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Music business and industry

Last Updated: 14-Jan-2013

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Find information on the music business, including digital sales figures, consumer statistics and demographics, employment and wage statistics, file sharing and downloads, and legal information.

Subject Librarians

Ray Heigemeir
Public Services Librarian
Music Library
(650) 384-9985

Subjects

Music
Economics and business

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Databases

Forrester [electronic resource].
Cambridge, MA : Forrester, c1997-
Business » Check Business Library catalog for status » E-RESOURCE

Forrester Research publications analyze a broad range of technology areas such as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications and the Internet, and project how technology trends will affect businesses, consumers, and society.

MarketResearch.com academic [electronic resource].
Rockville, Md. : MarketResearch.com

Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide: Market Research reports by Packaged Facts (consumer goods), Kalorama Information (health science), Specialists in Business Information, Simba Information (media industry), Executive Summaries, and MarketLook Reports.

OECD iLibrary [electronic resource].
[Washington, D.C.] : OECD

Statistics and numerical data, including music sales.

LexisNexis [electronic resource] : academic.
[Miamisburg, OH] : LexisNexis, division of Reed Elsevier

Search for legal and business news; legislation and court findings; company information; consumer information.

US business browser [electronic resource].
Concord, MA : OneSource Information Services, [199-?]-
Business » Check Business Library catalog for status » E-RESOURCE

An integrated site offering a collection of core business information on companies and industries - news stories, corporate overviews, financial data, research reports, executive biographies, etc.

eMarketer [electronic resource].
New York : eMarketer, Inc., [200u-]-

Provides market research information related to the Internet, e-business, online marketing and emerging technologies.

Pew Internet and American Life Project: Music
Find reports including trend data, infographics, statistics.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
Census data on the arts and leisure activities; consumer expenditures; government funding for the arts; arts activities and attendance; occupational employment and wage statistics.
Billboard.com
Current and archived sales charts; new and interviews.

Article indexes

Use these oniine indexes to find journal articles:

ABI/INFORM [electronic resource].
Global ed. [Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI]

Includes the Wall Street Journal

Business source complete [electronic resource].
Ipswich, Mass. : EBSCO Pub., c2005-

Full text for over 10,000 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,150 peer-reviewed business publications.

JSTOR [electronic resource]
[New York] : JSTOR [New York] : ITHAKA, 1995-

165 journals in the business section provide full-text online access.

Academic search premier [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.

A multidisciplinary database which provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study.

View a list of music business periodicals here.

Reference works

The Graduate School of Business Library offers the following research guides. Additionally, GSB Library Staff provide research assistance to all members of the Stanford community.

 

See also these titles:

Recording industry in numbers.
[London] : IFPI
ARS » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3790 .R43 F 2010
Latest edition in Music Library Reference Room
Music business : the key concepts / Richard Strasser.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML102 .M85 S77 2010
Music business handbook and career guide / David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville.
9th ed. Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3795 .B33 2010
The music industry handbook / Paul Rutter.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Music » Stacks » ML3790 .R87 2011
The musician's business and legal guide / compiled and edited by Mark Halloran ; a presentation of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Committee for the Arts.
4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2008.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3790 .M84 2008
All you need to know about the music business / Donald S. Passman ; illustrations by Randy Glass.
7th ed., hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, 2009.
Music » Stacks » ML3790 .P35 2009
Music, money, and success : the insider's guide to making money in the music industry / Jeffrey Brabec, Todd Brabec.
4th ed., updated and expanded. New York : Schirmer Trade Books, c2004.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3790 .B72 2004

Books

Browse books on the music trade:

› See all 371 results
  1. The international recording industries

    edited by Lee Marshall. 2013

    ARS » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3790 .I58 2013

  2. The tour book [electronic resource] : how to get your music on the road

    Andy Reynolds. 2013

  3. Creativity and innovation in the music industry [electronic resource]

    Peter Tschmuck. 2012

Browse books on music and the internet:

› See all 371 results
  1. The international recording industries

    edited by Lee Marshall. 2013

    ARS » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3790 .I58 2013

  2. The tour book [electronic resource] : how to get your music on the road

    Andy Reynolds. 2013

  3. Creativity and innovation in the music industry [electronic resource]

    Peter Tschmuck. 2012

Browse books on the sound recording industry:

› See all 289 results
  1. The international recording industries

    edited by Lee Marshall. 2013

    ARS » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3790 .I58 2013

  2. Unfree masters : recording artists and the politics of work

    Matt Stahl. 2013

    ARS » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML3477 .S725 2013

  3. The Columbia record

    copied and reprinted by Ryan Barna. 2012

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