In a year end post filled with the usual irreverence and a deep-in-its-DNA love of music, Bandcamp Engineer Ben Walker shared impressive and unusual 2017 stats for the popular indie platform.
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- 500 bands set up a Bandcamp page every day
- 36,000 bands and labels used their new app.
- Their servers sent out about 42 billion images
- 17,872 tapes were released on Bandcamp
- Artists sold 22.6 years of cassette-based audio on the platform.
- "That’s 17,076km of beautiful, crunchy tape. You could wrap it around the moon and still have enough left over to spool gently off the back of a raft as you travel the entire length of the Amazon River. "
- Apollo (13)
- Grim (10)
- Bloom (9)
- Indigo (9)
- Nova (9)
- King (8)
- Void (8)
- Milk (7)
- David (6)
- Smith (5)
2107 Album Titles
This list of popular album titles features almost exactly the same titles as last year, but we’ve lost Time and gained Bloom.- Home (130 albums released in 2017)
- Lost (71)
- Memories (71)
- Void (71)
- Waves (71)
- Reflections (70)
- Blue (64)
- Dreams (62)
- Bloom (58)
- Love (54)
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