (Epic),Etienne de Crecy (V2), Mirwais (Naive),Mellow (Atmospheriques), Saint Germain(Blue Note/EMI), veteran DJ LaurentGamier (F Comm.) and many others havecarried the flag outside their native coun-try during 2000. 2001 is likely to fuel thecurrent tidal wave, with albums due fromAir, Daft Punk and Modjo, among others,set to groove the world.

The Corrs(143/Lava/Atlantic)The Corrs rapidly became favourites ofEuropean programmers when their secondalbum Talk On Corners, which includedthe hits So Young and What Can I Do, wasreissued in 1998. With their third albumIn Blue released this year, the Irish sib-lings reinforced this relationship with astring of hit singles including Radio,Irresistible and Breathless, and estab-lished a virtual residency on Europe's air-waves (M&M, issue 31). The album itselfwent to number one in the European Top100 Albums chart. 2000 also saw the bandassume Jean -Michel Jarre's role as IFPIartist spokespersons.

UK PopstersRobbie (Chrysalis), Kylie(Parlophone) and Sonique(Serious)Kylie Minogue's first album forParlophone, Light Years, came out inSeptember and made it to number 10 inEurope, following the success of come -backsingles Spinning Around and On A NightLike This (M&M, issue 29). The Aussie'sduet with Robbie Williams on Kids fromhis third album Sing When You're Winning(M&M, issue 41) also hit the charts thisautumn, peaking at 11 in the Europeansingles chart. Williams' Rock DJ is stillspinning on European radio and music TVstations and his album is close to two mil-lion sales in Europe. Fellow Brit Sonique'sstory started in the US last year when sin-gle It Feels So Good was picked up by USradio and became a hit. Soon enoughEurope became aware of the single andembraced it followed by Ibiza anthem Skyand the remake of jazz classic Put A SpellOn You. Her debut album Hear Me Crypeaked at 29 (M&M, issue 24).

Alejandro Sanz(WEA/Warner Music)The biggest star in Spain, Alejandro Sanzreceived an IFPI Platinum Award inBrussels this year for his 1997 album Maswhich has sold more than two millionalbums in Europe. Sanz's current albumEl Alma Al Aire was released worldwideon September 26, 2000 and sold one mil-lion copies within a week of release (M&M,issues 41 & 43) and has stayed in the top40 of the European Top 100 Albums eversince. The single Quisiera Ser as well asnumerous album tracks have filled theSpanish airwaves in 2000.

Reviews by Adam Howorth,Siri Stavenes Dove, Gareth Thomas

and Emmanuel Legrand.

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A year of all shapes and sizesEMI/Warner +AOL/Time WarnerOn paper it made sense to marryWarner and EMI and create thebiggest music group in the world. Butthe promoters of the project neveranticipated that it would receive somany negative reactions-not leastfrom European regulators-and thatten months after trumpeting the deal,the parties had to face the humilia-tion of having to "withdraw" their pro-posal, such was the level of reserva-tion for the plans. That a few people,like Frenchman Patrick Zelnik orindies' organisation Impala, did a lotto derail the course of the actionwould come as no consolation. In theend, Time Warner decided to sacrificethe EMI deal to secure a much morestrategic-and financially attrac-tive-deal with AOL. The AOL/TimeWarner entity prefigures the compa-nies of the 21st Century, combiningcontent and distribution platforms.

The importance ofBrussels confirmedOn a number of occasions, Europeanpolicy -makers and regulators madedecisions which had a direct effect onthe music industry, confirming thestatus of Brussels as the real centre ofpower in the European Union.However, one of the ways it expressedthis power came as one of the biggestdisappointments of the year for themusic industry, because despiteadvances there was still no vote of aCopyright Directive which hasalready been four years in the mak-ing. A final text should eventually bevoted on by the Parliament at thebeginning of 2001. Also in the worksis the Directive on e -commerce which,at some levels, remains unsatisfyingin terms of protection for rights own-ers, while in December Brusselsunveiled the first draft of a Directiveon piracy, which will introduce protec-tion for right owners and penalties foroffenders.

But it's in the area of competitionthat the sword of the EC has beenfelt, as Mario Monti's department hasbeen scrutinising the proposed merg-ers of EMI/Warner Music, AOL/TimeWarner and Vivendi/Seagram/Canal+. While the latter two wentthrough the process with just a fewundertakings, the former was with-drawn when it appeared thatEuropean regulators would veto theproposal.

NRJ backs out of RMC dealThe acquisition of the financiallytroubled full -service station RMC wasbound to transform NRJ Group intothe indisputable leading radio compa-ny in France, but things turned outdifferently. Because of a new census,the parameters used to monitor own-ership had changed and would havepushed NRJ Group's properties wayover the ceiling of 150 million poten-tial listeners if the acquisition had