Random music news for Saturday, January 25, 2020
How long before someone comes up with song called “My Corona (Virus)” to the tune of “My Sharona?” It’s bound
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Payola
Random music news for Thursday, January 23, 2020
My winter speaking tour starts tonight. Details here. Maybe we’ll end up discussing the music news of January 23, 2020.
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Random music news for Tuesday, September 10, 2019
On this day in 1977, the last guillotine execution was carried out in France. With that imagery in mind, here’s
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Random music news for Saturday, August 10, 2019
It’s officially back to school season, innit? Distract yourself from how quickly summer is passing with this look at music
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Payola is alive and well in the US radio business
Back in the spring, I had dinner with a couple of old friends who work in the American music business.
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Random music news for Saturday, May 26, 2018
NO MORE GDPR EMAILS! PLEASE! I don’t even subscribe to 75% of these newsletters! And now, for music news on
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Payola is Still a Thing in the Music Business. It’s Just Moved Online
Payola–the practice of paying someone to play your music on the radio–has been around since at least the 1950s. After
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Pay-for-Play is Alive and Well in the US
Payola, the practice of paying to have a song played on the radio, has long been illegal. While non-existent in
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Payola No Longer Off the Table for Spotify
Payola is the practice—the illegal practice—of a record label paying a broadcaster to play a song or artist at a
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Random Music News for Friday, January 20, 2017
Off to Winnipeg to see the folks tonight. Oddly, the temperature will be above freezing for the entire time I’m
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Playlists: Individually Curated or Label-Created?
What role should record labels play in the creation of curated playlists on streaming music services, and how much influence
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