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 Juan Carlos Cardenas

Secondary Ticketing: The Bane of Live Music

Music Business Worldwide (MBW), a fellow publication, estimates that Mumford & Sons, the acclaimed British alternative-rock band, lost a minimum of three million dollars to the hands of scalpers and secondary ticketing sites in 2016. The figure could be half of that and still give pause for...

by Alexander Stewart

The Hint of Blockchain

One of the biggest problems the music industry faces today is knowing which labels and publishers, performers, songwriters and producers own the rights to songs and recordings, and what their split of the royalties might be. Many believe that record keeping with Blockchain technology can help....

by Peter Alhadeff and Laura Green