CD Baby has consistently increased sales per artist on the site both in digital and CD's. For really active JPF artists (i.e. those gigging multiple times each week at paid gigs) I haven't heard of sales slipping in general and for the most part it seems that sales are up over the last 10 years. I am sure there are exceptions to that as there always are. But the new ways to sell music and promote artists has had nothing but a positive effect on indies that I am aware of.

Scott: The labels are counting on all the traffic generated by the indie community that currently makes up a large percentage of MySpace Music's model continuing and I can only imagine they plan to get a piece of that ad revenue money. I haven't heard a peep about sharing that with the indie artists, and I doubt very much that indie artists will get as favorable deal for their contribution when the labels own the site and are likely to pay themselves most of the money. That's why I feel this is a disastrous deal in the making for indies. The majors are moving in on what is primarily (as in 98% of the pages on that site) an indie music site.

Brian

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