CD Baby, have any of you thought about it?

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Saturday Oct 30, 2010

I saw here recently about CD Baby to market your music?

They make music distribution and sales easy for you on the largest and most popular music stores, both online and off. We carry over 300,000 independent titles (and 2.6 million songs) from artists around the world.

With CD Baby you can:

Sell your music on iTunes Upload and sell full albums on iTunes (in 48 hours*), Amazon MP3, CDBaby.com, and dozens of the most popular music sites.

Sell your music on iTunes Sell a single song direct on CDBaby.com, through our digital distribution partners, or both.

Sell your CDs on CD Baby: Sell CDs worldwide on CDBaby.com.

Super D One-Stop Distribution: Make your CDs available for special order sale in over 2,500 brick-and-mortar retail stores.

Sell Vinyl on CD Baby: Sell vinyl on CDBaby.com. We ship worldwide.

CD Baby CD Duplication: Duplicate discs to sell on CD Baby and at gigs.

Music download cards: Create customized download cards and stickers to sell or give away at gigs.

Credit card swiper: Accept credit cards at shows — increase your sales and revenue.

Host Baby Web Hosting and Design: Host your own great-looking website — made easy with Host Baby Web Hosting.

Limelight Cover Song Licensing: Cover song clearance made easy.

Sonicbids - Gigs and Booking: Get your next gig using Sonicbids!

Best of all – get paid weekly! PLUS, we give you plenty of free tools to help you sell your music!

*Once your content has been approved by our distribution team and finalized by you, we will deliver your music to iTunes within 2 business days.

More info can be found here: http://members.cdbaby.com/

greaser · Post by **greaser** » Saturday Oct 30, 2010

i've been using cdbaby for about 6 years now and have never once had a problem. imho they are an excellent tool for independent musicians. after derick sivers (founder) sold it to discmakers i was a little concerned it might go downhill...but it hasn't. very musician-friendly.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Saturday Oct 30, 2010

greaser wrote:i've been using cdbaby for about 6 years now and have never once had a problem. imho they are an excellent tool for independent musicians. after derick sivers (founder) sold it to discmakers i was a little concerned it might go downhill...but it hasn't. very musician-friendly.

After looking at it, I thought the same thing. It would be a good tool for a lot of the bands in this area to use. I never had any experience with it, so I was mostly just going by the testimonies.

Thanks for putting your input. It is good to see some one local using it and liking the service they offer..

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Sunday Oct 31, 2010

Put our first CD release in 2000 up there, well worth it.

greaser · Post by **greaser** » Monday Nov 01, 2010

looking forward to trying out this tool for my next project:
http://bandcamp.com/

might be good, might not...but i'm gonna give it a try. it's definately a great time to be an independent artist. thank god for the internet, record labels are becoming obsolete, and i love it!!

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Monday Nov 01, 2010

Awesome, Greaser. Let us know how it goes ..

Zupe · Post by **Zupe** » Monday Nov 01, 2010

I've used CDBaby since 1998 and currently have three albums under my name on there. (I also have several other albums there that I either co-wrote on or produced.)

CDBaby is the real deal. I, too, had concerns when Disc Makers bought it from Derek Sivers. But the new owners have really stepped it up. Yes, it's a bit more business-like than when Derek ran it, but it is definitely easy to work and the customer support is top-notch.

My best income from CDBaby is actually from my first disc, "Christmas Piano." Sales went bonkers a few years ago in Japan! But my other two albums do respectably well; more so, nowadays, with digital downloads than physical sales. And every last dime is trackable on their website!

I would strongly suggest using CDBaby as one of your marketing tools. It takes away a lot of the hassles, especially with digital download stores. Twelve years and an ownership change later, I STILL have no complaints!

greaser · Post by **greaser** » Tuesday Nov 02, 2010

zupe hits the nail on the head..great marketing tool and very honest. on a related note, derek sivers wrote a blog about the sale to discmakers. it's a great read and pretty inspiring:
http://sivers.org/trust