How do I transfer all my music from my macbook to my new iMac?

I used migration assitant, it seemed to work but I can't see any files from macbook in imac. Really just want all my music duplicated so its on the imac also.

I have never used Migration assistant but from my remembering what was said here it may set things up in a new account on your computer. If all you want is iTunes and you want it in that account:
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Open iTunes and immediately hold down the Option (alt) key (shift on Windows) so you get a prompt to select a library, then guide it to the iTunes Library.itl file in the moved iTunes folder.
If you put the copied iTunes folder in the default location of Macintosh HD > Users > *User Name* > Music then you don't even need to start with the option key held down, iTunes will automatically look for it there. (Make sure there isn't anything already in the iTunes folder there that you want to keep since you will be replacing it with the one you are moving.)

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