CD Baby is a online store for independent musicians, that reverses the ratio of payments in favor of the artists. They keep US$ 4 per CD, and the rest (the artist sets the price) goes to the musicians. Now they offer a new program to allow independent musicians to publish their music to Apple's iTunes, listen.com and emusic.com with more for distributors in negotiation. They ask US$ 40 once per CD and then keep 9% of what they get from the distributor. The contracts are carefully crafted to leave as much rights as possible to the artist and can be cancelled within 30 days.
According the early reports from Apple 50% of the songs available in their shop were downloaded at least once, implying a much more level playfield than in the traditional structures of the music business. A further nail in the coffin?
CD Baby is based in Portland, Oregon. Lately I'm getting a lot of pointers to Portland. Many people tell me that this is a cool place and has a very open-minded culture. Need to have a closer look, once. Anyhow, many pictures in the human clock were apparently taken there...
Posted by seefeld at July 27, 2003 20:05i would like to know, how would the artist know how many of its albums were sold
thank you
Posted by: raymond rivera jr. at February 15, 2004 11:49 PMif you want to sell music downloads from your own website take a look at this music store:
Posted by: Alfred Himmelweiss at May 4, 2005 03:00 PM