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Is it true Gags had to pay the radios to play songs from TF?


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For a sec. I thought this was going to be about PI :madge: 

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You all should brush up on some music industry history. Paying radio stations to play your music is completely illegal. Google "payola" and you'll be greeted with some valuable information. There are radio promotion companies that exist which labels commonly use. These companies call each and every radio station to basically beg them to play the new music. But no money is ever involved. Gaga does not have a radio deal as many people keep mentioning on this forum. Such a thing would never be allowed to exist. 

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3 minutes ago, tyke95 said:

You all should brush up on some music industry history. Paying radio stations to play your music is completely illegal. Google "payola" and you'll be greeted with some valuable information. There are radio promotion companies that exist which labels commonly use. These companies call each and every radio station to basically beg them to play the new music. But no money is ever involved. Gaga does not have a radio deal as many people keep mentioning on this forum. Such a thing would never be allowed to exist. 

You are misinformed.

- radio deals do exist. Gaga invented them with Born This Way. No money involved per se.

- payola does exist. It's done with a middleman, and usually not in pure cash but in the form of trips and other gifts. And it's not necessarily obliging radio to play the song, but 'recommending'.

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18 minutes ago, tyke95 said:

You all should brush up on some music industry history. Paying radio stations to play your music is completely illegal. Google "payola" and you'll be greeted with some valuable information. There are radio promotion companies that exist which labels commonly use. These companies call each and every radio station to basically beg them to play the new music. But no money is ever involved. Gaga does not have a radio deal as many people keep mentioning on this forum. Such a thing would never be allowed to exist. 

Radio is "pay to play" A lot of the time the success of an artist is determined by how much the record company is willing to promote them.

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