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Music Business Careers
Related Skills
- Creativity and collaboration
- Confidence and initiative
- Team player and ability to work alone
- Ability to make critical observations
- Good listener
- Works well under pressure
- Competencies in business management, computers, and marketing
- Ability to self-promote
Being Successful in the Field
- Finding positions in the music industry requires a combination of talent, training, connections, and some luck. Perseverance is required!
- Some jobs may require you to join unions or guilds.
Related Fields
- Talent acquisition
- Publicity
- Administration
- Marketing and sales
- Product management
- Promotion/media relations
- Producing
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Virtual reality sound environments, e.g. Internet sites, software creators
- Music and program direction
- On-air performance
- Voiceovers
- Copyright/clearance administration
- Music license administration
- Music editing, production, and composing
- Sound mixing
- Post-production
- Research
Employers
- Public and commercial media (TV, radio, Internet)
- Recording studios/industry
- Venue and music ensemble management
- Production companies (primarily in NYC, LA, and Nashville)
- Music publishing companies
- Self-employed
- Places of worship
- Musical theater productions
- Motion picture industry
- Music or instrument store manager/owner/sales representative
Strategies
- Take business courses to work in management or administration.
- Consider further study in journalism, public relations, and communication.
- Gain sales experience for marketing.
- Gain experience working for a music publisher or other businesses in the entertainment industry
- Must interact well with people and develop persuasion tools.
- Expand knowledge of electronics, audio engineering, and recording.
- Work or volunteer at radio station.
- Join organizations involved with bringing events and entertainment to campus/local venues.
- Become familiar with trade unions or guilds.
Career Industry Liaison
Internship Coordinator