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How To Master Digital Distribution — CD Baby Edition
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CD Baby has been one of the longest running digital distributors for the last 20 years. Founded by Derek Sivers in 1998 in Woodstock, New York and launched as a website to sell his own music.
CD Baby has endured and evolved into one of the only top preferred partners with Apple Music & Spotify. The digital aggregator now accommodates over 650,000 artists and over 9 millions songs that are distributed across 150+ platforms worldwide.
CD Baby is a traditional distribution company that doesn’t offer any label services or artist development. They do offer an above average support staff that accompanies their services.
Based in Portland, Oregon with offices in New York City and London. CD Baby has thrived within the distribution arena after growing from a local operation with Oasis to becoming a digital distributor and premier partner of iTunes in 2004.
For the better half of the last decade CD Baby has continued to grow as a company and brand.
- Following a 7-year partnership with Disc Makers, the company bought CD Baby and Host Baby for $22 million in 2008.
- CD Baby added YouTube monetization to their digital distribution services…
