| CD Baby DIY Musician Podcast |
 June 29,
2009
Ep.65 : Matthew Ebel - Stream your concerts to the world
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| CD Baby Music Podcasts |
 Music Discovery
 Hip Hop
 60's Pop
 Rockabilly
 Top Sellers
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| CD Baby teams with Best Buy |
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We just got a lot more exposure for your music.
All albums on CD Baby are now also available through BestBuy.com - one of the largest retailers in America.
Click this link for an example:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat68000050003&type=category
THE "BEHIND THE SCENES" INFO FOR YOU AS AN ARTIST/LABEL:
Since their database wasn't ready to add 100,000 new items to their website yet, they put a CD Baby SEARCH/BROWSE on the bestbuy.com website.
When people are browsing or searching music on BestBuy.com, they are directed to that link, above. Anyone searching from that link will actually be searching the live cdbaby.com. The look will be "co-branded" to look like BestBuy.com a bit, but it's still CD Baby.
Money-wise, nothing changes. It will be a normal CD Baby sale. The customer will complete their order on cdbaby.com. We pay Best Buy something out of OUR cut, not yours. The only downside is that we are not allowed to show you the customer's name or info when the sale came through BestBuy.com - it will show in your sales history as "Best Buy Customer" - an anonymous sale.
If someone goes in-person to one of the Best Buy stores and asks for your album, the clerks (are supposed to) search the BestBuy.com website, and customers can use an in-store kiosk to buy your album through this link to CD Baby. (Not at the cash register, but through the website, mail-order, like any other cdbaby.com purchase.)
If you feel like putting a link on your site, saying your music is available on BestBuy.com, just to show you're there, then the link to use would just be this:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat68000050003&type=category
Feel free to copy-and-send the official press release, below, to anyone.
- Derek
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CD Baby Brings More Than 100,000 Albums of Independent Music to BestBuy.com
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 8, 2005 - Best Buy is launching an independent music catalog at BestBuy.com that will give shoppers access to the largest online library of independent music. Through an alliance
with CD Baby, Best Buy customers can access and purchase more than 100,000 hard-to-find albums sold direct from the artist.
CD Baby handles online sales and distribution for independent artists and labels. More than 75,000 artists sell their music through CD Baby, making it the largest seller of independent music on the Web.
"Best Buy believes the future of music depends on consumers exploring new music and connecting with new artists," said Gary Arnold, senior vice president of entertainment for Best Buy. "As the link between the artist and the consumer, Best Buy is in a unique position to help generate excitement by exposing people to talented independent artists. It's a responsibility we take seriously, and that's why this agreement with CD Baby is so important."
The alliance with CD Baby is part of Best Buy's overall commitment to provide consumers with as many entertainment choices as possible. Best Buy stocks a deep catalog of music that goes well beyond simply carrying new releases. Offering the CD Baby catalog online will provide an even more diverse selection of music to Best Buy customers.
"Best Buy selling deep catalog directly from independent musicians like this is the beginning of a 'long tail' revolution," said Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby. "This will highlight the most amazing musicians in all genres of music, that are bypassing the record labels to sell directly from musician to fan."
The CD Baby alliance will be featured on front page of the music section on BestBuy.com. A link will take customers to a searchable library of independent and unsigned artists. Consumers can browse by style of music, check out the top selling albums on the site, and can even search by location to discover talent from their part of the country.
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Important: only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
Sorry I forgot to mention that in the initial release.
That was at the request of BestBuy, for legal reasons : the additional indemnity clause that is in our digital distribution agreement.
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How do we become a part of the digital distribution program?
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My band already has distribution through Best Buy as a result of Artist 1 Stop, will this affect that?
Thanks!
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>> How do we become a part of the digital distribution program?
Just log in to your account, here:
http://members.cdbaby.com/
Once in, click [DIGITAL], up top.
That will give you a quick overview, then lead you through the signup. It's just a matter of typing your full legal name as a "digital signature" in the box, if you want to do it.
>> My band already has distribution through Best Buy as a result of Artist 1 Stop, will this affect that?
Not at all.
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Derek, These are the reasons why I'm with cdbaby.com, you are the man! I have been with you since day 1 and I will always be by your side!!
thany you!
Dan Lawson
www.danlawson.com
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Awesome as usual Derek! Glad you're a benevolent force on the music scene!
