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The DIY Musician Blog - Part 2 Press release: CD Baby Sync Licensing hits $1.2 million mark paid out to independent artists By Chris Robley April 2, 2014 Latest quarterly payout shows continued growth in YouTube monetization for DIY musicians CD Baby, arguably the world’s largest distributor of independent music, working with over 300,000 acts, has announced that it paid out a record $400,000 in royalties to artists involved in the CD Baby Sync Licensing program for the fourth quarter of 2013. That’s a 70 percent increase over the previous quarter and 150 percent more than the same period in 2012.
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