We considered building the business around advertising, but…well, OK, we never really considered that. Bandcamp only makes money when you make money. In other words, if you’re a label and have five artists all using the same PayPal account, your rate will be calculated by looking at the combined sales of all five of those artists. Your rate will be based on sales to your PayPal email address, not your Bandcamp account. Note that we’ve just launched all-time stats, so you can easily see where you stand. This means many of you will start at the 10% rate from day one. That is, we’ll look at your all-time sales and base your rate on that total. The revenue share rate for existing accounts will be based on all your sales to date. We’ve based the percentages on what works for the business and what many of you have already told us feels fair, but there’s still plenty of time for more feedback, so bring it (preferably in the comments below). Until then, Bandcamp’s share remains zero. The revenue share won’t go into effect until early August.

Here’s how it will work:īandcamp’s share will be 15% of each transaction, dropping to 10% as soon as your all-time sales exceed $5,000 USD. So, as long promised over in our FAQ, we’ll soon begin doing a revenue share on Bandcamp sales.

Perhaps most importantly though, we want to do so in a way that’s sustainable long-term, and ensures that we’re here supporting musicians far into the future. It’s been awesome to witness, and we’re amped to carry right on, full steam ahead, building out new features, honing existing ones, strengthening our infrastructure, and generally making things better and better. 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. In the past six months, you guys have used Bandcamp to sell over $1 million USD in music and merch directly to your fans.

Bandcamp revenue