Note: Received my first streaming royalties in December - a whopping $9!
The music industry is thriving.
Note: The album didn't make as much money this month which was to be
expected. Bandcamp Friday is on the 6th of December so I'm hoping more people
will buy it this month. I haven't received my streaming royalties from CDBaby yet.
Maybe there's something I need to do to get the money. I will keep you updated.
Note: Thanks so much for all the support on the album! I'm writing this note
to make some things clear after making this first donation.
Firstly, I made a tweet saying we raised "over £500" the day the album
came out. If you look at the proof images posted above, I only actually
had £410.81 to donate, so that tweet was wrong. The reason for this
is Bandcamp's 15% cut of digital sales. The album has made over
£500, but I only recieved £410.81. When I made that tweet I thought I'd
say how much money the album had made before the cut, but this was a
silly idea. In the future I'll say how much it earned after
Bandcamp's cut. Just wanted to make that clear!
Secondly, you can also see the remaining 81 pence wasn't donated yet.
UNICEF's donation page would only let me donate 80 pence rather than
81 specifically, so in the moment I decided to just donate without
the leftover 80 pence. Afterwards I decided this was another bad idea.
In the future I'll donate everything the website
lets me, including the pennies.
That's all! I just want to make everything crystal clear with
these donations so nothing looks dodgy. If I've done anything
incorrectly please let me know.