Enter to Win ISC 2025 Play MPE is honoured to be an ongoing prize partner of the International Songwriting Competition (ISC)! We are pleased to share that submissions are now open for the 2025 competition! ISC is one of the most respected and influential songwriting competitions in the world. Now is your chance to get […]
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What does it mean to get added into rotation at radio ? You promoted your song to radio with Play MPE’s Caster and want to know if it is getting airplay, so you sign up for MTR to track your spins. Now what? Once a spin is detected by MTR your airplay data will show […]
Music promotion in all it’s forms As indie artist, may wonder how you can promote your music and yourself. Let’s take a look at all the ways you can… be your own promoter! A successful musician I know once told me that he would make music and perform for free, and it’s everything else that’s […]
Play MPE Expands Partnership with Symphonic Distribution If you aren’t already using Symphonic to distribute your music, Play MPE users can now get 25% off the first year of Symphonic Starter as part of our expanded partnership. More exciting things are on the horizon for Play MPE x Symphonic – so stay tuned for news on […]
Record Producer Felix Fung of Little Red Sounds Katy Krassner interviews Vancouver-based producer, mixer, recording engineer, and musician Felix Fung. Read on to hear how he got his start in music and went on to run a recording studio and produce loads of stellar records! Take it away. From the Beginning I grew up in […]
A New Era for Play MPE Partner Unsigned Only: Introducing the Unsigned Only Music Awards We are pleased to announce Play MPE‘s continued partnership with Unsigned Only! Stay tuned for a special promotion collaboration with multiple prize packages from Caster and MTR on offer! More news on that very soon! As we are all aware […]
Caster Emerge February Finalists Announced Play MPE’s indie artist incubator Caster Emerge is still going strong and open for submissions until February 28th (midnight PST). Our industry relations team is having a blast listening to all of the song submissions – so keep ’em coming! Each month three finalists are selected, with one additional wild […]
Want to win music promotion and radio tracking across North America? Sometimes our blogs can give you straightforward advice – like, how to make your social media pages better or why radio airplay is still important. Other times, we may have a bias – like this blog where we are going to go over ALL […]
Meet Glenn Alderson of RANGE Magazine Glenn Alderson is the Editor in Chief and Publisher of RANGE, a national arts and culture magazine based in Canada that’s committed to highlighting new music. Not only does he write about music, but he’s also a musician. He plays bass for the band NEEDS, who VICE referred to […]
SONGWRITING CAN BE CATHARTIC Unrest is, well, difficult, right? It doesn’t feel good to be disrupted, chaotic, to not know which end is up…unless you’re a songwriter. Some of the greatest songs have come from a writer’s frustration, anger, sorrow, unease. No matter where you stand politically, it’s a time of change, and not just […]