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CD Baby confirm artists pay outs pass $100 million
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 6 April 2009
One of CMU’s favourite physical and digital distributors, CD Baby, has announced its artist payouts have now passed the $100 million landmark after 2008 saw not only the digital sales of its clients’ music boom, but even CD sales rise, by 2%.
CD Baby is particularly popular with tiny indie labels and self-releasing artists, and has played an important role in helping a number of individuals who have pursued a music career via the internet without a record label. Few have enjoyed big success this way yet, of course, but a handful have.
Digital Music News quote one such CD Baby using self-releasing artist, folk singer Joe Purdy, who says he’s earned over $640,000 selling his music direct to fans via the grass roots distributor. He says: “There are very few musicians that can actually make a living off their music. I have been one of the fortunate few whose passion translates into a career and CD Baby played a huge role in that”.
