(Hypebot) – SiriusXM features stations across many genres and categories, offering musicians and music marketers a wide range of opportunities to promote music. The popularity of any station can change over time, but one constant is that music drives most SiriusXM listenership.
Here are the ten most popular SiriusXM stations:
This list is based on the best available data that we could find, which came from 2021.
How to submit your music to SiriusXM
Playing tracks from new artists is a priority for many of the dozens of stations that play music on SiriusXM, But how to best to submit music for consideration airplay is far from clear.
If you’re working with a radio promoter, they may have contacts; otherwise, you’ll need to do some digging.
Most of the online articles suggested mailing a copy, but in 2023, that is almost certainly not the path to airplay success.
A better route is contacting each appropriate station directly. Some, like The Coffee House, offer an email address on their SiriusXM.com channel page. Others will require more digging.
One veteran radio promotion person said they regularly scoured LinkedIn and social media channels to find and contact individual DJs and producers directly.
Rick Barker offers this advice:
Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.
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