Brian Chin's career in music began as a reviewer for a local paper, Gaysweek, in 1978. He covered dance music and the record industry at large as a writer for the music trade papers Record World and Billboard, and New York's Village Voice, as well as the London-based publications Music Week, Record Mirror, Jocks and Music Business International. He was a pop reviewer for the New York Post from 1982 to 1987.

He joined Profile Records in 1987, and signed Rob Base and D.J. E-Z Rock's party classic, "It Takes Two," and the 15-year-old hip-hop prodigy Special Ed. He launched the first cross-licensed house music compilation series in the U.S. market in 1988 for Profile. As Vice President, A&R for PWL America/Chemistry, Chin signed Boston's No.1 rap group, Ed O.G & Da Bulldogs, and star hip-hop producer Diamond D., and also signed the pop girl group Boy Krazy, and the chart-topping U.K. lover's rock reggae act, China Black.

Currently, Chin consults in A&R research for Atlantic Records and London's pop-dance remix team Almighty Associates. He has co-produced and/or annotated compilations in dance, R&B, pop and rock for every major label. Among his credits: Rhino's The Disco Box; Universal/Motown's The Supremes Box and Diana Ross & the Supremes No. 1's; Sony/Legacy's The Philly Sound and Philadelphia Classics; Tommy Boy's The Perfect Beats, and reissues by Gwen Guthrie, Luther Vandross, Dusty Springfield, Madonna, Chaka Khan, Rod Stewart, Grace Jones, Patti LaBelle, Rick James, Lily Tomlin, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Gussie Clarke and Sly & Robbie.