Why Bandcamp Is Better Than Streaming 

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you can support the artist by listening wherever they post their music at.

Yes, it's absolutely crazy.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial I took my music off spotify as it was totally pointless.

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Great! Good luck with your music releases! :)

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Yes, it's not likely to change in the near future. There have been some attempts to challenge the streaming platforms to start paying artists more fairly but so far they haven't achieved much.

Thank you for your comment and for sharing your experience. :)

No, you don't need an ISRC code to upload your songs to Bandcamp. On Bandcamp you don't get paid for streaming though. You get paid for downloads and purchases of physical releases and merch. You can set it up so it allows people to listen to your tracks before they download.

Yes, it's quite ridiculous the way in which the streaming industry has been designed unfortunately...

Hi. I'm not quite sure if I've understood your question. Please could you expand on it?

No, they don't. They take a percentage of each sale you make but that's different from claiming a part of your royalties. In fact, you don't really get any royalties per se on Bandcamp. You sell a product, either digital or physical and you get a profit from that. They do Bandcamp Fridays which is when all your profits go to you. So if you are smart about it, you can ask your fans to buy your music only on those dates.

You cannot upload directly to Spotify as a person. You have to go through a music distributor, this is the business model they have in place. Spotify for Artists account allows you to do certain things such as applying to be featured on a Spotify editorial playlist or to update your Spotify page but it doesn't allow you to upload your music. I'm not sure if the big record companies can upload directly. Perhaps they can but I don't think this is the case for small, independent labels.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficialI see. Makes more sense to just start off with bandcamp then for me and promote with youtube and other social media channels.

@@NonsensicalReality Yes, it sounds like a reasonable approach. You could also look at Soundcloud, where you can also upload directly.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial Yeah, I have a soundcloud already so could add a few tracks on there too

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial I have some demos of old bands I was in on there and other jamming tracks with riffs I came up with etc.

😂 maybe they were cring

Thanks for your comment. Please could you expand on that and give some examples?

Tim Poole and Five Times August were both dropped without notification - their content is no longer available and they are pretty upset. They have YT videos out explaining it.

@@MaN-pw1bn Thank you. I will watch the videos.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial Tim Poole is a jerk that’s why.

that tim poole thing looks sussy. there are a lot of other indy artists but they don't talk about it. If bandcamp delete music for political reason. why didn't they remove JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown's album for having Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un for album cover art?

You've got to connect your Bandcamp account to a payment method, for example to your PayPal account. That way you can withdraw money from your sales.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial my payout was in 28 December, but i didn't got it yet It is increasing day by day

@@boss-fd4pt Hi, that was yesterday. I'm not sure why that might be but I would recommend contacting Bandcamp customer support if you don't receive your money soon.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial do you got your payout recently??

@@boss-fd4pt No, not very recently but I've never had any problems to withdraw my money from Bandcamp.

Good thinking. I'm only still doing streaming as you can be sometimes discovered if you get on playlists.

That's a fair point even though some artists do make money from streaming. Of course you need to be at quite a high level.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial Exactly, only top artists. If you're not a top artist these platforms don't even know you're there, you are invisible to them, they don't promote you even if you're a subscriber to their premium service, you have to do all the marketing yourself. Top artists don't even need the money they get from these streaming platforms, for them it's just a welcoming bonus and not a life-saving income because they get a lot more from other sources, live shows, collaborating with other big artists and big companies, they have their own labels selling their stuff, disputing and making sure all their royalties are correct (even though they only get about 15% royalty payments from streaming platforms). Anyone else who is not a top artist and independent gains next to nothing and can't even control if what they are being paid is correctly calculated (you have no idea if the streaming platform is bullshitting your play count) all the while you're actually helping these platforms get more rich by agreeing to spread all advertisement on your tracks.

@@bartekpiwonskiofficial not even at a high level, all they do is cheat and loop their tracks.

Not trying to be a dick but that sounds like some shit a promoter out to screw you out of money would say. If those streaming companies are making money, and they are, they should be paying the people who make them that money and that is the artists.

@ronswallow Yes, I totally agree and it's as you said - the streaming companies are making money but the proportion of that money that they share with the artists is tiny.

Would you like to elaborate?

Well said

Snoop Dog earns 4500 usd per month for millions of streams. What business are you talking about ?