The thing with my product: Funk Violin Live - NYC is that it's a DVD. I don't think it can participate in the digital downloads program. What do I do to get it on the Best Buy listings? Will Filmbaby do something similar for DVD's?
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No plans to do so, no. I'm sorry.
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Derek, you're amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hugs,
marina :)
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#1 - click MUSIC on the far left
#2 - click INDEPENDENT MUSIC banner on the far-right
As you can see in my other posts, this is not optimal and I never said it was. It's a transition step to at least start to make it easier to find. For a huge company like that, this little step is actually a big step. It took 8 persistent months of hard work and corporate politics to get it through.
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Holy cow! Currently I'm not in the digital category, but now my name & cd are no longer available in the *regular* cdbaby.com search engine! so... I understand that non-digital entries are dropped from Best Buy's search engine, but shouldn't they remain in cdbaby's?
thanks,
Sue Fink ("Not Quite There Yet" - ya can't find me anymore!)
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So "Best Buy" is only selling full tangable CD's --- They are'nt involved in "Digital Downloads"-- Is this correct??? Rockland
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BestBuy.com just points to CDBaby.com - they do nothing - they sell nothing - they just point people here.
CD Baby does not sell downloads. Only CDs.
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Derek - thanks so much! I was able to find my band, Cuir Bleu, through the Best Buy site. It was a bit awkward, I'll admit - if I hadn't read this, I wouldn't have known to look for the "Independent Music" icon on the right. I can't wait for the integrated version!
Thanks again for everything - you rock!
Pixie
www.cuirbleu.com
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My album was not on the Best Buy site. Please let me know why.
Brian
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Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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Nice! Thanks Derek,
For the next pass, can you get the Best Buy folks to tie their
search to yours in the event of no direct matches. Their main
page can't find CDBaby artists. Customers have to select either
'advanced search' or 'see all music' then they have to notice the
seperate Independent Music by CD Baby llink on the side of the
page. We'll all do better if they can integrate the searches so we
show up when their customers search the general store. Thx.
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Yes - that is the next pass. Their tech team said it would take longer, so this is it for now, and that will happen after the new year supposedly.
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is this a permanent branding change or a problem with cookies? whenever I go to cdbaby.com from a new browser the Best Buy Brand is there. Not necessarily a problem, just making sure it's intentional
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my name is alfred smith I am A cd baby member. and I notice
that cd baby is now distributed through best buy. I can't find my
cd A classic by design, by brenton wood. and I would like cd
baby to upload streamers of each song/ can you help me? thank
you. alfred smith
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Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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Um, my group "infinite helix" is not available through the search, nor is my album "acapulco orange"
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Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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wow - this is great news. Thanks Derek!
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Hi Derek,
Sounds like a great idea! Like others, I can't
seem to find any of my CDs by BIRD MANCINI on the
Best Buy link you supplied. I'm assuming that
means they haven't got it together yet. Is that
rig
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Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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| by kc
on Wednesday November 09 2005 @ 09:36AM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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derek,thank you and the cdbaby staff for all of your help,will you send a independent music video to itunes for a cdbaby artist?
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besides bestbuy.com and tower.com what other major retailers websites are affiliated with cdbaby - i am about to make posters to promote and what at put the links of where its available
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why not ask for stock...and put product in the
Best Buy Store...
or if a product starts to get sales from them...
then put product in the stores...
i know there are a lot of them.. but since there giveing CD Baby a good spot in the store...put
some product in there to...
shalom
Chill Bill
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They weren't interested in that.
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If you Rocked any harder Derik, I'm afraid you'd break....and we can't have THAT!
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| by
on Wednesday November 09 2005 @ 12:42PM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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I think I have a non-sexual man-crush on Derek!
I also think I just wet myself.
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Derek ... *YOU* are truly a SUPERHERO, fighting for the rights of indie musicians everyhwere! You are an inspiration who provides balance in our lives. In a world full of money hungry people hoping to feed on indie artists, YOU are always watching our back, alerting us to evil and providing us with good venues to sell our music!
So sorry I missed you at the TAXI convention in LA... but this way I get to remind the entire CD Baby community how LUCKY they are to have YOU!
GO, DEREK, GO!!!
