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Submit your album to Magnatune

If you're a musician and would like to be on Magnatune and MoodMixes, we'd love to hear from you!

Please upload your entire album. We do not listen to submissions under 40 minutes.

You can submit over the Internet: upload mp3s, point us to your myspace, soundcloud or home page, or postal mail a CD.

Look at our contract terms before you submit. You should be willing to sign the the agreement if we accept you.

We don't accept everything. In fact, getting on Magnatune is intentionally difficult: we accept only about 5% of what gets sent to us. Your album has to blow our mind.

We sell lots of music licenses, make good money providing memberships and run MoodMixes (which plays our music in restaurants and shops). We're a real business, so we're really picky about the music we choose.

You need to own the rights to your own music. That means no "cover songs". You'll also need to have more than 40 minutes of music available to release.

Submissions are accepted only from musicians or their management. We don't do business with labels: we're all about paying musicians directly.

Read this if you want to recommend an artist.

Submitting music over the Internet

  • You need to send us an album's worth of music (40+ minutes) to listen to.

  • If you send us less than 40 minutes of music, your submission will be automatically rejected.

  • You can upload files to us, point us to your myspace or soundcloud page, or have us download mp3s from your web site.

  • We'll email you once we've listened to your music.

  • You can check the status of your submission at any time.

    Ready? Ok, now go to our music upload page.

    Submitting a CD by Postal Mail

  • Our address:
      Magnatune Submissions
      454 Las Gallinas Ave, #142
      San Rafael, CA 94903
      USA
  • Write your email address and phone number on a piece of paper and include it with the CD.

  • Don't write on or otherwise mutilate your CD artwork (oh, the horror!).

  • We're not into marketing fluff, and we listen to the CDs "blind". Lots of our best releases came in on hand-written CDRs. If you're including printed material, save a tree and limit yourself to a one-sheet.

  • If we like your CD, we will contact you. If you don't hear from us, that means we didn't accept your CD (sorry!).

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