How to get the attention of music industry professionals in radio, A&R, music media, and more Whether you are aiming to ink a deal with a major label, secure radio airplay for your latest track, get media attention or entice venues and show promoters to book your musical project, most industry professionals have almost identical […]
We recently launched a simple, yet, integral update to the Play MPE platform to optimize music promotion distribution and discovery. We’ve enhanced our music promotion tool Caster, with extra metadata fields, to make releases even more discoverable by Tastemakers. On the flip side, we’ve also improved our music discovery tool Player, by adding additional filter […]
Why should you promote music to radio? It’s no secret that online streaming has become the standard in modern music consumption. However, you’d be surprised to know that traditional mediums still have their place in the music industry. In recent years vinyl has soared in popularity and CDs have seen a resurgence as well, jumping […]
Play MPE is proud to announce the launch of Top Charts! If you weren’t aware of Play MPE’s Top Charts before – this is where you can discover which songs are getting the top streams and downloads in Player. Want to know if your music is trending? Many of you will be familiar with the […]
Got Holiday songs?! We know it’s still summer for a little bit longer but radio programmers and music directors will soon be looking out for the latest holiday releases. What’s new? This year our Holiday distribution lists have expanded A LOT, and now include 4000 industry tastemakers! You can also now choose from a few […]
We at Play MPE have an incredibly exciting announcement! Our parent company Destiny Media Technologies has launched a new radio monitoring platform – MTR. This ‘Music Tracking Radar’ software initially covers the whole Canadian Market! Whenever you send a release to radio, you want to know if it’s getting airplay, right? Our flagship tool Caster […]
Every year, the Christian music industry flocks to the Momentum conference in Florida to take the pulse of broadcast radio and the Christian music scene’s best and brightest artists. With 2023’s edition just around the corner there is no better time to get in-the-know with Momentum and CMB. Our very own David Gurtina had a […]
ASHA MADHUKAR, is an entertainment lawyer at Counsel LLP who started out as a musical artist and songwriter, then went into radio promotion on both the radio and later the label side, and then pivoted to entertainment law. HOW IT STARTED My whole family is very musical – we all play an instrument or […]
Christian Music Tastemakers! This blog’s for you. Play MPE is a proud ongoing partner with Momentum, the Christian Music Broadcaster’s conference. This year marked CMB’s 20th anniversary, so there was lots to celebrate at this year’s conference! Gathering Christian Radio industry to partake in their Fast Forward theme, they took a good look at the […]
With the return to the office, live shows, and travel, so comes the return of music conferences! Momentum 2022 is just around the corner and will this year be taking place in Orlando, Florida at the start of June (1-3). We sat down for a chat with Executive Director for Christian Music Broadcasters (CMB) Michelle […]