UnSigned Artists/Bands

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Unfortunately you will, as indicated above, need to work with each individual artist to get a signed release to play their music. While music organizations like BMI, ASCAP are great for blanket coverage for member artists, unsigned artists in many cases are not members of these organizations and therefore not covered.

While many artists would be happy for you to play their music I can assure you that many will not be. We run an indie station (primarily windows media instead of shoutcast) and have a rather large filing cabinet filled with thousands of signed releases, one for each artist/album that we play.

Many artists want to really control their music and would not be pleased to find you playing their music without their signed approval - and heaven help you if you allowed it to be downloaded from your site.

We even detail which songs on their albums are theirs and free to play and those that contain samples, voice tracks or covers from other artists where they cannot sign for that use release.

It can be done, but be prepared to put in a lot of grunt work to deal with thousands of individual artists instead of just a few music organizations.

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