>The top 3 are the killer features and the reason why I would not move to Tidal/Apple Music/bandcamp.
For regular people, the #1 reason they can't use Bandcamp is it doesn't have mainstream artists on the Big 3 Record Labels like Universal+Sony+Warner. In contrast, Bandcamp is deliberately designed for the smaller independent artists to upload and sell their music.
If people want to listen to today's Taylor Swift or yesterday's Beatles and Led Zeppelin, that music is only (legally) found on the major subscription services like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc. A very small hardcore subset buy Big Label artists music from HDTracks but that site doesn't have the selection of Spotify and it's a lot more expensive.
The issue lies in that most honest "independent artists" do want to go mainstream. They don't want to stay "small" (I highly dislike that word). Hence, they go to the place where mainstream music listeners listen to music: spotify.
I would be surprised if most non-techy folks know about bandcamp. Especially, the older generation who are often not very computer literate and will default to the mainstream option (windows for os, gmail/outlook for email, spotify/radio for music, google for search engine, etc).
Young tech-savvy audiophiles, yes. But everyone else, most likely not.
I'd actually wager the opposite. I really doubt young people are going to Bandcamp much. While I know a ton of people over the age of 35 who use Bandcamp to keep up with old bands or friend's bands.
SoundCloud was more popular with younger folks. "SoundCloud rapper".
That could very well be the case. A tiny minority nonetheless.
A small demographic intersection likely made of old millenials and young Gen Xers. Music leaning heavily towards alternative, and away from edm and mainstream.
For regular people, the #1 reason they can't use Bandcamp is it doesn't have mainstream artists on the Big 3 Record Labels like Universal+Sony+Warner. In contrast, Bandcamp is deliberately designed for the smaller independent artists to upload and sell their music.
If people want to listen to today's Taylor Swift or yesterday's Beatles and Led Zeppelin, that music is only (legally) found on the major subscription services like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc. A very small hardcore subset buy Big Label artists music from HDTracks but that site doesn't have the selection of Spotify and it's a lot more expensive.