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* After Ashlee Simpson's infamously off-key Orange Bowl performance, over three hundred online forums saw [http://www.metafilter.com/38963/Message-Forum-Spam identical spam posts] in support of her. |
* After Ashlee Simpson's infamously off-key Orange Bowl performance, over three hundred online forums saw [http://www.metafilter.com/38963/Message-Forum-Spam identical spam posts] in support of her. |
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* Payola is the practice of being paid to play music on the radio, disguising it as regular airplay, used by many "request" shows. Although outlawed in the U.S. by the 1950s, record companies got around this by hiring "independent" promoters who acted as middlemen for the process. |
* Payola is the practice of being paid to play music on the radio, disguising it as regular airplay, used by many "request" shows. Although outlawed in the U.S. by the 1950s, record companies got around this by hiring "independent" promoters who acted as middlemen for the process. |
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** Payola is only illegal if it's not disclosed; that loophole still allows plenty of [[Product Placement]] on licenced stations in many countries. As some music popularity charts (such as Billboard) do take the amount of radio airplay into account as one of multiple indicators of a song's popularity, it's not unheard of for a label to pay to have a record played a few extra times in the wee hours if it's currently sitting just outside the top ten. |
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* And, after the first [[The Police]] single "Fall Out" was released, letters began appearing in some local London music magazines praising the band's drummer, Stewart Copeland. Later (much later), it was revealed that those lettters were written by one Stewart Copeland. |
* And, after the first [[The Police]] single "Fall Out" was released, letters began appearing in some local London music magazines praising the band's drummer, Stewart Copeland. Later (much later), it was revealed that those lettters were written by one Stewart Copeland. |
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* Urban radio stations have been accused of this. Including Music Video networks. |
* Urban radio stations have been accused of this. Including Music Video networks. |
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