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Christopher Lawrence & DJ Dan Disqualified From The DJ Mag Top 100 (pg. 2)
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| ProggieGuy |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
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I have no comment because I once said something about GA on TA and I got a phone call from his Manager.
but lol @ that ^^. I didn't know bribing was ALSO involved this year. |
But they actually caught it this year, so wouldn't that make this year's vote be worth it? |
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| euphoria |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
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I have no comment because I once said something about GA on TA and I got a phone call from his Manager.
but lol @ that ^^. I didn't know bribing was ALSO involved this year. |
Eh I hope he calls me hahah I will curse him out and hang up. How did he get ur phone number? Thats weird :P |
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| AY STAR |
lol @ mel
what did his manager say to you? |
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| Scoops |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
Not only that, but dj's begging for votes on myspace is fuking ridiculous as well as CHEATING! :rolleyes:
Wow. just wow. People would actually stoop that low! |
yea GTR always seems to push it |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
Eh I hope he calls me hahah I will curse him out and hang up. How did he get ur phone number? Thats weird :P |
haha
man it was BAD! It was done by mistake. Some douche bag FLTA Gerry Cueto called up a TA I'm friends with and was like "oh i lost mel's number blah blah blah" & gave it to him. He never had my number!! [he has the same manager as GA and told on me like we're in 5th grade. boo hoo]
I came online to bitch about his Manager calling me. I thought it was a joke at first. But he was seriously saying he was going to sue me for defamation of character.
it was this big BIG thing back and forth. Lots of drama in FLTA. But it's all cool. I did get to talk to GA right before I moved up here. :stongue:
This happened like not even a year ago. |
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| phuzzyfish12 |
I don't think it was the DJ's themselves that created the situation of cheating but more by there managers.
Shouldn't be a shock to anyone....anyone ever heard of payola....back in the 60's Radio DJ's getting paid to play particular albums by artists on the radio to build up a fan base, same thing. |
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| Frequency Frank |
| quote: | Originally posted by phuzzyfish12
I don't think it was the DJ's themselves that created the situation of cheating but more by there managers.
Shouldn't be a shock to anyone....anyone ever heard of payola....back in the 60's Radio DJ's getting paid to play particular albums by artists on the radio to build up a fan base, same thing. |
Very well said. The managers get paid a % of the DJ fee usually, so the higher up the ladder, the more they get. They aren't the ones actually making the music or traveling the world, so they're conceivably more inclined to partake in this sort of activity. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
I hold them a wee bit accountable.
They had to have known what was going on with their marketing manager.
It would be fine if they weren't touring or travelling the world without plugging the "Number so-and-so DJ IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDD"
If you hire shady ppl.. then deal with the consequences.. IF you get caught. |
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| phuzzyfish12 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
I hold them a wee bit accountable.
They had to have known what was going on with their marketing manager.
It would be fine if they weren't touring or travelling the world without plugging the "Number so-and-so DJ IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDD"
If you hire shady ppl.. then deal with the consequences.. IF you get caught. |
From Fox News:
Payola Shocker: J-Lo Hits, Others Were 'Bought' by Sony
Monday , July 25, 2005
By Roger Friedman
Payola Shocker: J-Lo Hits, Others Were 'Bought' by Sony
I always say when people ask me that the so-called vipers of the movie business would not last a day in the record business. Now Eliot Spitzer's office has decided to prove the point.
"Please be advised that in this week's Jennifer Lopez Top 40 Spin Increase of 236 we bought 63 spins at a cost of $3,600."
"Please be advised that in this week's Good Charlotte Top 40 Spin Increase of 61 we bought approximately 250 spins at a cost of $17K
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Ironically, it didn't help, as the memo notes that the company actually lost spins or plays of the record even though they laid out money for them.
See above: The internal memos from Sony Music, revealed today in the New York state attorney general's investigation of payola at the company, will be mind blowing to those who are not so jaded to think records are played on the radio because they're good. We've all known for a long time that contemporary pop music stinks. We hear "hits" on the radio and wonder, "How can this be?"
