So your band wants to make back at least some of the money you spent recording your latest cd, right? Most bands get real lazy when it comes to offering their cd. Most of the time they have it in one or two places and call it good. A few years ago I was trying to help a local band get their new cd out to more people. One of the guys worked at a Best Buy and was able to get it in the local Best Buy locations. That impressed the hell out of his bandmates and they acted as if they “made it” when I tried to tell them about getting it on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, and a few other places. They could not wrap their heads around the fact that some may not want to buy the cd there. They could not comprehend that if it was made available to the world that someone outside of their little town might buy it. They had a major case of wanting to stay being a big fish in our little pond. So if you want to stay local, please stop reading my blog. This is for bands that want to get their music out to people outside of their local scene.

Now most bands have figured out how to offer their cd online in some way. I say use them all if possible! If one of your potential fans doesn’t feel comfortable with one method, they have several others to choose from. Plus it looks cool to say you have it available in 10 different online locations. PayPal will allow them to buy it direct from you, but with their own credit card. CafePress will let you sell it along with a ton of merch. But what about getting it in the more mainstream online locations? CD Baby does this for you. When you set up your account you can have them handle iTunes, Amazon, and a few others.

Why have CD Baby do this? Well, two main reasons. Frist off some of these places do not want to deal with what is called “micorpayments“. Meaning $25 here, $50 the next month, $100 another month, and maybe $10 another month. iTunes wants to deal with thousands of dollars at a time. So they deal directly with CD Baby and CD Baby deals with you. Same thing with Amazon and the rest of them. It just makes life more simple. The second reason is that you don’t have to deal with setting up a ton of accounts with a ton of places. Cd Baby does it all for you. Plus you don’t get a bunch of tiny checks from all of these separate online sellers. So it could be said that you should go through Cd Baby for one reason. Less hassle for everyone!

So go set your band up with an account at Cd Baby