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Bandcamp
Online record store and music community connecting listeners with artists and labels through digital and physical purchases. Alongside genre browsing and Bandcamp Daily editorial discovery, its playlist feature links sharing to music fans already own rather than an unrestricted streaming subscription.
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Bandcamp describes itself as an online record store and music community built around direct support for artists. Its model connects releases, purchases and fan activity rather than treating music only as a subscription-streaming catalogue. Digital albums and tracks sit alongside physical formats such as vinyl, CDs and cassettes, with merchandise also represented in the store. [1] [3]
The company says an average of 82 percent of purchase money goes to the artist or label, with the remainder covering Bandcamp’s revenue share and payment-processing fees. This is an attributed platform-wide average, not a guarantee for every transaction. Discovery combines genre and location browsing with Bandcamp Daily articles, including release roundups and artist features visible on the homepage. [1] [3]
Bandcamp Playlists add a collection-based route into discovery. Fans create and edit playlists in the mobile app using tracks they own, then share public links for listening on the web or in the app. Other listeners can sample unowned tracks up to an artist-set limit before being directed to purchase. The playlist page labels the feature beta and distinguishes available mobile editing from planned web editing, so it should not be mistaken for unrestricted on-demand access. [2]
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