It's vast, it's complex, and there are so many jobs possible. Not sure where to start?
Explore our three volumes — Record Label, Artist's Team, and Recording Arts — to find your perfect fit.
Record labels are companies that sign record deals with musicians to manufacture, distribute, and market their music.
Scouting new artists, Overseeing the recording process, Assisting the creative process.
Close to Artist
Creative
Labels make agreements with other businesses or companies in which artists promote products while creating new content.
Creative
Business
Record deals, contracts, digital services, copyright, protection of intellectual property
Administrative
Degree Required
The term catalog is used within the industry to distinguish new releases (frontline) from music that has been out for more than 18 months.
Administrative
Social
The artist's team helps out the day-to-day life of the artist regarding all business and organizational aspects.
Guide every step in the career of an artist in the music business.
Multiple Artists
Creative
Booking artists at venues for live shows and performances, and negotiating fees and payments for those arrangements.
Desk
Business
Behind the glass - Discover the different roles who take part in the creation of every songs and albums.
The mixing engineer finalizes a recorded piece of music by blending and balancing the various sonic elements to have the intended effect(s) and end with one final stereo track.
Creative
Studio
Traditionally, they organize by hand an already existing composition in order to make it into a playable score.
Creative
Multiple Artists
Mastering is defined as the process of optimizing audio to create the final version of a recording before distribution. The mastering engineer is responsible for critically listening to the material and ensuring that the record is complete.
Creative
Studio