81.   Some critics say that recording companies lost a big promotional opportunity when they failed to capitalize on the popularity of Internet music early on.

82.   Six months after Soundscan began, however, Sony Music became the first recording company to rely on the new statistical base.

83.   Sooner or later, the recording companies will come up with subscription services of their own, finally using the distribution that the Internet offers.

84.   Specifically, the biggest recording companies are preparing to roll out subscription-based services on the Internet.

85.   Soon after the attacks, recording companies rushed out collections of patriotic and religious songs.

86.   Soundscan receives payments from Billboard for exclusive publication rights and from the recording companies themselves, based on market share.

87.   Some recording companies now post parental warnings on their CDs.

88.   Such exclusive contracts have proved to be albatrosses around the necks of recording companies.

89.   The agreement makes EMI the first recording company in the world to offer music commercially on an on-line system, said Cox.

90.   The amendment, which was advocated by recording companies, was inserted without debate into an unrelated bill in Congress last November.