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Top 7 Radio Stations That Will Actually Play Independent Artists

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Written by Omari

Here's an honest look at some places for indie artists to get radio promotion. Without the support of a label, an extremely connected A&R, or a heavyweight radio promoter on your side it would be difficult to get a massive radio campaign going.

I don't want you to be confused. This list is not going to places you can get 1,000,000,000 listeners for $5 (If you find that place please let me know). However, I've searched the depths of the internet to find some quality opportunities for artists to get radio play.

There should be opportunities for artists here regardless of genre. Hip-Hop, Rock, Pop, Smooth, R&B, EDM, Funk, etc. are all welcome!

Commercial radio is usually an arena where you do have to either have a load of cash or do some back handed things to get in, but these days you don't need commercial radio to make a big impact. There's more power in the artists hands now than ever before! Spend your money wisely and you could be doing some big things in music.

If you're an artist out there who makes quality music and wants to add radio promotion into your music marketing efforts, then this is for you!

MAKE SURE YOU'RE COLLECTING ALL YOUR ROYALTIES

Firstly, you'll want to be registered with a PRO (Performance Rights Organization) like ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC that can collect money on your behalf whenever songs are placed on the radio.

Next, you'll want to register your releases through services like Tunecore.

Tunecore collects about 50% of royalties that your PRO doesn't. Your mechanical royalties and direct licensing royalties can make up a good portion of your income if your song starts to pick up traction, so be sure to sign up with Tunecore in the button below and pay the one time $75 fee in the Music Publishing section.

They let you submit as many tracks as you want with the one time fee for licensing opportunities with TV, Film, and more.

JOSEBO

Here is the description from this seller on Fiverr:

"Puls FM is a major FM station in Sweden covering the west coast and reaching over 100,000 listeners via FM, and world wide online on pulsfm.se. We will play and promote your song in our prime time mid-day show every day, giving it the best possible audience.

$20 - Your song get 1 air play on FM and online!

$50 - We play your song daily for one week, minimum 10 air plays!

$100 - We play you song at least 2 times per day for two weeks, minimum 28 air plays!"

Warning! Before you purchase one of these packages, you must contact the seller and send the song as a mp3 file or a link. They need to approve that the song is in line with the style of music on the station. You will be contacted promptly if the song is approved.

The music genre should be: Pop, Dance, R&B, Rock, Rap, Hip-Hop, House.

If your song is approved, then you can continue with your purchase!

NLD RADIO ATL

This is real simple.

Play your song on NLD RADIO ATL.

Your song will play on NLD RADIO.

Your single promotion will be placed on NLD SOLUTIONS website.

This is designed to give you Organic feedback. Before you spend on a record that will/won't go anywhere, you need to test and see if people like it before you dump real money into it. This is perfect for that!

Broadcasting at FM Quality

This is the rotation. If you don't see your genre... This station may not be your cup of tea.

SUNDAY SKOOL (GOSPEL)
*5AM - 7AM

JAZZ N JUICE
*7AM SMOOTH JAZZ & SOUL
*9AM REGGAE
*11AM MIDDAY MIX

MORNING N AFTERNOON DRIVE
*12PM FUNK & SOUL
*1PM 80's & 90's R&B
*2PM MI CASA (DEEP HOUSE)

REGULAR ROTATION
*3PM NEW HIP-HOP & R&B RELEASES
*7PM OL' SKOOL HIP-HOP

THE GRIND SHOW (EXPLICT)
*9PM ALL D.C. GO-GO
*9:30PM INDIE/SHOUTOUT SHOW
*10:30PM ALL RAW HIP-HOP
*12 MIDNIGHT GUEST DJ
*1AM ALL RAW R&B

THE THUNDER STORM (SLOW)
*2AM - 5AM

SPINZ FM

Get your music into radio rotation on a royalty paying Internet radio station for one month guaranteed! "Basic Gig" will get you approx. 1 play per day, 30 spins per month. The "Gig Extra (Heavy Rotation)" will get you approx. 140 spins per month/30 days.

Get royalties for your music, get heard by 100's of listeners monthly.

Radio station's ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and SoundExchange royalties and performance fees are reported and paid through StreamLicensingâ„¢ LLC.

Station is syndicated on various websites including the TuneIn Radio App. 

Try the "Gig Extra's" for more air time and exposure, get the most out of this exclusive Fiverr offer!

Notice

**By choosing this gig you certify that you are the owner or authorized representative of the music. In order to receive royalties, you must be affiliated with one or all of the following; ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and/or SoundExchange.

