If you want to get radio airplay for your band, check out my story below to see how it helped me as a songwriter and DIY musician and then decide if you think that radio airplay by Jango Radio is right for your band.
I’ve been an independent musician for 37 years. I consider the first 35 years of that to be the runway to my full writing, recording, and marketing potential. The last two years of that time (2020 – 2022) my songwriting and recording career has begun to experience lift as I think it is time for me to fully experience and enjoy the fruits of all my passionate and hard work all of these years. There have been some tough lessons and I am grateful for them all because it put me where I am at now. It can be argued what the term success means but I view success as having reached a place in my life where I am happy doing what I love as an artist and creative person. I am no longer mailing CDs to record labels or trying to write the next big hit. I have found what it means to do something simply for the love of doing it and how content and present I feel while I’m writing and recording my songs. I have had many brushes with recording industry professionals and I have found that the music industry is not what I have believed it was while I was chasing after a record deal, trying to get terrestrial radio stations to play my music. It gives me a wonderful sense of freedom and joy to finally get to the place in my life where writing songs and sharing them on steaming platforms like Spotify, Pandora Radio, and Apple music is enough. It is a wonderful feeling when you receive an email from a listener sent simply to tell you that they enjoy your music or to ask for song lyrics. I also love reading Jango Radio listener comments like the ones in the image below. For so many years I thought that most people just weren’t interested in DIY musician recording artists. I thought mainstream was all that mattered but I was wrong. I realized that there are people that care about and enjoy listening to independent recording artists, and that I had been looking in all the wrong places to find my home in the music industry. I am so grateful that I found Radio Airplay by Jango Radio, it has give me a whole new perspective on how people consume music and how authentic they can be about it. Jango Radio has been the most influential, authentic, and meaningful online music platform that I have found. A close second most influential and meaningful music streaming platform I have experienced is Pandora Radio (more about Pandora Radio in another post). Check out the comments below that I have received from real Jango Radio listeners posted right now my profile. If you are looking gain exposure for your band you can check out Radio Airplay by Jango Radio by visiting radioairplay.com
I remember how excited I was many years ago when one of my songs got played on a terrestrial radio station. I waited with a cassette tape ready to press record. I thought about how many people the station would reach with the fifty thousand watts of power they advertised in their audio commercials. The station would reach south eastern Wisconsin all the way to the Chicago area, and at the time that seemed like a very large area. This was a very long time ago before the Internet and smart phones. I wouldn’t have guessed that the future would bring so many amazing opportunities for artists that are unsigned and independently writing, recording and promoting their work. It’s so hard to break through the mainstream radio station programming model where songs are played over and over and the station is generally catering to the casual listener. Although getting airplay on commercial terrestrial radio would likely create a buzz for many DIY bands give enough airplay time it is unlikely that stations will play anything except the generic format we have known from the beginning of commercial radio.
Lucky for us streaming services bring a much larger audience and will have listeners that are not the average music consumer. With such a large range of music tastes we finally have a chance to reach the small niche of listeners that like to dig deeper, and are open to discovering a new band. I am working to put together some streaming examples and numbers that show theoretically how my Jango experience would look on Spotify if you compare the two according to the number of the services average monthly listeners and how the Jango streams and fans compare to Spottily potential streaming results on Spotify.
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