Mr. Davis has served in senior music-industry roles for 40 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sony BMG Shuffles] Reference

"Everyone knows Dave likes to have fun," says a music-industry pal.    From Wordnik.com.  [FEARS OF A CLOWN] Reference

"Death Magnetic" is a flashpoint in a long-running music-industry fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Heavy-Metal Fans Complain] Reference

In Japan we have a famous music-industry award called the Record Grand Prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heizo Takenaka] Reference

All music-industry executives were paid to do was find, develop, and sell talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [’Night, Music] Reference

Jazz, after all, represents only about 5 percent of domestic music-industry sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Lions And Legends] Reference

John Branca, and a music-industry veteran and personal friend of Mr. Jackson's named.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackson Estate Steers to Next Crisis] Reference

A well-connected music-industry friend just sent me a leaked copy of Chinese Democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is What Democracy Sounds Like | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

The statement is the first issued jointly by the three music-industry groups, organizers said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music Firms] Reference

What to Watch We asked music-industry insiders whom they're eager to see at South by Southwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Music] Reference

Franz Ferdinand were probably lucky to have formed far away from such music-industry towns as L.A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viva La Franz] Reference

Still, in this era of music-industry collapse, some degree of consolidation was perhaps inevitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Weather | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

When it works, a routine can spark that most coveted of music-industry phenomena: the crossover hit.    From Wordnik.com.  [But Can You Dance to It?] Reference

Mr. Goodman is clearly persuaded that Mr. Bronfman is savvier than most of his music-industry peers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trying to Find The Right Beat] Reference

To cynics and music-industry veterans, this very premise is laughable: an appointment with Sly Stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sly Stone's Higher Power] Reference

In January, two Chinese music-industry groups sued Baidu in Beijing over alleged copyright violations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baidu's Big Plans May Bear Fruit] Reference

Ms. Benson, the music-industry assistant, concurs: "I wouldn't wear a silky-nighty type thing with it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye, Girdle: Curvy Stars Spark A Raid on Padded Panties] Reference

It's the voice of a songwriter, which is how Thompson got his foot in the Nashville music-industry door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Thompson's Good Ol' Country Debut] Reference

One senior music-industry source who requested anonymity went further: Here we have a business that's dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

Yesterday, the music-industry expert and new media blogger Chartreuse taught me something about web writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Domenech and Pulp Fiction] Reference

According to a music-industry insider who has seen the service, Bezos is working on a similar scheme for music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Amazon Catch Apple?] Reference

Speculating on when the Beatles will reach a deal to sell downloads of their catalog is a music-industry pastime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatles Tunes Join Rock Band Game] Reference

Job No. 1 for Sony, therefore, should be to tackle the freewheeling music-industry culture that persists at Sony BMG.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Sony Sees in Music] Reference

According to Chinese music-industry executives, more than 40 million youngsters are currently studying the piano or violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prodigy Market in China] Reference

In addition, music-industry executives say that the agreement with Apple is structured so they can pull the plug after a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not The Same Old Song] Reference

The 21st century music scene is the best world ever for some musicians and music-industry businesses, and the worst for others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

(It may actually be some secret music-industry in-joke, having to do with "cash" -- Snoop Doggy Dogg is not a real name either.).    From Wordnik.com.  [I Write The Songs] Reference

Bertelsmann, while retaining a music-industry presence in Germany, is drastically reducing its exposure to the troublesome business.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Sony Sees in Music] Reference

Mr. Wexler began making phone calls looking for funding, and soon had a potential backer in fellow music-industry pioneer Chris Blackwell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Producer for Music Greats Combined] Reference

"Dave always had to play second fiddle to the guys he thought were his peers, like Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx," says the music-industry pal.    From Wordnik.com.  [FEARS OF A CLOWN] Reference

His closest companion was Janis Savala, a music-industry back-office veteran who handled his business affairs and eventually became his third wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legend with a Bullet] Reference

Radiohead's management hired Garland and a British music-industry economist to analyze sales and unauthorized downloads after the album was released.    From Wordnik.com.  ['In Rainbows': A Pragmatic Experiment] Reference

Sherman, a former music-industry publicist, has also spread out onto two new sites, including Femina, a directory of everything female-oriented on the Net.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Net 50] Reference

"There's a greater political intensity now than there's been in years," says Danny Goldberg, a music-industry veteran who's now vice chairman of Air America Radio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music: Sounding Off on Bush] Reference

And though the 500 music-industry insiders who determine the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's roll call have inducted Petty, Seger, and Springsteen, Mellencamp has yet to be called.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Mellencamp: One from the Heartland] Reference