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May 21st, 2012 by Music Ally

With 10 days still to go in her Kickstarter project, Amanda Palmer has now raised $777,844 at the time of writing to make a new album, art book and go on tour.

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May 21st, 2012 by Music Ally

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With 10 days still to go in her Kickstarter project, Amanda Palmer has now raised $777,844 at the time of writing to make a new album, art book and go on tour.

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May 1st, 2012 by Music Ally

Remember those stories about artist Amanda Palmer making lots of money from her Twitter fanbase by selling merchandise?

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May 1st, 2012 by Music Ally

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Remember those stories about artist Amanda Palmer making lots of money from her Twitter fanbase by selling merchandise? She's at it again on the D2C front, this time on Kickstarter.

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March 21st, 2012 by Music Ally

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There are numerous examples of artists making decent money from allowing fans to pay what they like for an album by now, and the model has extended into other industries too (like games, with the Humble...

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February 10th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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Whilst mulling the latest Spotify story, this time of Paul McCartney’s streaming services takedown, I got to thinking about just how great a role direct-to-fan (D2F) services could play in broadening...

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January 4th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Artists pulled in more than $1m from music and merchandise sales through D2C site Bandcamp in December, the company has announced.

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January 2nd, 2012 by Darren Hemmings

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Today the BPI published their 2011 sales report. You can read the summary here, but some key headlines were as follows: CD sales: 86.2m Digital Album Sales: 28.6m Digital Single Sales: 175.1m Vinyl Sales:...

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