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That's right. And of course it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. They deny this. They say that they don't influence sales, that there's no payola, that there's no influence on content. But there's ample evidence that that's false. If you play a song enough, you start singing it. It's really almost that simple. From what I understand, stations used to play a song on average about 40 times a week. It's up to 140 times a week...
...Monday night karaoke version of “What You Know.” T.I. should sue. Not since Lil’ Kim’s last album have I wasted an hour of my life so horribly. Everything went wrong here, and not even a massive payola budget could save these album sales, which will certainly be subpar unless “Girls Gone Wild” is released as a club single. The forgettable, flaccid beats and the presence of Pharrell the Well-Dressed Arch-Demon only explains part of it. With “Release Therapy...
...triumph in the December 2002 presidential plebiscite was itself testimony to the weakness of South Korea's democracy. His main selling point was not his allergy to the U.S. (genuine as that may be), but rather his outsider's r?sum?: his manifest lack of experience in Seoul's payola-driven politics, a system that the great majority of voters already viewed with distrust and disdain. Once in office, Roh's amateurish and inconstant performance, as well as his own cynical attempts to game the system, did little to allay popular misgivings about the health of the democracy. Recall that, after...
...Music: Canto-pop Payola Scam...
...Music: Canto-pop Payola Scam...