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 Mia Verdoorn

Our Correspondent in South Africa Takes FIFA to Ta...

This past summer, I had the privilege of doing an internship at Sony Music in my home country, South Africa. It was during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and Sony was one of FIFA’s main partners for the World Cup. My experience in the office was therefore colored with all of the organization and...

by Sahil Mehrotra

The Promise of India

Bringing a new style of music into a market of over a billion people, and finding the right distribution channels for such a style, is anything but a simple task. Atul Churamani, a music producer considered to be one of the principal innovators of popular music in India, managed to achieve such a...

by Evan Kramer