51.   Like presidential candidates, recording companies rushed to courtrooms.

52.   Later, cassette tapes drew the ire of recording companies.

53.   Michael Jackson, once the king of pop music, has a beef with the Sony Music Group, his recording company.

54.   Ms. Frank said the promotion was discussed with several recording companies, before settling on EMI.

55.   Most New Age recording companies rely on promotional ties-in to reach consumers.

56.   Myles Davis, a music industry analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York, said the recording companies feel besieged.

57.   Most song on the Internet are unauthorized, IFPI Chairman Berman admitted, because recording companies so far have offered little themselves to Internet users.

58.   No money changed hands so I could listen to Diamond Head, and the major recording companies consider my gleanings piracy, pure and simple.

59.   Not until the album was nearly complete did they begin looking for a label to release it, so there was no advance from a recording company.

60.   Now recording companies, their grip on artists loosening, are scrambling to implement their own Internet strategy.