Note: If you are not signed up to one or more of these companies, royalties will not be issued, but music will still be played.

*I will accept unregistered music, with the understanding that royalties will not be paid.

*Currently Accepting: HipHop/Rap, R&B, Pop/EDM, Reggae/Caribbean genres.

**Other Genres To Be Announced**

RADIO NEW YORK LIVE

Radio New York Live is one of the most popular radio stations in the world with over 250K active listeners every 24 hours.

Every day, live from Manhattan, Radio New York Live streams the greatest hits of the 80s, 90s, 00s and of today… non-stop! Online since 2006, Radio New York Live is available on any popular web platform. Moreover, it is possible to listen to Radio New York Live on your smart devices, such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, internet radio, and cable TV.

Listen to Radio New York Live and hear the difference!

RADIO LOVE LIVE NEW YORK

Radio Love Live is one of the most popular radio stations in the world with over 250K active listeners every 24 hours.

Every day, live from Manhattan, Radio Love Live streams the most beautiful love songs… non-stop! Online since 2007, Radio Love Live is available on any popular web platform. Moreover, it is possible to listen to Radio love Live on your smart devices, such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, internet radio, and cable TV.  

KISS HIP HOP & RNB RADIO

Kiss 104.7 was created to provide a platform for artists seeking legit FM radio airplay. Real listeners, real song rotation. Some internet stations claim they will provide 500 - 5000 plays for 5 bucks. The question is how do you know if anyone is listening?

If no one is listening, then you are literally throwing your money away. Kiss offers REAL listeners that listen in cars, homes, and via radio. If you have ever contacted major stations for promotion, then you will know that the cost can be VERY expensive.

For those that want to "hear" their music on the radio, then the basic 25 dollar package is for you. If you want an additional promotion, we offer packages that offer substantial airplay! Ask about the Managers Special. We do have stations that are BDS/Media base and BMI/ASCAP.

KISS ROCK/POP RADIO

This is the same as the one above, but for the Rock and Pop side of the station.  

CONCLUSION

Good luck with the submissions. Do not forget that radio is only one aspect of promotion though. You can still get other high quality organic promotions with the resources provided here.


When your song is ready to go, it's time to start promoting it to potential fans! Omari has the best organic promotion services money can buy. With packages for SoundCloud, Spotify, Instagram, and YouTube, we will get your music the traffic and attention it deserves! Click below for more information.  


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    28 replies to "Top 7 Radio Stations In 2023 That Will Play Independent Artists"

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    • Sandra Hammond

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    • Sandra Hammond

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    • Sandra Hammond

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    • Sandra Hammond

      I wrote SO HARD TO RESIST SO EASY TO LOVE. ANGELS HEART SONG needs a female singer that I will pay $50.00 to. I need a recording studio to put music to it.

    • Sandra Hammond

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      I have a song SO HARD TO RESIST SO EASY TO LOVE . It goes something like this. The way you look at me with a just perfect touch is making you so hard to resist so easy to love. Can a blush stay on a rose? You never know it at the start. It’s so hard to hide the things inside my heart. Easy to be friends – Easy to be free. Friends turn into lovers. Can you feel it now? Put your hand to my heart. We kiss in candlelight. You awaken all the romance in my life. You’re so hard to resist so easy to love. Can it be so wrong to say I simply adore you? To hide the way I feel – it would not be true. It would not be true. The things you say and do , you know they are making you oh so hard to resist so easy to love. Will you shy away now it means so much? Baby stay the night with me. You are so easy to love.

    • Buddy Greenbloom

      What sucks is this is only good for the lowest common demominator (hip/hop, rap, R&B etc,) Music thats all production and requirtes little or no actual musicianship. Like OMARI, these stations cater to the vanity of Soundclous rappers.

    • Paul Gruyters

      I’d just be happy getting my stuff on Campus radio. Couldn’t care less about the money. I used to play anything that hadn’t been played before when I was ‘the boy in charge’ back in the day.

    • Alan Bookman

      I have recorded a single. I live in Ontario, NY, Do I have a shot of getting it played on your station?

      Thanks

      Alan Bookman

    • Kelly Lee Wordlaw

      Hello my name kelly wordlaw and I have two songs recorded and I have one song copy right:re if you don’t and ready for air play and my other song re:ms gata I got to get it copy right and it will be ready for air play it all ready recorded and I need to talk to you about royalties payments when my song get played on the radio station please call me at 6623415565 kelly or send me the information to my email [email protected] please about royalties payments!

