Artists & Labels
Resources and support for Artists and Labels managing their music, sales, page promotion, and fan community.
273 articles
- What are tags and how do I use them?
- What are tags, and how do I use them?
- I received an invitation to connect to an Artist or Label I don’t know.
- How can I be featured on Bandcamp?
- Can I have multiple artist accounts?
- I’m an artist and just received an invitation to join a label. How does that work?
- I already have a fan account. Can I create an artist account?
- Why can’t I find my page/release in Bandcamp search?
- Why isn’t my release appearing in Discover?
- Why is a buyer missing from the "supported by" section of my release page?
- How do I set up a charity release?
- How do I delete my artist or label account?
- Does Bandcamp have an API?
- How to recognize a suspicious message
- How do I edit or delete a track?
- How do I change the URL of my artist account, a track, or an album?
- How do I change the price of my album?
- How do I use the Bulk Edit feature?
- How do I change the order of an album’s tracks?
- How do I change the featured track on my album?
- How do I move a track or album from one account to another?
- How do I move loose tracks into an album?
- How do I move a track from one album to another?
- I accidentally released my album! Can I unpublish it?
- How can I prevent fans from downloading my music?
- My songs have lyrics. Should I bother adding them?
- If I set a release date for the future, will my music be hidden until then?
- What are bonus download items, and how do I use them?
- What file types can I include as bonus items in an album download?
- How do I set up a compilation album?
- How do I change the license on my music?
- Setting up your artist subscription
- What’s an artist subscription? Why should I make one? What can they do? Can I see some examples?
- Should I choose monthly or annual billing?
- When are subscribers charged, and when do I get paid?
- How much are transaction fees for artist subscriptions?
- What happens to existing subscribers if I change the price or term of my subscription?
- What video file types do you accept?
- What is the maximum video upload size?
- How does a subscriber cancel, and what happens when they do?
- What format/quality are the streams on Bandcamp?
- Is there a required LUFS setting for my audio files?
- Why does my music sound quieter on Bandcamp?
- I lost my original audio files! Can I download them from my Bandcamp account?
- I hear a warbling sound when I stream. Is it your fault?
- Does Bandcamp support 30-second snippets?
- I heard you can steal music on Bandcamp. What are you doing about this?
- Does Bandcamp add metadata to the downloadable tracks?
- Does Bandcamp support gapless albums?
- What are streaming limits on Bandcamp?
- How do I report someone sending threatening messages through my contact form?
- Who can see my community page and comment on my messages?
- I have a custom header. How can I link to my community page?
- What happens to my community page when I create a subscription?
- How do I deal with an abusive commenter on my community page?
- I’m not interested in a community page. How do I turn it off?
- Reading your Payment Summary page
- Will the move to Stripe change how often I get paid?
- My payout was less than I expected. Why?
- How do I get paid on Bandcamp, and how often?
- What are Bandcamp’s fees?
- How much are payment processor fees for digital sales?
- How much are payment processor fees for physical sales?
- I made a sale, why haven’t I been paid yet?
- Reading your raw data sales report
- How do I know when my next payout is going to arrive?
- Why are my merch orders not showing up in my PayPal account?
- Do you support split payments for collaborative releases?
- Which charts does Bandcamp report to, and when?
- How do I get my sales reported to music charts?
- Does Bandcamp supply UPCs and ISRCs?
- Why am I getting an error that says my code isn’t valid?
- Are all sales eligible for reporting?
- Do I need to register my releases directly with the music charts?
- How do I include my ISRC in tracks I send to radio?
- Essential Guide: Publishing Rights and Royalties on Bandcamp
- Publishing royalty collection on Bandcamp
- Flowchart: Publishing Rights & Royalties on Bandcamp
- What are the Publishing Rights fields for?
- Music Metadata on Bandcamp
- Where can I view publishing royalties collected on Bandcamp?
- Can you help me understand more about general songwriter rights and royalties?
- What sales are affected by collection society accruals?
- How to enable royalty collection for tracks and albums
- Why does the collection society amount vary for different sales?
- Are users streaming music for free via playlists?
- I’m not affiliated with any societies. Will you be pulling money from my sales?
- What happens if I'm a member of PRS and MCPS but I sell a track in another jurisdiction such as Australia? How will I receive my royalties?
- How can I dispute royalty collection on a track or album?
- How does each collection society calculate royalties for its members?
- Will you collect royalties on Bandcamp Fridays?
- Do PRO/CMO/Collection Society accrual fees apply to physical sales?
- Will Bandcamp issue a form for taxes?
- Can you help with royalty accounting for my label?
- Do you have any advice for promoting my music?
- Optimize your release for Discover
- I already have a direct-to-fan store on my own site, why bother setting up on Bandcamp?
- How much does it cost to use Bandcamp?
- What about taxes?
- How do I change my currency?
- Which currencies does Bandcamp support?
- What pricing performs best?
- Can I sell my music on Bandcamp and other platforms at the same time?
- Do you distribute my music?
- I’m doing a fundraiser on Bandcamp, can you waive your fees?
- Do you offer alternate payment options, like Payoneer, cryptocurrencies, etc.?
- How do I enable the purchase of my full digital discography?
- How will Brexit affect my sales between the UK and the EU?
- Reporting Sales for EU-based Artist & Labels
- Track/album code tutorial
- Do track/album codes expire?
- Can I make changes to my track or album after I’ve generated codes for it?
- Do codes work with private albums?
- Do codes work with album drafts?
- Can someone share a code with others? How do I prevent unwanted downloads?
- Can I make a single code that multiple people can use?
- How do I send out codes via email? Do I have to copy/paste each code individually?
- Emailing track/album codes with Mailchimp
- Emailing track/album codes with Constant Contact
- Can I make codes email-required?
- If I sell codes at a show, are those sales reported to music charts?
- How can I find out which codes have been redeemed?
- Can I generate fewer than 100 codes at a time?
- You guys said I’d get 200 more codes for free every month! Well, where are they?
- How do I upload music?
- Why won’t my tracks upload?
- My new release isn’t saving. Why?
- How and why should I upload lossless files?
- Can I upload higher resolution audio?
- What’s the maximum upload size?
- How do I set up a sample pack?
- Does Bandcamp take any ownership rights in my music?
- Can I upload covers, remixes, or mashups?