Steve Jobs never wrote a hit song, he never made a multi-platinum album, and he never started a record label to push talented musicians into the spotlight: Yet in the last decade the Apple co-founder became the most important figure in the music world.

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By 1960, she had signed with leading blues label, Chess Records, and had dyed her hair platinum blonde.

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Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.

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