Julian aka Cookie Cutter Girl
http://www.CookieCutterGirl.com
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| by J
on Wednesday November 09 2005 @ 12:46PM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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This is really cool. But just wondering how hard is it going to be to actually make sales?. People have to look you up. They are not just going to come and search you out. Right? I think it would be really good if you could search for song titles and then the search would come up with artist matches to the songs. Just a thought.
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>> wondering how hard is it going to be to actually make sales?
No harder than yesterday.
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Hi Derek ,
This is truely amazing it,s so exciting to be with CDBABY . You are helping all of us musians reach our dreams in music with out question. thank you again .it just keeps on getting better and better.
At times, I just can,t beleive how for I,ve come in the music biz!CDBABY IS NUMBER ONE FOR SURE.
walter goulet
ps THANK YOU for getting all of us in BEST BUY!
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I cant seem to find my CD anywhere. Can you tell me where it is? "Reflections" by "The Dreamclassics"
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Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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Great news Derek! Great Job!
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Since so many of us are needing "Digital Distribution", (and I've clicked on the link and still a bit confused). What is the easiest way of going about getting it?
P.S. Anyone can answer this question. Thank you
Jason J.
www.jasonj.biz
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hi Jason : just log in to your account, here:
http://members.cdbaby.com/
Once in, click [DIGITAL], up top.
That will give you a quick overview, then lead you through the signup. It's just a matter of typing your full legal name as a "digital signature" in the box, if you want to do it.
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Derek, you rule. Thank you so much for again innovating with your amazing company...and thanks so much for your comments at the TAXI conference. You were concise, witty, and empowering.
-Adriana Roze
the Endless
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| by
on Wednesday November 09 2005 @ 03:25PM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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after someone visits cdbaby thru bestbuy seems that non-digital
distribution folks will NEVER come up in the search anymore, since
there no way to get back to the regular old cdbaby to search ALL
artists.
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The co-branding cookie lasts for a few hours. (The little thing that remembers that this customer came from bestbuy.com and makes CD Baby look like Best Buy.)
That was part of a requirement of doing the deal with BestBuy - for obvious reasons : if someone bookmarks a page to come back later, it still needs to look like the BestBuy shopping experience they started.
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| by
on Wednesday November 09 2005 @ 04:03PM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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which cookie is that? the cdbaby cookie expires in a year. one of
the bestbuy cookies expires in 2019 and the other ones do not
expire at all.
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It's a session-cookie, which isn't supposed to be a real long-lasting cookie. Check back tomorrow on cdbaby.com WITHOUT going to bestbuy.com inbetween. Let me know if it's still co-branded.
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how about providing a special link/variable that will always guarantee that the Best Buy co brand shows up...this way artiss can put a "Best Buy" deep link to their cds from their own personal websites?
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No - that would be unwise for me, because it would take away half of my income. It would be unwise for you, because it would mean you'd never know who was buying from that link, since BestBuy's privacy policy forbids us from sharing customer data with you.
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good points. so how did you get so wise? :-) :-)
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Why can I not find my album that was previously for sale on cdbaby?
The album is by "Boone Dog Trio" and the disc is entitled "396."
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Philip - Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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I looked for my CD on the Best Buy site that you sent and I'm not listed. When it asks for the Artist Name, I put "Jeff White" in the tab and I don't come up. Can you tell me why it's very difficult to find my CD on the best buy site if I put in exactly what I'm looking for?
Thank you kindly and keep up the good work!!
Jeff White
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Jeff - Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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Are there any plans to allow labels that have other digital distro agreements to opt in to the Best Buy listings by agreeing to whatever indemnity clause Best Buy was looking for?
Mike
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I think you did a great job. Thank you for all that you have done for my distribution and all other arist. You go boy.
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You're the man, Derek! Who needs a distribution deal?
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Derek and gang,
How do you decide which artists to feature on the page that opens when one
clicks on the Browse CD Baby link? The three there now are prominently
displayed and we're wondering how to get our artist on that page! (Staci
Frenes)
Marie
Longshot REcords
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A search for McMule cam eup empty? Though it was working on CDBABY?
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Perry - Please see my first comment, above : only albums in our Digital Distribution program will be in the BestBuy search results
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Dear Derek
First thanks a lot for getting all the digital download CD's at Best Buy. It shows the UP principle at work...Unrelenting Persistence. However there are some glitches to work out. I typed in my CD Sports Songs and Beyond and this below is what came up.
