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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 (WP:NSUSTAINED) with significant coverage. These include 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]
  • Keep per the sources above. CD Baby was easily one of the top online distributors in the early 2000s. This book can also be used as a source (p283). There's also a noteworthy Apple anecdote we don't mention (reprinted by Wired, covered by TechCrunch) DFlhb (talk) 10:28, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. ---Another Believer (Talk) 13:58, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep CDBaby is a music distributor and has been mentioned in many notable websites such as billboard and many others.
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