Music Business Journal | Berklee College of Music

Over the last fifteen years, since the advent of the worldwide web, there has been a revolution in the world of finance. More money is being raised online today than ever before from crowds...

With both dismal CD sales and the advent of 360 deals, many observers and artists consider money generated from the sale of recordings as ancillary revenue. This seems to be right. After...

In February of 2013, Billboard and Nielsen made another modification to the “Billboard Hot 100” chart, the official singles chart in the United States. The chart now includes data...

Music and Equity Crowdfunding

by Peter Alhadeff 1

The Poverty of Artist Royalties

by Stephen Marcone 2

Modernizing the Hot 100

by Eduardo Loret de Mola 3

by Miguel de Braganca

Record Labels and the JOBS Act

The largest providers of capital in the music business, the major record labels, have been devastated over the last decade by the disruption of their core competency: selling recorded music and investing profits into the development of new talent. Global music sales have been contracting for...

by Emilie Bogrand

Harnessing the “Harlem Shake”

Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” was the first single by an unknown artist to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number one. Here we examine how it happened and derive broader implications about the monetization of YouTube content based upon the context of the song’s success. The “Harlem...

by Stephanie Kellar