The Pandemic Is Still With Us So Bandcamp Day Is Too

When COVID-19 took a wrecking ball to live music in March, digital retailer Bandcamp did a kindness for the independent artists and labels whose work it sells: for a 24-hour period, the site passed along its usual cut of revenue, which is generally 10 to 15 percent. On the first “Bandcamp day” the platform racked up $4.3 million in sales, which convinced it to make the initiative a regular thing—it’ll continue to waive its cut on the first Friday of every month till at least the end of the year.

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