Chris Brown Begs Fans for More Airplay?

Earlier today, an alleged 90-second plea from R&B singer Chris Brown appeared on SayNow.com -- a website that allows celebrities to leave short, public voicemails to their fans. In the recording, which you can listen to here, Brown asks his fans for help since "radio stations aren't playing my records."

Brown's last album 'Graffiti' -- released in December of 2009 -- peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the R&B and Hip-Hop Album chart, but has experienced lower sales than his last album due to the lack of airplay. Radio stations seemingly put the recording artist on the back burner after he plead guilty to felony assault of his former girlfriend Rihanna and lost a considerable part of his fanbase.

"There's nothing else that I can do," the voice on the message says. "I'm doing everything that I need to do. I'm doing me as a person and I'm a better guy. But it's on y'all." There is no confirmation that the voice on the recording is in fact Brown. It certainly doesn't sound like him.

"My singing and my music is all great," the message goes on, "but I do it for you guys and everything else but it won't be possible if I'm not relevant on the radio and it won't be possible for me to be an artist if I don't have any support from people that give me an artists outlet. I can't be an underground mixtape artist! I just want all my fans to help me."

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me2oyc

It is shocking that so many of you believe that Chris beat Rihanna to a pulp. Well think about it…didn’t she heal real fast. Didn’t she say something like, “I backed him in a corner, and I smacked him”? I don’t know about you, but when does a woman decide it is safe to smack anyone while they are driving. Both should be punished. I feel that I am punished every time the radio plays her songs. How many bruises is she getting when she falls on the stage…or…who is beating RiRi then?

May 27 2010 at 8:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rossgirlme

If Chris Brown wants my $, he should become a boxer. I would pay to see him get his ass kicked.

March 16 2010 at 6:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
martinka4

Chris has paid more than his share of this mess that Re-Re should be sharing also. She is the one who started beating chris when he was driving they could have killed. What would you have done if you were driving and someone was beating you? Chris has never laid a hand on Re-Re until that night, but it is reported that when she did't get her way with chris she slapped and abused chris in public why wasn't she charged for hitting him? All this is because she was upset about a text he received from another woman. If that doesn't sound like Re-Re is violent and controlling you are all crazy. Chris saved their lives night, he is also a true gentleman for taking all the heat for it. Violence is an equal oppertunity problem women hit also. I don't respect Re-Re at all for not telling the truth about that night.

March 15 2010 at 12:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
martinka4

chris brown is good guy

March 14 2010 at 3:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jay Leno Fan

I sort of look at Chris Brown's absence from the airways as sort of an unofficial suspension. This will all blow over within time, but right now the people in control are the ones who decide whether they want to play his music or not, and the people who decide if they want to shell out the cash for his album(s).

Let's face it--IMO, you don't get away with beating up Rihanna (from what I know, more than once), THE Rihanna, a performer who is looked at similar to a young queen in the music industry, and get away with it! The law will only do so much, but from the people, who have a voice and a choice, is where he'll feel the most damage!

Ask Kanye West! Although West didn't beat anyone up, he still dissed another young, queen-like singer in Taylor Swift and is paying for it probably more than Brown, by those boycotting his music and shows. I think one of his shows was cancelled because there were people asking for their money back and/or lack of sales.

A message for anyone, not just men: Do something extremely stupid and you're gonna pay, probably in more than one way!

March 14 2010 at 5:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aissa2

Hugh, thanks, a case of knowing a word and forgetting how to spell it. The correct spelling is residual. It is indeed a word meaning pertaining to something or someone left over. You also misspelled my name and I return reciprocate and forgive you.
In the case of Chris Brown, I kind of believe if the unforgiving public, who follow all 10 commandments and never, ever make a mistake or do things in the dark that their own mothers would not approve, and will all go to heaven for always doing right and never doing wrong, Chris Brown is certainly Played out. When we stop acting as if what they (anyone in the public eye) is human. They do a job and get paid, it is just that the job makes them more visible. They piss, pass gas, put their pant on one leg at a time and yes, have issues with how they grew up and act very badly. If you did something that was clearly wrong, would you want someone to forgive you? Stop holding him and others up to standards that you could not reach up to even touch. Nuf Said

March 13 2010 at 2:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mlepps72

ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG . .IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE OR POLITICS. IT'S ABOUT MONEY AND LUDACRIS AND O-REILLY ARE IN THE SAME TAX BRACKET RIGHT NOW!

March 13 2010 at 2:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Barbara

Chris should not further turn the public off by begging. He needs to do good work in his profession and in his personal life. He will just have to try so hard as if his life depends on it, because it does! He did this to himself. Most people won't just cut him a break after his thug like behavior, just because he is begging for it. Prove yourself Cris, show that you deserve our attention. Put out great music. Be a good man!!

March 13 2010 at 2:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Abigail

It's not Brown's former fans responsibility to "save" him from the hole he has dug himself into. Can you believe he says, "It's on y'all now"?? and "I just want my fans to help me"??

Chris Brown's violence against a (respected and talented) woman caused most of his fans to take a second look at him. We don't want to subsidize the lifestyle of woman & wife beaters. We don't want to grant them approval to bask in the limelight of celebrity and fame. When you beat a woman, then you have some hard, rough knocks of your own coming your way. That's exactly what Chris Brown is experiencing: the memo about what it means to beat a woman.

I agree with Hugh, that Brown is whining and bellyaching and feeling all victimized himself that he is being shunned for his immoral and criminal behavior. Too bad. Let Brown go do something useful in this world. Let him go build schools in Africa, let him save children from indentured servitude, let him stop child brides throughout the world, let he stop hunger in America and elsewhere. Where has he given back? No where. Instead of tell us all that he's getting the shaft and feeling sorry that people are disgusted by his behavior, let Chris Brown begin a life of good deeds, good acts for others. He was given everything on a silver platter and threw it away when he beat Rihanna. A real man would never have choked, beaten and hit a woman.

I do not want to hear this jerk bemoaning his sorry state that he's not Top Dog anymore. He brought this hail of fire right down on himself, so he'll just have to tough it out like a man, to learn to be a man. Once he has shown the world that he is a better MAN, that he has created good on this planet, others might be inclined to open up to him, but not until then. In the meantime, I just wish he'd shut the F*ck up with all his "poor me" and go away. No Chris, we DON'T want to hear your crap anymore . . . . for a long, long time.

March 13 2010 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Aissa2

O.K. part of me is feeling you. But look, no one said shit about R. Kelly. He still continued to make records and eventually got off and he is a pedophile. We set different standards. I think Chris Brown was wrong for beating Rihanna. I also think that R. Kelly should be under the jail for having a knack for attracting, having sex and pissing on young girls. We need to know the rules and have them stand for everyone, not just Chris Brown. How many others who we purchase their music who are doing the same but they have sense enough to hush it up. How many are doing similar wrong and we still buy their stuff? When did we become moral police of others?

March 13 2010 at 2:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mochamanhood

what arrogance. This Usher imitator will be working in a Starbucks this time next year.

March 13 2010 at 1:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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