20 years ago, CD Baby revolutionized the independent music industry, giving artists without a label their first chance to reach a worldwide audience on their own terms while maintaining all the ownership of their music. Thank you to all the musicians who’ve entrusted us with one of the most important things in their lives: their own music.

2018 CD Baby celebrates 20 years of $600,000,000+ independence paid to artists worldwide

2017 Artists earned $80 million+, our highest payout year ever $80,000,000 paid in 2017 (Up 33% over 2016)

2017 CD Baby Pro Publishing is offered in more than 70+ 650,000 9,000,000+ territories artists tracks in distribution

2015 The 1st DIY Musician Conference takes 140,000 875,000 place in Chicago, IL songwriters published songs published

2013 CD Baby launches Pro Publishing to administer publishing rights PERCENTAGE OF DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION REVENUE 2012 YouTube Monetization and BY RETAIL CHANNEL (TOP RETAILERS) Sync Licensing are introduced 2017 2011

2009 The DIY Musician Blog is introduced iTunes 24% iTunes Apple 77.4% Music 13% Spotify CD Baby is acquired 2008 35% by Disc Makers and joins the AVL Digital Pandora Amazon family 8% 10.5% Amazon 7% The DIY Musician 2007 CD Baby Podcast is born Other 3% Verizon .1% 4.5% Groove 0.5% Last.fm .3% Tidal 0.5% Deezer .2% Napster 1% Medianet .3% YouTube Red 1% Zune .9% 2004 First distributed Deezer 1.5% eMusic 1.5% music to iTunes CD Baby 1.5% Spotify 2% Google Music 4% Rhapsody 2%

2001 Paid out the 1st $1,000,000 to artists STREAMING REVENUE BY THE NUMBERS 2001 The company moves its headquarters to Portland, OR

2009 Total artist earnings of $33,300,000 with $575,000 coming from streaming 1998 CD Baby is founded in Upstate, NY and launches the 1st 1.7% online Direct-to-Fan sales tool for unsigned artists 2017 Total artist earnings of $80,100,000 with $46,700,000 coming from streaming

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