Need the hivemind advice pls. How much you pricin’ an EP for (4 tracks)?
Fiver?
I did mine at 2 quid (CDs). 4 is probably reasonable.
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Have only ever priced anything at Pay What You Want, for every album we’ve released.
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does it have a minimum or is that ‘zero’?
€0.00 for every release EXCEPT the Disintegration State release which was £5 flat.
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On my label bandcamp we did £3-4, with an option to pay more of course. 5 feels a little steep unless it’s a more known artist I think.
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and what percentage of people didn’t pay at all (please give me hope)
Will get the stats for you in a few minutes!
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! you’re a fucking hero. thank you man.
6.25% percent of all “sales” lacked a purchase price. Much lower than I expected actually.
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that’s far, far less than i expected too. a nice thing to know thank you bro!
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£1 per track on singles/EPs (up to 5 songs), £1 per 5 minutes on albums/compilations for reasons of complicated internal logic.
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i used to download most PWYW stuff for free but since the whole bandcamp fridays thing started i’ve been going back and paying a couple of quid for loads of them, partly cos it’s handy having them in your bandcamp collection
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this feels… like the way i might go with it actually.
i mean i knew this would be a losing-me-money endeavour from day 1 but there’s also part of me that feels like pricing it at nothing makes me feel nothing
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probably 3/4 quid, personally feel like you should always charge something, especially if it’s on spotify etc for ““free”” and see bandcamp as more of like a tip jar.
btw if you buy something for £0 on pwyw then you get prompted to pay at least 50p if you want it added to your collection and i think that a lot more bandcamp users listen through the app nowadays so kinda prompts people to pay something.
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this is good knowledge. haven’t set up the bandcamp page yet so all this is decent for me figuring it out. thank you man.
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This is just from the point of view of a purchaser, but don’t forget that VAT will be added on to the price as well. So £5 would become £6 at checkout, which isn’t something that I would typically pay for an EP unless I really loved the artist/EP.
It does psychologically stop me buying some albums that I like but don’t necessarily love also. I’d think about buying a download for £8, but then the VAT makes it £9.60, which makes it the price that I have bought cds for in the past and then I often tell myself that I don’t love this album that much after all…
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yeah this is the kind of thing i can see being common with people. i kind of believe at heart that most people have been conditioned to largely object to paying more than a couple of quid for any music at all. it’s not their fault, it’s a natural run on from the way spotify etc has changed things.
i think i do quid-a-track for now, then do a t-shirt release after that with free digital download to make it feel like something physical is showing up when you make a purchase.
£4.20 or £6.90 usually
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