Signal & Song.
How independent artists get heard. How they get paid. Features, interviews and the practical business reporting independent artists actually need — rights, royalties, publishing and how to get an audience without giving anything away.
The reporting nobody else does for this community.
Most music press covers artists who already made it. Signal & Song covers the independent artist with 400 followers — the bedroom player, the songwriter nobody has heard yet — because that is who is actually out there.
Artist profiles
Independent artists, told properly.
Rising musicians
The bedroom players and social-media talent worth watching.
Rights & royalties
Publishing, splits, contracts — in plain language.
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Edition 1 is open to founding advertisers.
Signal & Song will not quote you a circulation figure. This is the premiere edition, and any number we gave you would be a guess dressed up as data. What we will tell you is the standard the magazine is held to — because that is the thing your ad is sitting next to.
Every number is attributed
Named source, sample size, field date — or it does not run. Vendor-produced figures are labeled as vendor-produced.
Data gaps are stated, not filled
If the research behind a widely shared statistic has been withdrawn, we do not print it, however often it gets repeated.
A founding position cannot be bought later
Edition 1 happens once. The advertisers in it are the ones who backed the publication before there was a number to point at.
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Why that matters to you.
Most publications chasing your ad budget will hand you an impressive number they cannot source. A magazine that refuses to print an unverified figure is the one publication you can believe when it does report one — including the day it reports yours.
Formats, specs, deadlines and rates live on the magazine's own advertising page, so there is one version and it is always current.
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Want to be covered?
Submit through National Spotlight, or tell us about an independent artist doing something worth writing about.