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# Kickstarter Passes 100,000 Funded Projects, 22% Of Them Were Music
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/kickstarter-passes-100000-funded-projects-22-of-the-were-music-related/
- Published: 2016-02-11T10:25:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-11T10:25:00.000Z
- Description: Despite the growth of music-centered fan funding platforms like PledgeMusic, Kickstarter is still very popular with many musicians. The company announced this week that it has past 100,000 successfully funded. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/02/kickstarter-passes-100000-funded
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Business, Music Tech, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:22

[![image from commandpartners.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8142ca7970b-150wi "image from commandpartners.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8142ca7970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Despite the growth of music-centered fan funding platforms like **PledgeMusic, Kickstarter** is still very popular with many musicians. The company announced this week that it has past **100,000 successfully funded projects** and released stats that show how musicians are using Kickstarter.

**Music On Kickstarter By The Numbers**

- [![amanda](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8142cef970b-200wi "amanda")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8142cef970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)  
Amanda Palmer  
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

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