[[[ removed by editor ]]]
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Joe - the search is expecting an artist name, not album title. If you type Phil Coley you'll find that your albums come up first.
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Great job Derek! Wal-Mart just sent me an e-mail on their new digital downloads. When will we be there?
Keep up the awesome work!
Gene Travis
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It's coming. Wal-Mart's digital download is powered by Liquid Audio, who we finished our deal with and will be distributing to soon.
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Derek,
The news is good and Best Buy is a great catch. My
only concern is that online customers searching Best
Buy would really have to be on a mission to find CD
Baby. The link is hidden under layers of pages and
once you find it, it's still tiny. It would be much more
beneficial if Best Buy was set-up like Tower where
general searches will yield any artist both major and
indie. Not a criticism of your hard work, just a concern.
-Mark
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>> It would be much more beneficial if Best Buy was set-up like Tower where general searches will yield any artist both major and Indie.
Of course! That's what we were shooting for (by "we" I mean BOTH us and them) - but their tech-team couldn't make it happen yet - so we started with this.
After Christmas they're going to try again to get our entire catalog showing in their store.
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Dear Derek
God Bless you
I want you to know that you have my undying support and that I will do anything to help you and CDBaby do anything to continue our CDBaby Family to grow. Please feel free to contact me anytime and I will give you any support I can. LET'S KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!
Love Always
Jamie Palumbo
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If the album is out of stock, will the site direct the person
to some digital download sites...
speaking of which, I wish you would consider a
mechanism to work with our manufacturer, swiftcd.com .
They ship within two days and you would not need to
stock any inventory. Just pass the orders along.
If we get slammed with orders, this was the only way I
could see to handle a short period, seasonal demand
for our rock n roll Santa musical... SANTA AND SONS &
daughter!
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Derek:
While one of my Cd's is on Digital Distr.
entitled: "Extreme Heat" I cannot register our
other CD that is with CD Baby entitled:
Pat Longo & His Big Band "The Hit List".. I have
followed your instructions and have failed
every time I try to list it...
All that comes up is listing for Extreme Heat"
Need your help!!
All The Best,
Pat Longo
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The search works fine for Phil Coley, but what
if your name is John Smith? Shouldn't your
customers be able to search by a key-word
such as song title and/or album and/or artist
etc?
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| by
on Thursday November 10 2005 @ 03:45AM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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Derek,
The Best Buy deal is great. I also read your Australian iTunes
interview which was interesting and resourceful. And now I read
on this thread that CD baby via Liquid Audio will get into Wal
Mart next....amazing how quickly things have come together
with music intellectual property. Truly progressive and important
things happening. And this summer there was the Grokster
supreme court ruling against file sharing, and now Grokster’s
going legit....
Any chance CD baby’s catalog could ending up on Grokster as
well?
Mega Prop’s Derek!
Mark
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Derek,
In a platonic way, I LOVE YOU MAN and judging from the above threads I am happy that I am a Digital Distribution Member! You kit a home run my friend! Thank you!
Dennis
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Derek,
Where did you go to school? You are probably the smartest Marketing guy I know! Thanks a ton!
Question, I understand Best Buy requiring the Digi Distribution, but 2 of my CDs I own most of the songs, the 3rd is all cover tunes so I would be required to send royalty checks via certified mail every month and that would cost more than the $.61 I make wouldn't it, so why should I Digi the 3rd CD? -Gary Brunotte
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I guess you're afraid that there won't be enough digital sales to cover your cost of reporting sales every month to the publisers [postage, etc]
I suggest contacting the publishers and letting them know that you are considering making your album available as a DPD release and would like to know if they would agree to reporting once every quarter instead of monthly. In fact, I requested compulsory licenses for digital distribution of an album and so far the publishers have agreed to reporting every quarter and not monthly and they don't require a certified annual statement certified by a CPA.
Worse case scenario - if it doesn't work out you can always withdraw the album from digital distribution but personally, I would give it at least a 6 month commitment before doing that. Nothing ventured = nothing gained.
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>> How do I link BestBuy.com to my site
BestBuy is just linking to CD Baby. So - you don't have a page for your album on BestBuy.com. Only the page on CD Baby. But BestBuy refers it.
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I applaud your efforts on our behalf Derek, but would like to ask you please....
