Bandcamp Sales Up 122% As CEO Offers Rare Look Inside The ‘Anti-Spotify’

In that last 30, days sales at indie music hub Bandcamp are up 122% year-over-year, according CEO Ethan Diamond who shared a rare look inside what the LA Times dubbed the “anti-Spotify.”

More New Bandcamp Stats

In the past years fans on Bandcamp bought:

• 5M digital albums
• 2M tracks
• 1M vinyl albums
• 600,000 CDs
• 300,000 cassettes
• 250,00 t-shirts
• more than 40% of buyers paid more than the asking price of items to help support artists

Sales are continuing to rise. In August:

• $75M of music and merch had been sold on Bandcamp Fridays
• that has since grown to nearly $100M
• Bandcamp has generated $584 million for artists and labels since 2008

H/T Music Ally, LA Times