The single will be released in the whole of Europe on 2 July.
The video will be released in June. The exact date is yet unknown. From next week Loaded will be available at Dutch radio (request!!).

Ricky will not be coming to the Netherlands during this promotional tour, but a VERY exciting competition Lets Get Loaded With Ricky Martin, that includes a dinner with Ricky in Miami is being planned. More details are to be revealed soon.

Go to http://www.kiss108.com/kissconcert22/access/index.html to watch Ricky kick off his summer concert appearances tomorow. On Saturday, June 16th, There will be a live webcast of the WANGO TANGO at http://www.fmitv.com at 3 pm PST, 12 pm EST!!!

Just a tiny bit of information about the July promotions in Europe:
Sony Japan reports that Ricky will start his promotions in Italy.
We have been informed that it is unlikely that the unplugged performance will take place during this visit to Europe. We will keep you informed of the latest, as soon as we hear something.

Sonymusic UK reports that Ricky will have one of the longest slots at the Party in the Park. He will perform various hits, some recent and some older. Please note that the date they report for PITP (4 July)is incorrect, the correct date is 8 July.

Loaded has been released to radio in most European countries, so start voting at you local radio stations to request the song! As reported previously, the single for Loaded will be released in mainland Europe on 2 July. In the UK, the single will be released on 9 July.

The management has released information on Rickys upcoming shedule. Here is the entire program:

June:
2 Boston- WXKS 2 Concert
3 Philadelphia WIOQ radio event
7 MTV Europe UK star photo session & int. (NY Times tbc)
9 Dallas KHKS Radio concert
15 San Diego KHTS radio concert
16 KIIS-FM Wango Tango Concert L.A.
18-19 Video for Fuego contra Fuego & El Amor de mi Vida
22 Saint Louis MO KSLZ radio concert
23 Kansas City KMXV concert
30 Chicago B96 Summer Bash


July
6 Festival Bar (Venice)
7 Lisbon Harman Sic TV
8 Party in the Park TV special (London)
9 Copenhagen Denmark TV special
10 Stockholm, Sweden TV special
12 TOTP London
13 Promo + CD UK rehearsals
14 CD UK London
16 TV special + promo Poland

In addition, management has confirmed that the video for Loaded will premiere on TRL in the USA on 14 June.

Sonymusic Italy confirmed that Loaded will be officially available on
Italian stores starting from july 2nd, the same date as the rest of Europe.
They also report receiving the video of Loaded yesterday. More information about the channel that will premiere the video in Italy and the date, will follow next week.
Finally, according to Sonymusic, Ricky will be at the Festivalbar on 7 July, not on the 6th as reported in the management schedule.

In addition to rumours that Patrick Bruel is writing a song for Ricky, UK radio news now reports that Gary Barlow is composing songs for Rickys album.

Rickymartin.com has posted a 30-second clip of Loaded, go to www.rickymartin.com/main.html to see it.
Check out the forum for a second clip of the video.
Ricky has been confirmed as a performer at Festa do Peão in August in Brazil.

The Loaded video premiered on MTV Australia today.

During the promotions in Stockholm, Sweden, Ricky will be performing at Skansen.

Ricky is coming to Copenhagen on 9 July. He will be taping a special long interview for DR1 with interviewer Annette Heick. He will also make an exclusive appearance at Magasin at Kgs. Nytorv in the center of Copenhagen to sign autographs. The signing will start at 14:30 and prior to that there will be cool music and entertainment by a radio personality from radio station P3. In addition, you will have a chance to win some great Ricky-related prizes.
Watch out for press coverage on the event on the radio and in magazines starting this week!

If you want to help promote Ricky in Denmark, please go over to http://www.thevoice.dk/ target=_new>The Voice to request your favourite Ricky tune of the moment: Loaded! Let us get Denmark ready for Ricky!

Ricky will be featured as a special guest on a Christmas album by Destinys Child. Other guests include The Dixie Chicks and Beyonce Knowles little sister Solange.

