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Music business and industry

Last Updated: 13-Mar-2015

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

Subjects

Music
Economics and business

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Databases

Music industry data.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"A single search of international charting albums and singles under exclusive academic licence from Billboard, the Official Charts Company. Sophisticated tools allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions at the touch of a button"--website.
Forrester [electronic resource].
Cambridge, MA : Forrester, c1997-
Business Library » Online resource » (no call number)
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
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
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
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Statistics and numerical data, including music sales.
LexisNexis [electronic resource] : academic.
[Miamisburg, OH] : LexisNexis, division of Reed Elsevier
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Search for legal and business news; legislation and court findings; company information; consumer information.
eMarketer [electronic resource].
New York : eMarketer, Inc., [200u-]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
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]
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Includes the Wall Street Journal

Business source complete [electronic resource].
Ipswich, Mass. : EBSCO Pub., c2005-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

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-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

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

Academic search premier [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

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
Green Library » InfoCenter (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 Library » Reference (non-circulating) » ML102 .M85 S77 2010
Music business handbook and career guide / David Baskerville, Tim Baskerville.
9th ed. Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.
Music Library » Reference (non-circulating) » ML3795 .B33 2010
The music industry handbook / Paul Rutter.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Music Library » 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 Library » Reference (non-circulating) » ML3790 .M84 2008
All you need to know about the music business / Donald S. Passman.
8th ed. New York : Free Press, 2012.
Music Library » Reference (non-circulating) » ML3790 .P35 2012
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 Library » Reference (non-circulating) » ML3790 .B72 2004