The 2005 Radio Scandal Was a Glorious Mess
A little-remembered scandal back in ’04-’05 gave a revealing and hilarious look into music industry corruption. Dozens of popular bands, from Pearl Jam to Norah Jones, relied on a playbook of unscrupulous tactics in order to get their songs played on the radio. “Gifted” playstations, six-figure payola schemes, hiring college kids to make phony song requests: These were among the tricks employed just to stay on the Billboard chart an extra week.
The 2005 radio payola scandal is a disturbing reminder how much the mainstream music market was, and continues to be, fixed. It’s also, in retrospect, really, really entertaining.
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Songs heard in this video:
0:00 NoMBe – Zodiac Structures
0:10 Baha Men – Who Let The Dogs Out
0:18 Baha Men – Move It Like This
0:57 Pat Green – Guy Like Me
1:02 Audioslave – Light My Way
1:10 Norah Jones – Don’t Know Why
1:18 311 – Lovesong
1:24 Silent Partner – Heated Seat
1:58 Linkin Park – Points of Authority
2:33 The Mini Vandals – The Shepherd
3:05 Silent Parker – Smoke
4:40 Kevin Macleod – Bass Walker
6:37 Toby Lightman – Devils and Angels
6:56 Jewel – You Were Meant For Me
7:10 Kwon – Beatbox Lighter
7:58 Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
8:15 Pillar – Bring Me Down
8:20 Dream – Crazy
8:50 Blur – Crazy Beat
9:05 Pearl Jam – Get Right
10:48 Gorillaz – 19-2000
10:55 Skye Sweetman – Tangled Up In Me
11:06 New Found Glory – My Friends Over You
11:21 N.E.R.D. – Maybe
11:34 Good Charlotte – Young and Hopeless
12:46 DMX – Where The Hood At
13:23 Ashanti – Rain On Me
13:28 Norah Jones – Don’t Know Why
13:32 Ludacris – Stand Up
13:37 Brie Larson – She Said
14:38 Evelyn Thomas – High Energy
14:52 Get Set Go – Break Your Heart
16:28 The Who – Baba O’Reilly (Live at 9/11 Memorial Concert)
17:25 Engine Summer – The Sticks
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