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Digital music benefactor

CD Babe, Inc.
CD Baby Logo Black.png
Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese
Founded March 10, 1998; 24 years ago  (1998-03-x) [1]
Woodstock, New York, U.S.
Dissolved March 2020 (retail store)
Headquarters Portland, Oregon, U.South.
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) Derek Sivers
Manufacture Digital distribution, music publisher, online music store
Products Digital distribution, promotion
Parent AVL Digital Group (Downtown)
Subsidiaries Audio and Video Labs, Inc. (Soundrop)
URL cdbaby.com

CD Baby, Inc. is an online benefactor of independent music. The company was described as an "anti-label" by its parent company'due south Chief Operating Officeholder Tracy Maddux.[two] The CD Infant music store was close downward in March 2020 with a statement that "CD Baby retired our music store in March of 2020 in order to place our focus entirely on the tools and services that are almost meaningful to musicians today and tomorrow."[3] They go on to provide distribution services to artists as of March 2022.[4]

In 2019, CD Baby was the only digital aggregator with top preferred partner status with both Spotify and Apple Music,[5] [6] and it was home to more than 650,000 artists and nine one thousand thousand tracks that were fabricated available to over 100 digital services and platforms around the globe every bit of May 2019.[7]

The firm, as of 2018, operated out of Portland, Oregon, with offices in New York City and London.[7] [8]

History [edit]

CD Infant was founded in 1998 in Woodstock, New York, by Derek Sivers.[9] Sivers was a musician who created the website to sell his own music. As a hobby, he also began to sell the CDs of local bands and friends. Sivers originally listened to every CD he sold (the visitor later employed people specifically to do this, but today,[ when? ] CD Baby no longer listens to every submission).[ citation needed ] Sivers eventually hired John Steup as his vice president and first employee.[ten]

Sivers partnered with Oasis Disc Manufacturing[11] to distribute the complete Oasis artist roster.[12]

In 2000, the firm moved to Portland, Oregon, where they remain headquartered today. In 2004, CD Baby began offering a digital music distribution and became an early on partner of iTunes.[13]

In August 2008 Disc Makers, a CD and DVD manufacturer, announced that they had bought CD Baby (and Host Babe) for 22 1000000 dollars post-obit a seven-year partnership betwixt the two companies.[14]

In 2012, CD Baby added YouTube monetization to its services that come up included with music distribution.[15]

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. The service is now available to songwriters in more than 70 countries and territories.[16]

In March 2019, Disc Makers sold CD Baby (as part of the AVL Digital Group) to Downtown for $200 million. AVL'south physical product divisions, Disc Makers, BookBaby, and Merchly, were acquired in a separate transaction by the Disc Makers executive team every bit part of the newly formed DIY Media Group.[17]

On March 31, 2020, CD Baby ceased its retail sales of music, in any format, just continued to manage wholesale music distribution for its musician clients.[18]

Technical history [edit]

Until 2009, CD Baby ran on PHP and MySQL.[8] Sivers announced in 2005 that he was rewriting all the systems in Ruby on Rail and PostgreSQL.[nineteen] [20] After about 2 years of work, he felt that the rewrite was still less than half done, and he threw the new code away and rewrote it again in his original programming language, PHP, and database, MySQL. Sivers noted that "Rails was an amazing instructor" only he concluded that PHP was upward to the task in one case he had learned the lessons Scarlet on Track taught him.[21]

CD Baby relaunched the website with major infrastructure changes (using ASPX) to back up future growth, including back-up that protects the original cloth on the site in a fashion that initially was not available to the artists. The website is no longer beingness run with the original or revised PHP. The new site experienced significant glitches initially, but this did not preclude the visitor from continuing to pay its artists every bit sales were reported to CD Infant by partners and others, monies received, and artist-chosen payment points reached.[22] [23]

Services [edit]

For its clients, CD Babe offers digital music distribution, worldwide publishing rights administration, monetization of music use on social video platforms, sync licensing, music marketing, online advertisement, embrace vocal licensing, and physical distribution and order fulfillment for CDs and vinyl records.[24] By opting into their online distribution service, artists can authorize CD Baby to human activity on their behalf to submit music for sale to online retailers such as Spotify, Apple tree Music, Amazon Music, Pandora Radio, and 150+ other streaming services.[fifteen]

The visitor besides hosts ii almanac conferences for independent musicians looking for education, networking, and performance opportunities. Described every bit "the simply music conference geared specifically towards the needs of independent artists in charge of their careers", the DIY Musician Conference took identify in Chicago in 2015 and 2016, Nashville in 2017 and 2018, and is scheduled in Austin for 2019 and 2020.[25]

In 2018, CD Baby paid over $100 million[v] to its artist customs (a 25% increase from 2017[26]), bringing its total artist payouts to over $700 meg. In addition to the services the firm offers under its own name, CD Baby also at present owns and operates HearNow, Show.co, Illustrated Sound Network, and HostBaby.[27] HostBaby closed in 2019.[28]

Notable artists at CD Baby [edit]

