Definition of payola in English:

payola

noun peɪˈəʊləpeɪˈoʊlə

mass nounNorth 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
如果一个唱片公司花足够的钱行贿，那可以使任何唱片都获得成功。
Example sentencesExamples
- Is payola so widespread and successful in the radio industry that it must then also be the lubricant that greases our health machine?
- The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas.
- Granted, this opens up the service to the type of payola that haunts the radio industry.
- Labels sidestep payola laws by hiring independent promoters to lobby and compensate radio stations for playing certain records.
- Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola.
- But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe.
- After all, we are talking about the industry that invented payola here.
- Some economists have suggested we were better off in the age of payola.
- Artists and publishers have incentives to engage in payola because copyrights allow them to collect rent on each song played or record sold.
- But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling.
- What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system.
- Average payola in dollars paid by record companies to US commercial radio stations to add a song to a playlist: 1,000
- There were a lot of good records in those days, but no one paid enough payola to get them played at the time.
- Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply.
- They have to believe that we would reject payola in any form.
- The past five months have brought charges of price gouging, illegal insider trading, kickbacks and payola that have rocked the industry.
- In radio payola, you're trying to seed a large market and hope that something will then take off through the free choice of the consumers.
- Let's enjoy this new format before the labels start offering payola to bloggers.
- I suppose that the very fact that payola is illegal acknowledges the power of the media, even if, in this case, it is a simple matter of taste-making for financial gain.
- I'd heard of payola as I entered the music business professionally in the mid seventies, but naïvely thought it would never apply to me.
Synonyms
dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy

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

Definition of payola in US English:

payola

nounpeɪˈoʊləpāˈōlə

North American

The practice of bribing someone to use their influence or position to promote a particular product or interest.
〈主美〉贿赂，行贿
if a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit
如果一个唱片公司花足够的钱行贿，那可以使任何唱片都获得成功。
Example sentencesExamples
- Artists and publishers have incentives to engage in payola because copyrights allow them to collect rent on each song played or record sold.
- In radio payola, you're trying to seed a large market and hope that something will then take off through the free choice of the consumers.
- They have to believe that we would reject payola in any form.
- The past five months have brought charges of price gouging, illegal insider trading, kickbacks and payola that have rocked the industry.
- I'd heard of payola as I entered the music business professionally in the mid seventies, but naïvely thought it would never apply to me.
- Average payola in dollars paid by record companies to US commercial radio stations to add a song to a playlist: 1,000
- After all, we are talking about the industry that invented payola here.
- Granted, this opens up the service to the type of payola that haunts the radio industry.
- Some economists have suggested we were better off in the age of payola.
- Let's enjoy this new format before the labels start offering payola to bloggers.
- Is payola so widespread and successful in the radio industry that it must then also be the lubricant that greases our health machine?
- Labels sidestep payola laws by hiring independent promoters to lobby and compensate radio stations for playing certain records.
- But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling.
- I suppose that the very fact that payola is illegal acknowledges the power of the media, even if, in this case, it is a simple matter of taste-making for financial gain.
- But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe.
- The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas.
- There were a lot of good records in those days, but no one paid enough payola to get them played at the time.
- Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola.
- What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system.
- Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply.
Synonyms
dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy

Origin

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

词汇	payola
释义	Definition of payola in English: payola noun peɪˈəʊləpeɪˈoʊlə mass nounNorth 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 如果一个唱片公司花足够的钱行贿，那可以使任何唱片都获得成功。 Example sentencesExamples Is payola so widespread and successful in the radio industry that it must then also be the lubricant that greases our health machine? The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas. Granted, this opens up the service to the type of payola that haunts the radio industry. Labels sidestep payola laws by hiring independent promoters to lobby and compensate radio stations for playing certain records. Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola. But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe. After all, we are talking about the industry that invented payola here. Some economists have suggested we were better off in the age of payola. Artists and publishers have incentives to engage in payola because copyrights allow them to collect rent on each song played or record sold. But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling. What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system. Average payola in dollars paid by record companies to US commercial radio stations to add a song to a playlist: 1,000 There were a lot of good records in those days, but no one paid enough payola to get them played at the time. Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply. They have to believe that we would reject payola in any form. The past five months have brought charges of price gouging, illegal insider trading, kickbacks and payola that have rocked the industry. In radio payola, you're trying to seed a large market and hope that something will then take off through the free choice of the consumers. Let's enjoy this new format before the labels start offering payola to bloggers. I suppose that the very fact that payola is illegal acknowledges the power of the media, even if, in this case, it is a simple matter of taste-making for financial gain. I'd heard of payola as I entered the music business professionally in the mid seventies, but naïvely thought it would never apply to me. Synonyms dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy 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 Definition of payola in US English: payola nounpeɪˈoʊləpāˈōlə North American The practice of bribing someone to use their influence or position to promote a particular product or interest. 〈主美〉贿赂，行贿 if a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit 如果一个唱片公司花足够的钱行贿，那可以使任何唱片都获得成功。 Example sentencesExamples Artists and publishers have incentives to engage in payola because copyrights allow them to collect rent on each song played or record sold. In radio payola, you're trying to seed a large market and hope that something will then take off through the free choice of the consumers. They have to believe that we would reject payola in any form. The past five months have brought charges of price gouging, illegal insider trading, kickbacks and payola that have rocked the industry. I'd heard of payola as I entered the music business professionally in the mid seventies, but naïvely thought it would never apply to me. Average payola in dollars paid by record companies to US commercial radio stations to add a song to a playlist: 1,000 After all, we are talking about the industry that invented payola here. Granted, this opens up the service to the type of payola that haunts the radio industry. Some economists have suggested we were better off in the age of payola. Let's enjoy this new format before the labels start offering payola to bloggers. Is payola so widespread and successful in the radio industry that it must then also be the lubricant that greases our health machine? Labels sidestep payola laws by hiring independent promoters to lobby and compensate radio stations for playing certain records. But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling. I suppose that the very fact that payola is illegal acknowledges the power of the media, even if, in this case, it is a simple matter of taste-making for financial gain. But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe. The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas. There were a lot of good records in those days, but no one paid enough payola to get them played at the time. Now for the past 50 years, we have done everything we could to get music on the radio, including at one time payola. What payola's moralizing critics failed, and still fail, to grasp is that the music industry has always felt itself a victim, and not the perpetrator, of the system. Similarly, his worries about drugs, payola, and other perils of the music industry prompted him to sell RCA Records too quickly and cheaply. Synonyms dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy Origin 1930s: from pay + -ola as in Victrola, the name of a make of gramophone.
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