Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.
Eventually, e-books point the way towards a cleavage of content from platform, threatening publishing with the wholesale change that has hit the music industry.
He was famed for his unorthodox delivery, which became famous when he first hit the music scene in the 1990s with the Wu-Tang Clan, alongside Method Man, RZA and Ghostface Killah.
Now Spotify needs to show that Europe can produce a hit that American music fans will buy.
It's a pokiness I really enjoy, to be sure, but it's also not the kind of Nashville songwriting that shows up in the current music of hit makers like Sugarland or Taylor Swift.
He wrote a memoir, put out a soul-food cookbook, and occasionally hit the stage at his Music Food Passion barbecue restaurants in Chicago and Memphis.
The iPod digital music player is a huge hit, with more than 42 million units sold, and in February 2006, Apple's iTunes Music store sold its one billionth song.
Once the adapter finds a Bluetooth pairing with the wireless device, all the user has to do is hit 'play' on their music software.
He says even with Spotify and other innovations that allow on demand consumption, still, people mostly want to hit a button, here some music, have it be low effort.
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Interest in Cuban music around the world hit an all-time high after the release of the "Buena Vista Social Club" album in 1997, followed by the film of the same name.
We met at the university and found out that we all shared the passion for the Commodore 64's tunes and decided to form a band, not knowing that we hit a dry spot in the music scene playing 8-bit rock.
Meanwhile longtime rival Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) hit a gold mine in digital music, and search engine Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) evolved into a new threat as it moved from upstart to online goliath.
After a year's study at the Guildhall School of Music in England, she hit the London jazz scene.
Only a year later, their song "The Story of My Life" hit the U.S. country music charts.
HMV's like-for-like sales were down 12.1%, as it continues to be hit by increased competition, particularly from music downloads.
And Korean pop music sensation Gangnam Style has hit over 1 billion views, making it the first video ever to do so.
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The fact that his song is largely in Korean would make it an unlikely pick for any western music company as a potential hit.
Four years later the band provided the soundtrack music and extras for the hit film Brassed Off - the story of the fictional Grimley Colliery Band, which won a national competition days after being told the mine was to close.
Most have been struggling for a number of years, having been hit hard by the big growth in music and film downloads - legal and illegal - and by the rise in the sale of chart CDs and DVDs by the big supermarkets.
MP3 digital music players hadn't yet hit the market to any real extent, and removable flash memory cards were limited to use in digital cameras.
Donald Berry, 46, of Radcliffe, near Bury, suffered brain damage when his crane hit a faulty cable at the Kendal Calling music festival in 2010.
However, they say that music and video spending will be hit the hardest, with a predicted 6.3% fall compared with 2012, owing to online streaming and cheaper internet prices.
Klug also explains that stars, especially those in the music business, have been hard hit over the past five years due to dramatic changes in payment methods and royalty structures.
When toymaker Hasbro sought partners a year ago for its new Hit Clips toy, which plays 60-second music samples from a chip, major labels hesitated and fretted over piracy issues.
It is telling that all the critics agree that the "Filth and Wisdom" soundtrack, which features some of her music plus Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time, " is excellent.
The two would become one of the most popular duos in gospel music throughout the 1940s, and recorded several hit sides with Decca.
"Country Girl, " the first single off Palmer's self-titled 2007 debut album, made her the first African-American female in 20 years to hit Billboard's country chart, according to Country Music Television.
Numerous bars in Seville host flamenco on a regular basis and while the music and dancing in these places can be hit or miss, entry is free as long as you buy a drink.
Karlin Music Theater, in one of the hardest-hit areas of the city, was filled calf-deep with mud and water.
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