Spotify adds 1m tracks through CD Baby deal
TweetEuropean streaming music service Spotify may have been recently forced to remove some tracks due to pesky licensing restrictions, but the company has also been adding new tracks, thanks to a new deal with digital distributor CD Baby.
The deal covers more than one million songs from independent artists, bolstering the Spotify catalogue – which already includes tracks from UMG, Sony, EMI, WMG, Merlin and The Orchard. “CD Baby gives us access to the world’s most immersive independent music catalogue and brings us even closer to our dream of gathering all the world’s music in one place,” says Spotify CEO Daniel Ek.
Most immersive? Wonder what Merlin and The Orchard will say about that. Anyway, Spotify says it’ll reveal which artists are being added to its service through the new deal in the coming weeks, as it brings them on-stream.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
[...] boa notícia relacionada com a Spotify é que a empresa conseguiu no final da semana passada assinar um contrato de licenciamento com a CD Baby, uma distribuidora de downloads digitais e de CDs de artistas e [...]
February 11th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
[...] ongoing buzz around Spotify – a new streaming music service from London – the latest news is that they closed a deal with CDBaby and thus grew their library by 1M tracks. That sounds great, so i decided to pay the 10 [...]
March 31st, 2009 at 5:40 am
[...] The Spotify catalog is huge – notwithstanding some recent troubles – and built with the blessing of EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and some smaller record labels, including most recently CD Baby. [...]
April 4th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
[...] The Spotify catalog is huge – notwithstanding some recent troubles – and built with the blessing of EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and some smaller record labels, including most recently CD Baby. [...]
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Have just read on a seperate thread that http://www.dittomusic.com will also be supplying spotify with unsigned content.
Has anyone used them before?
They main difference between them and CDB is that they dont take any commission.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Hi Jamie, yes, you’re from the same IP address as the commenter on that other post too, strangely enough.
If you’re from Ditto Music, it’s fine to talk about your service, but do identify yourself honestly. Cheers!