<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Christian Hufgard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> In fact, here in Spain (and I suppose in other countries too) the artists<br>
> have to PAY to be in the top-lists!<br>
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</div>The have to pay to be registered for the charts. And I think that is fair<br>
- because better positions there grant them a chance for better sales.</blockquote></div><br>No, they pay XXXX euros to be in the #1st position, a bit less to get the #2nd position, less to get the #3rd...<br><br>Note that you talk about sales, and I talk about quality. Maybe our perspectives are really different and we won't agree because of that. At the end is simple: I want the artists to earn money by "playing", you want them to earn money by "marketing". Quite different points of view, right?<br>