"STUDENTS ARE THE MOST RIGOROUS TEST," says Pandora.com founder Tim Westergren. "If you can get students interested in something, you're on to something." In May 2006, Westergren spoke to a group of Music Business and Music Technology students about Pandora, an internet radio service that creates individualized stations for each listener based on their preferences and tastes.

A GLANCE AT THE CHARTS CLEARLY REVEALS that British music is once again prominent in the US, with acts from James Blunt to Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand claiming chart dominance in the last year. Julia Jones, in an effort to stoke the new wave of British music, organized the BritBus Tour in collaboration with Fuse TV, Kicker Car Stereo, and Bass Ale, along with other corporate sponsors, and took a vintage double-decker bus across the US promoting unsigned British musicians.