On the off-chance that you’ve been without tubes for the past 96 hours, on Friday Sufjan Stevens released his epic new EP, All Delighted People. It sold more than 10,000 copies in a single weekend, and that was exclusively through Bandcamp (it didn’t arrive in other stores until yesterday). We spoke with John Beeler ofContinue reading ““What is a Sufjan?””
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Bay Area Bandcamp Gathering This Sunday
Please join us for the first ever Bandcamp gathering in our hometown of San Francisco. Hang out, meet Bandcamp staff, get to know other Bay Area Bandcamp artists, share ideas, whatnot. When: This Sunday, August 1st. 5:30pm-7:30pm. Where: Make-out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Password!: Say the magic word “Bandcamp” and you’ll be grantedContinue reading “Bay Area Bandcamp Gathering This Sunday”
Fan Feeding Frenzy: AFP’s New EP FTW
From our view here at Bandcamp HQ, yesterday’s launch of Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele less resembled a record release than a coordinated strike of ravenous piranha. In one three minute period, her fanbase snapped up $15,000 in music and merch. It didn’t let up much from there:Continue reading “Fan Feeding Frenzy: AFP’s New EP FTW”
It’s a Business Model!
In the past six months, you guys have used Bandcamp to sell over $1 million USD in music and merch directly to your fans. The pace of those sales is increasing rapidly, and last week we even saw an artist make it to the Billboard charts on the strength of her Bandcamp sales alone. It’sContinue reading “It’s a Business Model!”
Now Streaming on the iPad, iPhone…
…and any other place that doesn’t have Flash, but does support HTML5: (Streaming has actually long worked on the iPad and iPhone, but clicking play launched QuickTime, which always felt clunky. iOS4 lets us do it right inline, like the good lord intended.) Bandcamp’s embedded players (the ones you generate from the Share menu) remainContinue reading “Now Streaming on the iPad, iPhone…”
All-Time Stats Are Here
Not a whole lot more to say than that, except perhaps that it’s long been our most frequently requested enhancement, and it’s now available in your stats section:
Package Options, Multiple Packages Per Album
You can now present fans with a menu of options, such as t-shirt size or vinyl color, for any given physical package. So, rather than asking a buyer to email you their choice after their purchase, or click “leave note for seller” over on PayPal (both pretty clunky workarounds), the fan’s selection appears in yourContinue reading “Package Options, Multiple Packages Per Album”
Second Release from BCWax is Here!
A few months ago, we launched BCWax, an unlabel dedicated to the production of high-quality physical artifacts of some of the best independent music hosted on Bandcamp. You can read more about our motivations, but primary among them was to promote the creation of the kind of merch we ourselves would like to buy, andContinue reading “Second Release from BCWax is Here!”
Buttons Buttons Buttons
Our aspiration here at Bandcamp has always been to power the site that you consider yours. As such, we limit our branding to the small logo you see in the footer, and happily enable you to banish the “bandcamp” from your URL in favor of your own custom domain. But we do still frequently hearContinue reading “Buttons Buttons Buttons”
Name-Your-Price Physical
You can now let fans name their price for physical packages, but set the minimum to whatever you choose. Just go to your album page, click Edit, and in the package settings choose “let fan name price.” As we’ve mentioned before, name-your-price has proven very successful with digital, so we’re excited to see what happensContinue reading “Name-Your-Price Physical”