音乐制作人（亦称唱片制作人或者专辑制作人；英语：Record Producer）在唱片工业里是个非常重要的角色，工作内容涵盖控制录音工程的调度、训练和指导新的音乐家、组织调度制作预算和资源、监督录音的过程、进行混音以及母带后制的工作。

就某些方面而言，音乐制作人就像影剧导演，他的任务是制作、设计制作出符合整个专辑风格的歌曲，不同的是专辑制作人很少负责筹措经费，而是被一些拥有资金的人给雇用，通常是唱片出版公司或歌手本身。20世纪下半叶开始，音乐制作人也开始从事一些更广、更具有创造性的工作。

A record producer (or music producer) has a very broad role in overseeing and managing the recording (i.e. "production") of a band or performer's music. A producer has many roles that may include, but are not limited to, gathering ideas for the project, selecting songs and/or session musicians, proposing changes to the song arrangements, coaching the artist and musicians in the studio, controlling the recording sessions, and supervising the entire process through audio mixing (recorded music) and, in some cases, to the audio mastering stage. Producers also often take on a wider entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts, and negotiations. In the 2010s, the recording industry has two kinds of producers with different roles: executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the creation of music.