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CD Baby Partnership Adds Hundreds of Thousands of Songs

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Today we have a very exciting update to an announcement we made last month: We have added more than 250,000 tracks to the Rumblefish catalog from CD Baby artists. Although we announced the formal partnership with CD Baby last month, they went live with the sync opt-in 10 days ago. The result was pretty resounding, with hundreds of thousands of tracks in the first week added to the 500,000 track Rumblefish music catalog. The Rumblefish catalog is the largest collection of songs that can be legally edited into online videos and UGC in the world.

What does this mean?

  1. CD Baby artists have access to a totally new revenue stream. They now will receive royalties through soundtracks licensed for use in online videos, slideshows, presentations and other UGC using the Rumblefish API, Friendly Music and the Music Licensing Store.
  2. Consumers and professionals can add soundtracks from some of the top indie artists into their videos, slideshows, presentations, advertisements, films, games and much more.
  3. Online destinations, like YouTube, that offer up Rumblefish’s songs from their website can now give users access to a larger variety of songs.

The CD Baby partnership is now fully live and we’re seeing the fruits of our labor!

Is The Music Business Finally Rebounding? New Numbers Say Yes.

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Great article in Forbes magazine last week about the music industry’s rebound, entitled “Is the Music Business Finally Rebounding? New Numbers Say Yes.” For the first time since 2004, overall music sales are up. Sales aren’t up much (1.4%), but it’s been eight years since sales have been up, at all. A great sign, regardless of your measure. Also, 2012 is already shaping up to see huge focus on live shows/merch & sync licensing as new focus areas of growth for artists and labels. This is going to be one exciting year for the music industry.

Rumblefish and CD Baby Partner

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CD Baby

Today we announced a partnership that’s been in the making for some time: CD Baby. It’s great to do a deal in the music industry with another Portland company, but we’re way more excited than just that. CD Baby has 250,000 artists with 3.5 million tracks. The company just announced more than $200 million has been paid to their artists in royalties. With partnership between Rumblefish and CD Baby, their artists can now choose to create a new income stream in sync licensing. If you’re a CD Baby artist, you can go here to sign up your albums for sync.

Read more here.

A Crucial Partnership

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Grand Theft Auto, American Express TV commercials, Transformers the movie, 30 Rock the TV show — each have one thing in common: Amazing music. The top shelf tracks that fuel the storylines of these great projects are typically only available to the major networks, studios and advertisers. No longer is that the case!

 

Rumblefish has just partnered with Crucial Music, a premium independent music catalog out of Los Angeles. Crucial has been serving up music for the hottest brands, movies and television franchises in the world, including CSI, Friday Night Lights, American Dad, Hawaii 5-O, Royal Pains, Transformers, Crazy Stupid Love, Sex & The City, The Proposal, Fantastic Four, Mission Impossible 3 and others. Our partnership with Crucial allows Rumblefish to deliver the Crucial Music catalog to the entire Rumblefish customer base that has racked up over 4.5 million licenses to date.

 

The Crucial catalog is a phenomenal addition to the growing Rumblefish catalog and will be made available across all of the Rumblefish properties including Friendly Music, the Rumblefish API and Music Licensing Store.

 

Welcome to the family Crucial. We’re flattered to have you on board!