Founder Ethan Diamond explains how he did it, Last modified on Wed 1 Jul 2020 17.16 BST. Streaming services – including YouTube, Apple Music, Deezer and Tidal – signalled that the era of ownership was over. Along with sales from his own label, he ended up giving £2,000. As well as downloads, about half of Bandcamp’s sales are for physical items – vinyl, CDs, cassettes, T-shirts, posters, USB sticks, even MiniDiscs. “The growth of the company has been almost comically steady. Independent record shops may be monitoring the situation with caution, but if … This is in stark contrast to streaming, an experience that is led by the listener’s needs, in theory – unlimited music at rock-bottom prices – but actually turns the listeners themselves into the product, by harvesting their data and selling it to advertisers. The early years of the site were defined by outsiderdom – video game soundtracks, internet-born genres such as vaporwave and seapunk, music for the “furries” subculture of people who dress as animals – and you can still find pretty much anything, from pirate metal to eco-grime. “With Spotify, it wouldn’t be possible to do any fundraising because everything is so siloed off. Check out the screencast above for more details, and grab itContinue reading “Introducing the Bandcamp App for Artists and Labels”, We are very happy to share that Chad Dickerson has joined Bandcamp as an advisor! Meanwhile, Bandcamp has become the rarest of Silicon Valley stories: a slow-burn success. The Bandcamp App for Artists and Labels is here! Bandcamp announced three more fee-waiver days. We’ve been inspired and overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the artists, fans and labels in the Bandcamp community, who rapidly and enthusiastically backed this important cause. Ethan Diamond, Bandcamp. Sales of vinyl records on Bandcamp have grown 600% in the last five years, and every month another 3,500 unique vinyl albums are added to the site. 2017 was another stellar year for Bandcamp, with double digit growth in every aspect of the business. “When you have not surrendered your agency, it makes perfectly natural sense to think, ‘What can I do with that agency to take some action?’”, Support for the fundraisers is widespread, but, with around half of Bandcamp’s sales coming from outside the US, the focus on American causes hasn’t gone unnoticed. Imagine you’re a label releasing an album, and you’ve partnered with another label to distribute it to fans in Iceland. Spotify has rarely turned a net profit, but it has 130 million paid subscribers and managed to scrape together $100m for a recent deal to host podcaster Joe Rogan exclusively. Posted by Ethan Diamond January 30, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments on Bandcamp App, Now with Music Feed! Bandcamp grew by 35% last year. The format’s resurgence—once dismissed as a niche byproduct of hipster affectation—is now firmly established, and seen for what it truly represents: a mainstream desire to connect more deeplyContinue reading “Create Vinyl with Bandcamp”, We’re excited to introduce a new feature for label and Pro accounts: the ability to license albums to labels in specific territories. “As a non-American,” he says in an email, “I object to the idea that my music is used by Bandcamp to push what are essentially American political messages, regardless of whether I agree with the spirit of the message. New in Bandcamp Pro: Sales Map If you’re a Bandcamp Pro subscriber, you can now view all your buyers on a map for at-a-glance insight … June 19, 2020 Today, Stand with Bandcamp to Support Racial Justice, Equality, and Change. It gives you a real-time mobile view into your stats, helps you manage and fulfill your merch, and lets you directly message your fans, even targeting those messages by fan location and level of support. Escaping the toxic building, Ethan chose 12 of his rock opera demos to turn into something new on a recording rig in his new mini-kitchen. Here’s how territory licensing on Bandcamp works. Bandcamp favourites … Ana Roxanne, Björk and Dam Funk. He’s a genuine music lover, too – a former saxophone player who likes to browse the racks at Groove Merchant in San Francisco. What began as a liberating force is starting to fester into a rigid dead end, stifling the creative freedom of artists by indirectly and facelessly demanding they comply with the cultural standards they dictate to us.”. “They’re never going to pick out the thing that’s different,” says Krakowski. Follow. Furthermore, hisContinue reading “Chad Dickerson Joins Bandcamp’s Advisory Board”, Merch on Bandcamp had a good 2016. More than once, Diamond makes the case that music “is essential for humanity. But the algorithm is never going to do that.”. While many brands and corporations have offered inert symbols of “solidarity” with campaigners for social and racial justice – Spotify added 8 minutes 46 seconds of silence to select playlists, the length of time it took George Floyd to die under a police officer’s knee – Bandcamp’s fundraisers can’t be misconstrued as politically neutral.