The choices you have to make before you send anything.

6 decisions every independent artist has to make before submitting music to radio, answered with counted data from 1363 verified stations: college or commercial, do it yourself or pay a promoter, WAV or MP3, email or form or post, the station or the show, radio or playlists.

Each of these answers one decision, says plainly when the other option is the right one, and shows what the 1363 stations verified by hand actually do. No service is ranked and no competitor is named, because the useful question is not which product to buy. It is which route fits the record you have made.

College vs commercial radioCollege radio or commercial radio: which should an independent artist submit to?Doing it yourself vs paying a promoterShould you submit to radio yourself or pay a radio promoter?WAV vs MP3WAV or MP3: what format should you send radio?Email vs form vs postEmail, web form or post: how do radio stations actually want music sent?Station vs showShould you submit to the station or to a specific show?Radio vs streaming playlistsRadio or streaming playlists: where should an independent artist spend their effort?

Every door is on your sheet.

Pick your sound and region on Rotation and each of these stations shows its real submission contact and the exact rules it posts: clean edit, WAV, form or mail. Checked by hand and kept current. No station here paid to be listed.

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Radio is the free half, and it stays that way. Every station here is free to reach and no station ever pays to be listed. The Doors is the other half: 100 verified places that are not radio, sync libraries, music supervisors, festivals, contests, live sessions and the music press, 43 of which can actually pay an artist. It also lists the 162 we opened and refused, with the reason each one failed, because most lists of this kind are stale and the rejections are the part nobody else will show you. $9.99, the 2026 Q3 edition →