If we go to bestbuy.com's main webpage, the link for the indie CD Baby does not come up. Thus, if I type in the name of a CD baby artist, it is not coming up, - whereas a major label artist's name does. Am I misunderstanding that the CD/indie link is an entirely seperate one, from the main BESTBUY.com page's search box? -- thank you so much for your time and again, for all of your energy and efforts.
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That's what we were shooting for (by "we" I mean BOTH us and them) - but their tech-team couldn't make it happen yet - so we started with this.
After Christmas they're going to try again to get our entire catalog showing in their store.
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cdbaby is tops.youve seen the rest but cdbabys the best 4 real . thanks derek you da man .
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"if you didn't write the music yourself, that's OK, but you must get permission, and pay the publishers their mechanical royalties."
I don't know if I have all the rights. I payed someone to program, produce and mix my cd and he used a program that he has the rights to use, but im not sure if that gives me permission? i dont want to get in trouble. what are your thoughts? because i want to do the digital distribution thing!
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Heidi - you'll have to just ask that someone what your deal was - if he named himself as composer, or if you are the 100% composer, and he is just producer. Just ask! As for the program he uses, it's probably fine. Just ask.
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Hey best buy is great!! Online and in the stores! And they probably have the cd baby artist on the computer in their store too!!
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| by TC
on Thursday November 10 2005 @ 04:41PM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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So awesome! Thanks for all your hard work!!
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I went to the best buy site and couldn't pull up my Cd - His Mercy Endures Forever. so I read your info on the digital dist. I signed up for the digital distribution. Will my CD now appear on the best buy site? If so how long will it take before it appears?
God bless you Derek for looking out for us!! You are the MAN!!
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If you've signed up for digital distribution, give us a few days to get it inspected and approved. Then it will appear through the BestBuy link.
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Derek, you are amazing! Thanks to things like this new arrangement with Best Buy, I'd rather stay indie and sell my CD's on CD Baby than get a record deal and lose control of my music. Many, many thanks!
Linda Dewar
PS - enjoyed meeting you at the FARWest conference, and I'm already making some changes based on some of the ideas I got from your workshop!
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HI
Digital sales? How would I have to license these sales? Harry Fox? Would this really be worth it for just a few here and there? Or would the cost simply be per song ie .08/song. I would like the Bestbuy link but don't know what the cost would be to me.
Thanks
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Derek,
You continue to amaze and delight. I was unable to get any results from Best Buy from artist name or CD title. I am part of your digital distribution program. I have also been unable to find the independent music banner to which you referred earlier in this thread. Help?
Laurie Horn
Alive Again
www.lauriehorn.com
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| by MK
on Friday November 11 2005 @ 10:04AM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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I have a cd being sold through cdbaby digital distribution...Bestbuy.com cannot find it and I can find anything about independent music/cdbaby or anything that looks like the example you sent out in your email
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Please email cdbaby@cdbaby.com to tell us what album and who you are so we can look into it.
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Sorry!...the previous message got away somehow before I was finished...Anyway bestbuy.com cannot find my cd 'Bad Machine' or my name even though it is in your digital/distribution system...I see nothing like your example sent in the email...or nothing about independent music/cdbaby on the bestbuy pages.........any help appreciated as I already put a link on my site www.katon.com and don't want fans getting as frustrated as me trying to find something that isn't there!.......Thanks and thanks as always fro CDBABY!, MK
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I first did a search on the "Search ' Entire Site' for..." at www.bestbuy.com and didn't find my band's album even though they are both registered with CD Baby for digital distribution.
I then read more of this page and saw that I could get to them by clicking 'Music, movies, games & toys' and then clicking 'Music' and then trying to find the 'Independent Music' button and clicking on that... then I found the CD Baby search engine.
Is there ay way they can just merge the two search engines together? Seems like a lot of work for someone to find an indie artist at Bestbuy.com.
Or did I miss something?
PS - You really do rock, Derek!
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PS the post above is for Pushstart Wagon 'L.A. Was Our Alamo' & 'Squeaky Clean'.
Thanks again,
Eric
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Or... could they at least make the URL something like www.bestbuy.com/indie ? Maybe that would be easier for people to remember.
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Again someone mentions the independent music button. It is not on my computer when I go to best buy.com I have looked numerous times. Where is it? Still my name and/or album do not come up in the search. Artist: Laurie Horn Album: Alive Again. I am part of the digital distribution.
