I’ve just spent the last few hours going through submissions for my Pluggin Baby Radio Show and there have been the usual mistakes made – which means no airplay for the artists in question – so I thought it was worth a quick post to cover the most common mistakes when trying to get airplay for your music.
In no particular order:
- Sending a link to a full album. Singles only please.
- Sending a link to Spotify or Youtube. We need downloadable links – for WAV and MP3.
- Not including lyrics. We need to check songs are clean.
- Not including a bio or any info about the artist or the release.
- Not including social media links. We need these for tagging on socials!
- Sending the wrong genre of music. Just guitar-based music for me, please.
- Sending too many songs in quick succession. Once every 6 – 8 weeks is plenty. Give someone else a chance!
- Sending songs that are far too long for radio play. Aim for under 4 minutes
- Using download inks that expire. It often takes music industry people a lot longer than a week to get to your email!
- Sending songs containing expletives. It just ain’t gonna happen on my show and 99% of other shows.
Hope that helps! You can submit music for the Pluggin Baby Radio Show via the Radio Show page.
