But the broader music industry, like other entertainment fields, has always worked on a tournament model: a lot of starving artists hoping to be among the few who make it big.

不过，更广泛的音乐产业，却像其它娱乐领域一样，一直致力于比赛的模式：许多饥肠辘辘的艺人希望跻身于少数成名者之列。

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The trick to winning over the rising middle classes in such markets is not to peddle over-priced patented drugs on the Western model, cursing the local generics firms as rip-off artists.

争取这些市场中正在崛起的中产阶层客户的技巧在于不要向其兜售西方模式下的高价专利药，而将本地的仿制药公司诅咒为冒牌艺术家。

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The diminutive star of Breakfast at Tiffany's was chosen by beauty and fashion editors, make-up artists, model agencies and photographers.

这个影片《第凡内早餐》中的小角色被美容和时尚编辑、化妆大师、模特经纪人和摄影师们选中。

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He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model.

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Times were hard and, as a student, she paid her way by becoming an artists' model before graduating and winning the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize in 1981.

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But the force of YouTube and digital downloads is dismantling the old business model for music companies, and Asian artists like Psy are benefiting, analysts say.

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But first there has to be a model of disseminating the music acceptable to record companies, fans and the artists themselves.

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