Music Industry and Job Roles

Helps with major business decisions, assists with the creative process, promotes an artist's career, assembles & heads the artist's professional team, etc.

• Promoter

• Agent

• Union Representative

• Manager

The person involved almost exclusively in booking live personal appearances

• Agent

• Promoter

• Producer

• A&R

A&R, Sales, Marketing, Promotion, Product Management, New Media, Finance, Business Affairs/Legal

• Union

• Record Company

• Recording Studio

• Venue

Networks that move records from manufacturing plants into the stores

• Manufacturing

• Distribution

• Retail

• Record Company

Record companies and recording artists, as well as the writers and publishers, all make money based on the sale of recordings, as well as through later playing and reuse of their work.

• Earnings

• Fees

• Salary

• Royalties

Bringing the creative product into a tangible form (i.e. CD) by maximizing the creative process and taking care of all necessary administration (booking studio time, staying on budget, etc.).

• Producer

• Promoter

• Agent

• Manager

A form of property ownership for certain types of artistic & creative works.

• Fees

• Royalties

• Copyright

• Publishing

Encourage new material, produce demo recordings and printed music (scores), manage all associated copyright and royalty licensing/PRS requirements.

• Promoter

• Publisher

• Agent

• Union Representative

A musician who contributes to a recording or a live performance but is not actually a full time member of the band.

• Session Musician

• Orchestra Musician

• Full-time Musician

• Band Musician

Agencies that collect royalties on behalf of songwriters when a song they have written is performed

• MCPS

• PPL

• PRS

• BDD (Big Daddy D) Agencies