Unsigned Indie Bands – Get your song on the radio for free

Play MPE

You’ve heard of Play MPE right? In case you haven’t, it’s a music promotion & discovery platform used by the music industry to get music to the people that can do pretty cool things with that music. Radio programmers, media outlets, rad blogs (like IBG, 😝 ), music supervisors, and curators (making playlists for restaurants, retailers, airlines) are recipients of music promotions delivered by Caster and hosted in Player. 

Play MPE launches Caster Emerge to help indie artists break into radio

Maybe you want nothing to do with the industry machine, but hold up – while Play MPE does serve major labels and big time promoters, their music promotion tool Caster is accessible to indies. This means you can use the same promo tool and get your music to thousands of verified curators. They also have massive distribution packages available for those that don’t have their own contacts. 

Just Gimme the details to enter 

If you want to try it before you buy it –  indie artists can enter a song into Caster Emerge for a chance to win FREE music promotion and radio tracking. There is no fee to enter. You just have to sign up for  Caster (via the contest page), wait for an email with the official entry link, and submit a song. Why do you need to sign up first? The finalists and winners will use Caster to promote their music. (i.e. you need it in order to use the prize.) But to reiterate – THERE IS NO FEE – signing up is totally free. 

Caster Emerge runs until February 28th. If you plan to release a new single by March, and more throughout the year, this contest is for you. Nine finalists will be selected by their team, plus Sirius XM’s WHOOOSH! co-host Katy Krassner will pick a final wild card for a total of ten finalists. 

The finalists will receive free music promotion packages which include distribution to the following radio formats: NonComm/NPR (US), NonComm/CBC (Canada), and College (US & Canada). There are a ton of radio shows on these stations that do take chances on newer artists.

Learn which radio stations are spinning your song

After the finalists promote their release, they will be able to see which contacts are opening the promotional emails, and streaming and/or downloading the music and assets. The finalists will also get MTR accounts to track their own radio airplay. After each artist has promoted a single, two winners will emerge to win a year’s worth of promo & tracking for three singles each. One winner will be chosen from the US and one from Canada. 

*You must be able to provide a mixed & mastered WAV file if you win, and all of the usual assets that go along with promoting music – promo photos, single art, active socials etc.

 
Now go enter Caster Emerge for a chance to do all that for FREE! You don’t have to wait to win of course – you can sign up and get your music to radio stations as soon as NOW!

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