CD Baby In The News

SoundCloud’s annual revenues topped $218m in 2020 – and it’s been making bold moves ever since

MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud's results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues

Sony Music’s $430m buyout of AWAL provisionally cleared by UK competition watchdog

UK’s Competition and Markets Authority gives provisional decision – and it's good news for Sony

Sony Music: AWAL would have ‘struggled to maintain its position’ if we hadn’t bought it

MBW has read Sony's 48-page submission to the CMA: Here's our summary

CD Baby has paid out over $1bn to artists using its distribution platform

More than a million artists worldwide have distributed music via the platform

TIDAL to launch user-centric royalties system and direct-to-artist payments

TIDAL makes raft of announcements around membership tiers and artist payments

Live music booking platform GigRealm launches in the UK, partners with CD Baby, Ivors Academy and others

Platform gives artists direct access to venues, independent promoters and one-off event organizers

Andrew Bergman named Downtown CEO, as Justin Kalifowitz becomes Executive Chairman

Today, Downtown manages more than 23 million music assets on behalf of over a million artists and enterprise clients

Downtown sets up New Markets department, appoints Sheer Music Africa MD David Alexander to SVP role

CD Baby’s Heli Del Moral Appointed VP