    • Mozzy

      Jake Radio reached out to me on instagram. They spin my song 60X times and its only 9 bucks. These guys have a minimum of 400 listeners at any given point in time. Guaranteed airplay AND 24 hour turnaround. http://www.Jakeradiolive.com

    • ROBERT DELEON

      Always nice to get exposure. It’s not easy to get noticed in this industry and thanks to resources like this we can. Give this one a listen if you like Rock. https://open.spotify.com/track/27Vu8WC4AjgDE7G945qfGi?si=41c06141abcd4f5d
      Been a long time in the works.

    • ROBERT DELEON

      Always nice to get exposure. It’s not easy to get noticed in this industry and thanks to resources like this we can. Give this one a listen if you like Rock. Been a long time in the works.

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    • TEMZ G

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      • Omari MC

        Feel free to send songs to our team at omarimc.com/contact

    • Leejones

      Lot of these radio stations and record companies have a whole Lotta Of crap with them a hard game out here trying to get your songs recognize

    • Leeroy

      Lot of these radio stations and record companies have a whole Lotta Of crap with them a hard game out here trying to get your songs recognize

    • dennis withrow

      At first, I thought that this might help a musician like myself to promote , my “music”, but, then, after discovering all they want is hip-hop, rap, & other bull shit disguised as “music”, I said to myself – SCREW That! & $75 fee just to possibly get some airplay! This is spam, & nothing but internet bullshit!!

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    • Brother Reggie

      Very interested in getting a few campaigns going with you! I have done quite a bit of research … and your provision speaks more truth than most anything I read and heard. Now here is my question:

      I have a new single that I have paid for the compulsory / mechanical license (SongFile) to promote and sell. Facebook never bothers to ask if you own a license … they sometimes will alert you that they have muted the audio of the copyrighted music … and I have not been able to communicate with them to remove the muting and why. If I do a Facebook campaign with you … will you be able to fix this issue?

    • Dorothea Curry

      Have you heard of Dirty South Radio Online?
      I think he stop paying his fees for royalties ect
      At one point he said he was #1 in 195 Countries & BDS SPIN? I BELIEVE DARIN SATTER DJ HOLLYWOOD IS A FRAUD HE USED ME FOR 9 YEARS AS HIS PARTNER I BELIEVE HE TAUGHT ME WRONG PRACTICES AND NEVER PAID HIS BILLS HE CERTAINLY NEVER PAID MR.. I WAS DOING IT AS A PHYLANTHROPIST TO GIVE FREE CONSULTANTING FOR 27 MINUTES TO EACH ARTISTS HE REFUSED TO TALK TO ANYONE UNTIL HE RECORED WHAT I TOLD ARTISTS AND HE SPOKE THE WORDS EXACTLY ? INTO THE WEBSITE.. HE’S OLDSCHOOL I BOUGJT AND PAID FOR 100% THE MOBILE PLATFORM DIRTY SOUTH RADIO MOBILE I MADE THE STATION ? WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN ENTERTAINMENT AWARD FOR RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR FOR 3 YEARS HE BASICALLY RETIRED ONCE I CAME ON AND DROVE HIS ICECREAM TRUCK EVERY DAY. I HAD TO HEAR FROM ARTISTS HE WASN’T BDS SPINS AND THEY WERE NOT GETTING THERE ROYALTIES. BECAUSE I TRUSTED HIM TO CHANGE THE LOOK OF THE MOBILE PLATFORM I PAID FOR HE REQUESTED THE BACKEND LINK AND HAS BLOCKED ME OUT OF MY MOBILE PLATFORM DIRTY SOUTH RADIO MOBILE I OWN 100% ITS ON CONTRACT WERE ONLY PARTNERS FOR THE WEBSITE.. HE MADE A MINIMUM OF $300 A DAY DRIVING THE ICECREAM TRUCK THE DEAL WAS I DO ALL THE WORK HE PAYS THE BILLS AND IS THE DJ HIS NAME IS DJ HOLLYWOOD HE HAS BLOCKED ME OUT OF MY INCOME AS A CELEBRITY AND INDIE ARTIST CONSULTANT FOR 2 YEARS. HE BLOCKED ME OUT MY OWN MOBILE STATION AND STILL IS. I’m rebuilding another station because I own my url but he still acts like he owns DIRTY SOUTH RADIO MOBILE to make sales because a website RADIO STATION is a dead horse. They want to work with my mobile platform. Dsrm.us I own also and he stole that!

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    • DTong

      I’m grateful you have me on your music promotion list but you are linking to a different account and gig. Either change the link or remove me from this site.

      Thanks

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