Is Youtube turning into Clearchannel?

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mac_luv

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Mia Rose has just signed with Ryan Leslie of Next Selection Records (Cassie's label). For those of you that don't frequent Youtube, she's a pretty white girl with a good voice and posts videos of herself singing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNIX7-bnPZQ

Now there is a lot of controversy about this girl because she joined Youtube on December 29, 2006 and became the most viewed and subscribed to user in January. She is now the #3 all time most viewed person and the #1 all time most subscribed muscian on Youtube. I saw this myself in January and thought it was crazy how she got millions of views in a couple of weeks.

Well susupicious users on Youtube did some investigating on her account and found that hundreds if not thousands of her subscribers are fake accounts with no videos watched. Another person showed that Youtube featured her in January as the only popular channel for brand new users to subscribe to. In other words first time users who don't know how to use Youtube were asked if they wanted to subscribe to popular channels and her channel was the only one showing up during the sign up process making it bias. They usually show a number of channels to subcribe to. She claims she has no PR team behind her but I believe she couldn't have gotten so many views and subscribers in such a short period of time without inflating statistics and dishonest promotion from Youtube/her team. She's cute but not extremely talented enough to get so much attention in a short period of time.

Esmee Denters is a way more talented singer but she got her fame off of talent without fake statistics boosting her ratings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXVrnv7gnVQ She's currently in negotiations for a major deal too. It took her 6 months to get discovered. It took Mia 3 months to get a deal but she had the "powers that be" behind her.

I didn't want to give this mediocre singer any more attention but it just pisses me off that Youtube is doing this type of shit. There are other people that became overnight Youtube celebrities that are also in question. I'm just pissed that they compromised the integrity of free broadcasting. Payola and corporate muscle is going to influence their decision on who to promote and push just like Clearchannel with radio.

I should've known. If money talks, justice walks.
 
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i got into a good srguement with a dude at kmel today about playin the same shit over and over again and how its "the peoples station"hahahha
i wish i would have been recording it cause i got it out of dude that they dont play what you request.i called to say something about them playin "walk it out" at 7:58 and at 8:25 they played it again...ahahaha i said i always call up there and ask for them to play something and them saying they will and the shit never gets played...dude said "well theres a play list"i said but you just told me 2 seconds ago the reason you play the same songs over and over again is because thats what people call up and request...i said theres no way someone just requested that played out ass song again.he said "your right,if you dont like it change the station"hahahahahah.....i said so the record labels are paying clear channel to play theyre songs?dude says "no im not saying that"wow i said your just contridicting yourself..........



so i say this we set up a day for all of us to call in and request the same song all day.and see if it gets played every hour........


i also asked about the sign they have on the door about playing only the songs that are on the list i have a picture of it...he said theres no sign on the door i said ur gonna tell me there wasent before he said im not sayin that i know what ur talkin about its just not there anymore...
 
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