@@Rain-ec4jj I have made lots of sales on Bandcamp, as well as my own website. I love Bandcamp however as it negates the need for a separate website for musicians, which can be costly 👍🏻
thanks so much for the encouragement, I set myself the goal of getting something up by the next bandcamp friday (even better money on first friday of the month) and i only have one more week but lets DO IT!!
Woohoooo!!!!! Let’s do this indeed!! If you get stuck with anything at all - come back to me. If you make sales on the Bandcamp Friday, I WANNA KNOW!! Promise? 🤩🤘🏻
Yo this is a really helpful video. thanks for taking the time. Im thinking about jumping on bandcamp this week to release my first project. Ill email it to Lynz for free. She deserves it for all she has given to the community. keep smashin.
Great video by a great teacher. Informative, concise, to the point with incredibly good follow-up on comments. I have 19 albums of my own music listed with another company and I am seriously considering moving everything over to Bandcamp. At age 78, it’s a little late to be an overnight teen sensation 😅 but I still enjoy making music…but right now, if I post a video to RUclips and use one of my own songs as the soundtrack, I get a copyright strike. I really enjoyed your video, and immediately subscribed to your channel. Everyone should.
Awwww bless you Stephen I appreciate that so much ❤ Well I love Bandcamp for independent musicians because it means you can actually make some money on your musical hard work, you can bring fans over and they can support you 👌🏻 As for your copyright strikes on YT, have you contacted your distributor about this? Often when you upload the music via your distributor, there’s a checkbox where you can include YT so you don’t get copyright strikes but you collect the royalties (or maybe that’s what’s happening?) check in with your distributor and see if you can find out?
Excellent video! Eloquent, clear, enthusiastic, genuine and inspirational. Can't wait to give Bandcamp a try after watching this, and to listen to some of your music (and videos)! Having watched hundreds of music related explanatory / tutorial videos, this is a real port in a storm. Thanks Lynz
Hellooo and welcome to the channel!! It’s a pleasure to have you in the community and I’m so pleased you got value out of this video! If you’re looking for help on another topic do let me know as I love to make videos that will be useful for musicians 🙌🏻🫶🎶
You are Awesome 👏 Thank you for such Great information. I’m currently working on completing All of My Music 🎼 and when its complete I will for sure be back to learn more You are a Gift 🎁 from Heaven
Awwww thanks so much Mr Kickaset 🤩🙌🏻 I really appreciate your comment and SO pleased you’re finding the videos useful! Lemme know how you get on and once your Bandcamp store is up & running I wanna know so I can come and listen to your music! 🎶🎉
Amazing Lyns, i have made a profile but after trying so many different htings and setting up so many things still without a single purchase I was a bit exhausted. This has inspired me to go back to this site and give it a good solid crack!
Lynz, as usual, is on the money here, really helpful, insightful advice and information imparted generously to the artist community - Thank you for all you do!
unfortunately since this video was made Bandcamp has changed hands twice and laid of over half of it's staff. Not looking good I'm afraid. Such a shame. Fantastic video for what it's worth though.
It might not be going anywhere in real terms but the legitimacy of the independent artist's haven it has been until now is now hanging in the balance in light of the people it's been taken over by. Recent history tells us that when huge companies take over beloved indie sites and fire 50% of the customer services personnel the quality of the user experience tends to be the first thing to plummet. @@LynzCrichton
genuinely not trying to be neggy by the way, just think it's artist's responsibility to make each-other aware of sea-changes in an already very difficult climate and Songtradr is a really really dodgy company I'm afraid. Good luck and god-speed to everyone though!!!!!!!! @@LynzCrichton ❤❤❤❤
I only watched to have a listen to your accent.....! Well, only partly true. This was most enjoyable and utterly helpful. I'll be watching more of your videos for sure. Thanks!
@@LynzCrichton question....? The video I watched was two years ago. However, I was wondering if your offer to help starting/starving artists still stands? My cry for help is to getting a pair of objective eyes on my new site, the cover art there, and whatever else can be suggested for improvement. I have been in the busic business for ages. But I am very new to the electronic music making world. Like three months new!!
