Music Industry EXPOSED:Payola, Price And Chart Fixing
Straight Up Paying to Get Their Song on the Radio
Quote:
You may have heard of payola before -- it's the shady practice of paying radio station programmers and disc jockeys cash under the table to include a specific song or group of songs in their rotation.
Quote:
It was outlawed at one point, but that doesn't mean it went away. They call it pay-for-play now, and record labels get around the illegal part by being totally up front when a cash exchange takes place.
Manipulating the Charts to Make a Song Look Like a Hit
Quote:
Believe it or not, the Hot 100 part of Billboard charts used to be compiled by calling up record stores and asking them how many of each physical single they sold.Needless to say, ****ery abounded, and 1991 saw tracks in the Hot 100 (Paula Abdul's "The Promise of a New Day" and Roxette's "Fading Like a Flower") that held much higher places than their Nielsen-monitored sales and airplay figures would justify. To try to clean up such blatant ********, a point-of-sale tracking system called SoundScan was implemented. But time and time again, even SoundScan has been thwarted using sometimes shockingly low-tech techniques like having clerks scan sales more than once.
Inflating Prices, Then Screwing the Artists
Quote:
there was a class action lawsuit that charged the music industry with illegal price fixing and ended with a payout to consumers to the tune of $67.4 million in cash and $75.7 million in free CDs
Quote:
for the most part, the artist doesn't make **** from record sales. Not only can the label wind up keeping all of the profits on even an album that goes platinum, but the band can actually wind up deeply in debt to the label
Reducing Sound Quality So You Perceive a Song as "Louder"
Quote:
... it was discovered that you could use a technique called dynamic range compression to amplify the quieter parts of the melody to match the louder
This thread has been reported to the ATRL moderators. If it is found to be inaccurate, fake, already posted, off topic, or hateful, then it will be closed.
All this is true, we all know it, but no one here will admit it cause they will lose points in their discussion. The sad truth is, the ones with more money chart better and receive more press too. The more money you have to invest, the more you probably will get back. A lot of artists invest in press other ones in Radio, not saying names cause I don't want WP's.
Can we trust 1+ milli selling artists of last years now?
