Sound recording quality
Clean stems, recorded without noise or artifacts that carry into the master.
Submit your release for the official editorial playlists at Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and Deezer, and for the private playlists in our pitching network. Every submission is reviewed by our A&R team first.
Editorial slots at the stores are pitched, not bought. We help you write the submission and put it in front of the teams who program those playlists.
Editorial pitching, with the submission written to the detail their team asks for.
Editorial pitching for genre and mood placements.
Editorial pitching across its genre playlists.
Editorial pitching for its curated genre and mood playlists.
Editorial pitching sits on Pro. Third-party playlist pitching runs on both Grow and Pro.
Separate from editorial pitching: an independent, third-party playlist network. Every submission gets unbiased A&R feedback, and approved tracks are pitched to the independent playlists they fit.
Submissions that are not selected still come back with detailed, constructive insight on what to work on.
Across a multitude of genres in the pitching network.
Reach across the playlists in the network.
Tracks reviewed by the in-house team before they enter the system.
One submission, reviewed by people, then pitched for two months to the playlists that match it.
Send the track through your Unchained account with its artwork, metadata and the story behind it.
Industry professionals assess production quality, songwriting and overall sound, weighing objective elements over personal preference.
Tracks that are not selected come back with the reasons and recommendations for improvement. Approved tracks enter the system.
Your track is held in the system for two months and pitched to playlists it matches on genre, energy and mood.
We accept all genres, and artists of every nationality. The only bar is that the recording meets a professional standard.
Clean stems, recorded without noise or artifacts that carry into the master.
A balanced mix, mastered to industry-standard loudness for streaming.
Technical proficiency, with tempo and pitch held consistently across the take.
Professional software and clean execution, with no rough edits left in.
The record reflects the artist's own vision rather than a template.
Proper credits for everyone involved, and no AI voice cloning without consent.
WAV or FLAC, delivered with proper metadata.
Cover art and file naming that hold together as one release.
Real ears on every submission.
Every track that comes in is listened to by the in-house team before anything is pitched.
A sample of the artists whose releases have gone through the pitching network, with their stream counts to date.
Including the honest answer on guarantees, and what happens when a track is not selected.
Every submission is listened to by industry professionals. They assess production quality, songwriting and overall sound, weighing objective elements over personal preference.
Eight things: sound recording quality, mixing and mastering, musicianship, editing, artistic integrity, legal and ethical standards, file formats and presentation. Each one is set out in full further up this page.
You get constructive feedback with the reasons it was not selected, and recommendations for what to work on before you submit again.
The track enters the system for two months and is pitched to playlists that match it stylistically, on genre, energy and mood.
All of them. Mainstream genres have broader playlist availability, so there is more to pitch to, but nothing is turned away for its genre.
That is the curator's decision, and it varies by playlist. Our system holds your track for two months and keeps pitching it during that time.
On objective metrics: genre, tempo, liveness and DSP audience assessments. The aim is a playlist your track genuinely fits.
No. No pitching service can honestly guarantee a placement or a stream count. What we can guarantee is that every submission is reviewed, and that approved tracks are considered for inclusion by the curators they are pitched to.
Submit your next release for A&R review, and let the team pitch it to the playlists it fits.