Royalty coverage
Does CD Baby collect neighbouring rights via SoundExchange?
Partly
The only company in this group that collects any SoundExchange money, and it collects the 50% RIGHTS-OWNER share only. The 45% featured-artist share still requires your own SoundExchange registration.
What this stream is. Payment for NON-interactive play of the recording, satellite radio, webcasting. In the US this is SoundExchange, and it is nobody else's job.
What bites on this stream specifically
- Its partial SoundExchange collection is genuinely unusual and genuinely partial. Collecting the rights-owner share is not the same as collecting your artist share.
1 further trap on CD Baby's other streams are on the matrix.
Read from CD Baby's own documentation on 2026-08-13. Check it yourself, and if it has changed, tell us.