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title: Does CD Baby collect US mechanical royalties?
publisher: RapCanon
canonical: https://rapcanon.com/tools/royalty-coverage/cdbaby-mech_us/
license: CC-BY-4.0
retrieved: 2026-08-13
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> No. ⚠ CD Baby Pro Publishing was DISCONTINUED in August 2023. The current CDB Boost product does not replace it.

Royalty coverage

 
# Does CD Baby collect US mechanical royalties?

 
 
Does not

 
⚠ CD Baby Pro Publishing was DISCONTINUED in August 2023. The current CDB Boost product does not replace it.

 
 
What this stream is. The songwriting side of a US stream, paid under the statutory blanket licence administered by The MLC. Separate from the recording payment above, and paid to whoever registered the WORK.

 Worth knowing about CD Baby - ★ The single most out-of-date belief in music distribution: CD Baby Pro Publishing ENDED in August 2023, and a large share of blogs, videos and comparison articles still describe CD Baby as a full publishing administrator. If you signed up expecting publishing collection after that date, you do not have it.
- Its partial SoundExchange collection is genuinely unusual and genuinely partial. Collecting the rights-owner share is not the same as collecting your artist share.
 
 
Read from CD Baby's own documentation on 2026-08-13. Check it yourself — and if it has changed, tell us.

 
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RapCanon. (2026). Does CD Baby collect US mechanical royalties?. Retrieved from https://rapcanon.com/tools/royalty-coverage/cdbaby-mech_us/

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@misc{rapcanon-tools-royalty-coverage-cdbaby-mech-us,
  title  = {Does CD Baby collect US mechanical royalties?},
  author = {{RapCanon}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://rapcanon.com/tools/royalty-coverage/cdbaby-mech_us/},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-08-13}
}
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