Originally Posted By: JoanneCooper
Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing! One of my pet gripes on having my music digitally distributed by The Orchard is that, as an artist, you have absolutely no idea if the figures you are being fed are accurate or not. You just have to go on trust.



CDBaby is the same, you basically have to go on trust.

But the big problem with digital music these days is that hardly anyone buys MP3s anymore, it is mostly streams. And not only do you make almost no money with streams (.002 from spotify and iTunes for a stream :p), it takes MONTHS after the stream for you to get the report. But, that's not CDBabys fault.

bandcamp seems pretty good for selling MP3s, I just uploaded our new CD there yesterday and already sold two copies. And that is just from people that follow us over there, we haven't done anything to plug it yet. They send you an email the instant someone buys a CD or a track, which is pretty cool IMHO.