Guide · 5 October 2026
How to submit a demo to a record label
A lot of demos never get an answer, and often it isn't the music: the track never got played. Here is how to send one so it is heard, whether you send it by email or through Get Signed.
Finish it first
Send a finished track, mixed and mastered, not an idea or a loop. A label decides on what it hears, and it hears what you send. Leave out anything already released: labels sign music nobody has put out yet.
Send it to labels that release your sound
Listen to a label's last few releases before you send. A deep house label won't sign your hard techno, however good it is. A handful of labels whose catalogue sits next to your track beats fifty that don't.
On Get Signed: every label lists the genres it signs, and each genre has a pool that labels scout, so a track can reach labels you hadn't found yet.
Check that they listen
Some labels open everything; some open nothing. Look for signs that a label is listening: recent signings from new artists, a demo policy on its website, an address somebody reads.
On Get Signed: every label's profile shows how much of its inbox it listens to, and how quickly, before you spend a credit.
Make it easy to hear
Send one track, your best, as a link that plays in the browser. Put the genre, BPM and key in the message and say where the drop is. Keep the words short: who you are, what the track is, and why this label.
On Get Signed: your track arrives with its genre, BPM and key, and plays in 320 kbps from the start you set.
Never pay a label to release you
A real label pays for its releases. One that asks you for money to sign, release or promote your track is selling to you, not signing you.
On Get Signed: we check every label, and one that asks an artist to pay is suspended.
Keep your master to yourself
Don't send the file itself before there is a deal. A stream is enough to decide on.
On Get Signed: labels hear your full master but can't download it.
Know what happened
By email, silence is all you get: you can't tell a pass from a message nobody opened. Give a label a few weeks, then follow up once, politely, and move on.
On Get Signed: you see the name of every label that opened your track and every one that passed. If a label you sent it to doesn't open it within 30 days, your 5 credits come back.
When a label says yes
Read the contract before you sign it, and ask someone you trust if anything in it is unclear. On Get Signed the deal is made off the platform, between you and the label, and we take nothing from it.