@@MYZTICTRAVLER hey there👋 Absolutely! I have zoom calls with independent musicians all the time about their music businesses, goals and strategy. I have 1-1 coaching available as well as a music marketing programme, but if you’d like to have an initial call to find out where you’re currently at, and where you want to go, I’d love to chat to you about this, your website and your cover art! Just click this link to find a day and time that suits you www.musicmarketingmethod.com/book-a-call
@@MrSkunky2009 If there’s anything specific I can help you with Rob, just lemme know here in the comments, or head to www.musicmarketingmethod.com and join the community! 🙌🏻🎶
Hi Lynz! Do you know if there is an option to stop bandcamp Emailing your followers when you release albums? For example, if you're just re-uploading an older album with some alterations and don't want to draw attention to it!
Oooh crumbs that’s a great question! I don’t know to be honest, Bandcamp obviously want your fans to know when you do ‘new releases’ to bring the Bandcamp community/ your fans to your work. Can I ask - what’s the reason why you don’t want people to see those new releases? Are the alterations worthy of news? Are you replacing the tracks or is this an entirely ‘new’ release?
Hi Lynz. Thanks again for taking the time to to create these well put together, informative videos. As regards other subjects to cover, I'm curious to know how to make progress as a songwriter. Is there any advice or direction towards which you can point me and my ilk, which might lead to both new and established artists actually hearing our music?
Of course! So can I just clarify - you don’t necessarily want to sell your songwriting services, but rather ways to get your songs cut by other artists? Or both?
Thank you for this really useful video! I have nothing on my Bandcamp artist account yet but I'm mixing an album at the moment. Is there anything I can be doing now, before I'm ready to upload the music?
Sure thing - you can be building your audience on socials to create a community who enjoys your music and wants to listen when it’s ready!? Need help with that?
@@LynzCrichton Ah, yes, of course that makes sense. I was thinking more about setting up artwork etc. really. I have an album cover sorted, and even separate track artwork too, and wondered whether I could be doing things like designing my page. Social Media is a tough one for me, as I generally don't like using it now and I've already quit Facebook and Twitter and am solely on Mastodon and RUclips at the moment. I know that will reduce my reach, and I'm trying to think of ways to make it work for me without being too involved. It's tricky...
@@macronencer Do feel free to join our Music Marketing Method community where I share tips of how to overcome the to-do list for musicians! I also have a Masterclass here you can watch for free to join us! www.musicmarketingmethod.com/monetise-your-music Would love to have you with us! x
That sounds very interesting, thx for this video. May I ask you Lynz: what if I have already made the upload for my new song ( imusician) which will be released in dez 29th 23. does bandcamp do the job like a distributor ? Spotify and co?
Hi Ines 👋👋 Love your questions! Ok so when you upload your music via iMusician, they distribute your music to streaming platforms (like Spotify, Apple, Deezer etc). This way people can listen to your music for free, and you get paid a royalty (albeit a very tiny one!) each time someone listens. Bandcamp is completely separate to this, as it acts almost like an online record store (like the real ones we used to find on the high street) where people can stream your music a couple of times, but if they like it, they have to buy it. Equally, your most ardent superfans often want to buy it to support you anyway. If you want your music on Bandcamp, you need to upload it there separately…. But it can be worth it, because one sale of an EP/Album on Bandcamp is worth thousands of streams! X
Hey @sheltersonic5499 thanks so much for your comment, I’m super pleased you enjoyed the video! Ok, so in terms of pricing your tracks/Albums etc, you can simply choose whatever price you want, BUT there’s two things to consider: 1) What prices are there for similar artists in your niche? 2) Do you have a fanbase built up somewhere already you can push to Bandcamp, and what would they be prepared to pay? (Ask them!)
Hey Jonny 👋 Yes it’s definitely possible! Not sure if you’re looking to sell sample packs - there’s no official setup for selling sample packs (or sound effect packs), but many artists simply upload all the tracks into an album, as they would any other release, then disable streaming using the Bandcamp Pro Optional Streaming feature.
Cheers Lynz, that was a rapid response 🙏🏽. Reason I asked is because I want to make short tracks, like advert, jingle type stuff because I dont have the time to produce 3/4 minute jobbies constantly, I'd also like to offer stems/samples. So need the paid version yeh? Thanks again.
