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in return.

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This rule is consistent with the logic of the economic argument that lis-

teners are only really likely to be harmed when they are not made aware of the fact that

the content has partly been chosen because the recording company is paying for it.

Rennhoff (2010) examines how the characteristics of the weekly Billboard Hot 100 air-

play charts changed around the time of these regulations, although the analysis is limited

by being based on a single time-series, from January 1959 to December 1961, where it is

unclear exactly how the set of available music that might have entered the charts was

changing over time. He finds evidence that, after the regulations, more songs by smaller

labels appeared in the top 100 and that there were more ...