Club Ready Music tracks on radio

Yes. A Club Ready Music track can be played on terrestrial, satellite and internet radio. Broadcast stations operate under blanket licences from collecting societies that cover every recording they air, and Club Ready Music adds no restriction of its own.

How radio licensing works

A station pays its national collecting societies for the right to broadcast recorded music. In the UK that is PRS for Music and PPL; in the US it is ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and, for digital transmissions, SoundExchange. The licence is blanket: it covers the catalogue, not individual approvals. Nobody at the station needs permission from the rights holder of each track, so nobody needs permission from Club Ready Music or from you.

Internet radio is licensed in the same way, through the same societies or through the aggregator that hosts the stream.

Who gets paid

Stations submit playlists, and societies distribute royalties to rights holders registered for each logged track. A Club Ready Music track is not registered with any society by default. If a station plays it, the performance is logged under the title and artist in the file tags, but no money flows unless someone has registered the work. Registering an AI-assisted track as its writer raises the copyright questions covered in the related answer.

Getting the file right for broadcast

Radio playout systems ingest files and process them through their own loudness and dynamics chain. For that reason:

• Choose the Streaming −14 loudness preset rather than the club default. A −8 LUFS master arrives already dense and leaves the station's processor nothing to work with.
• Download the WAV at 24-bit / 48 kHz, which is the native format of most broadcast systems.
• Keep the Extended Mix suffix off, or use the Radio edit 3:30 option, if the station wants a shorter length.
• The MP3 carries title, artist, album, genre, BPM and key tags, which most playout systems read on import.

Station IDs, jingles and sweepers

Club Ready Music also makes short voice drops, jingles and commercial spots in a separate studio. They are covered by a different set of answers.

The practical rule

Send the station a clean file with correct tags. The station's licence covers the broadcast. The only thing to consider is whether and how you want to register the work to collect royalties.