Hi, thanks very much for the vid! 😊 it’s now two years later and I’m curious what you think after BC has been sold twice and the new owner has sacked 50% of its editorial staff. Do you think BC is still a good platform in 2024? Ta.
Hey @bradferguson9840 👋 Yes! I do still think Bandcamp is a FAB platform for indie artists because we get PAID! You can still grow your following on socials, and here on BC and have subscriptions enabled as well as create a sense of community here. There’s nothing not to like 👍🏻
@@LynzCrichton thanks Lynz🙏🏽❤️I used to use band camp to sell codes hand to hand, used to make £100 per day doing so, we should do a zoom style podcast for RUclips where we share our experiences & new ways to monetise off of your art
Hey Rodney 👋 You absolutely can use Bandcamp for your Christian music! If you go take a look, type in Christian music on Bandcamp you’ll see lots of music pop up. You can use songs just recorded on your phone, but if you want to be releasing music seriously I’d recommend getting your songs recorded to a professional standard. That being said, if your songs are making an impact on peoples lives in their current format - that’s the main thing!
@@LynzCrichton thank U so much for taking time to respond, please define some examples of “professional standard”, I have a Tascam 4 track and an 8 track Boss Recorder, and a Teac CD 💿 Recorder, but actually some of my songs recorded on my phone thru Voice Recorder are amazingly good quality considering.. Anyway, what are your suggestions?
@@rodneypayne5124 the main thing Rodney - do the people you’re trying to reach, like and enjoy the music? If so, you’re good! It’s more about the impact your music makes, and whether that’s on your phone or 8 track or 4 track is of less importance. X
Hey Michael - lovely to connect with you and thanks so much for watching the video! So pleased you enjoyed! I do indeed have some 1-1 coaching slots to help independent musicians and can absolutely help you with your Bandcamp store - if you’d like to book a zoom call, just click here to find out more….www.musicmarketingmethod.com/coaching
Thanks so much for watching this video - lemme know whether YOU use Bandcamp and WHAT your favourite new feature is!?
Are you making many sales on Bandcamp?
@@Rain-ec4jj I have made lots of sales on Bandcamp, as well as my own website. I love Bandcamp however as it negates the need for a separate website for musicians, which can be costly 👍🏻
I use Bandcamp and haven’t made any sales
I have a website
@@Michaelalanrockguitarist where are you making sales Michael? If not Bandcamp do you make sales on your website instead?
thanks so much for the encouragement, I set myself the goal of getting something up by the next bandcamp friday (even better money on first friday of the month) and i only have one more week but lets DO IT!!
Woohoooo!!!!! Let’s do this indeed!! If you get stuck with anything at all - come back to me. If you make sales on the Bandcamp Friday, I WANNA KNOW!! Promise? 🤩🤘🏻
I have not even heard your music... but I am a fan ! Lol... you are awesome!
Hee hee! Oh bless you Hannyta! 🎶❤️ I wanna hear yours too! Got a link? X
This is EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you so much!
Oh yayyy! I'm so pleased you found this video useful! What kind of music do you make?
Yo this is a really helpful video. thanks for taking the time. Im thinking about jumping on bandcamp this week to release my first project. Ill email it to Lynz for free. She deserves it for all she has given to the community. keep smashin.
Great video by a great teacher. Informative, concise, to the point with incredibly good follow-up on comments.
I have 19 albums of my own music listed with another company and I am seriously considering moving everything over to Bandcamp. At age 78, it’s a little late to be an overnight teen sensation 😅 but I still enjoy making music…but right now, if I post a video to RUclips and use one of my own songs as the soundtrack, I get a copyright strike.
I really enjoyed your video, and immediately subscribed to your channel. Everyone should.
Awwww bless you Stephen I appreciate that so much ❤ Well
I love Bandcamp for independent musicians because it means you can actually make some money on your musical hard work, you can bring fans over and they can support you 👌🏻 As for your copyright strikes on YT, have you contacted your distributor about this? Often when you upload the music via your distributor, there’s a checkbox where you can include YT so you don’t get copyright strikes but you collect the royalties (or maybe that’s what’s happening?) check in with your distributor and see if you can find out?
