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Post by pi on Oct 7, 2020 16:29:19 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 7, 2020 16:30:55 GMT -5
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Post by lurleene on Oct 7, 2020 17:23:50 GMT -5
LOL! Yes we all knew there was more in play as to who went to the top of the charts than who wrote or recorded a good song. But there is also more in play as the who gets little or any radio play at all. And sadly it has little to do with who is putting out good work. Pay-for-Play Was Banned From Radio — But Texts Reveal It May Still Be Thriving Among the 2,500 text messages obtained by Rolling Stone, several suggest a link between airplay and record label payments Zap instructed a station he worked with to take plays from artists such as Panic! at the Disco and Maren Morris in an effort to boost Marshmello, Halsey, and Dua Lipa. (“Can we take off Panic till Sunday. Help Marshmello go 1,” Zap texted.) On one occasion, Zap instructed a station he worked with to reduce plays for the Jonas Brothers to help P!nk (“Can we pull down Jonas. Bros Sucker,” Zap asked. “Helping Pink go 1”); 14 days later, he asked the same station to take plays away from P!nk to benefit another artist. (“Everyone so desperate and sad at Labels,” Zap wrote. “Let’s pull down Pink and Kelly clarkson.”) In August 2019, a Zap text to one station said, “This week kill Panic and Ed Sheeran and put Shawn super power for #1 … Republic sweating me already.” On the previous week’s chart, Sheeran’s “I Don’t Care” was Number One, Shawn Mendes’ “If I Can’t Have You” was Number Three — Republic Records was promoting the single — and Panic! at the Disco’s “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” was Number Four. As the chart’s tracking week neared its end, the station told Zap that Mendes’ single was set to play every half hour. But then Zap fired off another text: “It is too close and we haven’t jumped Ed yet. After 8 pm. Can we do every 15 min. No one will even notice. No one listens to the radio unless in car.” That week, Mendes leapfrogged Sheeran on the Mediabase chart and hit Number One. www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/pay-for-play-radio-texts-1067691/
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Post by svca on Oct 7, 2020 17:42:36 GMT -5
I think pretty much everybody knows radio play has nothing to do with good music so much as business politics and pay for play.
The actual worth of the music hasn't mattered in quite a while, I'm guessing (haven't actually listened to radio in probably 30 years).
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Post by pi on Oct 7, 2020 18:41:39 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 7, 2020 18:47:04 GMT -5
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Post by lurleene on Oct 7, 2020 20:46:24 GMT -5
I think pretty much everybody knows radio play has nothing to do with good music so much as business politics and pay for play.
The actual worth of the music hasn't mattered in quite a while, I'm guessing (haven't actually listened to radio in probably 30 years). Yep I think most of us agree. But there were some who kept saying, "if Adam only wrote a good song," lol. I don't think anyone even thought that was the problem, after listening to what and who were often at the top of the charts. But I think it gave some comfort. Or they grew tired of some of us complaining about his tepid radio play in the US. HaHa! I was listening to my favorite rock/ alt-rock station last night. They played 3 Queen songs with Freddie back to back. I thought, wouldn't it be nice if they played some cuts from the newly released album. They are a more classic sttion but in the past they did play the re-records of Queen that 5 sec Summer and Mendes did. But SILLY ME.
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Post by willowgarden on Oct 7, 2020 21:31:20 GMT -5
Only available to UK residents but the 1,000 signed copies of the CD and cassette are gone. Signed by Brian, Roger and Adam. This bundle was not in the store earlier today.
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Post by bamafan on Oct 7, 2020 23:08:48 GMT -5
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