U-ROCK® ACADEMY · MUSIC DISCOVERY

Artist Airplay Pipeline

TRAINING SIGNAL ACTIVE
// GUIDE 002 · FROM SUBMISSION TO ROTATION

How a song gets on the air.

The network runs one pipeline for new music: the artist submits once, the station reviews, approval puts the track into rotation automatically. No email attachments, no thumb drives, no lost files.

Artists start here: artist.urock.network — the Artist Portal. Create a profile, upload tracks, target a station or the network pool, and track your plays.

For Artists

SUBMIT
1
Sign up at the Artist Portal

Go to artist.urock.network and create your artist profile — name, bio, photo, links. This is the identity every station on the network sees.

2
Upload your track

MP3 preferred. Large or non-MP3 files are transcoded automatically on approval — but a clean MP3 gets you through review fastest. Fill in the real title and artist tags; that's what shows on-air in Now Playing.

3
Pick your target

Submit to a specific station (your local market) or the network pool where any station can pick you up. You can see the status of every submission from your portal dashboard.

For Station Operators

REVIEW & APPROVE
4
Work your submissions queue

Dashboard → Submissions. Station-targeted tracks land in your queue; HQ sees every submission network-wide. Listen, check the tags, decide.

5
Approve — and it's in rotation

Approval uploads the track to your station automatically and assigns it to your local rotation playlist. Loudness is normalized fleet-wide — no pre-processing on your end. Decline sends it back with a status the artist can see.

6
Shop the Network Library

Every approved track on the network lives in the shared library, with a count of how many stations carry it. Any operator can add a library track to their own station in one step. A song carried in 5+ markets is flagged as a national candidate — HQ promotes from there.

House rule: real music, real tags, real artists. Empty audio files, mashed title/artist tags, and placeholder uploads get bounced at review. If the file plays clean and the tags are honest, the pipeline does the rest.