CD Baby is one of the top 3 biggest digital distributors, with a repertoire of more than 9 million tracks. That said, it still handles CD and vinyl orders and thus acts as an intermediary, between artists and not only digital stores, but also physical outlets.
Since 2013, the company has offered publishing, synchronization licensing, marketing and monetization services on social networks such as YouTube to its subscribers, although since 2020, it no longer allows the sale of tracks from its site.
He gradually opened his sales site to other musicians, and from 2004 the platform began signing partnerships with streaming and download sites like iTunes, thus joining the digital distribution market. It was founded by Derek Silvers, a musician who, like the founder of DistroKid, was driven above all by the desire to sell his music directly to his audience and online, bypassing recording labels while keeping up with the shift in the music market from physical to digital. Let's jam!Ī precursor within the digital distributor bubble, CD Baby was created in 1998 on the East Coast of the US, in Woodstock, New York. Neither as young nor as small a player in the world’s biggest digital distributors as its name suggests, we would like to introduce you to CD Baby! This article forms part of our quick tour of these intermediaries between track creators and streaming sites, and will include a brief history, an account of how this service works, and a look at its pricing options.
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