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Angela Cheng Drags Bill Werde
Or at least attempts to.
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Billboard used to set the standard for the music industry. They provided accurate weekly lists of the top albums and singles. Unfortunately, they decided to make Bill Werde the Editorial Director and things went downhill. The magazine now charts based on fanboy favorites and record company "favors."
Bill Werde is tough to look at. He looks like the desperate type of older guy who hangs out at gay clubs hoping to pick up a young twink (not that there is anything wrong with that). But his practices are even worse. He is an obsessive-compulsive Lady Gaga fan who manipulates all the charts in order to promote Lady Gaga as a relevant act.
In May of 2011, the creepy man allowed Lady Gaga's "Born this Way" to chart at the top, despite the fact that it was only released for 99 cents. It was highly alleged that this past fall, Werde met with Interscope and Lady Gaga to invent a "Grigorian Algorithm" that allowed non-hits such as "Dope" to chart in the top ten based on YouTube and Vevo views never intended for the song. He also allowed "Applause" to chart after Gaga fans cheated by passing links to each other that allowed the video to play in a loop 3,000 times.
Werde has insulted Examiner.com on Twitter as well as many media outlets. However, we do investigative reporting that tells the truth. Bill Werde lives in a fantasy world of lies. If you are going to accuse a news outlet of being unethical, you first have to take a look on how you run your magazine.
"The way Bill Werde runs the magazine is highly suspect," a music industry insider tells us. "The charts are not based on actual success anymore; they are allegedly based on how much Bill Werde likes the song. There has been a lot of negative whispering from staff members."
We are not sure if one of those staff members is Keith Caulfield, a veteran Billboard journalist who is probably the only ethical one there. Even though Caulfield has stanned for Madonna (just read his gushing view of the barely listenable MDNA album), his writing is usually articulate, accurate, and even entertaining.
There are rumors spreading that Bill Werde won't be working at Billboard much longer for the reasons expressed in this article. If the magazine had any sense, they would make Keith Caulfield the new Editorial Director.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/wors....dTcD3ArD.uxfs
My bad if this was AP.
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She might be on to something.
