Submit Music to Get Known Radio

We accept music submissions from artists, labels, and managers at any career stage. The submission is free. The review is done by a person. We do not run pay-for-play, follower exchanges, or playlist swaps. If a track is right for the rotation we will add it within two weeks; if it is not we will keep it on file and revisit the next time we program a themed block. The process below is the entire process.

Ready to submit? The upload form lives at getknownradio.com/#/artist-promotion — that's where you drop the audio file, fill in the rights confirmation, and send the submission to the editorial inbox. ▶ Open the submission form

Who should submit

If you make hip-hop, R&B, club-leaning electronic music (UK garage, Jersey club, footwork, baile funk, amapiano, drum and bass, house, techno-adjacent records), or the records that sit between those scenes, the station is built for you. Independent and unsigned artists make up roughly sixty percent of the daily rotation. Major-label artists are welcome to submit too — we will judge the record, not the label.

If you make country, metal, jazz, classical, ambient, or anything else clearly outside the station's editorial scope, please do not submit. We will not be a good home for your record and you will get a faster real listen from a station that specializes in your genre.

What we want in the submission

1. One streaming-quality audio file. MP3 at 320 kbps minimum, or WAV. Lower-bitrate files get rejected at the upload step. We do not need stems, lossless masters, or anything fancy — just a file that holds up on a real broadcast.
2. A short note about the record. Two or three sentences. Who you are, where the record was made, what the song is about, and whether it is a single, an album cut, or an EP track. Lengthy bios are not necessary; we will look you up if we want more.
3. Rights confirmation. A single checkbox confirming you have the right to license the track to us for radio broadcast. This is a real legal requirement — see the terms for the exact language — and we cannot air anything submitted without it.
4. Genre tag. One of: Hip-Hop, R&B, Electronic, or Other (with a free-text note). We use this for programming themed blocks, not for filtering you out.
5. Contact email. So we can let you know if the track gets added, request a higher-quality master if needed, or ask follow-up questions.

That is the whole submission. There is no application fee, no required social-media follow, no playlist exchange, and no requirement to add the station to any kind of promotional plan.

How to submit

The primary path is the in-page submission form at getknownradio.com/#/artist-promotion. Open that page, drop your audio file into the upload field, check the rights-confirmation box, and add the short note about the record. The form handles the file upload, the rights confirmation, and the contact information in a single step.

If for any reason the form does not work for you — slow connection, accessibility issue, file size at the upper end of the upload limit — email the submission directly to [email protected] with the file attached, the short note in the body, and an explicit line stating that you have the right to license the track to Get Known Radio for broadcast. We process direct email submissions the same way; they are not lower priority.

What we listen for

Four criteria, in the order the editor applies them:

1. Listenability. Will a track survive being played between professionally mixed records without a noticeable drop in fidelity? We do not require pristine masters — plenty of records we love were made in bedrooms — but we do require records that sound finished.
2. Editorial fit. Does this record feel right between the records we already program? If it does not, that is not a quality judgment; it is a programming one. A great country record is still not going to fit our rotation.
3. The track itself. Is there a hook, a verse, a moment, a sound, a perspective that justifies the time? We do not have a checklist for what that means. We just listen.
4. Rights cleanliness. If a record samples something that has not been cleared, we cannot air it. If you are unsure whether a sample is cleared, ask before you submit.

What happens after you submit

Every submission gets at least a sixty-second listen. The strong ones get listened to in full at least once. Decisions usually happen within two weeks. You will get one of three responses:

• Yes — the track is going on rotation. We will let you know by email, add a corresponding entry to the new releases page where relevant, and credit you in the on-air rotation as the artist of the track.
• Not this one, but stay in the inbox — we liked the submission but it is not quite the right fit for current programming. The track stays on file for themed-block programming and you are encouraged to submit again.
• No — we are passing on this one. We try to send a brief note explaining why where it is useful, but we do not always have time.

During heavy submission cycles — especially the week before and after major release calendars — response times can stretch to three or four weeks. We always answer eventually.

What we do not do

To be unambiguous about this, since the music industry runs on these specific shady practices: we do not run pay-for-play. We do not run "submission review fee" tiers. We do not require Instagram follows, Spotify pre-saves, or DSP playlist swaps as a condition of submission. We do not sell radio placements to PR firms. There is no "boosted" or "premium" submission lane. If anyone — Get Known Radio staff or otherwise — tells you they can buy a placement on the station for you, they are lying.

Frequently asked questions

Can I submit a song that is already out?

Yes. Catalog tracks, recent releases, and unreleased tracks are all welcome. If the record is unreleased we will not leak the file or play it before the official release date you specify.

Can I submit a whole album?

Submit your strongest single track first. If we like it we will ask for the album. Mass-attaching twelve files at once makes the review slower for everyone.

What if I submitted before and never heard back?

Send a follow-up email to [email protected] with the original submission date and track title. We will find it.

Do you cover non-US artists?

Yes — there is no geographic restriction. The station is independent and the rotation is global.

Will you remove my track if I ask?

Yes, immediately, and without questions. Email [email protected] with the track and a removal request and we will action it that day.

Submit through the submission form, or by email to [email protected]. Questions about the process: [email protected].