To Distribute Your Digital Music via iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, MusicNet and more use CD Baby No Monthly Fees, No Runaround.

CDBaby was started in 1997 by Derek Sivers, a musician just like yourself who just wanted an efficient way to sell his music on the web. Today, just a few years later, CDBaby is the 2nd largest seller of independent CDs on the Internet, 2nd only to Amazon.com! Boasting nearly 190,000 artists, CD Baby is the best organized, most talked about hosting solution for musicians who want to sell their music on the Internet. According to the latest posted stats (as of this writing), CDBaby has sold nearly 3.5 million CDs online to customers and paid out over $50 million dollars to independent musicians! That alone should be motivation enough for you to sign up. There is a one-time, $35 setup fee (per CD) to join the service, however, from that fee CDBaby creates an elegant web page for you that has everything you need. You don’t even have to upload your MP3 files to make your music available for streaming. CDBaby will do it all for you - just send them your CDs, and they’ll take care of everything else. Once you start selling CDs, CDBaby takes just $4 from each CD sold via their web site. You keep the rest. CDBaby also keeps your CDs in its warehouse, so they handle all the shipping details, and when your stock gets low, CDBaby contacts you to request more. In additional to all this, CDBaby is your connection to digital music distribution. If you spend any time on the Internet at all, you can’t help but be familiar with the iTunes Music Store as well as Listen.com’s Rhapsody service. Once you’re a member of CDBaby you can elect to make your music available to these services, as well as eMusic, AOL’s MusicNet, MusicMatch, the new Napster and dozens more. CDBaby will take your CD, digitally encodes it, and submit it to these services for no additional setup fee. They take just 9% off the top of any incoming income from any digitial distribution sales you make. I really have to congratulate Derek Sivers and the whole CDBaby staff. They’ve done a simply wonderful job, and are representing independent musicians so very well.