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 Kenny Rosenberg

Video Game Cowboys

The NPD Group, a market research firm, recently released monthly figures detailing declining sales on consoles, accessories and video games compared to years past. Their research shows a consistent industry drop-off of about $1.7 billion a year through 2011. Game developers and their teams may...

by George Howard

Startup Call

Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup has taken the business world by storm in the way that only books that sum up complicated ideas in an elegant manner can.1 Sadly, while readers from many industries are referencing the book and applying its principles, musicians, and in general the music...

by Salomon Sterental and Alberto Azout