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The History of Paying for Placement
People have been paying to get songs listened to since the days of Vaudeville. Christalia says, paying for play started to get a bad reputation when rock and roll came on the scene in the 1950s. All these bad feelings around paying for placement lead to big Paola investigations in Congress in the late 50s and early 60s. And Congress decides officially that, no, it is not illegal to pay for placement. You just have to disclose it.