payola

How To Use payola In A Sentence

• In a statement, Spitzer declared that, "When a record label engages in an elaborate scheme to purchase air time for its artists, it violates state and federal law and presents consumers with a skewed picture of the country's proclaimed 'best' and 'most popular' music" He added that payola smites struggling artists, who aren't being judged on their talents. Hot Wax: Spitzer Says EMI Settles Payola Probe
• Any payola arrangements, if they were made, were left to Artie. TOUCH
• What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system.
• The past five months have brought charges of price gouging, illegal insider trading, kickbacks and payola that have rocked the industry.
• Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply.
• Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola.
• I'd heard of payola as I entered the music business professionally in the mid seventies, but naïvely thought it would never apply to me.
• Apparently other bloggers are more fortunate than I, and are cashing in nicely by offering "reviews" of stuff in exchange for payola from the makers and sellers of said stuff. Jack Bog's Blog: July 2009 Archives
• Let's enjoy this new format before the labels start offering payola to bloggers.
• Granted, this opens up the service to the type of payola that haunts the radio industry.