Excellent video! Eloquent, clear, enthusiastic, genuine and inspirational. Can't wait to give Bandcamp a try after watching this, and to listen to some of your music (and videos)! Having watched hundreds of music related explanatory / tutorial videos, this is a real port in a storm. Thanks Lynz
Hellooo and welcome to the channel!! It’s a pleasure to have you in the community and I’m so pleased you got value out of this video! If you’re looking for help on another topic do let me know as I love to make videos that will be useful for musicians 🙌🏻🫶🎶
I just signed up and have started to upload my music. I chose the "free download" approach. Thank you for this! ❤
Glad you found the video useful! 🙌🏻🤩👌🏻❤️🎶
You are Awesome 👏 Thank you for such Great information. I’m currently working on completing All of My Music 🎼 and when its complete I will for sure be back to learn more You are a Gift 🎁 from Heaven
Awwww thanks so much Mr Kickaset 🤩🙌🏻 I really appreciate your comment and SO pleased you’re finding the videos useful! Lemme know how you get on and once your Bandcamp store is up & running I wanna know so I can come and listen to your music! 🎶🎉
I really appreciate this. I'm excited to start using this!🔥🔥🔥
Awww awesome - so pleased it is helping! Shout if you have any more questions! 🙌🏻🤩🎶
I'm only halfway through and I've already hit the Like button - thank you, this is great advice!
Awwww so pleased you found it useful! By the way LOVING your Linnbient track with your Linnstrument on your RUclips channel! That’s so cool!!! 😎 👌🏻
Great video thank you! I will watching more for certain!
Thanks for your comment @AyoTeet - glad it was useful! ❤️
@@LynzCrichton oOf course!😎💯
Amazing Lyns, i have made a profile but after trying so many different htings and setting up so many things still without a single purchase I was a bit exhausted. This has inspired me to go back to this site and give it a good solid crack!
Ahhhh awesome stuff!! Go for it @jazsebastian 🙌🏻
Bandcamp is the best way to make money besides live performances in my opinion.
Agreed Steven! Especially when you’ve grown an audience alongside - they’ll happily support you for life! 🙌🏻🎶❤️
Great video. Thanks!
You’re welcome! Glad it was useful! 🙌🏻🎶
Lynz, as usual, is on the money here, really helpful, insightful advice and information imparted generously to the artist community - Thank you for all you do!
Ahhhh thank you so much @Doubrelle, I’m so pleased you found this video useful ❤️❤️
unfortunately since this video was made Bandcamp has changed hands twice and laid of over half of it's staff. Not looking good I'm afraid. Such a shame. Fantastic video for what it's worth though.
@@woodsybransfieldThanks for you comment 👍🏻 I’m not sure Bandcamp is going anywhere yet - they’ve just released Bandcamp Friday dates for 2024!
It might not be going anywhere in real terms but the legitimacy of the independent artist's haven it has been until now is now hanging in the balance in light of the people it's been taken over by. Recent history tells us that when huge companies take over beloved indie sites and fire 50% of the customer services personnel the quality of the user experience tends to be the first thing to plummet. @@LynzCrichton
genuinely not trying to be neggy by the way, just think it's artist's responsibility to make each-other aware of sea-changes in an already very difficult climate and Songtradr is a really really dodgy company I'm afraid. Good luck and god-speed to everyone though!!!!!!!! @@LynzCrichton ❤❤❤❤
Great stuff, keep it up
Thanks Real Music Hype 🙌🏻🎶🤩
I only watched to have a listen to your accent.....! Well, only partly true. This was most enjoyable and utterly helpful. I'll be watching more of your videos for sure. Thanks!
Awww bless you!! ❤️🙏🏻🎶
@@LynzCrichton question....? The video I watched was two years ago. However, I was wondering if your offer to help starting/starving artists still stands? My cry for help is to getting a pair of objective eyes on my new site, the cover art there, and whatever else can be suggested for improvement. I have been in the busic business for ages. But I am very new to the electronic music making world. Like three months new!!
@@MYZTICTRAVLER hey there👋 Absolutely! I have zoom calls with independent musicians all the time about their music businesses, goals and strategy. I have 1-1 coaching available as well as a music marketing programme, but if you’d like to have an initial call to find out where you’re currently at, and where you want to go, I’d love to chat to you about this, your website and your cover art! Just click this link to find a day and time that suits you www.musicmarketingmethod.com/book-a-call
Great Insight Lynz !!!
