Rolling Stone Exposes Payola

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17 hours ago, Dulo Peep said:

nor Dua or her team, she have achieve succes through hard work and truly connecting with her audience

 

plus bops and lewks

delusion, convince yourself

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It's so weird seeing them finally talk about this lmao

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7 hours ago, Doot said:

Does that surprise you in the least? 

 

57 minutes ago, Pharamon said:

delusion, convince yourself

Jealousy is a low vibrational state of mind luvs, xx 

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

That last sentence in the article is so true. It's the reason radio should have a smaller toll in the Hot100 and I've been saying it for years and always get harassed by the charts thread chartsters for saying it. 

"...No one will even notice. No one listens to the radio unless in car.”

[ImMatt 1,795]

So I guess Scooter Braun paid Rolling Stone not to be named as paying radio? 

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““Please don’t let Interscope dictate anything to you,” he wrote. “They don’t pay me ****.””

This explains so much 

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13 hours ago, rasclautmangos said:

Was Interscope out of payola money this year or something?

Or does Gaga limit/refuse it?

They probably used all their payola money to Bucky Eyelash 

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Radio is garbage. You think this is bad now, it was probably absolutely awful in the 60s. Thank God for the streaming era where artists don’t need this scam to stay relevant and successful. 

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37 minutes ago, ImMatt said:

So I guess Scooter Braun paid Rolling Stone not to be named as paying radio? 

Definitely lol.

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@ZiggyZiggs Congrats for spotting Goulding's payola a year ago lol. ;)

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47 minutes ago, ShtoopidLahv said:

Radio is garbage. You think this is bad now, it was probably absolutely awful in the 60s. Thank God for the streaming era where artists don’t need this scam to stay relevant and successful. 

That makes zero sense. First of all, music was WAY better in the ‘60s than it is today. Second, radio was an active form music listening before the internet, where people would actually call up their local radio stations and request they play their favorite song.

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1 hour ago, ImMatt said:

So I guess Scooter Braun paid Rolling Stone not to be named as paying radio? 

maybe he even wrote this article 

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4 minutes ago, AJRocketMan said:

That makes zero sense. First of all, music was WAY better in the ‘60s than it is today. Second, radio was an active form music listening before the internet, where people would actually call up their local radio stations and request they play their favorite song.

Lmfao. Ok Boomer, Show me your objective standard for how music was WAY better in the 60s. (You’re actually wrong, the music of the Baroque era was 30 times better than the music of the 60s  )

 All the payola laws and regulations came out of the scandals that the big labels were apart of back in that era. You literally could not be a successful artist without major label support. Again thank god we live in the streaming era where five record labels don’t dominate music consumption and thousands of artists can flourish and be easily discovered and accessible. 

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all mediocre artists

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Now I obviously love Dua but this was kind of obvious  Maybe this further justifies the proof that Physical (which organically debuted at #60!) deserved to be a single over BMH in the U.S. and would've grown organically instead so they wouldn't have to payola for it