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It's going to take how long to figure out what a "free listen" means?
It means nothing in monetary terms.
WTF is the chart all about then?
The popularity, or how much dosh a pile of sh!t rakes in?
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tis all PR and marketing, innit.
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emilystrange wrote:tis all PR and marketing, innit.
Bunch of merchant b@nkers.

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emilystrange wrote:tis all PR and marketing, innit.
Music industry :roll:

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Shouldn't streaming sites be counted in the same way as airplay? Switching on the radio or voting on MTV don't count towards the charts although the former does count towards the airplay chart (which is ultimately just a record of which songs radio executives are taking backhanders to put on their playlists this week).
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It's all payola anyway.

I recall hearing a story (possibly untrue) about Westlife and Louis Walsh back in the early days of their carreer. Apparently one of the boys didn't like some suggestion that they cancel some meet-and-greet, saying it was "disrespectful of our fans". Louis Walsh loses his temper, says "come with me".

Drags the boys into the car park, opens the back of a Transit van, stacked high with shopping bags full of copies of their latest single. "That's your fans there boys."
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markfiend wrote:It's all payola anyway.

I recall hearing a story (possibly untrue) about Westlife and Louis Walsh back in the early days of their carreer. Apparently one of the boys didn't like some suggestion that they cancel some meet-and-greet, saying it was "disrespectful of our fans". Louis Walsh loses his temper, says "come with me".

Drags the boys into the car park, opens the back of a Transit van, stacked high with shopping bags full of copies of their latest single. "That's your fans there boys."
Thats funny- true or not :lol:
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Well how else would feckin' Westlife get into the charts?

A couple of years ago I wrote some material on immigration for a friend's stand-up set. My premise (and no you may not nick it as I may reuse it one day) was that if people are so worried about immigrants overstretching our resources then we should balance the books by sending a few of our less desirables to them in payment for some of the ones they've landed us with - Australian soaps, Yuri Gellar, and I also put in Westlife because I couldn't think of anyone better. I told him he should change it if he possible but he insisted on sticking with the Irish tossers. Turned out that got the biggest reaction of the night. Just goes to show that everyone hates Westlife. Because they're s**t.
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