Glad you enjoyed it Rob! Lemme know how you get on!? 🤩🙌🏻🎶
@@LynzCrichton Absolutely.... My problem like many.... Sometimes we just need to re-evaluate... Thanks to you 🙏❤️👌
@@MrSkunky2009 If there’s anything specific I can help you with Rob, just lemme know here in the comments, or head to www.musicmarketingmethod.com and join the community! 🙌🏻🎶
Thanks for the info.
You’re welcome! 🙌🏻🎶
very useful.. thank you..
You are welcome
This is awesome and very informative ❤️ thank you!!
You are so welcome! If you have any other questions about being an independent musician - just let me know! X
Hi Lynz! Do you know if there is an option to stop bandcamp Emailing your followers when you release albums? For example, if you're just re-uploading an older album with some alterations and don't want to draw attention to it!
Oooh crumbs that’s a great question! I don’t know to be honest, Bandcamp obviously want your fans to know when you do ‘new releases’ to bring the Bandcamp community/ your fans to your work. Can I ask - what’s the reason why you don’t want people to see those new releases? Are the alterations worthy of news? Are you replacing the tracks or is this an entirely ‘new’ release?
Thanks a lot for posting this!!! ❤❤❤❤
You’re so welcome Izabela 🫶🙌🏻🎶
This is helpful thank you.
You’re so welcome! Thanks for watching and if there’s anything else I can help with, let me know! 🙌🏻🎶🤩
Very useful video - thanks you!!!!
You’re welcome! Thanks so much for watching 🎶❤️🫶 Do you have any other questions?
Thank you so much very useful and helpful information for sure. :-)
You’re so welcome! What tips are you going to implement first?
Hi Lynz. Thanks again for taking the time to to create these well put together, informative videos. As regards other subjects to cover, I'm curious to know how to make progress as a songwriter. Is there any advice or direction towards which you can point me and my ilk, which might lead to both new and established artists actually hearing our music?
Of course! So can I just clarify - you don’t necessarily want to sell your songwriting services, but rather ways to get your songs cut by other artists? Or both?
Thank you for this really useful video! I have nothing on my Bandcamp artist account yet but I'm mixing an album at the moment. Is there anything I can be doing now, before I'm ready to upload the music?
Sure thing - you can be building your audience on socials to create a community who enjoys your music and wants to listen when it’s ready!? Need help with that?
@@LynzCrichton Ah, yes, of course that makes sense. I was thinking more about setting up artwork etc. really. I have an album cover sorted, and even separate track artwork too, and wondered whether I could be doing things like designing my page. Social Media is a tough one for me, as I generally don't like using it now and I've already quit Facebook and Twitter and am solely on Mastodon and RUclips at the moment. I know that will reduce my reach, and I'm trying to think of ways to make it work for me without being too involved. It's tricky...
@@macronencer Do feel free to join our Music Marketing Method community where I share tips of how to overcome the to-do list for musicians! I also have a Masterclass here you can watch for free to join us! www.musicmarketingmethod.com/monetise-your-music Would love to have you with us! x
@@LynzCrichton Thank you, I will take a look at that!
That sounds very interesting, thx for this video. May I ask you Lynz: what if I have already made the upload for my new song ( imusician) which will be released in dez 29th 23. does bandcamp do the job like a distributor ? Spotify and co?
And is it allowed to release on 2 different platforms?
Hi Ines 👋👋 Love your questions! Ok so when you upload your music via iMusician, they distribute your music to streaming platforms (like Spotify, Apple, Deezer etc). This way people can listen to your music for free, and you get paid a royalty (albeit a very tiny one!) each time someone listens. Bandcamp is completely separate to this, as it acts almost like an online record store (like the real ones we used to find on the high street) where people can stream your music a couple of times, but if they like it, they have to buy it. Equally, your most ardent superfans often want to buy it to support you anyway. If you want your music on Bandcamp, you need to upload it there separately…. But it can be worth it, because one sale of an EP/Album on Bandcamp is worth thousands of streams! X
And yes, you can release your music in both places (upload it to streaming services via iMusician, and via Bandcamp) x
@@LynzCrichton hi Lynz, did'nt expect you to answer so fast... thank you... I will try bandcamp 👍 have a very fine holiday ✨🎶
Hi,Thank you for the great video!What price you recommending for 1 track/1 album/full discography?
