For anyone who still thinks of CD Baby as predominantly a distributor for recordings, the company has a new milestone reminder that it works in publishing too. The Downtown-owned company says its CD Baby Pro Publishing administration service now serves more than 2m songs, and that its payments grew by 60% in the final quarter of 2021.

The service has been working with sister company Songtrust to collect royalties globally for a community of “hundreds of thousands” of songwriters and composers.