diff --git a/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Bump.pm b/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Bump.pm
index 27a2f73..aaf25e3 100644
--- a/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Bump.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Bump.pm
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ with 'App::Changelord::Role::ChangeTypes';
 has changelog => ( is => 'lazy' );
 
 with 'App::Changelord::Role::Versions';
+with 'App::Changelord::Role::Stats';
 
 sub _build_changelog ($self) { $self->parent_command->changelog }
 
@@ -50,6 +51,12 @@ sub run ($self) {
     $self->changelog->{releases}[0]{date}    = sprintf "%d-%02d-%02d",
       $time[5] + 1900, $time[4], $time[3];
 
+      if( $self->changelog->{project}{with_stats} ) {
+          push $self->changelog->{releases}[0]{changes}->@*, {
+              type => 'stats', desc => $self->stats
+          };
+      }
+
     my $change = $self->changelog;
     Bless($change)->keys(
         [   uniq qw/
diff --git a/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Init.pm b/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Init.pm
index 148fdcc..d806822 100644
--- a/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Init.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Changelord/Command/Init.pm
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ sub run ($self) {
         project => {
             name => undef,
             homepage => undef,
+            with_stats => 'true',
+            ticket_url => undef,
         },
         change_types => $self->change_types,
         releases => [
diff --git a/lib/App/Changelord/Command/changelog-schema.yml b/lib/App/Changelord/Command/changelog-schema.yml
index e817d4b..4578e31 100644
--- a/lib/App/Changelord/Command/changelog-schema.yml
+++ b/lib/App/Changelord/Command/changelog-schema.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ properties:
         examples:
           - s!GH(\d+)!https://github.com/yanick/App-Changelord/issue/$1/
           - /^\d+$/ ? "https://.../$_" : undef
+      with_stats:
+        description: if true, add git statistics when bumping the version.
   change_types:
     type: array
     items:
diff --git a/lib/App/Changelord/Role/ChangeTypes.pm b/lib/App/Changelord/Role/ChangeTypes.pm
index e661894..b680539 100644
--- a/lib/App/Changelord/Role/ChangeTypes.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Changelord/Role/ChangeTypes.pm
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ sub _build_change_types($self) {
             { title => 'Features'  , level => 'minor', keywords => [ 'feat' ] } ,
             { title => 'Bug fixes' , level => 'patch', keywords => [ 'fix' ]  },
             { title => 'Package maintenance' , level => 'patch', keywords => [ 'chore', 'maint', 'refactor' ]  },
+            { title => 'Statistics' , level => 'patch', keywords => [ 'stats' ]  },
         ]
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/App/Changelord/Role/Stats.pm b/lib/App/Changelord/Role/Stats.pm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c80b99e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/App/Changelord/Role/Stats.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package App::Changelord::Role::Stats;
+
+use v5.36.0;
+
+use Git::Repository;
+
+use Moo::Role;
+
+use feature 'try'; no warnings qw/ experimental /;
+
+requires 'changelog';
+
+# stolen from Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ChangeStats::Git
+
+has repo => (
+    is => 'ro',
+    default => sub { Git::Repository->new( work_tree => '.' ) },
+);
+
+has stats => (
+    is => 'lazy' );
+
+sub _build_stats ($self) {
+    my $comparison_data = $self->_get_comparison_data or return;
+
+        my $stats = 'code churn: ' . $comparison_data;
+        return $stats =~ s/\s+/ /gr;
+}
+
+sub _get_comparison_data($self) {
+
+    # HEAD versus previous release
+    # What are we diffing against? :)
+    my $previous = $self->changelog->{releases}->@* > 1
+        ? $self->changelog->{releases}[1]{version}
+        : '4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904'; # empty tree
+
+    my $output = eval {
+            $self->repo->run( 'diff', '--shortstat', $previous, 'HEAD')
+        };
+
+
+    warn "could not gather stats: $@\n" if $@;
+
+    return $output;
+}
+
+1;
diff --git a/t/stats.t b/t/stats.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c448aa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/stats.t
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+use Test2::V0;
+
+use v5.36.0;
+
+package TestMe {
+    use Moo;
+
+    has changelog => (
+        is => 'ro',
+        default => sub {{
+             project => { ticket_url => undef },
+             releases => [
+                 {  },
+             ]
+        }}
+    );
+
+    with  'App::Changelord::Role::Stats';
+    with 'App::Changelord::Role::ChangeTypes';
+
+}
+
+my $test = TestMe->new;
+
+like $test->stats => qr/code churn: /;
+
+done_testing;