Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead!

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www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/05/payola/index_np.html

Payola is dead! Now what will we listen to?[/b]

And the money connected to indie promotion in recent years was staggering, costing labels $250,000 just to pitch a song, and much more if the song became a hit. When Mercury Nashville crossed country singer Shania Twain over to pop radio in 2001, the label spent $1.5 million on indie promotion alone, according to the label's president. For record companies, indie promotion often cost more than making the actual album or marketing it. Of course, labels turned around and deducted a large portion of those promotion fees from artists' earnings. As Don Henley testified before the Senate Commerce Committee last year, "I know there's payola, because I get billed for it."

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