payola

noun

pay·o·la pā-ˈō-lə

: undercover or indirect payment (as to a disc jockey) for a commercial favor (as for promoting a particular recording)

Examples of payola in a Sentence

These radio disc jockeys accepted payola to play particular songs. payola in the music industry

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Read: How Google ran out of ideas But even if the payola is forced to end, that doesn’t mean competitors would arise or thrive in the search market. —

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024 These promoters had monopolized radio airplay through payola and other questionable practices. —

Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 July 2024 The internet, on the other hand, is capable of disseminating virtually limitless data, and therefore the payola laws don’t apply. —

Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 1 July 2024 The payola scandal of the 1950s, where radio DJs in the US were paid to play records, was one of the first big shots. —

Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for payola