Walker Library: *Recording Industry: Music Business

Trade associations

Billboard magazine
Find print and online versions of Billboard magazine back to 1963. Billboard online provides free access to some current information. Billboard Biz online provides additional free industry content. Visit the Center for Popular Music for subscribed access to Billboard.biz.
Pollstar Concert Hotwire
Find print copies of this concert industry standard back to 2003, or view the free online version for recent information. Visit the Center for Popular Music for access to the complete web version.

Hit Songs Deconstructed
Data and analysis on the current mainstream music scene. Tracks compositional characteristics and production techniques in the songs that land in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Business Insights: Essentials
Combines detailed company and industry information with scholarly journals, business news, and more. Funded by Tennessee Electronic Library.

Business resource that includes easy to use company fundamentals and investment research reports, industry rankings, profiles, and more.
Reference Solutions from Data Axle (formerly ReferenceUSA)
Find business data for public and private companies. Search by firm, location and/or business type.

Separate databases for
U.S. Business
U.S. Jobs/Internships
U.S. Historical Businesses
U.S. Consumers/Lifestyles
S&P Capital IQ NetAdvantage
Access to S&P's Company and Industry Surveys, Stock Guides, Dividend Records, Mutual Fund Ratings and Corporation Records. Industry surveys are updated twice yearly and provide key data on more than 50 industries from Health Care to Telecommunications.

S&P Capital IQ NetAdvantage is available to all MTSU users through this link. The complete Capital IQ Platform, which provides deep information on companies, markets and people worldwide, is available in the University Computer Lab at BAS to students enrolled in certain business courses. Students should contact their instructor for registration information.

ABI/INFORM (ProQuest One Business)

Indexing and full-text for business literature, 1980s to present.

Local, regional, national and international business news coverage of corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Coverage from 1985-present. Now part of ProQuest One Business.
Business Abstracts with Full Text

Including leading business magazines and trade and research journals for business research.

• Full-text articles for nearly 460 publications dating back to 1982
• Indexing and abstracts for nearly 880 publications dating back to 1981
• Over 600,000 corporate names with cross references to specific industries and countries
• Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industry and product codes for over 190,000 subject terms
Business Source Complete

Scholarly business database with indexing and abstracts back to 1886 are included. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

Publication List
Business Insights: Essentials
Combines detailed company and industry information with scholarly journals, business news, and more. Funded by Tennessee Electronic Library.

Business resource that includes easy to use company fundamentals and investment research reports, industry rankings, profiles, and more.