Quote from: Guilty on April 16, 2018, 09:55:36 AM
Quote from: Zabi. on April 16, 2018, 09:36:00 AM
QuoteRecent comments from Warner Music Group CEO Stephen Cooper all-but-confirm those lingering suspicions. ?In the past it was about radio play, weekly charts and sales ? now it?s a minute-by-minute battle for people?s time and attention,? Cooper told Billboard in an interview this week.
?So playlisting is one of the big reasons why artists need record labels today.?
Strangely, it was Billboard itself that exposed the racket a few months ago, with information about inside operators, pay-for-play price tags, and other dirty aspects of modern-day payola. ?Spots on many of the largest Spotify playlists are already controlled by the three major music companies, which each own a branded property that curates playlists of many styles and genres,? asserted Billboard journalist Glenn Peoples in a piece sharply critical of the practice and its major label controllers.
Peoples even cited sources inside the major labels to affirm that payola ? for playlists ? definitely exists. ?Pay for play ?is definitely ?happening,? claims a major label marketing executive, one of several who say that popular playlists can and have been bought,? People wrote.
Welcome to ?playlist payola,? the modern-day equivalent to old school payoffs of radio station deejays. And just like the old days, there are specific prices for spins. Peoples cited a source stating ?$2,000 for a playlist with tens of thousands of fans,? up to to ?$10,000 for the more well-followed playlists?.
https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/record-labels/7370414/music-isnt-a-commodity-warner-music-ceo-stephen-cooper-on
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This would apply to Nicki more than Cardi ![dead :dead:](https://www.brandysource.net/Smileys/Bsource Smileys/dead.gif)
it's unrealistic to think Atlantic has the money to spend on multiple Cardi tracks occupying multiple top positions across multiple music streaming services for THIS long.
Someone like Nicki, whose label buys tops spots which only last a couple of days then falls because she doesn't have the fanbase or hype to help her STAY there.
Wow. You are one dumb nigger.
Atlantic is owned by Warner and it's LITERALLY the CEO of Warner who's spilling the tea in the article I posted
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Atlantic/Warner is a company with millions of dollars (and in Warner's case, a billion dollar company) and she's currently their biggest artist, so it's not surprising that they're continuously milking out coins to keep her at the top of all these Spotify/Apple Music playlists.
And what does Nicki's iTunes positions have to do with
streaming payola?
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Unless you want to insinuate that Nicki going #1 on iTunes is fueled by payola. And if you're gonna insinuate that, I'm gonna need to see some receipts.