Hey @sheltersonic5499 thanks so much for your comment, I’m super pleased you enjoyed the video! Ok, so in terms of pricing your tracks/Albums etc, you can simply choose whatever price you want, BUT there’s two things to consider: 1) What prices are there for similar artists in your niche? 2) Do you have a fanbase built up somewhere already you can push to Bandcamp, and what would they be prepared to pay? (Ask them!)
Thank you😊
Great video, can you use the platform to sell samples? Thanks
Hey Jonny 👋 Yes it’s definitely possible! Not sure if you’re looking to sell sample packs - there’s no official setup for selling sample packs (or sound effect packs), but many artists simply upload all the tracks into an album, as they would any other release, then disable streaming using the Bandcamp Pro Optional Streaming feature.
Cheers Lynz, that was a rapid response 🙏🏽. Reason I asked is because I want to make short tracks, like advert, jingle type stuff because I dont have the time to produce 3/4 minute jobbies constantly, I'd also like to offer stems/samples. So need the paid version yeh? Thanks again.
@@JonnyRootsDem if they’re just individual tracks, you don’t need the paid version, just upload them as tracks, or pop them in albums together 🙌🏻🎶💪🏻
@@LynzCrichton Thank you so much Lynz 🙏🏽
Hi, thanks very much for the vid! 😊 it’s now two years later and I’m curious what you think after BC has been sold twice and the new owner has sacked 50% of its editorial staff. Do you think BC is still a good platform in 2024? Ta.
Hey @bradferguson9840 👋 Yes! I do still think Bandcamp is a FAB platform for indie artists because we get PAID! You can still grow your following on socials, and here on BC and have subscriptions enabled as well as create a sense of community here. There’s nothing not to like 👍🏻
@@LynzCrichton Okay, thanks for the recommendation - I’ll take the plunge 😊
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Go earn some money with your music Acesiz 🙌🏻🎶🎉
@@LynzCrichton thanks Lynz🙏🏽❤️I used to use band camp to sell codes hand to hand, used to make £100 per day doing so, we should do a zoom style podcast for RUclips where we share our experiences & new ways to monetise off of your art
Can I use Bandcamp with my Christian music? God has given me dozens of songs that I recorded on my iPhone with Voice Recorder, must I have a computer?
Hey Rodney 👋 You absolutely can use Bandcamp for your Christian music! If you go take a look, type in Christian music on Bandcamp you’ll see lots of music pop up. You can use songs just recorded on your phone, but if you want to be releasing music seriously I’d recommend getting your songs recorded to a professional standard. That being said, if your songs are making an impact on peoples lives in their current format - that’s the main thing!
@@LynzCrichton thank U so much for taking time to respond, please define some examples of “professional standard”, I have a Tascam 4 track and an 8 track Boss Recorder, and a Teac CD 💿 Recorder, but actually some of my songs recorded on my phone thru Voice Recorder are amazingly good quality considering.. Anyway, what are your suggestions?
@@rodneypayne5124 the main thing Rodney - do the people you’re trying to reach, like and enjoy the music? If so, you’re good! It’s more about the impact your music makes, and whether that’s on your phone or 8 track or 4 track is of less importance. X
Fantastic video do you offer a private health check service to assist me in my BC
Hey Michael - lovely to connect with you and thanks so much for watching the video! So pleased you enjoyed! I do indeed have some 1-1 coaching slots to help independent musicians and can absolutely help you with your Bandcamp store - if you’d like to book a zoom call, just click here to find out more….www.musicmarketingmethod.com/coaching
I come from Vietnam. I would like to ask you some questions.
Great! Feel free to book a call to chat to me right here - www.musicmarketingmethod.com/book-a-call
@@LynzCrichton
can i press message with you. I do not speak english
@@hieulevan1010 of course!
i need a 30-minute meeting.
Awesome - just head to www.musicmarketingmethod.com/book-a-call to book your preferred day & time 🙌🏻🥳🎶 And I’ll see you there x
stop yelling!
But I’m so excited Bob 😂🙌🏻
Great video Thanks!
Thanks for your comment Robin and I'm pleased you found it useful! Anything else you need help with right now?