First, A comprehensive Electronic Media Kit is developed for delivery to target market radio entities which include uploading a copy of your CD single to our Digital Delivery System, which serves thousands of gospel radio station nationwide. We serve the following radio station genres: Black Gospel, Contemporary Christian, Southern Gospel, Inspirational, Christian Rock, and Christian Jazz (No Hip-Hop).
Many of our radio stations are what we call 'reporting' radio entities. This means that these stations report to the standard radio airplay charts (CMJ, Radio & Retail, Billboard, etc.), and are monitored by licensing agencies such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc. which collect royalty payment on your behalf (providing that you own the rights to your songs); and are tracked by the Nielsen BDS tracking system). We get your music played on as many of those radio station as we can.
There are hundreds of non-BDS monitored radio stations that we serve as well. Although their airplay does not reflect the major charts, they do keep their own chart system, and they do submit royalty payment to the licensing agencies mentioned above.
We have implemented a system that will help us track and manage your music's airplay activity. We provide you with a report of what stations have added your music, and what type of rotation frequency your music is provided on that station. This report is viewed online, and only the client (you) have access to this information. This report is updated monthly. We do an aggressive push to get you into the station's daily airplay rotation. The process takes time, but does bring results.
PRICING
Your CD is submitted digitally, so there is no longer any CD manufacturing or mailing cost (unless you request a manual distribution which will then cost you $5.50 per station). The 'National' radio airplay promotions digital package is only $175.00 per quarter. Our quarters begin on 'Jan.; Apr.; July; Oct. You can submit, however, your single for airplay during any time of the year. We will pro-rate the cost for the remainder of the quarter. Subsequently, you can purchase as many promotion quarters as you wish. You can also buy a whole year of promotions for only$525.00 (That's a savings of $175.00 if bought seperately.
These prices cover any and all submissions to any BDS monitored stations in your Christian genre, and hundreds of non-BDS monitored stations in your Christian genre. We have thousands of Christians radio stations that we serve in our database; so no matter what Christian genre (except hip-hop) you're in, we guarantee that your music will be submitted to hundreds of stations nationwide.
Gaurantees?
We don't gaurantee that everyone will play your music (no one can do that), but we guarantee that each station will get a submission package from us, encouraging them to 'Add' your music to their playlist each week. This is an advantage you can't afford to be without if you want to reach radio airplay success. Our system is designed to save you time and money, and give you peace of mind that your music is pushed to the radio market each week. This is done in a manner that is both ethical and professional; and will speak volumes of your music's level of quality and integrity to each station's music director that receives your music submission.
Submitting your music should depends upon your desired radio release date. ICM releases new music to radio every Tuesday of each month. This means that you should have your project to our office 15 or more working days prior to your desired release date.
Once your music has been initally submitted for the station, we continue to submit your music electronically every other week for the next 3 months to give the stations a real chance to listen and 'add' you to their playlist. Some stations music directors will not add you right away, but may want to do so later. We make sure they don't forget and give them opportunity to download your radio quality track to their airplay system.