Guides
Field notes from verifying 1363 college, community, HBCU and independent stations by hand. What music directors ask for, why submissions get ignored, and how to send one that gets played.
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The State of Independent Radio Submissions: 1363 stations counted, method stated → · Glossary: the words radio uses → · Compare: which route fits your record → · The submission email builder →
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.
Open my sheet →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 →