Music Submission

Cove FM welcomes music submissions for consideration for airplay.  We add new music weekly and play music by artists covering many genres of music with a strong focus on music by East Coast and other Canadian musicians .  If you would like to send your music to Cove FM please take a moment to read the guidelines below before sending us anything.

• Digital music submissions should be in a lossless format such as wav or flac.  This allows both you, and us to sound as good as possible on air.  We can not consider music submitted in aac, m4a, wma, or mp3.
• Music submissions must contain Canadian content info so we can properly identify songs that qualify as Canadian content.  All licensed broadcast radio stations in Canada have to keep track of this.  The MAPL system works well for this.  If you are not familiar with it, more info can be found here. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/info_sht/r1.htm
• Please include the artist’s name and song title in the filename.  This makes it easy for us to have the correct performer attribution when we are adding it to our library.
• We no longer accept CD’s or any other physical media.
• Please don’t seen us links to your music on streaming services or youtube.  We cannot play music that we have not been provided with a copy of.  

Music can be submitted by several methods.  Most music is sent to us via DMDS, PlayMPE , or Earshot Digital Distribution System.  

We will accept emails with download links from Dropbox, Google Drive, and similar cloud storage sites, from Canadian artists only.

We will not accept files attached directly to emails.  Due to the large size of lossless files, they don’t usually make it through with the emails and when they do, we will not review them due to security risks associated with opening files from unknown sources.

We will not accept download cards, files on self hosted sites or links to sites like bandcamp, soundcloud, We Transfer, Spotify, Itunes, or youtube.  These sites have no method to offer broadcast rights .

Thank you for taking the time to send us your music.  We love playing new songs.