Derek, I do appreciate all your hard work and, believe me, I know how difficult it is.
Laurie Horn
Alive Again
www.lauriehorn.com
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| by
on Monday November 14 2005 @ 06:18AM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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click the link above in the very first post. don't just go to bestbuy.com - going that way takes a few more steps.
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No matter what I did, the search function seemed to return all entries for "Rich" and "Eames", 948 to be exact. Not very useful.
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Hey there Derek. Great move with Best Buy. I think this will benefit alot of cd baby members. I had a question though. Say a customer goes to best buy and gets a clerk to search bestbuy.com for an indie artsits' cd. Is there anyway they could order the album but pay for it at the register? Would it be a little complicated sorting the money mad between cdbaby, best buy, and the artist? Reason I'm asking. My artists fanbase is predominantly young females. We've got emails from young fans whose parents won't let them order the cd online. I thought about this new best buy effort and if they could pay for it at the register how much security that would give these parents. If you have any other suggestions or advice on how to deal with that outside of the bestbuy deal. I'm all ears. Thanks for your time
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>> Is there anyway they could order the album but pay for it at the register?
Nope. I wish. Totally out of the question. It'll never happen.
I guess my only suggestion is the girls can:
(1) - mail a check
(2) - get a PayPal account
(3) - mail cash
(4) - pay nothing, and you send it to them free as a favor in return for telling their friends about you.
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Hey Derek, first of all, outstanding accomplishment. But, we are set up for digital distribution and the best buy website did not recognize us. The only way we could view our album and info is to use the link you provided. Will there be an easier method to view our album via best buy or is this as good as it gets???
thx
ETHiK
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Totally awesome! This will help tons! Even if I am not selling millions right now, at least I can tell my fans and it makes it look more professional for my music and opens the door to random searches to my music via their site. I am totally overwhlemed with other DIY indie things I'm diogn and workignon a new CD so this was refreshing and encouraging news to hear.
Thanks tons
great job!
regards
BArb
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Just to see how a "regular" Best Buy customer would actually find an "Independent Artist" on CDBaby I went to www.bestbuy.com directly. I searched their music for my group and found nothing. NOWHERE could I find an "Independent Artist" search button. What gives?
Jimi Ray
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on Wednesday November 16 2005 @ 08:46AM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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Oops, just found it. Man, way too many clicks to get there... "Independent Music" advert box way on the right.
Unless the results come up in Best Buy's regular music search, I can see very few hits on CDBaby's music coming from them.
J.R.
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Literati X @Best Buy.com: Go to main page to category music and movies--you'll see digital music
subscribtion. Click: and see Napster, SonyConnect
Rhapsody and Independent music on right side of page
powered by CD Baby. Click: and see Best Buy cobrand
independent music. Type Literati X into the search
engine and it's time to take out your credit cards.
A job well done Mr. Sivers--good positioning in the world of one distribution deep backend provider;
just cannot get there any faster. . .
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I tried to locate our live on highway 64 compilation cd on the best buy website and i couldn't find it, can you email me back and possibly tell me where it is located. Thanks
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It's great that CD Baby is linking up with other distributors. I logged onto the Best Buy site and I typed in my name to see if my album would come up and it didn't. Could you say why it didn't show up? Thanks.
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It's amazing how people will post without reading the other posts.
If you don't find your CD either:
1) you're not signed up for digital distribution
B) you're not doing it correctly. you can NOT just go to bestbuy.com and type in your band/artist name. you have to use the link in the very first post by Derek. Our CD's are NOT on bestbuy.com. Rather bestbuy.com links up with cdbaby.com disguised as bestbuy.com.
read people.
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Amazing work! I can't believe how much is changing in the music industry, and how far CD Baby is moving the indies along.
It's pretty cool to see my CD on iTunes and Best Buy. Hopefully MSN Music will pick it up soon.
I'm really looking forward to CD Baby Canada. Right now most of my promotional work is centered above the 49th parallel, having Canadian $ pricing and shipping will be a bonus.
Thanks for all the great work.
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Hi Derek!
Do people call you CD Daddy? (Is that annoying?) ;)
Just curious.
(I googled "Derek Sivers" and "CD Daddy" together, and was SHOCKED that nothing came up)
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Derek Thank YOU FOR LOOKING OUT FOR ALL THE CD BABY ARTIS YOU DIDNT FOR GET WERE YOU COME FROM AND THAT REAL. YOUR A BAD MAN.
