Website Review: CD Baby

If you are an independent music artist looking for your big break, then look no further than CD Baby, a service that will distribute your music to sales services, such as iTunes, Spotify, Facebook, Amazon, and Google. The services that CD Baby offers are very simple to use and will help kickstart any music career. Though it seems to be one of the best options for underground and unknown artists, what does this website truly offer?

As a former electronic music artist myself (Mixman86), I know that the music industry is a "make it or break it" type of world. The hardest part is having the patience to get started the right way, something that I did not have. I released my music before I had a fan base whatsoever, and therefore, I sold very little. I used CD Baby as my distributor, and they will take just about anyone. That was lucky for me, but before you release your music, promote yourself the right way first to get the best results.

CD Baby does not work miracles, but they can help you immensely. They provide an easy upload center, in which you can put up your songs and they will distribute them with the appropriate album cover and everything. You can order hard copies of your albums to hand out or sell, download cards to hand out, and even sell licensing royalties to other companies that want to use the song you created. Some record labels do check CD Baby for amazing, underground work, so if you do decide to add your music to your collection, make sure it is mastered correctly and sounds the way you want it to.

CD Baby provides many tools for aspiring artists. However, it can get quite expensive after awhile if you are not making money. Download cards, CDs, credit card swipers, and distribution costs do tend to add up. CD Baby provides decent prices for all of this helpful merchandise, but if you are not making money as an artist, you will be in the hole quickly. Then, you will have to rely on writing to pay off your debts, as I did (just teasing).

Therefore, I give CD Baby an 8/10. They do provide the services they advertise and they distribute your music in a pretty good amount of time. CD Baby is trying to help, and you, as an artist, have to do the rest of the hard work to make your dreams happen. Sure, my music is on iTunes, but no one buys it; barely anyone knows I exist. CD Baby did their job; I did not do mine correctly. Good luck.

Written by R. Turk
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