New York Daily News - Home - DJs were paid to play that tune: "DJs were paid to play that tune
Spitzer probe finds gigantic payola scam; Sony will pay $10M
Sick of lousy songs on the radio?
Blame it on a corrupt record business that skews the Top 40 by giving free trips and other goodies to radio programmers - and cold cash to radio stations to play their artists, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer charged yesterday.
Big-name artists like Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion and Good Charlotte got airtime on the radio because their labels gave away computers and trips to Las Vegas, according to telltale industry E-mails Spitzer uncovered - and revealed yesterday.
'Payola is pervasive. It reaches to the very top of the industry, on the radio side and the label side,' Spitzer said yesterday as he announced the first settlement in his probe of pay-for-play in the music industry."
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