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Make more money with music publishing

Sign-up for CD Baby Pro Publishing Administration to get your money for:

  • All mechanical royalties from Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming sites. These are generated from every single stream.
  • All international mechanical royalties from download stores like iTunes. These are generated from every single sale.
  • All performance royalties from streaming services (like Spotify), radio, TV, live concert performances and much more.
  • Global YouTube publishing administration for any video on YouTube that contains your music.
  • Hundreds of other sources of songwriting and publishing royalties from around the world.

New to CD Baby? Sign up with Pro for $34.95 a single or $89 an album

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CD Baby Pro includes all of our standard worldwide music distribution, plus these additional benefits:

Get paid music publishing royalties

Get paid music publishing royalties

Your music can generate more money than you may have realized. Without a music publishing admin, you’ll miss out on mechanical royalties from download sales in territories outside the U.S., plus mechanicals for worldwide streaming (on platforms like Spotify). If these royalties go uncollected, they may disappear. These mechanical royalties cannot be collected by your performing rights organization (such as ASCAP or BMI). When CD Baby administers your publishing rights, we will only collect the publisher's share of your performance royalties; you will still get 100% of your songwriter share of performance royalties from your P.R.O.

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Performing Rights Organization affiliation and administration

Not already registered with a performing rights organization? For US and Canadian artists, we’ll save you the trouble and affiliate you with either ASCAP or BMI in the US, or SOCAN in Canada. For other countries where we offer CD Baby Publishing, if you are unaffiliated, we’ll guide you to how to join your appropriate performing rights organization. If you are affiliated with a Performing Rights Organization already, CD Baby Publishing will become the administrator of your publishing. In each scenario, you will still be paid your writer share directly by the Performing Rights Organization.

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Get your songs registered worldwide

Get your songs registered worldwide

Your songs will be registered with music collection societies around the world, including Performing Rights Organizations (like ASCAP, BMI, PRS), Mechanical Rights Organizations (like HFA, MCPS) and other key music registration platforms. Reason #1 that songwriters miss out on royalties owed to them is not having a publisher or publishing administrator. Reason #2 is failure to properly register songs. It’s time to professionalize all of your music publishing rights.

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The Orion Experience The Orion Experience

“With CD Baby Pro, we’ve already made $16,000 we wouldn’t have made otherwise”
— Orion Simprini, The Orion Experience

The Orion Experience were surprised to learn that their music was generating unclaimed income. CD Baby Pro now helps them collect every penny. And singer Orion Simprini believes he’s in a far more promising position than when he was signed to a major label more than a decade ago.

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CD Baby Pro Publishing Administration is available in numerous countries and territories.
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CDBB Split Sheet

A Publishing Split Sheet for Co-Songwriters

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