Starting Your Career As A Musician

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Radio Promotion Services
As mentioned, the radio industry can be somewhat suspect when it comes to making
deals. Beyond this is the reality that audiences are rapidly moving to becoming part of the
capture culture, downloading songs to various devices, listening to Spotify, Pandora and


the likes. Rather than pay a publicist or p.r. person $1000–$1500 every month with no
guarantee of a return, you might consider trying out some alternate services.
iPluggers.com
iPluggers is a new online music publicist service that can be used by indie artists, pro-


viding they can get approved by iPlugger’s A&R folks. The process is simple. Sign up for


an iPlugger Artist account. Select your genre(s)–up to three– and upload your release.
Then, request A&R approval. Once approved, select your release date. This is when you
pay for your release. When your date is reached your release will be sent to all station


that want your type of genre. After “plugging,” you can get real-time insights as to which
stations in which countries downloaded your release for airplay. Airplay is guaranteed

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