1.   America Online, which is planning a music subscription service, named a former top Bertelsmann music executive, Kevin Conroy, as the head of its music operations.

2.   Among musicians and music executives, reviews of Napster Inc. are mixed but never ambivalent.

3.   An unprecedented gathering of rap singers, music industry executives and religious officials filed into a former elementary school in Harlem Sunday to pledge their commitment to peace.

4.   And Griffin believes music executives need to start thinking less like men and more like women.

5.   And infighting among music executives persisted.

6.   At the time, the most successful female acts were coming out of Motown and were shaped by music executives and dance instructors.

7.   Brandt moved to Nashville over a year ago after signing a recording contract when Nashville music executives saw him in the SOCAN competition in Hamilton, Ontario.

8.   A top music executive has been fired.

9.   Adames, an aspiring singer, and Goga drove cross-country together in May after he told her he could arrange meetings for her with music industry executives.

10.   But music industry executives predict that the DVD will take several more years to begin truly supplanting the CD.