Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

💔 When passion fades to greed, true talent struggles. Let’s bring back the heart of music! ❤️

21 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Two speakers criticize pay-to-play practices where promoters charge $500 for playlist placement, arguing it locks out artists without money and kills genuine fan excitement. They point to a 2012 backlash against the same trend, suggesting the industry keeps repeating the same mistake.

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Yes, it became, hey, I'll write about you for $500, or I'll put you on my playlist for $500. It became more about greed than it became about love and passion. I noticed that all of a sudden, all of these artists that had budgets started to rise, and the folks that didn't have deep pockets were still struggling. And this democratizes that. Not only do the artists make money, And the fans get excited again, but it brings back that, that balance of passion and talent into the equation. It's no longer about, oh, I can pay to get on this site, therefore I win.
Yeah. I just want to underline that too, is that it's not that buggy commercial framework that you're talking about that we saw come up in the blogosphere in particular in 2012. I remember watching all of that happen.