RS8 Manufacturing The Song Of The Summer

      Ever summer there is that one song that everyone will remember. It starts off with everyone getting dropped off at a writing camp to make the best song. The cost starts with 25000 a day for just recording time alone. Song writers bring an idea to the camp for the producer who had brought beats for it. That’s when they start getting the melody to the song and the concept. It takes about twelve minutes to get the name of the song once they have the beats. The camp cost 200,000 alone and then with paying the song writer and the beats guy, the price gets even higher. Next part is the vocalist who helps Rihanna or the artist get focused. It cost around a million dollars because everything needs to click at once to get the song recognized. Billboards, advertisements and radio play are just some of the things that are put into that. Relationships with the radio stations and the DJ are established by being paid for first and then the artists keep coming back with favors along with requests. It’s illegal for producers to pay radio stations for play of their songs. After all of the money has been paid to get the song of the summer, Rihanna spent around 1.3 million dollars alone just for the song “Man Down”. The song wasn't even the song of the summer.

      I personally think that this podcast could show people a side of the music industry that isn't normally seen. I know that when I used to listen to songs I would think that artists have the life and make so much money because they record the song and then give it to the radio station to play. This obviously isn't the case and a lot more goes into then that. I like the fact that producers work that hard and pay that much money to get a top hit out. Sometime it can work in your favor and you can have the song of the summer that everyone won’t forget but then like what happened here can happen and after all that went into the song “Man Down”, it still was not the song of summer 2012. I also had no idea that producers practically bribe radio station DJ's to play there songs, I thought it was more like that when artists were finished with a song the radio stations DJ's just couldn't wait to play it, but that is not the case.