If it seems the same songs play on the radio, get used to it because such repetitiveness could be getting worse.

97 ZOK Program Director Sweet Lenny says he's dealing with a different type of pay to play politics.

" If you want to play new music, you have to pay the record labels to do it," he said

Lenny, along with many other broadcasters nationwide, is fighting a proposed "Performance Tax." It's where radio stations would be required to pay royalties to record labels and individual artists. That’s on top of thousands already spent each year on copyright fees.

“It would change everything, I mean, no more new music, lost jobs, there would be no more local radio" said Lenny

Some lawmakers want the tax to help the music industry recover from a downed economy and make it financially easier for performers to compete with i-pods and other digital media sources that give songs away for free.

U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan is the sponsor of a performance tax bill currently in the house. He says the goal of his legislation is not meant to drive broadcasters into bankruptcy but to ensure that artists get paid their fair compensation. He says that he's willing to work with performance tax opponents to find a middle ground.