Partners


CD Baby From our humble beginnings more than a decade ago as a small, one-man operation in a garage, to our current standing as the world’s largest online distributor of indie music, CD Baby has always been a company run BY musicians FOR musicians. Inside the fortified walls of our warehouse (a virtual Wonka-world of music) in rainy Portland, Oregon, we listen to every single album we carry before it is posted for sale so that we can help you find other new artists you’ll love, too. No distributors. No major labels. We only sell music that musicians send us directly. We ship CDs from our warehouse. We sell downloads from our site. And we also deliver our artists’ music to other download retailers, as well (iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, and many more.) We sell you the music and then we pay the artist right away. Cool thing: in a regular record deal or distribution deal, musicians only make $1-$2 per album, if they’re ever lucky enough to get paid by their label at all. When selling through CD Baby, musicians make $6-$12 per album and get paid weekly.	Disc Makers Disc Makers stands alone as the undisputed leader in optical disc manufacturing for independent artists, filmmakers, and businesses. We operate the most vertically-integrated manufacturing facility in the industry and produce over 20,000 titles a year. We continue to be firmly focused on our mission: helping independents - whether musicians, filmmakers, or small businesses - compete head to head with companies much larger than themselves. In short, we empower artists to do what they love. And that, we believe, is a worthy mission.	IMRadio IMRadio (Independent Musician Radio) is an innovative international entertainment company that offers free radio airplay while providing revenue opportunities to a huge, untapped global market of independent musicians. IMRadio is currently airing over 95,000 independent musicians’ songs on its 700+ radio stations. We also have radio stations for Spoken Word and Comedy. IMRadio is free to all musicians and listeners. Enjoy the music at: www.IMRadio.com.

MEIEA The Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA®) is an international organization that was formed in 1979 to bring together educators with leaders of the music and entertainment industries. The primary goal of MEIEA® is to facilitate an exchange of information between educators and practitioners in order to prepare students for careers in the music and entertainment industries. The purpose for which MEIEA® is organized and operated is exclusively literary and educational as defined in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and its regulations.	Record Store Day The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances.	Oasis Disc Manufacturing Oasis Disc Manufacturing: A different kind of CD & DVD manufacturing company, dedicated to the needs of independent musicians, filmmakers, and other creative content providers. Orders from Oasis include free promotion and distribution via the Oasis Tools of Promotion. Oasis is well known for its innovative environmental packaging options including the Oasis BottleTray™ and Potato Tray™ Digipak options and its 100% Green Forestry Practices Certified board packaging.

SoundOut SoundOut guarantees accurate and objective insight into your tracks, powered 100% by real music fans. It delivers fast, easy to use information that identifies your hit tracks and target market, and gives you access to commercial opportunities that can help you succeed in the music industry.	Slicethepie Slicethepie is a successful fan-funding platform where you can raise money directly from music fans worldwide to record, produce and market your EP or album. Upload your tracks, have them reviewed by real music fans, and the top rated artists enter the Showcase to get financed.	Women In Music Women in Music is a dynamic group of music industry professionals working together to support, cultivate and recognize the talents of women in our field. Through educational seminars, panels, networking events, showcases, our annual Touchstone Awards, and other gala events, we provide camaraderie and tools for advancement to hundreds of members at all stages of their careers.

Disc Outlet Disc Outlet provides a full range of media reproduction services to both commercial and consumer markets, and offers a competitive mix of integrated solutions in the optical replication, authoring, design, printing and packaging industry.They provide the highest quality CD/DVD replication & duplication, on-time delivery, bottom-line pricing and impeccable service.	The Indie Bible The Indie Bible is a unique directory that is targeted specifically towards "recording" artists. Some of the other directories on the market have endless categories of listings (venues, music stores, lawyers etc). But The Indie Bible’s goal is to provide a resource that enables musicians and songwriters to avoid spending the incredible number of hours it takes in determining the good listings from the bad. The Indie Bible has six categories that are essential to the success of any artist attempting to promote their music. The creators of The Indie Bible have also put together The Indie Venue Bible-- a unique and comprehensive directory of live music venues in the US and Canada.	VEOBA VEOBA is a resource for independent musicians, artists, record labels, and music industry professionals. Founded by working musicians and music industry veterans, we know how tough this business can be. We've made it easier by putting the best products and services in one convenient place, just a click or a phone call away. You worry about the music, we'll take care of the rest: www.veoba.com

