While I offer this last statistic to give a sense of scale, I can't emphasize enough that not only does it make an inapposite comparison between national economies and single websites, but that one would likely find similar (probably worse) figures when examining other platforms. This statistic seems ripe for abuse by craven publishers reworking these findings into clickbait, but Bandcamp's (unweighted) Gini coefficient - an index of income inequality, from 0 (least unequal) to 1 (most unequal) - is 0.896, which would make it the most unequal country in the world.The top 5% of artists made 75.7% of all income in 2021, and made 3.11 times as much as the entire bottom 95%. The top 2% of artists made 60.7% of all income in 2021, and made 1.55 times as much as the entire bottom 98%.5.4% of artists made at least $600, the new 2022 tax threshold for certain income reporting requirements in the United States.Beyond the quantile statistics in the graph, here are a few more: (These numbers are counted before fees, taxes, and so on, which means the actual take home pay is even less.) There are a thousand ways to demonstrate just how small a sliver it is. In typical fat tail fashion, a sliver of individuals receive the vast majority of the total money earned from the site. This excludes a few different incarnations of 'Various Artists' - which occurs in complications - and it doesn't control for duplicate names of artists, which, based on some cursory inspection, doesn't matter as much as one might think anyway. This is the distribution of income on Bandcamp in 2021, across about 17.4 million sales events and about 706,000 artists: The answer, as it turns out, is not a lot. One of the major angles left entirely unexamined in our initial report on Bandcamp's economics - which analyzed how much the platform was making as a whole, and through what kinds of sales - is how much individual sellers actually earn on the site.

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