John Bahr, CD Baby


Jon Bahr serves as the VP of Creator Services at leading independent music distributor and artist services company, CD Baby, a part of AVL Digital, which was acquired by Downtown Music Holdings.

Bahr leads CD Baby’s Artist Relations, Music Service Relations, Publishing Administration, and Music Licensing of 3 million pre-cleared songs. Prior to joining CD Baby in 2016, Bahr worked at ASCAP for over a decade where he was most recently Senior Director of Marketing & Communications overseeing ASCAP’s advertising, sponsorships, member benefit partnerships and marketing campaigns.

He was a creator and executive producer of the successful annual ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO conference. Prior to ASCAP, Bahr worked at music booking agencies, in artist management and tour marketing.