I get more than 100 tracks in my inbox at [email protected] on a normal day, plus more through submission platforms and everything else that comes with them. I listen to as much as I can, but there's no way I can reply to everyone.
Paid submissions are for anyone who wants a guaranteed answer within 48 hours. If it's a yes, your track goes on that month's playlist. If it's a no, I'll tell you why.
You're paying for my time and a guaranteed response, not for a playlist placement. And if I don't get back to you within 48 hours, you get your money back automatically.
How to send a track
$5
One track
A full listen, then a written reply inside 48 hours: the month it is going on, or an honest note on why it is not. Pay when you send it.
$2.50 a review
Sending more than one
Buy reviews ahead and they cost less each, down to $2.50. They never expire, and an unanswered one comes back to your balance.
If it makes the playlist
A yes puts your track on the month's playlist, which goes out here and on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, YouTube, Deezer and Tidal, the same as every month since 2009. It also gets a page of its own here, with a write-up, your links and a player, kept online for good, next to the 11,304 artists already in the archive. If there is a video, that goes up on the Videos page too, where 5,829 have gone before it.
Who hears it
Counted September 2026
- 333kYouTube@IndiePlaylists
- 102kSpotifyplaylists
- 78kYouTube@BIRP
- 55kInstagram
- 44kX
- 40kFacebook
- 8.4kSoundCloud
Around 660k followers between them, plus 11,304 artists already in the archive here.
And if it isn't a fit, you still get a real answer. I listen to the whole track first, and a no comes with at least 20 words on what I heard and why it didn't make the month.