Musicnotes Musicnotes.com is the leading Internet-based sheet music store offering nearly 70,000 pieces of digital sheet music and guitar tablature. In addition to the instant delivery of digital sheet music, the site also offers music books & more, a catalog of more than two hundred sixty thousand traditional music titles, CDs and videos. GuitarTabs LLC and MXTabs.net, the first legitimately licensed site designed to provide musicians with advertising-supported access to free tabs, while also compensating music publishers and songwriters for their intellectual property are also members of the growing Musicnotes family. Musicnotes has been featured in numerous publications, including Billboard, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and USA Today. It has also been named on of the Top 500 Retail Web Sites and one of the Top 50 Web Sites for 2006 by Internet Retailer Magazine.	Musician Wages Musician Wages offers music industry advice specifically geared towards the working musician. Our articles discuss not just how to be a musician, but how to make a living as a musician. There are many resources about the music business, but this website is about the musician business – for those who create the music. Professional musicians face the same problems as small business owners and entrepreneurs. How much should I charge? Where can I sell my products? How can I better manage my time? Am I missing opportunities to expand my business? MusicianWages.com was created to foster these discussions between fellow musicians.	Virtual Label Virtual Label is not a record company nor is it a management company (though we do manage a couple of artists!). It is a 360° full-service company that provides access to everything that is needed to grow a music business and successfully sell and market an artist and their recordings. We have rock solid national physical retail distribution, a direct channel into digital distribution via all the key on-line services and direct access to CD and DVD manufacturing services through our relationship with a top replicator. In addition we can help with outsourcing all other aspects of running and building a record label, including marketing, promotion, licensing and royalty administration, in order to help minimize your administrative overhead costs and maximize your creativity. In short, we can fill in whatever blanks are necessary leaving you to do what you do best.

Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a global rights broker for the world's most sought after print and online content, from books, journals and newspapers to blogs and images. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization, CCC provides international licensing expertise to organizations around the world in an effort to simplify licensing and support the intellectual property rights of content creators. Recently CCC partnered with RightsFlow to integrate Limelight into the CCC portfolio of offerings.	Indie-Music.com-- Where Serious Musicians Surf Since 1996, Indie-Music has been a rock solid member of the independent music community. They feature great new music through thier New & Notable Selections, Music Reviews, and Annual Top 25 Awards. They find true talent the old fashioned way... listening to it with their own ears and featuring only the very best for our listening pleasure. Their site contains thousands of artists, streaming audio, radio, charts, reviews, features, an online magazine and music industry directory. Their cumulative 100+ years experience in the media and music industries - along with the contributions of numerous freelancer writers - make Indie-Music.com a gateway for the best independent music and a hive of opportunity for artists and advertisers.	Christian Copyright Solutions Church and ministry leaders want to honor copyrights and do the right thing, but copyright compliance can often be complex, confusing and overwhelming. Christian Copyright Solutions was launched in 2001 out of a desire to provide online solutions to simplify the copyright clearance process. Since that time they have helped more than 2,000 churches become copyright compliant, ranging from small local churches to some of the largest churches in the country, including Saddleback Church, Northpoint Church, Gateway Church and Willow Creek Church.

International Songwriting Competition The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is now accepting entries for the 2011 competition. Now is your chance to enter what the NY Times calls “the songwriting competition to take note of” with $150,000 (US) in cash and prizes - including $25,000 (US) cash for the grand prize winner alone and the best judges for any songwriting competition worldwide. Judges for 2011 include: My Morning Jacket, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Jeff Beck, Massive Attack, Kelly Clarkson, Wynonna and record label executives- both major and independent. For entry information and a complete list of judges please visit the ISC site.