Behind all of your favorite bands, tours, concerts and videos is an unseen team of professionals. This team takes the music from the recording studio to your music library and from rehearsals to your favorite clubs and venues. In the Music Business concentration at AEMM, we are training the next generation of music industry executives.

The opportunities for you to help connect artists and their fans are growing every day. Whether you’re an artist, songwriter, producer, publisher, aspiring recording executive, concert promoter, or entrepreneur, we prepare you for real careers in the music industry. If you love music, this is the concentration for you.

Here are just a few of the many areas in the music and entertainment industries that we’ll help prepare you for:

Artist Management Tour Management Concert Promotion Talent Scouting Talent Booking Publishing Merchandising Entrepreneurship Public Relations

Marketing Artist to Fan relations & marketing Crowd (fan) Funding Licensing Business Affairs Royalty collection and administration Product Management Business Management

Some of the companies students have interned for and received jobs:

Alarm Press Atlantic Records Bad Boy Worldwide Biz 3 Publicity Blues Island Bottom Lounge Crush Management Curb Records Ekonomisk Management EMI Music Engine Studios Epitonic.com Flowerbooking Gowhere Hip Hop KMA Management Lincoln Hall Live Nation Entertainment Lollapalooza Mama Bird Music Group Music Dealers

Music Dish People's Music School Prowlers Music Inc RAW Natural Born Artists React Presents Real Ryder Revolution Saddle Creek Records Spader Entertainment Stache Media/Sony Music The HideOut The Music Garage The Recording Academy Thrill Jockey Records Viacom/MTV Networks Victory Records Warner Music Group Zuma Records/EMG

A few of the companies our alumni and faculty have worked for:

Fearless Records Universal Music Universal Motown Records Warner Music Group Sony Records Pitchfork Roc-A-Fella Records Bad Boy Records A&M Records Nettwerk Music Group

North Coast Music Festival Biz 3 Publicity Drag City Records Billions Corporation Windish Agency Touch and Go Records Schuba’s / Lincoln Hall Bottom Lounge Jam Productions Ruby Hornet Closed Sessions

Coordinator for Music Business Management: Jerry Brindisi jbrindisi@colum.edu

Music Business Management Degree Requirements