Bandcamp Music Platform

Bandcamp is a music platform where artists sell directly to fans. Letting musicians set their own prices, including a "pay what you want" option, creates a relationship between listener and creator that streaming royalties at fractions of a cent per play can't replicate. Album pages are simple, cover art at the top with a play button, track list below. A buy button gives you high-quality digital files in every format from MP3 to FLAC, and that simplicity is the point because the platform stays out of the way and lets the music sell itself. I want to buy music on Bandcamp because the transaction feels direct, the money goes to the artist minus a 15% platform cut. Transparency about the revenue split is something Spotify and Apple Music obscure behind complex per-stream calculations that nobody outside the industry can decipher. Bandcamp Friday events, where the platform waives its revenue share entirely and sends 100% to artists. Generate millions in sales and have become a monthly ritual where fans stock up on records they have been wanting. Editorial section features staff picks, genre deep dives. Interviews with independent musicians make it a discovery resource too.