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Manipulating numbers is what the music industry does best! A record that is certified platinum does not mean it sold a million copies; it means a million copies were SHIPPED to stores. I used to work at a Musicland group store (when they were still in business) during the heyday of CDs and many of these multi-platinum records were stacked on palettes in the warehouse and overstock was sent out to regional warehouses to collect dust.
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[citation][nom]hoofhearted[/nom]Didn't they do a similar thing for Obama's re-election (stuff the ballots)?[/citation] Yep, it had nothing to do with your side ineptness or the fact that it blindly hates gays... blacks.... Mexicans....pretty much anyone not white or middle class. How do you even know how to work a PC?
You can find the answer to most anything by following the money trail. Money doesn't lie. Just the people that have the money or want the money lie, but money itself is transient.
I have to keep reminding my relatives and friends of that. Don't believe everything you read. Use your brain and follow the money, that's where the real story is...
I have to keep reminding my relatives and friends of that. Don't believe everything you read. Use your brain and follow the money, that's where the real story is...
You might want to change the wording on this. The original story says that YouTube have not responded.
The reason it is believed that all the views have gone missing is due to videos that have been deleted off youtube still having their views showing on the total channel views. As UMG no longer use their official account and instead have all of their videos on sub-channels (VEVO Network) this is the most likely reason for the massive drop in views. This mass removal of views has been going on for the last month
I work for a YouTube network and am fully aware of this issue so please contact a reliable source in future, Thanks!
The reason it is believed that all the views have gone missing is due to videos that have been deleted off youtube still having their views showing on the total channel views. As UMG no longer use their official account and instead have all of their videos on sub-channels (VEVO Network) this is the most likely reason for the massive drop in views. This mass removal of views has been going on for the last month
I work for a YouTube network and am fully aware of this issue so please contact a reliable source in future, Thanks!
HAHAHAHAHAHA! now i dont feel so bad for using torrents. They're just as corrupt as the people they accuse! I will always buy hard working independant or unsigned Artists work, but the commercial rip-off's from these big labels deserve not even half the price of an average album.
to be fair, Digg did not create 'digg' selling services, they were created to facilitate the sudden demand for 'diggs' by third party businesses, largely overseas in places like India.
What a gd surprise - music that appears popular not being 1/10th as popular as it looks.
I could have told you a decade ago they were doing this. They have been manipulating the public radio and public opinion since the 1960s - Purple Haze was nothing until they beat people over the head with it, over and over again, including buying out all copies of their own records in every store, until it became a hit. What did the song mean? Nothing. It meant what people made of it. It wasn't a political statement, it wasn't about the war. It was about nothing.
The truth is the music industry is manipulating everything you see, everything you hear, and is telling you exactly what you like and what is a hit, no matter how crappy the actual "music" is.
The industry realized years ago that if you play something enough times, people have no choice but to like it. Instead of creating art, they follow the formula and create "whatever", and they know if you hear it enough times and can't get away from it, the average person has no choice but to succumb and like it.
It's pathetic, it's a crime, and you fall for it every single day.
I could have told you a decade ago they were doing this. They have been manipulating the public radio and public opinion since the 1960s - Purple Haze was nothing until they beat people over the head with it, over and over again, including buying out all copies of their own records in every store, until it became a hit. What did the song mean? Nothing. It meant what people made of it. It wasn't a political statement, it wasn't about the war. It was about nothing.
The truth is the music industry is manipulating everything you see, everything you hear, and is telling you exactly what you like and what is a hit, no matter how crappy the actual "music" is.
The industry realized years ago that if you play something enough times, people have no choice but to like it. Instead of creating art, they follow the formula and create "whatever", and they know if you hear it enough times and can't get away from it, the average person has no choice but to succumb and like it.
It's pathetic, it's a crime, and you fall for it every single day.
What's popular today is what they tell you is popular.
You think "Rude Boy" is actually a good song, or has any musical merit whatsoever? It's one of the poorest-written, pieces of sh$t music ever composed. For anyone with a clue about music, on a technical and artistic level it has absolutely nothing. Yet it was on "hit list" for well over a month, while 11-yr olds sang it in the streets.
