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Old 03-10-2014, 10:42 AM   #7936 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by realtalk92 View Post

That is not necessarily the case for all artists. An artist would have to be established and already popular for a banned song to still sell.
Sex Pistols first single got to No 1 because it was banned, so did Frankie Goes To Hollywood's first single. Alice Cooper's Schools Out was banned that was his first hit, before that they were just a cult band who'd never had any exposure outside the U.S. The Pogues, Fairytale of New York was banned until 2007. They became a household name because of that song, before that only moderately popular in their own genre and in the indie press.

I could go on.
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