Sell Your Music on CDBaby.com
About [EARLY DEREK SIVERS'] CDBaby.com:• CDBaby is an online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians: [In•de•pen•dent: (adj.) Not having sold one's life, career, and creative works over to a corporation.] • The folks at CDBaby listen to every CD they sell before they sell it, so they can better review it (which gets posted to your sales page— other people can review it as well online), and so they can better help the customer find other albums they'll like (more "extended networking" like you should already be doing on MySpace.com). • CDBaby only sells CDs that come directly from the musicians. No distributors. • Musicians send in their CDs. CDBaby warehouses them, sells them to the customer, and pays the musicians directly. • Cool thing: in a regular record deal or distribution deal, musicians only make $1-$2 per CD, if they ever get paid by their label. When selling through CD Baby, musicians make $6-$12 per CD, and get paid weekly (as opposed to weakly). • CDBaby has been in business, and thriving, since March 1998. They are now the largest seller of independent CDs on the web. • CDBaby has helped over 100,000 artists sell over $25 million in physical CDs, digital downloads, and live sales since 1998. • For a small $35 setup fee, CDBaby can get your music selling worldwide on CDBaby.com, Apple iTunes (Download Music on iTunes) , Tower Records, Yahoo Music, Best Buy, Rhapsody, Napster, MSN Music and more. • For warehousing and selling your CD, CDBaby keeps only a 9% cut, paying 91% of all income directly to you, the independent artist! (For physical CDs, they keep $4 per CD sold.) • CDBaby pays everyone every week, and has done so without fail for the past 8 years. Over $250,000 is paid directly to musicians every Monday night! If you want to sell your music, you should have read all you need to read before signing up at CDBaby. Start selling your CD on CDBaby.com right now.
“[CDBaby is] widely known among musicians and fans as one of the best distribution options for independent musicians, with a lot of credibility in the indie community for
their honesty and integrity.” —NPR (National Public Radio)

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