Need a UPC Barcode?
We can make you your own permanent UPC barcode for only $20.
You may have heard that UPC barcodes cost $750.
You could go register as a company with the GS1 US organization, and pay them $750 to be a GS1 US member. They would assign you a UPC prefix, and you could release thousands of products under that company registration.
But most of us independent artists are only going to release a few records - and paying $750 wipes out all the profit you'd make from your first 100 album sales.
So - CD Baby has paid the $750, and can give you your own unique UPC Barcode for only $20. It will be entirely yours, forever. When your barcode on your CD is scanned by a retail store, it will show up on the register as YOUR album, YOUR band, YOUR record company. Not CD Baby.
If you want to do this, you need to be a CD Baby member. I know it's a chicken and the egg thing. (“How can we be a CD Baby member if we need a UPC code for a CD that won't be out for 2 months?”)
But if you sign up now, give us the information about your CD, pay the $20, then we can make your UPC barcode now, and you'll be ready-to-go on CD Baby when your CDs get back from the factory. If you're already a CD Baby member, click here to pay for it, and we'll do the rest.
It takes just a few hours for us to make your barcode, so watch your email after you pay. We give you a BITMAP graphic file, which you can either place into your album art, or print onto stickers. We don't do the printing for you. We just give you the unique UPC barcode graphic and digits.
If all is understood, please submit your CD to CD Baby first. Then, when done, pay for your $35 setup and $20 barcode.
Note: if you really want to read more than you ever wanted to know about UPC Barcodes at CD Baby, here's an article I wrote about it.