The US music producer and pioneer of digital recording, Phil Ramone, has died aged 79.
The US music industry is already battling internet piracy and CD-copying, which it has blamed for a 9% slump in CD sales.
The music service has many playlist genres, curated by US music experts.
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"British music definitely had a good year in the United States last year, " says Mark Sutherland, international bureau chief at US music bible Billboard.
The sales figure for Up All Night may appear low given the size of the US music market, but album sales have plummeted in recent years.
The book, a series of interlocking stories set against the background of the US music industry, jumps around in time from the punky 1970s to the near-future.
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And thank you, Michael, for leaving us music that will forever hold you dear in our hearts and dance moves that will continue to summon us to the dance floor.
He spent almost two decades out of the spotlight, although the US music industry honoured him in 1989, inducting him into its Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Baauer's song reached the top of the US Billboard music charts thanks to its views on YouTube.
What else are they going to try to do to keep us buying music on discs instead of downloading it?
Our churches ran programs to expose us to music and the arts.
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This arcane game exudes humanness--it touches us like music and literature.
She recorded five studio albums, and scored 12 hits on the US country music charts, including Ten Thousand Angels and Guys Do It All The Time.
These original portable music players sequestered us and turned listening to music into a solo performance.
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EMI's 2007 rejection of a bid from US rival Warner Music ultimately paved the way for the Terra Firma takeover.
Even though most of us write our music out, a lot of communication happens in real time, and musicians are directly involved with the composer.
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If you have a demo CD of your best tracks then let us have a copy along with a written biography telling us about your music.
What pressure will be put on the US political machine to settle before what could well be a disastrous blow to the US software, music, and film industries happens?
So I am -- I'm thrilled that you could join us for this music workshop, where you've had a chance to learn from some of the greatest classical musicians alive today.
However, during the past 10 years, it has become the US' top music retailer, with customers currently downloading 15, 000 songs per minute from the app's library of 26 million songs, according to an Apple spokesperson.
On your motorcycle or in the car, summer on the road mean summer songs, and they're not always the highest quality musical offerings, but commentator Michelle Mercer wants to remind us that bad music is not a uniquely American phenomenon.
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Mr. MILLER: I'm no neuroscientist, but I think that as time goes on, you know, something that people tell us about that music is that you know, when I hear those songs, I can see what I saw and hear what I heard and feel what I felt when I first heard them.
He had a huge appetite for life and I think what he gives to us in his music is what he terms, he called himself a foot solider in the service of music, and I think of him in that sense it would be the foot soldier reporting on the triumphs and tragedies of the world.
But more importantly it reminds us of the potential of music to bring people together and gives us hope for the future.
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We are used to having apps help us share images, music, etc, but what about sharing physical things?
Also, they're playing the music for us, not to be outdone, is Marty Beller is here with the drums.
All of a sudden we could take our music with us and listen to it without anyone else listening in.
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