What the Experts Say
“It is clearly the number one way that we're getting our music exposed. Nothing else affects retail sales the way terrestrial radio does."
—Tom Biery, Senior Vice President for Promotion, Warner Bros. Records, 2005
"If a song's not on the radio, it'll never sell."
— Mark Wright, Senior Vice President, MCA Records, 2001
"Air play is king. They play the record, it sells. If they don't, it's dead in the water."
— Jim Mazza, President, Dreamcatcher Entertainment, 1999
"Radio has proven itself time and time again to be the biggest vehicle to expose new music."
— Ken Lane, Senior Vice President for Promotion, Island Def Jam Music Group, 2005
"I have yet to see the big reaction you want to see to a hit until it goes on the radio. I'm a big, big fan of radio."
— Richard Palmese, Executive Vice President of Promotion, RCA, 2007
“…the longstanding business and contractual relationships among record producers and performers, music composers and publishers, and broadcasters that have served all of these industries well for decades.”
— 1995 Senate Judiciary Committee Report (at A712)
“[i]t is the Committee’s intent to provide copyright holders of sound recordings with the ability to control the distribution of their product…without imposing new and unreasonable burdens on radio and television broadcasters, which often promote, and appear to pose no threat to, the distribution of sound recordings.”
— 1995 Senate Judiciary Committee Report (at A714)
"Young people...need to be educated about how the record companies have exploited artists and abused their rights for so long and about the fact that online distribution is turning into a new medium which might enable artists to put an end to this exploitation."
— Prince, 2000
“The recording industry is a dirty business-- always has been, probably always will be. I don't think you could find a recording artist who has made more than two albums that would say anything good about his or her record company.”
— Don Henley, The Eagles, July 4, 2002
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