Enjoy, hope to see you at the SxSW meetup! Personally, we’d much rather get a recommendation from an artist we love than, say, view an algorithmically-generated list of suggestions for a 30 to 39 year-old male who enjoys strawberry Pop-Tarts, recently listened to Friday from start to finish, and did indeed purchase /\/\/\Y/\, but for his brother. We’re pretty excited to see how you guys use this. Setup is done over on your profile page, and looks like this:
The download page also happens to be hit 1.2 million times each month and climbing, so recommendations there have the potential to drive a ton of new exposure to all the artists who use Bandcamp. Fans only see it when they’ve decided they love your music enough to buy/download it (which also means they now consider you a trusted source), and while fans wait for their download is just the right time to send them off to do a little exploring. The recently-launched download page provides the perfect space to do just that. Better would be if any artist could make recommendations in a way that wouldn’t distract from their own site, yet would be impossible for their fans to overlook. Amanda Palmer recommended Tristan Allen, but did it by adding his album to her own account - not really ideal either. Danny B recommended Laura Shigihara, for example, but the link was in his liner notes where it was pretty easy to miss. We see artists doing more or less the same thing on Bandcamp all the time. It’s a reliable source of new discoveries, and each band’s tweet-length blurbs about their favorite records are always interesting and fun to read:
Not for the interviews themselves (though those are plenty good), but for the little section at the bottom, where the band tells you about three albums that they love. Our favorite part of Filter Magazine is the band interview section in the front.
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