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Wednesday 19 December 4:18 p.m.
By Megan Slovak
KE$HA's new single DIE YOUNG has reportedly been removed
from radio station playlists across America
following the Connecticut
massacre.
On Friday, 20
young children and six adults were gunned down at the Sandy HookElementary School
in Newtown. The
gunman, named as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, also allegedly killed his own mother
before turning the weapon on himself.
The atrocity
sent America
into mourning and a number of movie premieres have been axed in the aftermath,
including a screening of Tom Cruise's latest action blockbuster Jack Reacher
and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
The tragedy
now appears to be having an effect on the music industry as well as Hollywood amid reports
Ke$ha's controversially-titled single Die Young has been removed from radio
station playlists across the country.
Die Young
peaked at number three on American 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.
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."