Today Rolling Stone premiered the new Hugs For Chelsea compilation. It features 25 tracks from artists like Against Me!, Anti-Flag, Chris Farren, Downtown Boys, and more. All proceeds will be donated to Chelsea Manning, who was released from prison today.
The compilation album put together by John Nolan, Music for Everyone, has been released on Bandcamp.
John Nolan’s Music for Everyone: A Compilation to Benefit the ACLU is now up for pre-order.
Bandcamp has posted an update on their Friday fundraising for the ACLU:
With several hours remaining, we estimate that fans will have bought just over $1,000,000 worth of music today, which is 550% more than a normal Friday (already our biggest sales day of the week). All of our share of that (~12%) goes directly to the ACLU. The other 88% (less transaction fees) goes directly to the labels and artists, more than 400 of whom have pledged to donate their share of sales today as well.
Candy Hearts have put their entire catalog up on Bandcamp for a pay-what-you-want price and they’ll be sending all the proceeds to the ACLU over the next week.
Bandcamp have announced that for any purchase made on the service this Friday, the service will donate 100% of their share to the ACLU:
It is an unequivocal moral wrong, a cynical attempt to sow division among the American people, and is in direct opposition to the principles of a country where the tenet of religious freedom is written directly into the Constitution. This is not who we are, and it is not what we believe in. We at Bandcamp oppose the ban wholeheartedly, and extend our support to those whose lives have been upended.
And so on Friday, for any purchase you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of the proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union, who are working tirelessly to combat these discriminatory and unconstitutional actions.
Don’t forget you can also donate directly to the ACLU. I’ve got a repeating monthly donation scheduled.
Topshelf Records released their free 2016 Sampler on Bandcamp.
Music Feeds is reporting that Bandcamp sales will now count towards the Australian music charts:
An ARIA spokesperson tells Music Feeds, “We are very excited to be able to include Bandcamp sales into the ARIA Charts. This platform that has become increasingly important for artists, in particular independent artists, to sell their music to their fans so it is integral that the ARIA Charts can reflect these sales.”
Dischord Records has put all of their artists records up on Bandcamp.
Bandcamp founder, Ethan Diamond, has posted an update on the status of the music service:
Bandcamp grew by 35% last year. Fans pay artists $4.3 million dollars every month using the site, and they buy about 25,000 records a day, which works out to about one every 4 seconds (you can see a real-time feed of those purchases on our desktop home page). Nearly 6 million fans have bought music through Bandcamp (half of whom are younger than 30), and hundreds of thousands of artists have sold music on Bandcamp. Digital album sales on Bandcamp grew 14% in 2015 while dropping 3% industry-wide, track sales grew 11% while dropping 13% industry-wide, vinyl was up 40%, cassettes 49%… even CD sales grew 10% (down 11% industry-wide). Most importantly of all, Bandcamp has been profitable (in the now-quaint revenues-exceed-expenses sense) since 2012.
An area I’d like to see Bandcamp expand into: podcasts.
