{"id":1959785,"date":"2025-08-14T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1959785"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:08:23","slug":"latest-bandcamp-friday-led-to-3-5m-of-music-and-merch-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/latest-bandcamp-friday-led-to-3-5m-of-music-and-merch-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Bandcamp Friday led to $3.5m of music and merch sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-247626\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Invented during the lockdowns era of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bandcamp Friday has proved to be a lasting promotion \u2013\u00a0continuing after its parent platform was\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2023\/09\/28\/bandcamp-gets-a-new-owner-as-epic-games-sells-it-to-songtradr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acquired by Songtradr in 2023<\/a>. The latest event was held on 1 August, with Bandcamp waiving its rev-share of sales for the day in familiar fashion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company says that over the 24 hours, artists and labels sold more than $3.5m of music and merch. That\u2019s encouraging, because it\u2019s higher than the $3.2m of sales in the previous Bandcamp Friday event on 2 May.  Bandcamp also noted in its announcement that the total sales generated so far from Bandcamp Fridays is more than $140m \u2013\u00a0not far off 10% of the platform\u2019s $1.5bn of sales to date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next event will be held on 1 September, with Bandcamp also pre-announcing a new feature called Bandcamp Clubs \u2013\u00a0\u201ca new way for fans to discover music, connect more deeply with artists and each other, and explore monthly selections curated by trusted tastemakers\u201d. More details are promised on that \u201csoon\u201d.<\/p>\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section>\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invented during the lockdowns era of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bandcamp Friday has proved to be a lasting promotion \u2013\u00a0continuing after its parent platform was\u00a0acquired by Songtradr in 2023. The latest event was held on 1 August, with Bandcamp waiving its rev-share of sales for the day in familiar fashion. 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