CD Baby has a catalogue of more than 350,000 albums and over nine one thousand thousand downloadable song tracks. Music created past these acts, ranging from office-time hobbyists, to full-time musicians with successful careers, spans all genres, from avant-garde to earth music. Dave Matthews has an album for sale on CD Infant, recorded with Marker Roebuck before the inception of Dave Matthews Band, released under the proper noun Tribe of Heaven. Other notable artists releasing their music via CD Baby include Johnny Affections and Helldorado winner of the Will Rogers Honor for All-time WESTERN SWING Vocaliser of the YEAR for his anthology CRAWFISH AND COWBOYS from the University of Western Artist. Johnny Angel is also an OFFBEAT Magazine winner of their ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR honor. Ingrid Michaelson who has used CD Baby for digital distribution for every release[29] likewise as Twenty Ane Pilots, Gravity Noir, Viper, Aloe Blacc, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Head and the Middle, Bon Iver, Fastface Timi,Sara Bareilles, and The National. Americana acts Mary Gauthier, Marshall Chapman, Lorenzo Jaar, Gretchen Peters, and Tom Russell; blues musicians Harmonica Hinds, Jeremiah Johnson,[xxx] and Liz Mandeville; American Italian pianist and composer Richard Aaker Trythall; Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Crowe; the United kingdom duo Nizlopi; the early music ensemble, The Boston Camerata; and Italian-born, American classical violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, music manager of the New Century Chamber Orchestra; Iranian Pop Star Mohsen Yeganeh; South African Concept Artist Alessandro Batazzi; Russian American opera singer Elena Zoubareva; and Big Sur. American vocaliser-songwriter Grayson Hugh sells his music on CD Baby, equally well as on his website. Grammy Award-winning artist Janis Ian, a pioneer among independent musicians marketing online, sells her CDs on the website also as through her own website. Indeed, CD Infant has served every bit the distributor for dozens of Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning titles.[31] [32] [33] [34] [35]

American culling rock band Lazlo Blight stayed every bit an contained band subsequently their initial success with theme song for Telly serial Scrubs and went on to sell their music through CD Baby.[36]

The midwest punk rock bands Degenerates and Spite also sell their music on CD Infant.[37] [38]

Hong Kong based singer Wing, best known for guest starring on an episode of South Park, too sells her music on CD Baby.[39]

Norwegian singer/songwriter Stig Gustu Larsen has released two top-charting EPs through CD Baby. The latest EP "Lifelines + Echoes" debuted at number one at the Norwegian iTunes charts.[ citation needed ]

Earth music artists who sold their albums on CD Infant also include Kaysha, Soumia, and Julio D.[ citation needed ]

Latvian-Brazilian singer-songwriter Laura Rizzotto has released multiple projects through CD Baby like her second studio album Reason to Stay in 2014 and an EP named Crimson in 2018.[40]

Labels [edit]

Beside artists, independent music labels also uses CDBaby. At example the German label Vier Sterne Deluxe Records[41] or the United kingdom based characterization Chocolate Fireguard.[42]

See also [edit]

  • List of companies based in Oregon
  • ONErpm

References [edit]

