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 Luiz Buff and Nicholas Spanos

A Bundle of Mechanicals

Legislators have tried to adapt copyright law to new inventions since the time of piano rolls. This is because creators beg remuneration in new media. In the Copyright Act of 1909, the exclusive right of the copyright owner to make mechanical reproductions of music was secured through the...

by Bernard Mantel

Holding Out For Vinyl

The U.S. Copyright Act requires that in order for a work to be entitled to copyright protection, it must be “fixed in a tangible medium of expression.”1 With the rise of the digital age, one might argue that the majority of musical works that are consumed today are not quite “tangible”...

by Mariana Migliore