Even buying from Bandcamp in-between Bandcamp Fridays yields more profits to the artist than Spotify. Bandcamp charges artists 10% to 15% to host their music, compared to $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on Spotify.

That's right, you'd have to play the same song 200 times minimum to earn the artist $1, and 30% of that $1 earned goes to Spotify. Worse, Spotify pays the rights holder these royalties, not the artist. So if your band has a contract with a label, the LABEL gets paid, then the artist gets a percentage of that.

This article is from 2020 but illustrates the issue with an example. The spotlighted artist earned $4200 from Bandcamp via 700 customers in two days. The same artist earned $100 from roughly six years of streaming.

Also, while you can stream from Bandcamp, you can keep your music! Download the mp3 and it's yours forever.

Also also, there's no ads!

Also also also, there's no AI!

if you are against censorship, it means you understand that the things you personally hate and find disgusting have the same rights to exist as the things that you love. it means you understood any censorship is a fascist tool meant to control people with lesser power. it means you understand censorship can start at the things that you hate, before it eventually comes for the things that you love, as well as your own rights.

censorship will never stop at one thing. once you allow it to happen, you already give people in power the ability to take away your own rights and freedom.

THEY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the first time in UK Official Charts history, two different members of the same band are simultaneously holding the #1 single and the #1 album as solo artists.