During a TV appearance, Ricky mentioned that he is already recording its new album. He will take his time, and he is writing for this new album. He will be between Miami and Brazil, recording tracks. In Brazil, he will be recording and writing with two of the greatest down there, especially with Caetano Veloso.
The album should be out by next spring.

As his schedule already shows, this summer Ricky will be travelling back and forth often for appearances in the USA and in Europe.


Danish magazine Se og Hør is featuring a competition, where the prize is a chance to meet Ricky when he comes to Denmark. Check it out!

Also keep an eye out for more Meet Ricky in Miami for Dinner competitions all over Europe coming soon!

Ricky will be in Cologne, Germany on 13 July to appear on Kai Pflaumes Show Nur die Liebe zaehlt.
His performance at Wetten Dass this summer has unfortunately been cancelled.

A tour is being planned for 2002.

The MTV France Ricky weekend has now been confirmed for 7-8 July.

The Dinner with Ricky in Miami competition in the Netherlands will be featured on YorinFM, so tune in to hear more details!

Besides working with Caetano Veloso on his new album, Ricky is also be working with Carlinhos Brown. He reportedly invited them to appear at several shows during his next international tour.

Premium Wireless Services Inc., which provides entertainment content to mobile devices, said on Wednesday it licensed the rights to a variety of songs and music from Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (including Ricky Martin) so it can offer them as ringtones for mobile phones.

Below an article abot Rickys stay in Brazil:
Looking for the Brazilian touch
By Agence France Presse

RIO DE JANEIRO - The Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin wants to include in his next album music from Bahia, a state on the Northeast area of Brazil, and looking for that he travelled to Salvador, the capital of the region, to prepare some tracks with performers such as Carlinhos Brown or Caetano Veloso.

According to the press of Bahia, the singer lock up in the recording studio of the percussionist Carlinhos Brown preparing several tracks, although neither of them offered details of the work.

Were doing a music with good quality. Bahia and Ricky Martin will present to the World a music that will be the number one, just said Brown, because the singer asked him to keep on secret this project.

Ricky Martin fell in love with the musical and cultural enchantments of Bahia, as it already happened with other singers such as Paul Simon, Michael Jackson or Julio Iglesias, who also taped video clips in the streets of Salvador.

The press have said that Martin, singer of María and Livin la vida loca, will meet with Caetano Veloso to discuss the inclusion of some of his songwriting in the new album of the Puerto Rican.

The tracklisting of the Loaded maxi in Europe (Germany) is as follows:
1. Loaded
2. Loaded - Robbie Rivera Vocal Mix
3. Loaded - Fairground mix
4. Loaded - video

Heat Magazine in the UK reports that Loaded will be released there the 16th instead of the 9th. As soon as there is more information/confirmation we will report it.

The Italian fanclub has asked us for help. Ricky needs a lot of votes in the Italian MTV chart. Please take a minute to vote for him at http://www.mtv.it/tv/programmi/webchart/interna_piu.html target=_new>MTV Italy.

It has been confirmed by Columbia that the date for the release of Loaded in the UK has been pushed back a week, as was listed in Heat Magazine (see update 27/6).

Thank you all for sending in so many questions (read below)! We will be passing on over 8 pages of questions to the editor!

Our friend, the webmaster of Scandinavia4Ricky has been contacted by a Swedish pop-magazine to come up with some INTERESTING and FUN questions that they could ask Ricky when they interview him the next time he is in Sweden. S4R has offered RMTEE the opportunity to contribute.

So...this is your chance!! If you have a question about something you have always wanted to know and that you think might interest the world... send them to (deadline has passed, thanks for submitting) and we will pass them on.
Be original!

NOTE: Due to the magazine deadline THE DEADLINE FOR QUESTIONS IS 28 JUNE 2001 AT 22:00 CET!!

The Dutch (European) single for Loaded contains: 1. Loaded - George Noriega Radio Edit 2. Loaded - Robbie Rivera Diskofied Vocal Mix

The video for Fuego contra Fuego will shot in Mexico and Prague. The video will be shot over 4 days, 25-26 June and 4-5 July. On 5 July,Ricky will travel to Italy to perform at the Festivalbar, where he will sing 2 songs.