The Undercover Band

Either you submit your music to online blogs, printed magazines, playlists, radios or podcasts, you need to send a "pitch"... But for the last time, what is a "pitch"? Think about the best way to sell a new product, but instead you're promoting your music..! It's basically the email you're sending to the blogs, magazines, playlists, radios, podcasts, etc In this email, and in a few phrases, you'll present the best way possible your new release, with catchy words and the best highlights (for example that your new song was produced by a Grammy award winner super famous guy). Must-Read: How to Get the Most Out of Your Radio Airplay? The content of this email (or pitch) is combined with a shorter version of your press release.  It has to make people want to listen to your music, or intrigued, or curious, or like you even before they heard your music. (it's the most difficult part!) This email should look professional, straight to the poi

Radio plugging is very different compared to online promotion and blog submissions. It's very competitive and national radio stations have limited shows that play out emerging and unsigned artists.  Must-Read: THE PERFECT CALENDAR FOR YOUR NEXT RELEASE It’s difficult but it’s possible, so keep reading!  Here's how I submit music to radios : 1) Choose one song   In the Blogs submission email, you may be pitching a full EP or Album, but  with radio, you only need to pitch one track   so don’t send a link to a full album ; producers don’t have the time to listen to the full thing to choose which track is their favorite.  But if you feel your EP/Album has multiple styles throughout, that’s when you can look at promoting more than one song. If one track is a commercial pop and the other is a dance remix, you can push the remix to dance stations, giving you more areas to connect with and therefore more radio plays. The single that  you  choose needs to be a "radio e