How to sell your CD at CD Baby

What YOU do

Create your account here so we know who you are, and how you want your music described.
Mail us just 5 CDs to start.
We open and digitize the very first CD you send - so you don't need to upload anything.
We pay you, then ask for more as soon as they sell.

We make a web page dedicated to selling your CD on cdbaby.com. It includes sound clips, links back to your own website, reviews, and all of the text and descriptions you want.
We give you a permanent URL address on cdbaby.com, so you can tell people where to buy your CD.
We put it in the galleries and search engines at cdbaby.com - which gets over 150,000 hits a day from people who are looking for new independent CDs to buy.
We take all credit card orders for your CD, online or through our toll-free phone number, and ship it to them within hours.
We email you every time your CD is sold to tell you who bought it!
If you signed up for Digital Distribution, we encode and digitally deliver your music to our partner companies such as Apple iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon MP3, and more.

You set your selling price at whatever you want.
We keep $4 for every CD sale and 9% for every MP3 download through CD Baby..
For Digital Distribution and Live Sales, we only keep a flat 9% cut. You get 91% of all income.
There is a one-time-ever $35 charge to set up a new CD in our store, with everything we described above. (Here's why.)
That $35 lasts forever (or until you don't want to sell that CD anymore.) So we will never tell you that it isn't selling enough, or you're not important. Even if you only sell 1 CD every 20 years, we'll be glad to warehouse it and take orders for it here.
We pay every Monday night by bank-transfer, paper check, or PayPal. You can set your “pay point” - to be paid whenever you want! (Imagine that!)

This is totally non-exclusive. We don't own the rights to your music, and don't want to. We're not a record label. We're just sales and distribution. You're the boss.
Unlike other companies, you can cancel at any time. We'll never get in the way of your music and your career.
You don't need to have your CDs shrinkwrapped, and yes you can sell a home-made CD-R here, as long as it looks good and has an insert with cover art.
You don't need to upload MP3 files, or send us graphics, or anything else. Just create an account, and send us 5 CDs. When those sell out, we'll email you asking for more.