https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:22:46 +0000 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:22:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9472 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56408&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56408 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 9472
Posted: 09 November 2020 at 3:22pm

As a full-time wedding and event DJ, I've prided myself for
over 25 years in being able to subscribe to music services
for DJ's that have the radio edits and clean versions. Over
the years, people have mentioned to me that they have
attended weddings where the hobbyist DJ plays uncensored
music with all ages in attendance. I can't remember ever
playing an uncensored version myself. I'm glad there are
still clean versions available even digitally.]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:22:57 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56408&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56408 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56407&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56407 Author: Hykker
Subject: 9472
Posted: 09 November 2020 at 2:13pm

Paul Haney wrote: The answer is sales. When I see the dirty versions side-by-side with the clean versions on iTunes, the dirty versions are always way ahead of the clean versions, and it's not even close. The article was pointing out that there is a market for the clean versions, mostly radio airplay.

Interesting, I came away with the opposite impression
from the article.
]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:13:32 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56407&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56407 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56406&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56406 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 9472
Posted: 09 November 2020 at 9:11am

Paul Haney wrote: The article was pointing out that there is a market for the clean versions, mostly radio airplay.

What's fascinating is what I have touched on in these discussions is mentioned in the article. Some artists simply release an explicit album with no clean versions at all. Unless radio stations do their own custom edits there is no way to play the explicits on the radio.

Paul is right the explicit versions outsell the clean one's. It is amazing the NOW series still exists at all with its clean versions on CD.... ]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:11:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56406&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56406 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56405&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56405 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 9472
Posted: 09 November 2020 at 8:21am

Hykker wrote: Interesting article, but it left unanswered one question...why do artists seem to feel the need to record explicit songs in the first place? Now I'm not the hippest guy in the world (and never was), but this seems self-defeating. Am I missing something?

The answer is sales. When I see the dirty versions side-by-side with the clean versions on iTunes, the dirty versions are always way ahead of the clean versions, and it's not even close. The article was pointing out that there is a market for the clean versions, mostly radio airplay.]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:21:30 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56405&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56405 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56403&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56403 Author: Hykker
Subject: 9472
Posted: 09 November 2020 at 7:04am

Interesting article, but it left unanswered one
question...why do artists seem to feel the need to
record explicit songs in the first place? Now I'm not
the hippest guy in the world (and never was), but this
seems self-defeating. Am I missing something?
]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 07:04:37 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56403&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56403 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56402&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56402 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 9472
Posted: 08 November 2020 at 11:34pm

I thought this was an interesting enough article that it should be posted here. Especially now that about 60 percent of the Hot 100 and numerous album bombs are explicit these days, with the clean versions being digitally available.

It is a good read and worth some discussion here...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/arts/music/clean-versions -explicit-songs.html?code=NzNjYWQ2NDItNjg1Yy00YmY4LWI4OTAtMD Y5YjMxM2UzYTRk&state=no-state

While I know Pat doesn't generally want this to be an opinion board, it is hard to ignore the impact that censoring the music has had in the last 30 plus years.

Edited by PopArchivist]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2020 23:34:28 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9472&PID=56402&title=censorship-is-good-business-ot#56402