To submit to the Daily Unsigned Radio contest through ReverbNation requires an EPK or an RPK that not all artists can afford to maintain. This only accesses you to "buy-in" talent, not the REAL talent that may not have the extra cash to dump into maintaining a venue to enter into contests. If you should decide to expand your search to artists, bands and musicians who may not be carrying RPKs through ReverbNation (ARTISTS AND BANDS JUST LIKE US) then you're invited to peruse our work and play any of our songs that we've provided downloads for...
A side note on the download subject is that, by providing a download, the artist has entered into a "hope" lottery that it may be downloaded and shared on a massive scale, such as on the radio or via streaming...Once a song is provided as a free download, you do have the right to stream it...that much is true regarding us (play our songs all you want!).
So, with that said, we now provide you with a pasted copy of the email we received warning us not to contact you directly:
Get Radio Airplay in Millions of Vehicles on Daily Unsigned Radio
Dates: Aug 15, 2013 - Dec 31, 2013
Location: Online
Submissions Open: Tue Aug 6
Submissions Close: Sat Nov 30
Submission Fee: FREE
Learn More
Event Description:
Daily Unsigned Radio will select at least 100 songs from ReverbNation artists to be added to its radio station which will be included on the Aha platform that is built into the vehicles of ten automotive manufacturers, including Acura, Honda and Subaru.
Daily Unsigned Radio offers unsigned artists a platform to gain fans and gives music lovers a great way to discover new music they might not otherwise hear.
Selection Criteria: Originality, Songwriting, Commercial viability and Vocals
Note: This opportunity is exclusive to ReverbNation. Any artist who contacts the staff at DU directly in regards to these featured opportunity slots will be disqualified from the opportunity. DU reserves the right to take further action regarding eligibility to submit to future opportunities.
About Daily Unsigned (DU): DU is the premier and highly curated New Music Discovery website. Since launching in June 2010, DU boasts 128 record label signings while featuring the best up and coming Unsigned Artists Worldwide. DU highlights all genres of music to ensure their listenership the finest of musical choices. A number of DU alumni have gone on to grace the pages of Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, Kerrang!, Billboard, XXL, NME, New York Timesand have performed on such national TV shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live, Carson Daily, Jimmy Fallon, MTV, MTV2 and The Voice on NBC.
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Thank you,
ReverbNation Team
Submission requires a free ReverbNation account and active subscription to ReverbNation Press Kits.
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Do you see that last line just above this one (where the copy and paste ends)? There's your "FREE" submission for you (it's rigged)...The subscription to a ReverbNation Press Kit requires a credit card and money every month...You may rob yourself of that prolific, astoundingly talented family oriented artist who's too financially strapped from taking care of family to be able to afford this luxury that's being transformed into a necessity, unnecessarily...For this reason (because of the unfair advantage), some of us have opted to never carry RPKs through ReverbNation in passive protest to what's being done to the less fortunate artists who can't afford them.
Some of us have opted to avoid FaceBook for much the same reason: It's becoming a cyber bullying monster, in itself, that's making talented musicians appear weak and neglected by their fans with all of the "stats" regarding Likes, visits and who's talking about them. FaceBook has too much power over the perception of artists' development and popularity on ReverbNation and now has become downright abusive. But the "Like" sellers, who can make any site (or musician) appear more popular so the followers will start liking it, are raking it in. Does FaceBook own those companies, too? Is that what's happening here? Make 'em unpopular and then sell 'em back their own stolen popularity? (Oops, didn't mean to pull your blankies back to expose your pissed-in bed like that).
It really all comes down to this:
Do you want talent or just some spoiled assholes with big credit ratings and too much money (some of whom would neglect family obligations to carry these RPKs)? That's the question you should ask yourself here.
ReverbNation is charging the wrong end, the artists, when they should be charging you and every other contest runner who presents such "opportunities". They should charge you for contacting us and associating their name to your contests instead of charging us...WE are the talent being provided for FREE here and it's more than insulting to want to charge the talent as a perverse, backhanded reward for providing yet another awesome reference in their talent bank. We need a ReverbNation-like site that understands that and handles it accordingly. Then the playing field would be leveled and you'd see music take a positive turn back towards talented artists and real musicians (who can play musical instruments) ruling the mainstream and airwaves again. And we'd stop being insulted by these "opportunities" that're nothing more than rubbing our noses in the shit that it truly is that we'll be passed-over, yet again, for some sluggards who had more money to dump on backdoor buy-ins than we did.
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