Music Business Journal | Berklee College of Music

Before the era of streaming services, Internet radio, and digital downloads, it was essential for artists to utilize a label’s resources in order to mass distribute music. Because major...

Royalties, Investors, and the New Music Economy

Record labels and publishers for decades served as the music industry’s “bank.” They provided the advances artists lived on while making new music, and also paid for services like...

On January 18, 2017, Paul McCartney filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, against Sony/ATV Music Publishing (SATV). The action, pursuant to...

The Power of Playlisting

by Ashley Cook 1

Royalties, Investors, and the New Music Economy

by Antony Bruno 2

A Paul McCartney / Sony-ATV Brief

by Don Gorder 3

by Alexander Stewart

Music and Public Sector Radio

Broadcasting, especially radio, is a premier medium for the communication of music in society. Broadcasting and music, of course, have been closely related since radio became a household item in the late 1920s. In particular, music has always been a major part of radio programming, where...

by Brian Reitz

The Rise of Curated Playlists

Artists have traditionally commanded attention, serving as the primary inspirations and icons for diverse communities of fan bases around the world. However, with the unrelenting rise of on-demand music streaming,1 playlists are overtaking albums and artist discographies as the primary form of...

by P. Alhadeff and S. Cheong