Digital Sales - how much?

	posted by newtf on Monday June 23 2008 @ 08:53PM PDT
	Over the last 6 months, what is the average amount of money per month you've made solely from digital sales? (Mp3s via iTunes, CDbaby, Amazon, etc-- NOT hardcopy CDs sold via the web.) No band/recording names please, maybe if this is kept anonymous there will be no fake hype & inflated numbers. Simply post just your music's genre, your avg/month, and highest/lowest month of the last 6 mos. from whenever you read the post. This is all just to help get some stats to see what is actually going on with indie artists & digital sales. So... me first: genre: electronic avg/month last 6 mos: $750.13 hightest of last 6 mos: $1362.53 lowest of last 6 mos: $20.68

	by Paolo on Saturday June 28 2008 @ 06:51AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	I believe your sales are going pretty well and not many artists here sell as you. Good! http://cdbaby.com/cd/hsdub http://www.bluesjazzpiano.com/sitemap-piano.html

	by David Ireland on Monday June 30 2008 @ 11:46AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	We have over 50 rock songs, but our only real seller has been verizon v cast. Our song hussein the rock song was placed in the rock catagory at number 5. We have made about 70.00 per month for the last 2 years. location, location, location. We were very lucky until recently verizon and rhapsody hooked up and now verizons v cast is gone and so is my listing. verizon had a great site that catered to the indies more than any other site, now its gone. I think this idea of showing income from artist on cdbaby is a GREAT idea, we should all show what we make and from what sites!!

	by William on Tuesday July 01 2008 @ 06:56AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Over a year on CD Baby, our total digital sales for our two releases is $16.92. We promote CD Baby as the main place to get our music online, but everyone just buys through iTunes anyway even though we sell it for cheaper through CD Baby. Genre is alternative rock/grunge. - William

	by Anony on Tuesday July 01 2008 @ 12:18PM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	$144 over the past year so about $12 a month. :( Haven't played live yet. Hopefully things will pick up then with a good live show.

	by tgc on Thursday July 03 2008 @ 04:11AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	best ever month £22 odd - last six average $4 a month... had a fair few months around the $20 mark (electro/pop/trance) newtf - your figures are great - can i ask what promotion do you do ??? i'll have a bit of spare cash to do some promotion soon and was thinking of advertising on di.fm

	by e.a. on Tuesday July 08 2008 @ 07:11PM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Have been on digital since the start (2004)...{Progressive Rock) Digital sales really picked up when Verizon V-Cast started in 2007, then I averaged $30/mo. with highest month $90. Anyone know more about Verizon/Rhapsody deal? O am concerned because Rhapsody sells listens more than downloads for me...for not even .009cents each.

	by Joseph Michael on Thursday July 10 2008 @ 04:47AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Yeah NEWTF what are you doing right???? My sales are steadily increasing....but never over $30 a month,yet!

	by Kaysha on Monday July 14 2008 @ 07:38AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	hey there I make an average of $1000 a month using digital distribution on cdbaby and it's increasing... My only wish would be that they allow us to deliver tracks by upload, that would be fantastic

	by david on Thursday July 17 2008 @ 08:37AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	newtf and kaysha -- Congratulations on the digital sales! I'd love to hear some more details about what you're doing to generate those sales -- promotion, touring, social networking, etc. Thanks!!

	by Joachim Thomas on Saturday July 19 2008 @ 03:58AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	20-30$ month average for a dozen CDs from various artist of our label ranging from electronics to art rock...

	by Gayle on Monday August 04 2008 @ 10:37AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	We haven't done very well. I use cdbaby as our main site for purchasing our songs but it doesn't seem to be picking up. Any suggestions out there on how to generate more sales??? We are making about $2 per month. http://cdbaby.com/cd/gfwind

by Tonya Betz on Monday August 04 2008 @ 08:36PM PDT [ reply | parent ] Hi Gayle, I went to your CD Baby page and didn't see a link to iTunes. Are you on iTunes? If so, get a link on your CD Baby page. That might help, especially if you are referring people to CD Baby for sales. Also, you might consider dropping the price a bit on CD Baby for the mp3 download. Even if you raised the price for the physical CD a buck or two and kept the mp3 price at $8, that might help. People want to see that they get a bit of break buying the download over the physical CD. ~tonya http://www.tonyabetz.com http://cdbaby.com/all/tonyabetz

	by Gayle on Tuesday August 05 2008 @ 08:55AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Tonya, I haven't been able to find a link that directs people to our page at itunes. Do you know where I can find that? I can send people to itues but not directly to our page?????

by Tonya Betz on Tuesday August 05 2008 @ 10:32AM PDT [ reply | parent ] Gayle, log in to your CD Baby account. Click on Your Items > Edit Album Info > Links Back to You. If iTunes is not in the list, you can add it in. Open up your iTunes program. Go to your album page on iTunes. Right click on your album cover and you'll see that you can copy your album's URL. Now you can just paste that into your CD Baby linkmaker in your CD Baby account. Hope that helps... ~tonya http://www.tonyabetz.com http://cdbaby.com/all/tonyabetz

	by Gayle on Tuesday August 05 2008 @ 02:04PM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	NICE!!! - I will try that. Can you do that for all the digital download sites??? i.e. Rhapsody, Napster??? Just wondering?

by Lindsey Collins @ CD Baby on Tuesday August 05 2008 @ 05:10PM PDT [ reply | parent ] Yep! From many sites you can search your artist name and copy the link from the address bar (http://website.com/123) and use that. Others have cool link making tools, or even widgets. The following are some linking tools our partner sites offer : (Note: if you have only recently started digital distribution, you may not be up on these sites yet. It can take up to 3 months) APPLE iTUNES linkmaker : http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/itmsLinkMaker NAPSTER has a single song linkmaker http://free.napster.com/napsterlinks/ PAYPLAY has a widget maker. Just search for your album here : http://payplay.fm/ **Once you've located it, click "widgit" on your album page. AMAZON has an MP3 widgit you can use if you sign up for their affiliate program http://widgets.amazon.com/Amazon-MP3-Clips-Widget Hope this helps out, Gayle! - Lindsey

	by Gayle on Wednesday August 06 2008 @ 05:47AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	AWESOME- You have been a huge help. I figured out the itunes one last night and added it to our page. I will get the other ones and add them as well. Thanks for being so supportive. Gayle http://cdbaby.com/cd/gfwind

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