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.
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.
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.
After a year's study at the Guildhall School of Music in England, she hit the London jazz scene.
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.
Only a year later, their song "The Story of My Life" hit the U.S. country music charts.
The goal is for players to hit the matching colored buttons on their faux guitars in time to the music.
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.
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.
It took him several years of trial and error with the Girl Talk project before he hit upon the intersection of his geeky interest in pop and music that was actually considered pop.
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The two would become one of the most popular duos in gospel music throughout the 1940s, and recorded several hit sides with Decca.
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.
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.
As Lazaridis demoed myriad features from HDMI presentation mode to the built-in music player on the company's hotly debated tablet, it hit me: the one question I've been pondering since getting a real look at the device.
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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.
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.
You and I is an especially strong hit-in-waiting, which will have the younger music fans cooing in their droves to the record shops.
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.
Adele has been named Billboard's top artist of 2012, while her hit record 21 was named top album of the year in the music magazine's annual review.
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.
Hollywood's studios want to provide their own services for downloading and streaming movies - to avoid being hit by pirate movie-swapping services in the way that the music industry has been hurt by Napster-style services.
Karlin Music Theater, in one of the hardest-hit areas of the city, was filled calf-deep with mud and water.
Once the adapter finds a Bluetooth pairing with the wireless device, all the user has to do is hit 'play' on their music software.
For listeners who do hit the limit, we have a variety of options available to keep the music you love flowing.
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Some technical hurdles remain but once big-name pop-stars hit the Internet, selling singles for as little as a dollar apiece, music sales could rock the Web.
Mona Scott-Young is a former hip-hop dancer who later managed hit-making producers Trackmasters before becoming one of the most influential women in music, overseeing the careers of Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Maxwell and Fantasia at Violator Management.
Now that my music's living on there (minus all the one-hit wonders I purchased using iTunes gift cards), I appreciate it more.
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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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