Ke$ha's new single taken off-air after Connecticut massacre
Ke$Ha's new single Die Young has reportedly been removed from radio station playlists across the country following the Connecticut massacre.
On Friday (14Dec12), 20 young children and six adults were gunned down at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The gunman, named as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, also allegedly killed his own mother before turning the weapon on himself.
The atrocity sent the nation into mourning and a number of movie
premieres have been axed in the aftermath, including a screening of
Tom Cruise's latest action blockbuster Jack Reacher and Quentin
Tarantino's Django Unchained.
The tragedy now appears to be having an effect on the music
industry as well as Hollywood amid reports Ke$ha's
controversially-titled single Die Young has been removed from radio
station playlists across the country.
Die Young peaked at number three on radio playlists and reached 167
million listeners before the shooting on Friday, according to
TMZ.com, but figures from Mediabase, a company that tracks radio
airplay, appear to show the song has suffered a massive drop after
being cut from the airwaves.
It had reportedly lost 19 million listeners from its target
audience by Monday (17Dec12).
Ke$ha previously commented on the massacre in a serious of posts on
her Twitter.com page, sending her condolences to all the families
involved. She wrote, "My heart goes out deeply to the people of
Newtown, Connecticut... It's beyond words what has happened."