Melody Federer
With promotional campaign support and placements on YouTube’s “Coffee Shop Blend” and “Best New Indie” playlists, CD Baby helped singer-songwriter Melody Federer grow her audience 850% in 2020, inspiring Amazon Music to make her the face of its Breakthrough Alternative Playlist in September of last year.
Who it’s for
Your fanbase is growing: People are starting to leave comments on your videos, add you to personal playlists, and follow you on social media. If you tour, you are playing local venues.
If you’re an emerging artist, our standard services will give your career a powerful boost with global distribution, free promotional tools, and other essential services.
- Global distribution to the world’s top music platforms
- Social video monetization on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook
- Publishing administration
- Sync licensing
- Analytics and weekly payments
- CD and vinyl manufacturing and fulfillment
- Free music-promo tools
Who it’s for
Your fanbase has reached a tipping point: More people are pre-adding your music, and some curated playlists are taking notice of you. You release new music regularly and support those releases with marketing plans. If you tour, you are playing larger venues farther from home.
As your music career accelerates, CD Baby Plus lets you move even faster with expedited distribution and other special perks.
Everything above, plus:
- Expedited service, inspection, and delivery to DSPs
- Playlisting on CD Baby-owned playlists
- First access to new DSP features
- Applying for verification on Instagram and TikTok
- Upload custom clips to TikTok
- The opportunity to utilize found.ee’s state of the art MAP (Managed Ads Program) service.
- Free Submissions
Who it’s for
You are driving significant traffic to streaming services, and you have a passionate fanbase that comes to see you at larger venues. They want to see you on partner playlists and wish you would release music more often.
CD Baby Label Services offers you personalized, hands-on support, including editorial pitching and full customization privileges on select music platforms.
Everything above, plus:
- Editorial pitching for new releases
- Fast-tracked Pandora approval
- Video delivery to Apple
- Apply for Spotify’s Discovery Mode
- Automatically generated smart links through found.ee
GLASSIO
CD Baby’s Label Services team saw growth in Glassio’s streaming numbers and helped pitch a string of singles to playlist editors over several months. Editorial support from DSPs like Spotify, Apple, and Amazon boosted Glassio’s streams and earnings almost 10X, and helped land him an advance deal for his next album release.
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