Wednesday, November 27, 2013

CD Baby - Pricing for CD Releases

Deceptions Digital was thinking it costs $300 US to release a CD to iTunes but it doesn't cost anything close to that.  CD Baby is a very reputable outfit and has been doing business for quite a few years in retailing digital and traditional media CD sales.

For a full album release, it will cost you $49 US.  You might want to spend $20 extra for a UPC code but you won't need it if you only market through CD Baby.  They have more exotic plans as well but these basics are all you need to get your music online and it will look just as slick as the downtown crew can do but you can easily do all of this yourself.

You can get the full details on all their pricing at CD Baby Pricing.

They are straight-up.  I've dealt with them multiple times and they can get your music onto iTunes very quickly and you can sell digital copies from CD Baby directly.  They also offer distribution for your traditional media discs for which they take $4.00 US for each sale and you take the rest.  You take 91% of digital sales.


I withdrew my CDs a while back as I wasn't satisfied with the quality of them.  The quality will not magically improve so I'll re-release them one of these days.  If you ever expect to be really satisfied with things you have done before then music is probably not a good idea for you.

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