Now we know. And memos from both Sony's Columbia and Epic Records senior vice presidents of promotions circa 2002-2003 whose names are redacted in the reports but are well known in the industry spell out who to pay and what to pay them in order to get the company's records on the air.
From Epic, home of J-Lo, a memo from Nov. 12, 2002, a "rate" card that shows radio stations in the Top 23 markets will receive $1000, Markets 23-100 get $800, lower markets $500. "If a record receives less than 75 spins at any given radio station, we will not pay the full rate," the memo to DJs states. "We look forward to breaking many records together in the future."
Take Jennifer Lopez's awful record, "Get Right," with its shrill horn and lifted rap. It's now clear that was a "bought" sensation when it was released last winter. So, too, were her previous "hits" "I'm Glad" and "I'm Real," according to the memos. All were obtained by Sony laying out dough and incentives. It's no surprise. There isn't a person alive who could hum any of those "songs" now. Not even J-Lo herself.
Announced today: Sony Music now known as Sony/BMG has to pony up a $10 million settlement with New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. It should be $100 million. And this won't be the end of the investigation. Spitzer's office is looking into all the record companies. This is just the beginning.
But what a start: Black-and-white evidence of plasma TVs, laptop computers and PlayStation 2 players being sent to DJs and radio programmers in exchange for getting records on the air. And not just electronic gifts went to these people either. According to the papers released today, the same people also received expensive trips, limousines and lots of other incentives to clutter the airwaves with the disposable junk that now passes for pop music.
More memos: "We ordered a laptop for Donnie Michaels at WFLY in Albany. He has since moved to WHYI in Miami. We need to change the shipping address." One Sony memo from 2002: "Can you work with Donnie to see what kind of digital camera he wants us to order?"
Another, from someone in Sony's Urban Promotion department: "I am trying to buy a walkman for Toya Beasley at WRKS/NY.
Can PRS get it to me tomorrow by 3 p.m.
I really need to get the cd by then or I have to wait a week or two before she does her music again
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Nice, huh? How many times have I written in this column about talented and deserving artists who get no airplay, and no attention from their record companies? Yet dozens of records with little or no artistic merit are all over the radio, and racked in displays at the remaining record stores with great prominence. Thanks to Spitzer's investigation, we now get a taste of what's been happening.
More memos. This one from Feb. 13, 2004: "Gave a jessica trip to wkse to secure Jessica spins and switchfoot." That would be Jessica Simpson, for whom Sony laid on big bucks in the last couple of years to turn her into something she's clearly not: a star.
And then there's the story of a guy named Dave Universal, who was fired from Buffalo's WKSE in January when there was word that Spitzer was investigating him. Universal (likely a stage name) claimed he did nothing his station didn't know about. That was probably true, but the DJ got trips to Miami and Yankee tickets, among other gifts, in exchange for playing Sony records. From a Sony internal memo on Sept. 8, 2004: "Two weeks ago it cost us over 4000.00 to get Franz [Ferdinand] on WKSE."
Franz Ferdinand, Jessica Simpson, J-Lo, Good Charlotte, etc. Not exactly The Who, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin or The Kinks. The "classic" is certainly gone from rock.
The question now is: Who will take the fall at Sony for all this? It's not like payola is new. The government investigated record companies and radio stations in the late 1950s and again in the mid 1970s. (When we were in high school, we used to laugh about how often The Three Degrees' "When Will I See You Again?" was played on WABC. We were young and naοve!)
Spitzer is said to be close friends with Sony's new CEO, Andrew Lack, who publicly welcomed the new investigations earlier this year when they were announced. Did Lack anticipate using Spitzer's results to clean house? Stay tuned
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Don't think J.Lo knew about this or needed to use payola in 2005..... |
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| jerZ07002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
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I have no comment because I once said something about GA on TA and I got a phone call from his Manager.
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HAHA....funny stuff...well GA, whoever that is. he's a horrible DJ and a ty person. i hope his manager calls me. |
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| AY STAR |
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
HAHA....funny stuff...well GA, whoever that is. he's a horrible DJ and a ty person. i hope his manager calls me. |
rofl you will deff put him in his place |
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