In another sign that MySpace could become the next major marketplace for digital music, CD Baby announced a deal with SnoCap today that will grant CD Baby's 175,716 indie artists the "one-click" ability to publish their songs into a SnoCap MyStore widget. These can be embedded on MySpace, blogs, or anywhere else the band or their label wants to post the code. Apparently, the deal is the same as the one SnoCap offers other artists (wherein SnoCap and MySpace take 39 cents, the artist gets difference between that and whatever they set as the price per song).
Indie artists and labels who deal with their own CD pressing and distribution have long sold their wares through CD Baby, which charges artists $4 per disc, similarly letting artists choose the price and pocket the remainder with no annual sales minimum to reach. CD Baby started distributing this music digitally to iTunes, Yahoo, and other music services a few years ago; today's announcement signals another shift, this time towards decentralized music sales.
