The EMI music business, which had started as the Gramophone Company in the 1930s, also owned the famous Abbey Road studios, and for a while it dominated recorded music in Britain from creation through to reproduction, with the Beatles and Pink Floyd signed to its roster.
So far she's bagged herself one nomination for her self-titled stealth release (she's up for best urban contemporary album), and while it dominated the early part of 2014, it might have faded from memory just enough to lose out on some of the bigger awards still remaining.
While it dominated Facebook's platform roadmap for a year, I now hear that "it's not worth integrating" from people inside Facebook.
While it certainly dominates in certain file categories like photos, it lacks a comprehensive cloud data strategy that would put it at the center of its users' files.
Vehicle's absolute response is dominated by the bridge response when wind speed is high, while it is dominated by road roughness when the wind speed is low.
While it has dominated the Chinese internet space with its QQ messaging service for desktops and WeChat (known as Weixin in China) on mobile, Tencent has struggled on e-commerce, that explains its 15% investment in JD.com earlier this year, and now its interest in Koudai Gouwu.
But Samsung's bigger problem, say analysts, is that while it has dominated smartphones, it has not made itself irreplaceable.
Even if the Duma had any real power, it would have trouble blocking reform while it remains dominated by a dispirited Communist Party.The Communists still have the backing of roughly a fifth of the voters.
Samsung's problem is that while it has dominated Android smartphones across the whole spectrum, from cheap to pricey, it is seeing its low-end sales eroded by upstarts such as Xiaomi and Huawei and Micromax from India, which have begun to match and even beat it for price and popularity.
