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It’s hard to explain sometimes the way 9/11 impacted the music industry, especially to people who are far too young to remember the old model of the industry. In the early 2000’s record stores were thriving, radio was king, and MTV was the main way to break a band. The days that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the world changed for everyone and a lot of people may not have even realized what the attacks meant for the music industry as well.
One of the initial things to happen were songs being banned from radio that may be viewed as upsetting or insensitive at the time. That wouldn’t be a very big deal had you been a bigger artist with tons of radio hits, but for some newer bands just breaking at radio, that was the beginning of the end of their career. One newer band that comes to mind was the band Drowning Pool, who all summer long had been riding high on the song “Bodies”, and after 9/11 that song was banned from radio and things quickly came to a stall for the band. Jimmy Eat World had been riding high on a single and album titled “Bleed American”, which quickly was re-released as a self titled record and the song itself vanished from radio. You can see the full list of songs banned from the radio HERE









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