How the Money Works
CD Baby keeps only 9%
- Whatever income is generated from your music and paid to us, we keep only a 9% cut, paying you 91%.
- NO additional hidden fees or exceptions. NO recurring fees. NO expenses taken out of your 91%.
We add this to your weekly CD Baby payments
- Most music services pay us monthly. Some quarterly.
- When we get their sales report and payment, we divide it up, and add it to your account.
- That means you'll always get paid a week after we do!
- $10 minimum payment amount. (We can't be mailing payments for 75 cents, you know.)
- CD Baby has been paying artists every week since 1998. We are VERY reliable.
This is a free service for CD Baby members
- There is NO startup fee to get involved. You just have to be a CD Baby member, meaning: your CD has to be for sale on cdbaby.com.
- If your CD is not in CD Baby already, our main $35 CD Baby set up still applies. That $35 is for the warehousing and work to have it on cdbaby.com.
- Your album needs to have a valid barcode. If you don't have one already we can make you one for $20.