It's NOT #BandcampFriday, because that's now an every-now-and-then proposition at the Camp, but that's okay! You can, and should, still consider spending some money on artists there today! Bandcamp takes a very reasonable 15% fee (and the payment processor takes another few %) which is still one of the best deals musicians have ever got on the sale of their work in the history of music.
It definitely beats the hell out of Spotify who simply steal the majority of earnings from indie artists!
When I do get a payout, I deposit it into a saving account and try to forget said money even exists. Also worth a mention the interest on this saving account is 4%. Right now my account balance is $10.02, again I’ve been depositing payout money since 2010 and with interest I still have less twenty bucks. This year Spotify changed their royalties payouts to only happen if a songs breaks 1000 streams. You can see why #BandcampFriday matters when artist get to get 100% of their profit. 📻🌹💜🎶
To give people an idea of how fucked royalty payouts are and why #fairtrademusicfriday aka #BandcampFriday is important to indie artists, please allow me to share my personal experience. First and foremost I’m not a ghost producer or commercial producer of anything popular, please keep this in mind. Since 2010 I’ve independently released music under various projects/alias/collabs, point and case my name is on something, when it streams or sells I see a royalty payment.…