“Making Musicians Productive Laborers” continues my interest in the problem of how capitalists venture into spaces “outside” of capitalism, and how things “outside” of capitalism are brought into it. This chapter employs Anna Tsing’s work on scalability to examine music managers, who act as chiefs of staff for musicians, helping them build their team of lawyers, publicists, agents, and more, attempting to make what is nonscalable—a musician (who can only write so many songs, give so many concerts, make so many recordings)—as un-nonscalable as possible. Music managers attempt to transform their clients into productive laborers whose work can be scaled through attempts to build and maintain an audience and loyal fanbase.