"Mirage" & the Payola Controversy

[David]

The Wikipedia entry for "Mirage" has a section on the alleged payola controversy.

According to the entry, Warner Brothers refused to pay third parties to get the album played on the radio, so the third parties struck back by forcing radio stations to play the album just to get it to No. 1, & then stop playing the album to get it to fall off the charts quicker than it would have otherwise.

This whole thing & its relationship to "Mirage" is totally new to me. Had any of you ever heard that Warner Brothers used "Mirage" to try to fight the indie third-party billing for radio play (which had been going on for years)?

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