How a retail CD works out for the artist actually varies pretty widely, according to that chart. An album sold on CDBaby will net the artist a bit over 7.5x as much as an iTunes album download. A more traditionally-distributed CD nets anywhere between a few cents more on the high end to under a third as much on the low end.
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Well, it was linked to from the article. Here's the specific url: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
How a retail CD works out for the artist actually varies pretty widely, according to that chart. An album sold on CDBaby will net the artist a bit over 7.5x as much as an iTunes album download. A more traditionally-distributed CD nets anywhere between a few cents more on the high end to under a third as much on the low end.