REALITY THE FIRST.
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This is great! So, it's now on BestBuy.com and Tower.com.
One question: My CD seems to be listed on Amazon.com with CDBaby as the label. It says it's "Currently Unavailable". I never sent anything to Amazon.com. Are you starting to partner with them or something?
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Derek, I was about to ask the same question. I noticed that many companies are tied to Amazon's data base (Target...ect). Along with the news about a possible dealing with Walmart, the news looks good for 2006. Thanks for all the hard work that you and your staff are doing.
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Interesting. I just found that my CD is listed on Target.com as well, but says "Out of Stock". This is so cool! Do you know when our CDs will actually be available on those sites?
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Derek, you've got to be working on getting a cdbaby kiosk on
the moon!
Thanks again for all the tremendous foot work you and your
team have done - now I can just stay at home and write tunes.
"One small step for man, one giant leap for cdbaby"
http://cdbaby.com/group/benmakinen
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I know this isn't the general chit-chat thread, but I gotta kiss the Baby and, sorry, I don't see another forum for that.
What these folks do is amazing, for the little bit we pay them (hmmm...maybe we'd better stop saying stuff like that...). My latest opus just got set up at the site today, and they really did justice to the soundclips. Even for lo-fi, they sound so good. And did you guys know the letters of "Derek Sivers" can be rearranged to spell "revere disks"? Cue Twilight Zone theme....
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- Twilight Zone -
WOW!! You must have as much spare time at work as I do!
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derek - thank you so much - best buy will be a winner once we get better serach capabilty there - and amazon.com too! wow!!!!
you go and have yourself a merry little Christmas!!!!!!
Michael Scott Smith The Band of Brothers)
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i guess i was excited - two misspelled words - lol!
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Derek, I hope you realize how much you mean to the indie companies like my own. You have moved us light years ahead at minimal cost. Posting on forums (although quite enlightening) is not our forte, but we would like to simply say: "Thanks"
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on Wednesday January 25 2006 @ 11:26AM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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Does anyone have a bestbuy logo in html to use as a link to the bestbuy search?
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Good question. I looked at Best Buy's privacy and legal information to see if image linking could be done. They're not letting that happen without prior permission.
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BRAVO DERREK WE CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL THAT YOU AND YOUR STAFF DO.....HOW ABOUT SATELITE RADIO.....AND CABLE RADIO ANY THOUGHTS HOW TO GET INTO THOSE MARKETS?????
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK
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Sorry about the dupe submission... I did have a question also. I understand digital distribution is required to be listed by Best Buy,(Derek has had to repeat it many times) but i am missing why. If the will not be offering downloads and the customer will be purchasing an actual CD, I didn't understand the reason.
Not complaining, just new to the game and tryin to put the pieces together.
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re: Best Buy, I understand the Digital Dist. bit. I haven't signed
for that yet only because it says "you can't change anything!"
Question: there's just one track on our CD that I want to add
something to. Is it possible to submit all the other tracks for
Digital Dist. until i've got that one redone?
Thanks very much,
Bill
billross@cove.com
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Hey Derek! I am excited about the new joint venture even if it is networking through the internet. I believe that it only represents the beginning of new and innovative ideas to come in 2006. Thanks man for looking out for us. Every little bit helps.
Sincerely:
Blake Higginbotham
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So I guess what Derek is saying is that only digitally distributed albums will be accessed through cdbaby. In fact, Derek said it 4 times, so my thinking is that this is a fact.
bumpkin
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on Friday February 03 2006 @ 01:46PM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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This is great. I just thought I'd mention that the cdbaby link does not appear to be in the canadian version of the bestbuy site (bestbuy.ca)- although the pages are exceptionally noisy and it is possible I missed it.
One other question I have is about this "Target" stuff. My cdbaby stuff does not show up in the Target search. Should it by now or is this just a matter of time. (My cd has been registered for Digital Distribution since Oct. 2004)Is anybody else NOT on the Target search or is thids a glitch that i should mention to CD BAby?
Thanks,
JZ
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bestbuy? i hope this isn't the kiss of death. seems bestbuy bought out mediaplay not too long ago. mediaplay was one big store that actually took local consignments. until best buy bought it out, and discontinued that service. of course, since then best buy has sold mediaplay. it's enough to make one wary......
