Kickstarter Passes 100,000 Funded Projects, 22% Of Them Were Music
Number of successfully funded Music projects — the category with the largest share of projects: 22,133
- Number of albums, compositions, or performances that have been nominated for a Grammy — from Rhythm & Blues to Latin Jazz: 15 (Four of which are in contention this year)
- Number of creators who have won a Grammy for their Kickstarter project so far:
- Highest rank of a Kickstarter-funded album on the Billboard 200: 7
- Approximate size of a fragment of DNA stretched out to its full length, in the art-science performance collaboration “Music of the Spheres,” which produced the first piece of music recorded onto DNA molecules: 6.22 x 10^-8 meters
- Height of “Got the Power: Minnesota,” a site-specific musical sculpture and soundscape by Bayeté Ross Smith composed of 80 vintage boomboxes: 15 feet
- Number of people who backed Kaki King’s mesmerizing music and light experience, “The Neck is the Bridge to the Body”: 910
- Number of World Music projects funded — from a compilation of tracks inspired by endangered South American bird songs, to a compilation of music collected from cellphone memory cards in the Saharan desert: 761