

That’s more than 15 times our normal Friday, and at the peak, fans were buying 11 items per second." They write, "The numbers tell a remarkable story: on a typical Friday, fans buy about 47,000 items on Bandcamp, but this past Friday, fans bought nearly 800,000, or $4.3 million worth of music and merch.

Yesterday (23 March), Bandcamp shared an update and revealed how much money was spent across the site last Friday. To support artists amid the current coronavirus pandemic, Bandcamp gave up its revenue shares for 24 hours last Friday, meaning artists received full payments for merch and music sold via Bandcamp.īandcamp launched the day-long initiative in the hope of providing musicians with some extra money following tour and festival cancellations.