  1. ^ "CDBaby.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS . Retrieved December two, 2016.
  2. ^ Rohter, Larry (August 12, 2014). "CD Baby, a Company for the Niche Musician". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  3. ^ "CD Baby Music Store". Shop.cdbaby.com . Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  4. ^ https://cdbaby.com/
  5. ^ a b Dukoff, Spencer. "Spotify, Apple Music Helped CD Baby Artists Earn Over $100 Meg In 2018". Forbes . Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  6. ^ "Apple names The Orchard, Kontor and CD Baby 'Preferred Plus' music distributors every bit part of new plan". Music Business Worldwide. November 13, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  7. ^ a b "CD Baby Expands Operations to London, Hires Rich Orchard & Steve Cusack". Billboard . Retrieved May ix, 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Near CDBaby.com | CD Babe Music Shop". Cdbaby.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Retrieved November three, 2015.
  9. ^ Sivers, Derek (2011). Anything You Want. The states of America: Do Y'all Zoom, Inc. p. one. ISBN978-ane-936719-xi-2.
  10. ^ "Cd Baby in Portland, OR - (503) 595-3000". Chamberofcommerce.com . Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  11. ^ Soloman, Micah. "Oasis Disc Manufacturing (Choose a package that radiates quality and eco-friendliness!)". Haven.
  12. ^ Soloman, Micah. "Sell your music worldwide with CD Infant". Haven.
  13. ^ "Indie artist payments from CD Baby increase 33% in 2017, and other numbers you'll desire to see [INFOGRAPHIC]". DIY Musician Web log. March 6, 2018. Retrieved May nine, 2019.
  14. ^ "CD Baby sold to Disc Makers - news, torrent, wikipedia, free MP3, download, lyrics". Archived from the original on August xiii, 2008. Retrieved Baronial 10, 2008. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  15. ^ a b "Worldwide Digital Music Distribution". Cdbaby.com . Retrieved May nine, 2019.
  16. ^ "CD Babe now publishes over a million songs - and says it'due south 'helping solve the industry'due south publishing problem one songwriter at a time'". Music Concern Worldwide. Baronial 15, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  17. ^ "Downtown buys CD Babe owner for $200m". Music Business concern Worldwide. March 27, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  18. ^ Rodríguez, Andrea (Apr thirteen, 2020). "What you should know about the retirement of CD Baby'southward retail store". cd Baby. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  19. ^ Sivers, Derek (January 22, 2005). "CD Babe rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Infant!". Onlamp.com. Archived from the original on May ix, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2021. Now, with Rails, there are a team of passionate geniuses contributing to this web-making framework daily. It's small enough that you lot can stay on superlative of it, and picket this framework get more than and more powerful by the week. Improvements that are pragmatic not political. People using information technology to make effective websites, contributing to the shared framework around it equally they go. Why not take advantage of all this bright work? It took a lot to get me to switch from PHP, the only language I really know, to Red. I tell my non-estimator friends, "It's like the week before sitting down to write a book, I decided to write it in Portuguese instead of English, because it'll exist easier." It sounds crazy, but we'll see.
  20. ^ Russell, Robby. "Migrating to Cherry on Rails and PostgreSQL: An Interview with CD Babe". O'Reilly Ruby. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved Baronial 25, 2021. Russell: How long was information technology between when you lot start started playing with Ruby to when you appear that you would rewrite CD Baby in Ruby on Rail and PostgreSQL? What helped motivate that conclusion? Sivers: That was around January 2005, and then about a year later I learned Cerise and a few months subsequently I saw Rails. Really Rails didn't impress me that much at starting time. I didn't want to make a elementary web log. I needed to make this massive ecommerce and intranet. Information technology didn't seem upwards for the job. I emailed DHH and told him I *wanted* to beloved Rails but didn't run across how information technology could piece of work for CD Baby. He hooked me up with Tobias Lütke who sat with me on the telephone for an hour over VNC - (me watching his screen while we talked) - and once I saw how ./script/console and helpers worked, I was convinced. Console and helpers are what pushed me over the edge. PostgreSQL was a no-brainer. Within an hour of learning it my very first time, I was hooked for life. As CD Infant has grown, I've had then so many issues with MySQL. PostgreSQL solves them all. (Mostly the forced data-integrity : foreign keys, constraints, etc.)
  21. ^ "7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Runway". Oreillynet.com. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  22. ^ "Sell Music Online - Sell worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, and More!". CD Baby. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  23. ^ "Sell Music Online - Sell worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, and More!". CD Baby. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  24. ^ "Sell Your Music Worldwide". CD Baby . Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  25. ^ "CD Baby DIY Musician Conference Moves To Austin, TX". Music Connection Mag. September 4, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  26. ^ "CD Baby, Now In Its 20th Year, Says It Paid Out $80M to Indie Artists in 2017". Billboard. March 6, 2018. Retrieved May nine, 2019.
  27. ^ "Tools & Resources To Promote Your Music - Music Promotion". CD Babe . Retrieved May ix, 2019.
  28. ^ Silva, Marsha (August xviii, 2019). "Bandzoogle Takes Over Artist Folio Hosting for CD Baby as 'HostBaby' Gets Transitioned". Digital Music News.
  29. ^ "Ingrid Michaelson Discography;". CDBaby. Archived from the original on January 1, 2018.
  30. ^ "Brand Spank'n Blue - Jeremiah Johnson, The Jeremiah Johnson Ring, The Sliders | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved November ii, 2015.
  31. ^ "Heady year for independent musicians nominated for Grammy Awards". DIY Musician Blog. December 13, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  32. ^ "Congratulations to all CD Infant artists nominated for a 2018 Latin Grammy". DIY Musician Blog. September 25, 2018. Retrieved May ix, 2019.
  33. ^ "Strong independent showing for 2016 Grammy nominations". DIY Musician Blog. December 11, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  34. ^ "Impressive contained showing for 2017 Grammys". DIY Musician Weblog. February three, 2017. Retrieved May ix, 2019.
  35. ^ "Big contained showing for 2018 Grammy Awards". DIY Musician Blog. Nov 30, 2017. Retrieved May nine, 2019.
  36. ^ "Lazlo Bane". CD Infant. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  37. ^ "Spite; The Emotion Not the indicate; CD Baby Music Shop". CDBaby. February 23, 1985. Archived from the original on May 20, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  38. ^ "Degenerates by Degenerates; CD Baby Music Shop". Cdbaby.com. Archived from the original on July v, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  39. ^ "Nigh Fly". Wingmusic.co.nz. June 30, 2015. Archived from the original on April xviii, 2016.
  40. ^ ""Ross & Rach"". Laurarizzotto.com . Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  41. ^ "our Partners". Vier Sterne Deluxe Records . Retrieved Jan three, 2022.
  42. ^ "United kingdom Characterization Chocolate Fireguard "Best Of British" titles available On CD Baby and Soyuz characterization, Moscow". PRWeb . Retrieved January three, 2022.

External links [edit]

  • Official Website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Baby

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