Was it ever really a "hit"? Hell no. These companies MANDATE the hit list themselves. One of our local radio stations is literally called "Virgin FM" - The MUSIC COMPANY OWNS THE RADIO STATION, and even coordinates its hit list play times with other stations in our locale so that flipping the dial will often just land you on the same song playing on another station.
These couple international monster record companies have by far the largest monopoly in the world right now. We complain about Canadian telcos having monopolies, or someone selling too much potash, but we say nothing when our entertainment and even music itself as an art is dominated globally by what probably amounts to one room full of a couple weird guys, zero actual skill (except to apply the formula), and an auto-tuner.
These companies probably don't even realize how much they are dictating their own success. They probably pat themselves on the back every time the next hit becomes a hit. It's only a hit because they have become brutally effective at making this decision for everyone, rather than the public actually having a say.
You think "Rude Boy" is actually a good song, or has any musical merit whatsoever? It's one of the poorest-written, pieces of sh$t music ever composed. For anyone with a clue about music, on a technical and artistic level it has absolutely nothing. Yet it was on "hit list" for well over a month, while 11-yr olds sang it in the streets.
Was it ever really a "hit"? Hell no. These companies MANDATE the hit list themselves. One of our local radio stations is literally called "Virgin FM" - The MUSIC COMPANY OWNS THE RADIO STATION, and even coordinates its hit list play times with other stations in our locale so that flipping the dial will often just land you on the same song playing on another station.
These couple international monster record companies have by far the largest monopoly in the world right now. We complain about Canadian telcos having monopolies, or someone selling too much potash, but we say nothing when our entertainment and even music itself as an art is dominated globally by what probably amounts to one room full of a couple weird guys, zero actual skill (except to apply the formula), and an auto-tuner.
These companies probably don't even realize how much they are dictating their own success. They probably pat themselves on the back every time the next hit becomes a hit. It's only a hit because they have become brutally effective at making this decision for everyone, rather than the public actually having a say.
I'm a former recording engineer (I got out of the music biz because of the sleaze and corruption) and (still) a singer/songwriter and I've been ranting about this practice for a while now, ever since it became clear that this was an ongoing problem.
Of course, it's not just the majors -- a lot of little labels are just as corrupt and venal -- just ask the people who record for them but seldom see more than the tiniest slice of profits. If that.
I'm glad YT has finally started getting real.
Meanwhile -- the same, lying, cheating labels can get ANY video removed any time just by making a claim -- no matter how patently false* -- of "infringement."
*I've seen acoustic performance videos of original songs performed by their writers removed because of totally false claims by labels. I've seen versions of 100 year old songs in the public domain removed because some label hack also performed the song and is now claiming it. And we've seen a number of historic films clearly in public domain removed. If the person who posted the automatically removed but non-infringing material tries long enough and hard enough, SOMETIMES they can get it reinstated.
Of course, it's not just the majors -- a lot of little labels are just as corrupt and venal -- just ask the people who record for them but seldom see more than the tiniest slice of profits. If that.
I'm glad YT has finally started getting real.
Meanwhile -- the same, lying, cheating labels can get ANY video removed any time just by making a claim -- no matter how patently false* -- of "infringement."
*I've seen acoustic performance videos of original songs performed by their writers removed because of totally false claims by labels. I've seen versions of 100 year old songs in the public domain removed because some label hack also performed the song and is now claiming it. And we've seen a number of historic films clearly in public domain removed. If the person who posted the automatically removed but non-infringing material tries long enough and hard enough, SOMETIMES they can get it reinstated.
J.Cee Jermet has one of the most powerful video on YouTube and its better than a lot of the multimillion views video. See for yourself : http
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkCihnq1J48
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkCihnq1J48I don't understand how they still have user accounts?
Not only have they defrauded Google, but they've defrauded all of the people who pay to advertise on Google.
Not only have they defrauded Google, but they've defrauded all of the people who pay to advertise on Google.
Wait. Sony has servers all over the world. They could've used those one. And I am sure theres thousands of those servers. And imagine all those servers using different proxies/vpns :O
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