Housed in a jacket w/ full-color center labels and insert. This week, Bandcamp has confirmed that the Bandcamp Friday promotion will resume for the rest of 2021. Limited first pressing on 12' 180g Black vinyl. If you’ve started to feel guilty about buying music on any other day of the month, here’s something to keep in. The promotion stuck to its every-first-Friday cadence for nearly a year before skipping some months in seemingly unpredictable fashion. The next Bandcamp Friday is March 3rd, and Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2023 on April 7th, May 5th, August 4th, September 1st, October 6th, November 3rd, and December 1st. Buy any digital-only content via Bandcamp on the first Friday of a month when the promotion is active, and the service waives its normal cut of artist revenue (which is 15 percent by default and 10 percent once a user exceeds $5,000 USD in revenue over the past 12 months). You down with OGG?īandcamp Fridays launched in early 2020 as a way to drive more money into bands' and artists' pockets, especially after so many COVID-19 tour cancellations. And it's a good excuse to point to Bandcamp as a feature-rich, mobile-friendly option for buying music online. If you're willing to open your wallet a little wider for downloaded music, today's return of the Bandcamp Fridays promotion is a massive counterbalance to underpaying subscription services. Either way, that math checks out your $10 or $15 per month can only be divided so far between hundreds of song streams. Further Reading It only took 17 years: Metallica’s full catalog is now on NapsterAs far as musicians are concerned, Apple Music is still one of the better payout services, with the company officially estimating as much as one penny paid per streamed song, while Spotify maxes out at less than half a penny per stream-and those payouts can drop based on whatever wacky spreadsheet-calculus each service runs in the background.
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