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Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) has relaunched as a significantly expanded platform, with a number of new initiatives to help people search for, contact and directly support Black artists and Black-owned businesses in the music sector such as record labels.
Formerly known as Black Bandcamp, B.A.D. is a community-led project with a crowd-sourced directory at its core, which has now grown from 2,800 to 3,500 profile listings of Black music organisations, professionals and creatives. This is constantly updated and maintained by a team of administrators and volunteers.
Originally launched June 2020 in response to structural racism and mistreatment of Black people within the electronic music industry, which the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement shed light on, B.A.D. quickly gathered momentum, making the most of Bandcamp Fridays to promote a direct revenue stream between Black musicians and fans.