Elton John Advertising XM Radio

[EvanJ]

www.radio-info.net/mods/board?Post=329617&Board=la
OffAir posted:
"By now you've probably seen the ads for XM (satellite) radio featuring Elton John. Does anyone else find that annoying? FM/AM radio made Elton John, now he's selling out and promoting a company that openly admits its goal is to eliminate terrestrial radio." and OffAir asked if terrestrial radio should boycott Elton

[Slinky]

Maybe they should boycott U2 as well. They've been featured in iPod commercials.

They should really boycott Black Eyed Peas. Their music has been in iPod AND XM commercials.

... or maybe this whole boycott thing is stupid. Yeah, I'm going to go with that. No radio station would be dumb enough to boycott a core artist unless the listeners demanded it. Not giving listeners what they want is exactly why traditional radio is losing ground to satellite and devices like the iPod. A boycott would just make radio seem desperate and drive off listeners.

[tico]

If radio boycotts artists who endorse satellite radio, then radio would need to boycott itself since they do air advertisements of XM and Sirius.

[EvanJ]

www.vh1.com/news/articles/1495782/20050112/nelly.jhtml?headlines=true
Nelly, Alicia Keys, Ashanti, Avril Lavigne, Ludacris and Hoobastank are supporting terrestrial radio

[crazywater76]

Radio's done a pretty good job of killing itself these days, XM is just providing the service they radio used to provide...

[Chelsea Press 2]

I think it's a tad annoying. Of course, I'll push the Mute button when the ad comes on. It doesn't air that often on the channels I watch.

Elton is probably getting paid a lot for this endorsement and when you haven't had some hits for quite some time, you'll take any offer you can get.

He has had some minor club hits recently.