Filing taxes for your sales on CD Baby

PLEASE NOTE: We are NOT tax professionals. If you have any questions please contact someone who is!

For digital and physical sales (whether on our now-retired retail store or with one of our partners) we currently do not send you any kind of tax information. Like any other earned income, you will need to report it to any tax authority to which you are subject.

That said, here's how you can download your sales history for various types of sales. Click on each link to take you to that section or scroll through. 

CD Baby Retail Store Earnings (Physical and Digital) 

Digital Distribution Revenue

Royalty Revenue

Licensing Royalties

Downloadable Spreadsheet

CD Baby Retail Store Earnings

As of April 1, 2020, our retail store has been retired, and no further earnings will occur after that date. The following are instructions for how to review those past earnings. 

Physical Sales earnings for a year:

1. From your account Dashboard click on "Sales and Reports" 
2. Click on Sales and Accounting 
3. From the left-hand side menu, click CD Baby Sales (CDs)
4. Click on Filter Your Sales
5. Check the "View Data From" box
6. Enter a start date of Jan 01, (YEAR)- end date Dec 31, (YEAR)*
7. Click GO and you'll see your total CD & Digital sales from your CD Baby retail page 

Digital Partner earnings for the year:

1. From your account Dashboard click on "Sales and Reports" 
2. Click on Sales and Accounting 
3. From the left-hand side menu, click CD Baby Sales (Digital)
4. Click on Filter Your Sales
5. Check the "View Data From" box
6. Enter a start date of Jan 01, (YEAR)- end date Dec 31, (YEAR)*
7. Click GO and you'll see your total CD & Digital sales from your CD Baby retail page 

DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION REVENUE

This option will show you the total revenue for your digital distribution sales. 

1. From your account Dashboard click on "Sales and Reports" 
2. Click on Sales and Accounting 
3. From the left-hand side menu, click on DD Sales by Partner 
4. Click on Filter Your Sales
5. Check the "View Data From" box
6. Enter a start date of Jan 01, (YEAR)- end date Dec 31, (YEAR)
7. Click GO and you'll see your total digital partner sales for that date range

ROYALTY REVENUE

Our CD Baby Pro clients will get a 1099 from us if they are paid more than $10 in royalties for the year. The 1099 reported income is based on earnings paid during the year, not earned for the year. 

So, just because you earn more than $10 in publishing royalties for the year does not mean you will receive a 1099.  

You can get a breakdown of the Pro Royalty reports which are posted to your account quarterly.

Pro royalty report:

1. Log into your account
2. Click Sales and Reports
3. Click on Sales and Accounting 
4. Below the DOWNLOADS header on the left click on "Pro Publishing Royalty Reports"
5. Choose which quarter you need results for from the drop-down menu
6. Click on DOWNLOAD
7. This will generate a .txt file you can save to your computer and open in any spreadsheet program 

LICENSING ROYALTIES

In this section, you will find income from any sync licensing opportunities or content ID matches from the social video monetization program. 

1. From your account Dashboard click on "Sales and Reports" 
2. Click on Sales and Accounting 
3. From the left-hand side menu, click on Licensing Royalties (by Partner or by Artist)
4. Click on Filter Your Sales
5. Check the "View Data From" box
6. Enter a start date of Jan 01, (YEAR)- end date Dec 31, (YEAR)
7. Click GO and you'll see your total digital partner sales for that date range

DOWNLOADABLE SPREADSHEETS

You can receive a downloadable spreadsheet for any of the reports (and then some) listed above. To do so, follow the instructions below. 

1. From your account Dashboard click on "Sales and Reports" 
2. Click on Sales and Accounting 
3. Scroll down to the DOWNLOADS header on the left menu
4. Click on Yearly Sales Reports (for the year, but you can choose a different option.)
5. Here you can get a summary of either: Digital Distribution Sales, CD Baby Sales, Licensing and Royalties or All Account Transactions
6. Choose the year of the report from the drop-down
7. Click on Download to the right of the report
8. The system will then compile the data into a .txt file, and email you when it's ready to be downloaded from inside your account.
9. You can then copy and paste the data from the .txt file into any spreadsheet program and sort it however you like. (Excel will auto-format the information into the columns)