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  • One feature that Amazon has allowed since Tuesday is drawing scrutiny from record-company lawyers: Amazon Cloud allows up to five people to simultaneously listen to a given song.

    Amazon in Big Push to Clinch Music Deals Ethan Smith 2011

  • Much as cheap digital-music downloads have meant that fewer bands can earn a living from record-company deals, fewer literary authors will be able to support themselves as e-books win acceptance, publishers and agents say.

    Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2010

  • Trained as a pianist, guitarist and songwriter, Adele wrote most of the songs on her two albums, and is contractually free of record-company meddling in her music-making process, a measure of artistic control rare for a young performer.

    America Goes Gaga for Adele Ethan Smith 2011

  • Back in 1968, Johnny Winter's performance at New York's Fillmore East ignited a record-company bidding war, and within a year he was one of rock's most influential blues revivalists.

    The Short List 2011

  • Visiting judges, many of them record-company executives, make the choices along with musician host Jewel and composer-producer Kara DioGuardi.

    Making Hits Without Heat Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • Mitch Miller, a musician and record-company executive who became one of the 20th century's most influential forces in popular music as the producer who launched the recording careers of singers Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mathis and Patti Page, died July 31 at a hospital in New York.

    Mitch Miller Dies: Musical Industry Innovator (For Better and Worse) 2010

  • But many musicians, producers and record-company executives "think that having a louder record is going to translate into greater sales," says Chris Athens, Mr. Jensen's business partner and a fellow engineer.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • But many musicians, producers and record-company executives "think that having a louder record is going to translate into greater sales," says Chris Athens, Mr. Jensen's business partner and a fellow engineer.

    Mixing to the IPOD claims anothor victim 2008

  • Then there is the music industry's radical trajectory over roughly the past 25 years, neatly traced by Mr. Goodman: from the fat days of booming compact-disc sales that fed record-company profligacy to the steep plunge touched off by Napster and other online file-sharing services.

    Trying to Find The Right Beat 2010

  • Mitch Miller, a musician and record-company executive who became one of the 20th century's most influential forces in popular music as the producer who launched the recording careers of singers Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mathis and Patti Page, died July 31 at a hospital in New York of undisclosed causes.

    Mitch Miller, record executive and 'Sing Along' host, dies at 99 2010

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