Artists deserved to be paid for their recorded music.

Let’s create a new music streaming service that pays artists and indie labels fairly and transparently while creating an original, community-based music experience for fans.

Campfire Music Foundation was founded to address widespread issues of labor insecurity and low royalty payouts to artists under the current system of music streaming. The project originally began as a final project for a music industry class at Georgetown University, and the organization has since grown into a registered 501c(3) nonprofit led by a group of young, passionate individuals whose agenda is backed by a strong collective of national and regional artists, industry experts, policy-makers, international music advocacy groups, and other leading music stakeholders. We're actively building a new model of music streaming that pays artists more fairly and transparently.

Our model is simple: the money you pay goes directly to the artists you listen to. Campfire operates differently than traditional streaming services. Instead of pooling subscription fees and distributing them based on overall streams, your monthly payment goes directly to the artists you actually listen to. If you spend ten percent of your listening time on one artist this month, then ten percent of your subscription fee (after nonprofit operating expenses) goes directly to that artist.

We’re currently in beta development and fundraising, and we invite artists, listeners, and supporters to join us as we build the future of fair, community-driven music streaming.