A little-remembered scandal back in '04-'05 gave a revealing and hilarious look into music industry corruption. Dozens of popular bands, from Pearl Jam to Norah Jones, relied on a playbook of unscrupulous tactics in order to get their songs played on the radio. "Gifted" playstations, six-figure payola schemes, hiring college kids to make phony song requests: These were among the tricks employed just to stay on the Billboard chart an extra week.

The 2005 radio payola scandal is a disturbing reminder how much the mainstream music market was, and continues to be, fixed. It's also, in retrospect, really, really entertaining.

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Songs heard in this video:
0:00 NoMBe - Zodiac Structures
0:10 Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out
0:18 Baha Men - Move It Like This
0:57 Pat Green - Guy Like Me
1:02 Audioslave - Light My Way
1:10 Norah Jones - Don't Know Why
1:18 311 - Lovesong
1:24 Silent Partner - Heated Seat
1:58 Linkin Park - Points of Authority
2:33 The Mini Vandals - The Shepherd
3:05 Silent Parker - Smoke
4:40 Kevin Macleod - Bass Walker
6:37 Toby Lightman - Devils and Angels
6:56 Jewel - You Were Meant For Me
7:10 Kwon - Beatbox Lighter
7:58 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
8:15 Pillar - Bring Me Down
8:20 Dream - Crazy
8:50 Blur - Crazy Beat
9:05 Pearl Jam - Get Right
10:48 Gorillaz - 19-2000
10:55 Skye Sweetman - Tangled Up In Me
11:06 New Found Glory - My Friends Over You
11:21 N.E.R.D. - Maybe
11:34 Good Charlotte - Young and Hopeless
12:46 DMX - Where The Hood At
13:23 Ashanti - Rain On Me
13:28 Norah Jones - Don't Know Why
13:32 Ludacris - Stand Up
13:37 Brie Larson - She Said
14:38 Evelyn Thomas - High Energy
14:52 Get Set Go - Break Your Heart
16:28 The Who - Baba O'Reilly (Live at 9/11 Memorial Concert)
17:25 Engine Summer - The Sticks