If you signed up for CD Baby’s legacy Pro Publishing service (before it retired in August 2023), you can view your royalty reports in your account. Below is how to access them — and important things to know about timing and payouts.

How to find your Pro Publishing royalty report

• Log into your CD Baby account.
• Go to Sales and Reports.
• Click on Sales and Accounting.
• On the left menu, under the DOWNLOADS header, click Pro Publishing Royalty Reports.
• Choose the quarter you need from the dropdown menu.
• Click Download — this generates a TXT file.
• Open the .TXT file in any spreadsheet program (for example, Excel). To get clean data rows, copy and paste the file contents into a blank spreadsheet.
• Once opened, the report will show earnings broken down by song and by songwriter. You can sort by song or songwriter to see totals for yourself and any co-writers more easily.

What to expect — payout timing

• Royalties from publishing collection societies are paid out to songwriters or publishers about two quarters (six months) after the royalty is generated.
• After that, publisher and mechanical royalties collected by CD Baby are paid another two quarters behind, meaning payments typically show up 9–12 months after the original royalty generation.
• Because of these delays, you may not see a payment in your account until several quarters have passed.