CD Baby, Inc is an online distributor of independent music.
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13 Facts About CD Baby
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CD Baby was described as an "anti-label" by its parent company's Chief Operating Officer Tracy Maddux.
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In 2019, CD Baby was the only digital aggregator with top preferred partner status with both Spotify and Apple Music, and it was home to more than 650, 000 artists and nine million tracks that were made available to over 100 digital services and platforms around the globe as of May 2019.
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In 2004, CD Baby began offering a digital music distribution and became an early partner of iTunes.
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In 2012, CD Baby added YouTube monetization to its services that come included with music distribution.
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In 2013, CD Baby Pro Publishing was launched as an add-on that assists independent songwriters in administering their composition rights and collecting global publishing royalties.
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On March 31, 2020, CD Baby ceased its retail sales of music, in any format, but continued to manage wholesale music distribution for its musician clients.
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CD Baby relaunched the website with major infrastructure changes to support future growth, including redundancy that protects the original material on the site in a way that initially was not available to the artists.
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In 2018, CD Baby paid over $100 million to its artist community, bringing its total artist payouts to over $700 million.
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CD Baby has a catalogue of more than 350, 000 albums and over nine million downloadable song tracks.
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Dave Matthews has an album for sale on CD Baby, recorded with Mark Roebuck before the inception of Dave Matthews Band, released under the name Tribe of Heaven.
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