Your Spotify artist profile isn’t just a placeholder—it’s your storefront, your press kit, your digital merch table, and your virtual … Continue reading
Royalty splits for remixes: How to pay your remixer
How should you compensate a remixer? Music rights management comes down to two questions: Who owns what? Who’s owed what? In many musical collaborations, things like copyright and publishing splits … Continue reading
Want to lead a session at the DIY Musician Conference in 2019?
Now accepting submissions for seminars at CD Baby’s 5th annual DIY Musician Conference. The DIY Musician Conference is the only music industry event focused exclusively on the needs of independent … Continue reading
How to automatically geo-target your Mailchimp emails
You can still send regionally targeted emails, even if you didn’t collect your fans’ city, state, or zip code information. If you’re like me, your email list is a bit … Continue reading
CD Baby clients earned more than $100,000,000 in 2018!
The power of independent music keeps growing. Are you set up for the year ahead? 2018 was huge for the CD Baby community. The clients we serve — indie artists … Continue reading
5 myths about being a musician with a “day” job
Hello, I’m a professional HR Advisor… … .and a #1 Billboard Recording Artist. So you’re a musician with a full-time job? If ONLY you had all day to focus on … Continue reading
Are open mics WORTH it?
“You should probably avoid open mics…” Or so says THIS article by Jeremy Young from Soundfly. Here are the negatives about open mics, according to Jeremy: The “audience” won’t be … Continue reading
How to sync your playlists across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and more
There’s an easy way to sync your playlists across multiple platforms. With Soundsgood.co you can create (and edit) a universal playlist where changes are automatically reflected on any streaming platform where … Continue reading
Six Spotify Playlist Types – Which is Best?
Success on Spotify is largely determined by your playlist placements. Before you spend much time thinking about getting your music onto Spotify playlists, you’ll want to make sure you’re a … Continue reading
Exciting year for independent musicians nominated for Grammy Awards
Dozens of CD Baby clients have been nominated for a 2019 Grammy. Wow. The power and reach of independent music is growing each year. Congrats to all the artists in … Continue reading
Where Should You Promote Your Music?
You want more people to hear your music. But where do you promote your music? PR is expensive. Radio promotion is costly too. Playlist promotion? Yeah, add that to your … Continue reading