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payola

/peɪˈəʊlə

noun [mass noun] chiefly North American

The practice of bribing someone in return for the unofficial promotion of a product in the media: if a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit...

Artists and publishers have incentives to engage in payola because copyrights allow them to collect rent on each song played or record sold.
Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply.
Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola.

Origin

1930s: from pay¹ + -ola as in Victrola, the name of a make of gramophone.

单词	payola
释义	payola /peɪˈəʊlə / noun [mass noun] chiefly North American The practice of bribing someone in return for the unofficial promotion of a product in the media: if a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit... Artists and publishers have incentives to engage in payola because copyrights allow them to collect rent on each song played or record sold. Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply. Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola. Origin 1930s: from pay¹ + -ola as in Victrola, the name of a make of gramophone. Rhymes Angola, barbola, bipolar, bowler, bronchiolar, canola, carambola, circumpolar, coaler, Coca-Cola, cola, comptroller, consoler, controller, Ebola, eidola, extoller, Finola, Gorgonzola, granola, Hispaniola, kola, Lola, lunisolar, mandola, molar, multipolar, Ndola, patroller, pianola, polar, roller, Savonarola, scagliola, scroller, sola, solar, stroller, tombola, Tortola, troller, Vignola, viola, Zola
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