We recently started selling my wife’s Native American Flute music CD, “Wild Threads” on CD Baby.windweaver11

After about a week, I noticed an interesting trend.

While CD Baby offers both physical CD and MP3 downloads of the album, 70% of people who purchase the album are choosing to download it rather than to have the physical CD shipped to them.

This is cool for a number of reasons:

  1. It means we have to produce less physical CDs, lowering our production costs
  2. CD Baby pays us more on downloaded albums than physical CDs, so our profits are higher.

CD Baby is an excellent way for musicians to get their music out to their audience.  We make much more per sale than a musician usually gets after the record label takes its share and we control all the rights to our music.  CD Baby also gets our music on iTunes, Amazon and other online music retailers.

An excellent resource for  aspiring songwriters and musicians.

Garland Coulson, “The E-Business Tutor”