Word: billboards
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...play contract with radio station KUFO of Portland, Ore., the arrangement didn't really have any long-term impact on Limp Bizkit's success. Before there was significant airplay from any radio station, including KUFO, Limp Bizkit's debut record, upon release in July 1997, landed on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and stayed there for more than 40 weeks; it will be gold by September. The writer noted that after an initial boost from pay-for-play, Limp Bizkit's album sank to the bottom quarter of the Billboard Top 200. By early August, however, it had reached...
...Miss., Buffett was raised in Mobile, Ala., where his father worked in the shipyard. He was an altar boy who busted loose, discovering girls and guitars at Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Miss., playing acid rock in the clubs of New Orleans, moving to Nashville and working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound up at the end of the road in Key West, then a lazy outpost for shrimpers, smugglers...
...Kenobi or his Darth Vader? Certainly, Master P lacks no talent in the marketing department. In a few short years he has built impressive brand identity, and every few weeks a new No Limit album by a previously little-known performer debuts in the upper reaches of Billboard magazine's album charts. One of his slyest techniques is to include in his CDs--like his current solo album, MP Da Last Don--promotional materials for his other records...
...doubtful. While pay-for-play can give singles a push, its impact on album sales--where record companies make their real money--seems limited. Limp Bizkit's album, after getting an initial boost from pay-for-play, has sunk to the bottom quarter of the Billboard 200. Whatever success the band has had owes more to its many live performances...
Capitol's country artists too seem to have got only a minor boost from pay-for-say. Brooks' album Sevens is a hit--as it would undoubtedly have been without pay-for-say. But Bogguss's Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt, after debuting on the Billboard album chart at No. 42, has since slipped to No. 61, while Wariner's Burnin' the Roadhouse Down opened at No. 6 and fell to No. 21 last week. Pay-for-play is no magic wand. It can make a good record sell better but doesn't do much for an average...