From Projekt’s Sam Rosenthal: The year draws to a close. Projekt’s webstore shipped out 2813 CDs, while our Bandcamp store sold 4735 album downloads. Yes! There are still people buying music. Projekt and all of the artists I work with appreciate your purchases! Our music also is played on streaming sites, but it takes an average of 279 plays on Spotify to bring in a buck; those of you who purchase things (or contribute to our crowdfunding campaigns) are the people who make it possible for us to continue to create.

A big THANKS for supporting Projekt’s artists with your investment in our work!!!

2016 was busy for Projekt, with a number of releases in the electronic/ambient genres and a few in the goth/darkwave genres. Here are two lists for you; I find it interesting to see how the top-10 differs between physical and digital sales.

Top selling physical items in the Projekt webstore 1  Forrest Fang: The Sleepwalker’s Ocean (2-CD) (limited edition, last few copies left) 2  Erik Wollo: Star’s End 2015 (Silent Currents 4) (CD) 3  Erik Wollo & Byron Metcalf: Earth Luminous (CD) 4  Mercury’s Antennae: Beneath the Serene (CD) 5  Black Tape For A Blue Girl: These fleeting moments (Limited deluxe edition) (CD) 6  Steve Roach: Shadow of Time / This Place to Be 2-pack (3-CD) 7  Chuck Van Zyl: The XYL File (Limited Edition CD) * 8  Stratosphere: Rise (CD) 9  Steve Roach: Emotions Revealed 10  Steve Roach & Robert Logan: Biosonic / Second Nature 2-Pack (2CD)

Top selling downloads in the Projekt Bandcamp store 1  Steve Roach & Robert Logan: Second Nature 2  Forrest Fang: The Sleepwalker’s Ocean 3  Erik Wollo: Star’s End 2015 (Silent Currents 4) 4  Erik Wollo & Byron Metcalf: Earth Luminous 5  Steve Roach & Robert Logan: Biosonic 6  Steve Roach: Emotions Revealed 7  Steve Roach: Structures From Silence (Deluxe 3-CD 30th Anniversary Remastered Edition) 8  Steve Roach: Shadow of Time 9  Steve Roach: Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (complete edition) 10  Loren Nerell: The Venerable Dark Cloud (extended reissue)

* The only non-Projekt artist on this list is Chuck Van Zyl