Sentences with phrase «than music as»

The two share more than music as a passion — they are both raging potheads who live to get high.

Not exact matches

Spotify had 71 million paying subscribers and more than 159 million monthly active listeners as of December, positioning the service far ahead of its closest competitor, Apple Music, with just 36 million subscribers.

The colour, which has the bonus of conveying calm and cheerfulness, serves as a subtle reminder to employees — who bop to music and wave friendly hellos to passersby — of their purpose: feeding healthy foods to more than 15,000 kids every day.

«Remember Wagner, whose music has been described as better than it sounds?

Well, the economics of music production today are far healthier than they ever were in Virgin's heyday as a music company.

Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.

Known as «the Fifth Beatle» Martin was named by Guinness World Records as the most successful music producer ever, with more than 50 No. 1 hit records over five decades.

But as you grow older, and spend more ever - more time looking backwards rather than forwards, having a music collection you can treasure and revisit will be more important than ever.

The majority of that growth came from streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, which now provide more than 50 % of the industry's revenue.

Twenty - eight percent of U.S. music listeners cite country as their favorite genre, more than any other format, according to The NPD Group.

There's no question that the music business is doing better than it has for some time, as streaming continues to grow as a revenue source.

Down the line, she envisions offering things like cooking classes and music lessons, and she sees ClassPass as a lifestyle rather than a fitness brand.

However, at the global level Spotify has almost twice as many paid subscribers as Apple Music does, despite the fact that Apple's service comes preloaded on all iOS devices, and Apple's presence in more markets than Spotify (115 territories to 61.)

Live Nation Entertainment, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, is in a great position to capitalize on this trend as it owns or controls more than 100 of the most popular music venues in the country and gets a cut of ticketing fees to boot.

It's joined socially - conscious hits like Nina Simone's «Mississippi Goddam» and Billie Holiday's «Strange Fruit» as bigger than music.

Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising behavior were more than just a speed bump.

Reviewers also complained that Apple's ambitions were transparently commercial, as Ping frequently pushed users to buy music rather than share and talk about it.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

That's as many monthly users as those boasted by streaming music service Spotify, and it's more than the 83 million worldwide subscribers to streaming video giant Netflix.

As I noted in my commentary accompanying the RIAA data, the music industry has successfully adapted to the constantly changing music marketplace, up almost 1 % at retail and wholesale, and I am more optimistic than ever about the future of the music industry.

Spotify, launched in 2008 and available in more than 60 countries, is the biggest music streaming company in the world and counts services from Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alphabet Inc's < GOOGL.O > Google as its main rivals.

Mr. Sacconaghi of Sanford C. Bernstein noted that if Apple's streaming music service were to make as much money as, say, Pandora, which generates roughly $ 1 billion in revenue a year, that amount would be only slightly more than half of 1 percent of Apple's annual $ 183 billion in revenue.

Spotify, launched in 2008 and available in more than 60 countries, is the biggest music streaming company in the world and counts services from Apple (AAPL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet's < GOOGL.O > Google as its main rivals.

It says it believes it has more than twice as many paying customers as its closest competitor, Apple Music, according to SEC filings.

As a result, Forecastle is about much more than just the music.

Audible's over 80,000 programs, including audiobooks from authors such as Stephen King and Jane Austen, may complement Amazon's MP3 digital music store, which was launched in September 2007 and now includes more than 3.3 million songs.

For more than a decade, he was behind every crucial decision as Apple rolled out blockbuster hits from the iPod to the iPad, changing how people listen to music and watch entertainment, reshaping entire industries and making Apple the world's most valuable tech company.

More than anything else, music fans will remember 2007 as the year that Radiohead changed the game forever.

In my short span as a music critic, I've come to learn that nothing upsets people more quickly and severely than writing opinions about music.

He is now in his senior year of college as a Music Technologies student but has more experience than many of his post-graduate counterparts.

But Lucas seems content to find his solace «in the music,» and he's happy as long as he can convince folks of one thing: «I want people to know I am more than a boy in a wheelchair.»

With three full - length albums selling more than 250,000 copies collectively and many hours logged on the road, the close - knit members of Emery — Morell, bassist Devin Shelton, guitarist Matt Carter, keyboardist Josh Head and drummer Dave Powell — have generated an increasing amount of interest as they continue to push the envelope with their music.

By the same token, we can no more imagine Cioran eating McKenna's magic mushrooms than sharing the latter's enthusiasm for the «ambient music» of the international youth culture - which might only drive him to one of his meditations on suicide that he has found to be «almost as liberating as the act itself.»

«On the floor in room corners, Large size Brilliant Pebbles reduces comb filter effects caused by very high sound pressure levels that develop in the corners when music is playing — as much as 3 or 4 times higher than the average sound pressure level in the room!!

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But I have to say that I'm much more worried about the possible decline in the teaching of music in our schools than of RE as it has mostly become.

All music in some way is sacramental and all public performance has some religious character, but Jackson cultivated his image as a lay practitioner of pop spirituality more than any performer in his market segment, through the soppy universalism of «We are the World» as well as through his identification with the Jehovah's Witnesses and, according to recent rumor, with Islam.

This set of interesting people includes more gays and blacks than the typical crowd, reflecting the origins of the disco music and scene, but as Stillman emphasizes, it also includes a wider spectrum of ages than you associate with rock.

Or that women would be so beautifully different than men, or that music would second only to babies as the best things ever.

Johnson sometimes tags his music posts as Sunday Morning Coming Down, and his music posts are far more straightforward than my egg - heady Songbook ones, and much more about what's good in music, particularly in live music today.

The day Merle Haggard died, I found myself talking to a friend who has served as a makeup artist in Nashville's music industry for more years than she would like to admit.

In the spirit of Carl's music posts, I figured I may as well do more than defend good American bar bands like NRBQ.

But more than Coltrane's music, the church exists as an extension of the dramatic conversion and commitment to God Coltrane made late in life, a declaration and sanctification of sound in the unforgettable recording A Love Supreme.

I'll make a prediction now that Katy Perry, the faith's favorite fallen daughter, will have no trouble whatsoever coming back stronger than ever in Christian music as a prodigal child once her pop career peters out.

A mostly derivative pastiche of questionable musical integrity, the piece was roasted (backstage, of course» as professionals we will play as well as we can anything that is put on our music stands) by most of my colleagues, and we complained bitterly that the last minute programming of the piece (replacing Brahms» Third Symphony) was no more than a marketing ploy foisted upon us by Sony Classical in order to boost CD sales of the work.

A first chapter considers how the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music became separated from the study of philosophy and theology, as if the quadrivium was an end in itself rather than the way in which a person was made ready for the study of philosophy and theology.

In fact, as a result of their study of both theology and church music, many church musicians are finding themselves better educated and prepared in these subjects than their pastors.

Their power and foundational role in experience account for Merleau - Ponty's descriptions of fleshly ideas such as those of music and literature possessing us, rather than the other way around.

In 2001, music categorized as ccm accounted for more than $ 1 billion in sales — up 12 percent in a year when the recording industry as a whole took a downturn, Newsweek ran a cover story on «Jesus Rock» and HBO's The Sopranos featured a humorous subplot about the mob family trying to get in on the action.

A substantial argument could be given for the proposition that music such as one finds in Mozart's last opera, La Clemenza di Tito, puts one, more directly and intimately than metaphysics can do, in intuitive contact with the kind of thing which reality on its higher levels is, and, on various levels, universally manifests.