TuneCore vs CD Baby
You deserve the best audience development and independent distribution in the music industry. Get your music into more stores, reach more fans, and get the support you need.
How Is TuneCore Better Than CD Baby?
Unlike our competitors – including CD Baby – we offer music distribution, music publishing, and audience development, all under one roof. That means we support you at every stage of your career, not just the ones where you’re putting music online.
Let’s dig into specifics below:
TuneCore | CD Baby | |
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Subscription Pricing | ✅ | ❌ |
Music Publishing | ✅ | ❌ |
Trends and Analytics | ✅ | ❌ |
Dashboard | ✅ | ❌ |
Songwriter Splits | ✅ | ❌ |
Payout Threshold | ❌ | ✅ |
$5 Mastering | ✅ | ❌ |
Why Choose TuneCore?
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Subscription Pricing
CD Baby offers fixed prices for releases – we offer unlimited releases plus cutting-edge analytic tools and TuneCore Accelerator at an affordable monthly rate. The difference is clear.
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Music Publishing
You can add TuneCore Publishing to any paid plan and ensure your royalty collection and music distribution happens under one roof. We offer it; CD Baby doesn’t.
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Analytics Dashboard
Our Trends and Analytics Dashboard provides relevant, personalized, and timely insights to grow your audience and increase your revenue – CD Baby doesn’t have one.
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Songwriter Splits
Our TuneCore Splits service ensures your collaborators get paid for their work automatically; CD Baby makes you do the heavy lifting.
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Payout Threshold
CD Baby has one; we don’t. Get paid out when you want for how much you want – no amount is too big or small.
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$5 Mastering
CD Baby offers AI Mastering for $59 dollars. We dropped the “9” and offer professional mastering results at the entry level price of $5.
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How to Switch From
CD Baby to TuneCore
Switching from CD Baby to TuneCore is simple:
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Create an Account
It’s easy to do
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Select Your Plan
TuneCore offers a plan at whatever price plan is right for you,
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Create a TuneCore Release
Fill in the required information to get distribution ready (don’t worry – we’ll tell you what you need.
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Take that Track Down from CD Baby
Click here to read how you can start today and reach more fans than ever.
Ready to Join TuneCore?
We thought so. Start reaching more fans and increasing your streams on social media and DSPs by signing up today.