How to export your Bandcamp fan emails (and what to do with them)

Sign in to Bandcamp as the artist or label account that owns the releases, then go to your dashboard and open the Tools section. If you run a label with multiple artist accounts, you will need to repeat this for each account that has its own sales.

In Tools, find the mailing-list option and choose to export or download it. Bandcamp returns a CSV of subscriber email addresses. Save it somewhere sensible with a dated filename — bandcamp-list-2026-08.csv beats export(3).csv in six months.

Still in Tools, open your sales report. Set the date range to cover everything — all-time, or from your first release — rather than the default recent window, which is where most people accidentally lose years of buyers. Download it as CSV.

The sales CSV typically includes the buyer email, item purchased, amount, currency, date and buyer country. Keep all of it. The country and purchase columns are what let you do anything interesting later.

Open both in a spreadsheet and do four things:

• Lowercase and trim every email. =LOWER(TRIM(A2)). Bandcamp exports mixed case and stray spaces, and Fan@Example.com and fan@example.com are the same person.
• Deduplicate on the cleaned email. A fan who bought five records is one contact, not five.
• Add a source column. Mark each row bandcamp-list or bandcamp-purchase, and add the export date. Future you will need to prove where a contact came from.
• Drop empty and obviously junk rows. Blank emails, test orders, your own address.

Aim for one row per fan with columns like: email, name, country, city, total_spent, purchase_count, first_seen, source. That is a clean import file for essentially any CRM.

This part matters, especially for UK and EU fans. Mailing-list subscribers opted in — you can email them marketing. Purchasers are more nuanced: under UK GDPR and PECR you can usually email past customers about your own similar products (the “soft opt-in”), provided you gave them a chance to opt out at purchase and give them an unsubscribe link in every message.

Practically: keep the two groups tagged separately, always include a working unsubscribe, honour opt-outs immediately, and do not buy, sell or swap the list. If you are unsure about a specific case, take proper advice — this guide is not legal advice.

A CSV in your downloads folder is not an audience. Import it into a CRM or email platform where you can segment it, message it, and keep it updated — Mailchimp, Buttondown, a spreadsheet you actually maintain, or Loyal League. What matters is that the list lives somewhere you own and can export from again at any time.

When you import, map the columns rather than accepting defaults, and check the deduplication behaviour before confirming. Most bad imports are a mapping mistake, not a data problem.