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Music Career Map

The education and career development product suite for musicians, music professionals, educators, and students.

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Music Career Map is your single stop for education, tools, resources, and opportunities. All of our products are individually accessible but can be used in conjunction to provide an unparalleled user experience.

Online courses, quizzes, and certifications for all levels of learning and training.

Project management tools and resources built specifically for the music industry.

Career and opportunity marketplace for employment, networking, and more.

We Help Build Sustainable Careers.

Our Mission

Whether you want to learn about what a Music Publicist does, find one for your next tour, or learn how to become one yourself, Music Career Map is here to help you reach your career destination.

The product suite originally launched with Musicians Desk Reference, an education and project management system, in 2012. The platform has helped thousands of users across the globe and is now growing into a product suite to serve music economies.

In 2019, Music Career Map was launched to serve as the new parent company, with MusicIndustry.Academy and MusicIndustry.Careers launching in 2020 to complete the pathway from education to career development.

Our Community

We connect and empower the entire music industry.

Musicians

Beginners, Emerging, and Established Songwriters and Performers

Professionals

Managers, Booking Agents, Record Labels, Marketers, Attorneys & More

Students

Institutional, Independent, Online: Public & Private

Educators

College, K-12, Trade, Vocational, Online: Public & Private

"I give it my highest recommendation. This will teach you everything you need to know about how to be a musician right now."

Stephen Carridini, North Carolina State University Music Business Professor 

Solutions For Everyone

Music Career Map provides a variety of solutions to the entire music industry.

Our products are available in three formats:

Free​

Includes free documents, courses, projects, marketplace posting, and more. All of our products offer free content and free trials for premium services.

Premium

Full access to our robust project management system, advanced courses, premium career marketplace posting services, and more.

Custom

All products are available as custom builds, offering the ability for business clients to have unique content, branding, user data, and generate revenue.

Economic Development:
Supporting Music Cities

Business Clients such as Schools, Governments, and Corporations can also use our custom product builds to stimulate their local economies. Custom content allows you to highlight local goods/service providers, local career opportunities, gain unique user data to track, and even generate revenue.

The Music Career Map custom product suite is a complete economic development solution for Music Cities to support their Creative Economy.

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MusicIndustry.Expert

Music Industry Experts (MIE) is a community of industry professionals, including managers, label staff, agents, promoters, attorneys and more, all offering 1:1, group and class consulting sessions.

Clients will gain qualified perspective and gain advice for their own career, in addition to the ability to network and discover opportunities for advancement.

Get Connected

MusicIndustry.Careers

Music Industry Careers (MIC) is an online marketplace offering music-specific careers and opportunities. MIC helps connect the best talent to opportunities within the music industry.

Users can apply for careers such as internships, freelance, or full-time work, in addition to opportunities to collaborate, hire professionals, and more. 

Employers can use MIC to better discover applicants based on experience, set employment prerequisites (MIA Certifications), and more.

Gain Knowledge

MusicIndustry.Academy

Music Industry Academy (MIA) is a collection of music-specific online courses, quizzes, and certifications, all of which have been developed by the top experts in the music industry.

Users have access to free and premium courses and can earn certifications that set a higher industry standard for musicians, music professionals, educators, and students, all with a focus on helping to provide a pathway to a sustainable career.

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Musicians Desk Reference

Musicians Desk Reference (MDR) is a project management platform built specifically for the music industry.

Since its launch in 2012, MDR has helped thousands of musicians, professionals, and educators across the globe.

The platform has become a standard for both day-to-day personal career management and supplemental curriculum used by Universities to teach the modern music business.

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