Category: Indie Labels

Masterclass “Impulsa tu música con Play MPE” con Abi Buenrostro, Lilian Cázares y Marisol González sobre promoción musical y radio.

¡Impulsa tu música! con Play MPE. Masterclass exclusiva en español

¡Play MPE® y Lilian Cázares unidos por la música! ¡En Play MPE creemos en el poder de la colaboración para abrir nuevas oportunidades en la industria musical. Por eso, nos emociona anunciar nuestra alianza con Lilian Cázares, reconocida experta en marketing musical, quien se suma como embajadora oficial de Play MPE. Gracias a esta unión, […]

Gráfico promocional de Play MPE. El fondo muestra cassettes de colores con un filtro azul oscuro. El texto principal en español dice: '¡LA PROMO DE CATÁLOGO REGRESA! 28 de Noviembre de 2025 - 6 de Enero de 2026'. Una barra azul claro indica: '¡FORMATOS ILIMITADOS A UN SOLO PRECIO!'. Y una barra azul oscuro enfatiza: 'LLEGA MÁS LEJOS, PROMOCIONA GLOBALMENTE'. Nota al pie: 'Los lanzamientos deben tener al menos 1 año o más para ser elegibles en esta promoción

¡La Promoción Anual de Catálogo de Play MPE Regresa!

¡La Promoción Anual de Catálogo está de Regreso por Tiempo Limitado! ¡Tu promoción anual favorita ha vuelto! Ahora es el momento de cargar todo tu contenido de catálogo en Player y elegir tantos paquetes de distribución como desees. Los lanzamientos con un año o más de antigüedad califican, ¡porque tu música más antigua también merece […]

How and Why Canadian Indie Artists Should Get Radio Airplay

Are you a Canadian artist feeling like you’re screaming into an empty void when it comes to music promotion? The options can feel overwhelming: Spotify playlisting, influencer content, sync licensing. Though options are plentiful, but opportunities can feel scarce. It feels like every promoter wants pre-existing hype behind an artist before they consider featuring them. […]

Promote Your Music Beyond the Border - Blog X FB Landscape

Hot Tips: promote your music beyond the border

Your song on the radio outside your hometown Let’s say you’re from Canada – maybe Toronto? You visit your cousin who lives in Portugal – maybe Lisbon? You turn on the radio when you get in your cousin’s car and what do you hear? Your song!! YOUR SONG! What kind of global music promotion magic […]

Hot Tips: is radio good for music promotion?

Video didn’t kill the radio star and neither did streaming. Radio is still a very important part of releasing new music. There are many ways to launch a music career, but here’s a hot tip: radio is still a significant step in establishing an artist. Is radio good for music promotion? Yes. Here’s why. Streaming vs […]

MTR Radio Tracking & Real-time Reporting

We are excited to expand the reach of Play MPE’s radio tracking tool MTR! You will soon be able to track your radio airplay across 5000+ radio stations in North America. MTR officially launches in the US on June 6th and we have some great news! Caster users will be offered early access and special […]

Ways We Can Help Support Artists

During times of crisis it’s natural to turn inward. However, in the short and long term we are better served by doing the opposite; looking beyond ourselves to offer support to others in any way we can. That’s what artists all over the world are doing; using music to offer solace: playing virtual concerts, and even writing and releasing songs extolling the virtues of social distancing and self-isolation in inspirational and often hilarious ways.

All That Jazz

Distilling and defining the impact of Jazz is a smidge like tackling the proof of a higher power or defining irony. Broad in scope, yet uniquely recognizable, you know it when you hear it but are likely hard-pressed to synthesize the magnitude of its impact: born in African tradition against the backdrop of slavery, jazz […]

Radio As A Social Force

‘Local conversation and local culture isn’t disappearing necessarily just because we have a world that’s more connected. In fact I think it allows some subcultures to blossom a bit more and for local conversations to have even more power and I think that radio can certainly play a part in that’ – Jared Leto (Thirty […]