CD Baby In The News

Downtown Music Publishing acquires Strictly Confidential catalog

Acquisition includes more than 10,000 song copyrights

Justin Kalifowitz on why Downtown bought CD Baby owner AVL Digital

Downtown's Founder and CEO was interviewed live on stage at The Great Escape in Brighton, UK

Downtown inks deal to represent the catalog of Summertime composer George Gershwin

Summertime has seen renditions by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Janis Joplin and others

Downtown enters JV with Cowboys & Pirates to develop Hip-Hop and R&B talent

Cowboys & Pirates is headed by Ty Baisden

CD Baby partners with digital content identification platform Audible Magic

CD Baby will use Audible Magic’s RightsRx service to identify content rights conflicts

Former Nielsen exec Anne-Taylor ‘AT’ Adams joins Downtown as SVP, Global Communications

Downtown also recently hired David Dormon as Legal Counsel and Director of Acquisitions

Downtown’s Justin Kalifowitz to take part in keynote conversation at the Great Escape 2019

UK music conference also launches brand new day aimed at emerging artists

Downtown buys CD Baby owner for $200m

AVL’s client base includes over 900,000 artists, labels and other rights holders