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Music submissions

We accept both physical and digital music submissions.

IMPORTANT: Do not submit your music to CKDJ via other station email addresses. We do not process submissions to other email accounts and these emails are deleted.

If you have issues submitting digitally, get in touch with the music department at ckdjmusicac@gmail.com.

Digital submissions

Consider submitting your music to SoundCloud, AppleMusic, Spotify, or any other online music site.

Use the form on the right for your submission keeping in mind the requirements in the following list:

  1. We prefer new releases but will accept music from the past two or three years as well.

  2. You can submit full albums as well as singles. We prefer if your music is submitted digitally.

  3. Please send albums in a zip format—transferring via wetransfer, DropBox, OneDrive, or Google Drive.

  4. Submissions should be in a high-quality MP3 or WAV format.

  5. Please include a streaming link (which we can direct listeners to) and biographical information, including focus tracks.

  6. Please highlight any songs that have explicit language. We need to take some precautions with those tracks as we must comply with CRTC rules and regulations.

  7. Are you local? We only play artists from Ottawa and the Ottawa area or are based in Ottawa.

  8. Genre and subgenre? Please give us an idea of what broad genre you fit into, then use the sub-genre field to get specific.

Physical submissions

Please fill in the form at the bottom of the page so that we know you have sent us an album in the mail. Doing so gives us a heads up that your album is coming, and saves us time with data entry.

If you have band swag (stickers, pins, even the odd shirt), please consider sending it along with your album. Our volunteers and members love that stuff, and it is helpful in prize packages to help raise money to operate CKDJ.

Send your album and/or swag to us via snail(🐌) mail addressed to:

Radio Broadcasting
Building N, Room N101
CKDJ 107.9 FM
1385 Woodroffe Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K2G 1V8

Tracking

Once we’ve received your submission, it will go into review rotation where CKDJ volunteers and staff ensure it’s appropriate for our library and airwaves. This process is about fit, not merit, so don’t take it personally if we don’t end up doing anything with your release. CKDJ aims to promote music not supported by mainstream media and we do take this into account when reviewing music.

CKDJ is an eclectic radio station, and many of our students have input on the music we play. Once your album has been added to our library, it’s all up to the programmers. Our job is to make music available to the programmers, not to tell them what to play.

Emailing us if the form doesn’t work

If you cannot use the form send your album or single zip file to us at ckdjmusicac@gmail.com with all the information we ask for in the form.