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>> i hope this isn't the kiss of death
VERY different scenario. CD Baby is not for sale. Nobody will buy us out.
We're just listing our products through their website. No need for alarm.
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then there's amazon. i'm already listed with them - their service? they take 55% of the cost of the cd, plus an annual fee of 29.95, for...whatever. it's really a scam compared to cdbaby, tho the arguement is that it is worlwide distribution. it will be interesting to see what kind of deal derek works out with them. go, derek!
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| by
on Friday February 03 2006 @ 06:08PM PST [ reply | parent ] |
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It seems to me that NOBODY treats the artist as well as cdbaby. It is no wonder that the artists worry when it looks like that relationship might get diluted BUT so far cdBaby has been very successful in avoiding any negative scenario. KUDOS to Derek Sivers for his instinctive navigation of the commercial waters on behalf of us all.
jz.
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That's great...now all we need in a major radio and video were everyone can see and hear our music...GREAT jOB...YOUR THE MAN!!
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You are ahead of all the classed, Great Work.Continued BLESSING as you Bless others.
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Derek, I'm a female musicien, singer and composer who
appreciates transparence, honesty with which you manage
cdbaby. I easily found my band Alondra in Best Buy.
I hope you will receive so many gifts from life, you deserve them
and something inside me keeps telling me that you are a "high
quality" human being. Thank you for your ideas and your help.
Patricia, the one from Chili
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This is wonderful, Derek. I work almost entirely alone as an Artist. It's been hard the past year. So, having guys like myself be a part of this distribution process through Best Buy is really very cool!
Infact, being a part of a record label has it advantages for sure. On the other hand, many of them turn there cheek on so many fantastic recording artist's. Now, folks have direct access to the music without the middle-man.-Thanks
Talbert St. Claire - The Irish New Age Low Whistler
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Hi Derek and all who are inside here :-)
Thank you so much for your fantastic nose for finding partners and so on.
Just great :-)
You are a hell of a guy.
All the best from me...
Dr BenDix
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Hey! Derek, i feel that this is one of your best
deals yet,to join with 'Best Buy',i love it,the
more exposure the better.Thanks and
congradulations on the big deal also thanks
for posting my check.I hope it arrives tomorrow
because i have some bills to pay ciao my
friend,Emmett North Jr. PS.Keep up the good
work ib business dealings!
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I just looked at the Best Buy site. I could not find the CDBaby artists. If I can't find it nobody else will either. Where did they hide us?
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Well I'm answering my own question. OK, we are not part of the main music search engine. We are only found with a small button on the lower right. I guess that's better than nothing, but someone is going to need to look for it to find it. If they knew where to look, they probably know where CDBABY.COM is anyway and get it direct.
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Sir, thank you so much for all u have been doing for indie artist worldwide. I think Best buy is a good thing.. Although we dont have best buy in Nigeria. How do we get to know when our musio has been approved and is on all digital music distribution that u have sent the music to?
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Wus happenin' Derek! Thank you fo' all the support homie. 59-1 LUV!
www.myspace.com/591music
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Best Buy hid the hell out of the link - not cool.
What is not obvious basically does not exist.
Can anything be done about that?
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Now that I am registered through itunes and the other 16 digital distributors, how can I link them to my website?
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They won't link to your site, unfortunately. But you can find your music on their site/service, copy the URL, and paste it into your own website to start to let your fans know about it.
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My friend, I have a take off song MAZE, but I changed it to a Gosple tune. Back in Strid Again.
I want to avoid copy right problems. I down loaded Conpusaray License's yet some things are not cleair. ie. Who owns the song, copy right. What % of the song did I copy.....
Is there an 800# wear I could talk to a real person?
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Why can't cdbaby distribute physical cds to Bestbuy or Target?
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Honestly, its too costly for them.
Sad, but true.
The retail shelves at those mega-chains (BestBuy, Target, WalMart) are EXPENSIVE real estate. They make a ton of money renting that space to The Eagles, Britney Spears,... any top 40 album that they don't have to take a chance on. They want guaranteed sales.
Plus, by only dealing with a few major labels/distributors (instead of getting physical stock from lots of little indie-distributors) they keep their processes for ordering, returns, promo deals, etc. more streamlined, cheaper, and without that RISK of dealing with lesser known artists.
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