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# Bandcamp Sales Up 122% As CEO Offers Rare Look Inside The ‘Anti-Spotify’
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/bandcamp-sales-up-122-as-ceo-offers-rare-look-inside-the-anti-spotify/
- Published: 2020-09-23T15:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-23T13:42:36.000Z
- Description: 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. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/09/bandcamp-sales-up-122-as-ceo-offers-rare-look-inside-the-anti-spotify.html
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Business, Music Tech, independent music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:51

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](http://$75m of music and merch had been sold on Bandcamp Fridays, but that has since grown to nearly $100m according to the LA Times – with the platform as a whole having generated $584m for artists and labels since 2008.), [LA Times](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-09-22/bandcamp-anti-spotify-streaming?ref=hypebot.com)