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...It peaked in 2022 with 599 shows — meaning you’d have to watch 1.6 series a day to see all of them....
...He shared another video of a sheep giving birth, only this time he dialled back the dance music in favour of a detailed commentary....
...Both B&N and Waterstones, owned by the music retailer HMV between 1998 and 2011, tried to match Amazon with heavy promotions and three-for-two offers....
...The absence of Apple Music and Spotify services in emerging economies in Asia is a boon for Joox, Tencent’s music streaming service....
...the music....
...“I’d say to our designer: make the B on the headphones bigger,” Iovine recalls. “And he’d say, ‘I don’t know . . . it’s too big.’ We are competing with headphones but we’re also competing with Nike....
...The sale to Three was instead “Plan B” and something Mr Dunne found surprising. “I never saw a deal with Three as likely to happen....
...A simple curtain doubled the talent pool, creating amazing music and transforming what orchestras look like. But why did it take so long? Consider the following image and compare squares A and B....
...The appeal of Spotify is that it offers 95 per cent of all the music you’d ever want to hear....
...Afterwards a rap track blasted over the sound system as the singer took his bow, a clear signal to vacate the stage pronto. All the scene lacked was a shepherd’s crook emerging from the wings....
...“A progressive, forward-thinking music industry?” Sukin repeats slowly, as though mulling the words of a madman. “This is a capitalistic world, you know....
...“It was a particular type of screw . . . So I’d rather come and talk to someone about what I need,” she said....
...Reagan and the living B. Clinton....
...Universal beat Warner Music, owned by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, while a Sony consortium financed by funds from Abu Dhabi and Malaysia beat BMG, the Bertelsmann-KKR joint venture, with a $2.2bn...
...Jean-Bernard Lévy is a good piano player and classical music enthusiast....
...Polo Tang, UBS analyst, said: “The [music] market may be reaching an inflection point after a decade of decline.”...
...In 1953 they formed Spark Records, which signed The Robins, a group that combined R&B and doo-wop to pleasing effect and who were the forerunners of The Coasters....
...I’d be foolish to rule out [a rights issue] in the future, but to raise equity, one has to have an equity story.”...
...A will kill B’s employer; B C’s; and so on. Think of Strangers on a Train: only don’t think of it too hard, comparisons are odious....
...We tried on a myriad of dresses and outfits, and I had b.o. [sic] by the end of it from wrestling with all of those dresses.”...
...By implanting its links and cornflower blue “f” logo on millions of pages, the company is enmeshing itself deeper into the fabric of the web, one site at a time. B.J....
...The bad news is that not only do most plan As fail, but most great companies have achieved their success by moving quickly from plan A to plan B, C, D or E....
...David Honigmann reviews music for the FT ………………………………………….....
...You can’t drive fast because (a) the maximum speed limit is 45mph and (b) most of the roads are rutted dirt....
...Most successful was Mike Todd, whose Todd-AO was a kind of single-camera Cinerama, most famously associated with Julie Andrews twirling on a hill in The Sound of Music (1965)....
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