How much does iTunes pay CDBaby?

	posted by Frederick on Tuesday June 24 2008 @ 03:39PM PDT
	My release is on sale for $9.99 / £7.99 and I was just wondering how much of that is paid to CDBaby, more to the point, how much does iTunes keep?

	by Paolo on Saturday June 28 2008 @ 06:57AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Artist = 65% CdBaby = 9% Itunes = 26% less the copyright rights(between 5-9% that is about 7%) I believe these are the distribution of the royalties. http://cdbaby.com/cd/musilosophy4 http://musicjazzvideos.com/jazz-music-videos-sitemap/

	by Frederick on Saturday June 28 2008 @ 02:34PM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	I thought iTunes pay CDBaby, and then CDBaby pays the artist out of what iTunes just paid them.

	by ccc on Monday June 30 2008 @ 06:04PM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Unless something has changed recently, it works like this: iTunes pays $0.70 to CDBaby Out of this money: CDBaby then pays you $0.637 (%91) and keeps $0.063 (%9)

	by Frederick on Tuesday July 01 2008 @ 12:53PM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	Man, maths was easily my worst subject in school...I guess we're all doomed to get shafted. In any case, hire the right people and you can do well. THanks for the info.

	by Colie Brice on Tuesday July 08 2008 @ 11:06AM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	How does that constitute shafting? Apple pays for the hosting and bandwidth for the files. The artists gets well over 50% of the net income. Paul McCartney didn't get the percentage as a Beatle..

	by Matt on Friday July 18 2008 @ 03:23PM PDT [ reply | parent ]
	I agree with Colie. CD Baby has that information posted on the website, and you agreed to it when you gave them your album to distribute.

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