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Originally posted by supaspaz
Just in Gaga's defense, we should also consider the fact that after four straight hit singles, why wouldn't "Bad Romance" shoot up the radio charts? I don't think radio needed much incentive to play what they thought for sure their audience wanted. How should they know the song would underperform sales-wise? I really don't see an issue of payola here.
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I get what you're saying but it just doesn't work that way, especially not to the degree of airplay that BR is getting. All of the singles from
Breakaway were hits too but that didn't result in major airplay for "Never Again" or "Sober," did it? However,
My December flopped and all of a sudden radio started playing Kelly's new singles like crazy. Record labels spend big bucks making sure we hear what they want us to hear and radio stations thrive on that.