This plan is brilliant! Commit $500,000 in fraud, and we net less than half!!

I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.

FTA:It contacted police in New York and, with the Met's help, the accounts were traced to London.

So thats where the Met's spend the postseason.

Glitchwerks: I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.

I have no idea what you just said.

Orgasmatron138: Glitchwerks: I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.

I have no idea what you just said.

Me either :(

Glitchwerks: I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.



Follow your nose! To awful wobble dubstep.

Just some djs makin some scratch.

/wiggety wiggety wack

Cheery Pi: Orgasmatron138: Glitchwerks: I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.

I have no idea what you just said.

Me either :(

Oh right. Sorry.

I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs (Urban Dictionary definition) with Fruity Loops (FL Studio homepage) making awful wobble dubstep (Rusko "Cockney Thug" NSFW language [Bricktop sampled from Snatch]).

Glitchwerks: Cheery Pi: Orgasmatron138: Glitchwerks: I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.

I have no idea what you just said.

Me either :(

Oh right. Sorry.

I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs (Urban Dictionary definition) with Fruity Loops (FL Studio homepage) making awful wobble dubstep (Rusko "Cockney Thug" NSFW language [Bricktop sampled from Snatch]).

Gotcha. Not to hate on teh kids these days, but if there is anything that makes someone look more stupid than a flat brimmed baseball cap turned 45 degrees, I don't know what it is. When accompanying the baggy pants and oversized shirts, it literally makes these kids look like clowns.

The article lost me in the second paragraph when it referred to them as "9 musicians".

Grab a f'n instrument you tools.

jspaceman:
Grab a f'n instrument you tools.

Dildo?

I wonder if a record company, that has a lot of actual money did that...

Buy a couple of million copies of a song from one of their own, unknown artists who is signed to their label...

The record co. would get some of it back because they get a profit from the sales. (How much/I don't know.)

Then suddenly..an unknown artist is number 1 on the charts and there's all this buzz...so consumers end up buying the song to check it out and/or they think they should be buying it, because it's number one...and, in the process, would create a star.

Now that initial act wouldn't necessarily be profitable...but perhaps, like I said, they would first get some of the money back from the 2 million sales (for one song) and then more money from people buying it to compensate for the difference.

the general idea would be to create a foundation for a new star on their label.

Would it work/has anything like this been tried in the past?

Glitchwerks: I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.


on the case

jspaceman: The article lost me in the second paragraph when it referred to them as "9 musicians".

Grab a f'n instrument you tools.

Amon Tobin would like a word with you.

Absolutely amazing DJ

zvoidx: I wonder if a record company, that has a lot of actual money did that...

Buy a couple of million copies of a song from one of their own, unknown artists who is signed to their label...

The record co. would get some of it back because they get a profit from the sales. (How much/I don't know.)

Then suddenly..an unknown artist is number 1 on the charts and there's all this buzz...so consumers end up buying the song to check it out and/or they think they should be buying it, because it's number one...and, in the process, would create a star.

Now that initial act wouldn't necessarily be profitable...but perhaps, like I said, they would first get some of the money back from the 2 million sales (for one song) and then more money from people buying it to compensate for the difference.

the general idea would be to create a foundation for a new star on their label.

Would it work/has anything like this been tried in the past?

Or wait! What if instead of buying the music themselves, the record companies payed radio stations to play music of artists they wanted to push!
On second though, nah, that'd never work.

Compose music Rip off samples of pop songs put out before your parents were born, put in a beat and submit it to Amazon, iTunes, etc.

FTFY

Sorry, DJs do not equal musicians. They are producers.

NoxNoctus: Amon Tobin would like a word with you.

Absolutely amazing DJ electronic musician and sometimes DJ.

Semantic pet peeve. He's a producer who also DJs, not a DJ who also produces.

Marisyana: Compose music Rip off samples of pop songs put out before your parents were born, put in a beat and submit it to Amazon, iTunes, etc.

FTFY

Sorry, DJs do not equal musicians. They are producers.

FTFY. Not a bit of truth to that whatsoever. Sorry you've got such little exposure to music, but no reason to bore the rest of us with your limited knowledge.

Glitchwerks: FTFY

Funny, all I read was "HURR DURR HURR DURR"...

Glitchwerks: I am going to put money on these guys being a couple of chavs with Fruity Loops making awful wobble dubstep.

I thought Logic dominated the UK.

Pengfish:
I thought Logic dominated the UK.

Chavs can't afford Logic.

Glitchwerks: Pengfish:
I thought Logic dominated the UK.

Chavs can't afford Logic.

Or apply it, apparently. Alley oop!

I brokes the googles.

doremifaq: zvoidx: I wonder if a record company, that has a lot of actual money did that...

Buy a couple of million copies of a song from one of their own, unknown artists who is signed to their label...

The record co. would get some of it back because they get a profit from the sales. (How much/I don't know.)

Then suddenly..an unknown artist is number 1 on the charts and there's all this buzz...so consumers end up buying the song to check it out and/or they think they should be buying it, because it's number one...and, in the process, would create a star.

Now that initial act wouldn't necessarily be profitable...but perhaps, like I said, they would first get some of the money back from the 2 million sales (for one song) and then more money from people buying it to compensate for the difference.

the general idea would be to create a foundation for a new star on their label.

Would it work/has anything like this been tried in the past?

Or wait! What if instead of buying the music themselves, the record companies payed radio stations to play music of artists they wanted to push!
On second though, nah, that'd never work.


Except I don't know how a record company buying their own music in bulk would be illegal vs. radio station payola...

I mean, if a record company purchased two million copies from iTunes, do they have to announce it..does iTunes? Wouldn't they be entitled to privacy just as if you purchased something online..iTunes can't announce that you made purchases, right?

Anyway, I was just wondering about the math; would it generate sales by making somebody number one and, in the process, would the publicity produce more money and/or establish a talented artist for the future...
Let me emphasize; if this was done only with the right artist (not on a regular basis) - like a mega-talented artist that they just hoist up for exposure, instead of having them battle their way up the charts.

maybe it's already been done to a lesser extent, but we wouldn't hear about it, anyway...

/article got me thinking
//more of a "what if", not sure if it would work

zvoidx: I wonder if a record company, that has a lot of actual money did that...

Buy a couple of million copies of a song from one of their own, unknown artists who is signed to their label...

The record co. would get some of it back because they get a profit from the sales. (How much/I don't know.)

Then suddenly..an unknown artist is number 1 on the charts and there's all this buzz...so consumers end up buying the song to check it out and/or they think they should be buying it, because it's number one...and, in the process, would create a star.

Now that initial act wouldn't necessarily be profitable...but perhaps, like I said, they would first get some of the money back from the 2 million sales (for one song) and then more money from people buying it to compensate for the difference.

the general idea would be to create a foundation for a new star on their label.

Would it work/has anything like this been tried in the past?

There was a lot of talk a few years back that the billboard charts were compromised by similar tactics.

Some labels had figured out a way to add numbers to billboard chart counts without actually selling anything. I think it had to do with the preorder system.

Anyway, around that time the billboard charts became really weird. During that time clear channel was pushing for smaller playlists and online music was taking off. It was a really really weird period for the official charts. I think since then people have just lost interest in the charts and the problem solved itself.

People used to talk about the charts and topping the charts. I don't even remember the last time anyone said anything about being at the top of the charts the past couple of years.

Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy Blighter dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers, and caught his can in the birdie.

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Marisyana: Sorry, DJs do not equal musicians. They are producers.




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Marisyana: Sorry, DJs do not equal musicians. They are producers.

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