Would you choose DistroKid or CD Baby? Why?

Does the KZfaq money addon for distrokid apply to all artists and songs if I get the label plan? For example will it add all songs for the 100 artists to youtubes content id database?

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This helped soooooo much!! I just released my song with CD Baby. Kinda sucks that they take 9% out but honestly I’m just starting out and I like the organization and help

Thank you! I’m so excited to start releasing music and these videos really help. There are so many different options, which is great but also confusing sometimes 😅

Thank you. Releasing my first album. This was really helpful!

Great high quality video! Thank you for going into depth and providing further knowledge! God bless your channel and continue rocking out!

Thank you, that was really helpful and very well explained!

Appreciate the video. Observing my parents success over the years with their business, I can say customer service is crucial. Choose the distributor that cares the most about their customers.

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Informative, clear and helpfkl. Thank you Charles ❤

This was very informative man thanks i really have to get my music out there!

For anyone who wants to use distrokid keep in mind that you also would have to pay for KZfaq monetization (if you want that), Shazam Recognition and a bunch of other things, your cost could be up to $60 a year for one album and $30 one year for one single.

Thanks Charles, nice video. If we're only considering one album, then there's almost a crossover, where the annual fees to distrokid are about the same as the 9% going to cdbaby. That probably happens at around 4K streams/month (50K streams/year -> $200/year to the artist and 9% of that would be almost the 20/year that distrokid gets from everyone). Below that, and assuming you want your music up "forever", paying (cdbaby) once might be a little cheaper. And above that, you probably save money with a fixed 20/year fee (to distrokid). And obviously below 5K streams/year, the streaming doesn't cover the ongoing fees to distrokid. So: (1) if I pay cdbaby once, I can forget about it, but with an ongoing subscription at distrokid, I'll need to keep checking to make sure that it makes sense to keep it around; and (2) distrokid saves money for more popular artists. But since we don't know how popular a release is going to be, we need an initial release to guess at that. If we want the initial release to last without having to pay an ongoing fee, then cdbaby might make more sense to start. And if that does well, and we're pretty sure the next album will be above 50K streams/year, or we're pretty sure we're going to be doing a lot of releases, then we might move to distrokid. Lotsa ifs, and no real money here for individual artists. Only fees that generate money for companies in aggregate.

For a record label would Distrokid be best? I like that you can have up to 100 artists. Although CDbaby sounds appealing I have to pay min 10$ for a song for each artist which is 1000$ for a basic plan. Does CDbaby have a plan for record labels

thank you this really helped me decide!

I’m very broke and want to make music so I might use cd baby to release my songs after I’m done

DistroKid seems best for indie/hobby musicians/artists etc. wanting to test their music and puts something out constantly.

a very calm, symphatic and helpful comparison, thank you. greetings from vienna

If I used someone’s song in my video for background music, will it get blocked off or just copyright Claim