Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Broadcast time given to the playing of a song, movie, or other recording.
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- noun The process of playing a particular
song ,band orgenre on theradio . The amount which it gets played is referred to asspins .
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Examples
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The song's first-week airplay translates to 36.4 million listener impressions, the week's 10th-highest mainstream top 40 audience total.
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The song's first-day airplay translates to 7.8 million in audience.
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Unfortunately, this record didn't get a lot of airplay, which is a typical problem for so many bands today because the radio can be so narrow.
Mike Ragogna: Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More Mike Ragogna 2011
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Unfortunately, this record didn't get a lot of airplay, which is a typical problem for so many bands today because the radio can be so narrow.
Mike Ragogna: Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More Mike Ragogna 2011
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"Bright Eyes" from the same album debuted at number one in Asian airplay. http
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The album was nominated for "Album of the Year" at the 2006 Classical BRIT Awards and the release of "Bright Eyes" from the same album debuted at number one in Asian airplay. http
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The Performance Rights Act would amend U.S. copyright law, which already requires that satellite and digital radio compensate performers, to cover broadcast stations that have long been exempt, with the rationale that their airplay is a soruce of valuable promotion for artists.
Variety.com 2010
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Here's a chart of musicians getting significant "airplay" on the P2P nets, even though they're being ignored by the world's radio stations.
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No, it's the press release and accompanying e-mail correspondence PDF issued this week by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announcing the agreement reached with Sony BMG Music Entertainment to "stop making payments and providing expensive gifts to radio stations and their employees in return for 'airplay' for the company's songs."
My PD Upped The Spins On Celine And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt 2005
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Presumably, the reason "airplay" is in quotes is that in some cases, no actual airplay was given in exchange for the laptops, DVD players and "flyaways" that the Sony radio promo people were doling out.
My PD Upped The Spins On Celine And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt 2005
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