{"id":1090105,"date":"2022-05-17T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/i-have-never-paid-payola-to-djs-to-play-my-songs\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:24:37","slug":"i-have-never-paid-payola-to-djs-to-play-my-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/i-have-never-paid-payola-to-djs-to-play-my-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Never Paid Payola To DJs To Play My Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Multiple award-winning gospel musician and songwriter Diana Hamilton\u00a0gas said that she has never given monies to radio DJs or presenters to play her songs.<\/h2>\n<p>During a discussion on Power FM with Agyemang Prempeh, the award-winning artist said she built a good rapport with the DJs and presenters so she does not need to pay them to play her songs.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-read-also-ofori-amponsah-is-the-definition-of-real-god-given-talent-king-promise\">READ ALSO: Ofori Amponsah Is The Definition Of Real God-Given Talent \u2013 King Promise<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cI believe in relationships. Maybe my personality may not allow me to call everyone every day but if you are my friend I treat you as a friend, so I call you on an ordinary day, or I will hear it is your birthday and if I have the ability I will send you a present or buy you a cake,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in relationships because if I have to pay you, I cannot pay you,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Diana emphasized that if she gives money to presenters, she does not do so to influence them to play her song but because of the relationship they have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if anybody says I gave him or her money to lay my song, it will be nice for the person to come out,\u201d Diana further stated.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: Ghanaian Pastors Are Now Addicted To Pornography And Nudity \u2013 Maurice Ampaw<\/h4>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"UqOtFrPmxVw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I have never paid payola in my music career \u2013 Diana Hamilton\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqOtFrPmxVw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"644874be1edcc6cadc97a5a7-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple award-winning gospel musician and songwriter Diana Hamilton\u00a0gas said that she has never given monies to radio DJs or presenters to play her songs. During a discussion on Power FM with Agyemang Prempeh, the award-winning artist said she built a good rapport with the DJs and presenters so she does not need to pay them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13884,199,13885,463,4662],"class_list":["post-1090105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-djs","tag-paid","tag-payola","tag-play","tag-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}