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CD Baby

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Non-notable records label. No sources found. Forbes in particular is a contributor piece, the rest are fluff and PR items. Oaktree b (talk) 20:27, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Oaktree b (talk) 20:27, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies, England, New York, and Oregon. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:56, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Will give you a better deep-dive of sources later, but I want to preemptively say that out of all the non-notable labels that try to weasel their way into Wikipedia, CD Baby is not one of them. Without even looking at the page before writing this, I can vouch for their notability. Here is a small collection of sources from Music Connection [1], Billboard [2], Forbes [3] (which was written by a staff member and not contributor), and the book Music Marketing by Berklee Press [4]. (I also do not like how you did not mention the New York Times article used in the article.) No offense, but this is a pretty bad candidate for AfD. Why? I Ask (talk) 21:37, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep: This is not a record label, but an online music store/distributor, and probably the largest in that niche during the 2000s and to a lesser extent 2010s. (It's roughly the equivalent of Bandcamp today.) As such ProQuest turns up several news articles spanning the 2000s with significant coverage, including features in Esquire ("Derek Sivers," 10-2003), The Oregonian ("Odd is In at Independent Music Seller CDBaby, 10-6-2003), the Oregon Register-Guard ("Oregon firm an indie music sales giant," 7-25-2008), the Boston Herald ("Be my/Be my CDBaby; Music business gets real at online store," 3-5-2004), as well as business analysis in The Guardian ("Technology: Freedom of rights management: Musicians have been badgering Apple to sell their music without copy protection for years, so why, wonders Wendy M Grossman , is it changing its tune now?", 4-26-2007). All of these are available through Wikipedia Library; this is just a small selection. Gnomingstuff (talk) 21:43, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]