For artists
We'd love to play your music.
We play the artists coming to venues across Canada, and tell listeners on air where and when to see you live.
Not-for-profit. Free for bands and venues, always.
No contractAbout three minutesYou keep every rightPlayed before your shows
1,284listens on Triple C (30 days)42 plays
612page views (30 days)148 this week
87followers+19 this month
53people going to your shows3 upcoming
Where your fans are
- Toronto, Ontario214
- Montréal, Québec124
- Halifax, Nova Scotia66
- Calgary, Alberta41
How it works for you
01Played before your shows
Our stream is built around shows coming up at venues across the country. In the run-up to yours, we play your songs and announce on air where and when you're playing, so the people listening know where to go.
02Your shows, kept up to date
We follow the calendars of hundreds of venues, so your shows are probably on your page already. Add any we've missed: every show on your page is a show we can talk about on air, and fans who follow you get an email for each.
03Good for the rooms you play
Every show we announce is a night out for someone and a fuller room for the venue that booked you. We're building this for the whole scene: artists, the venues that put them on, and the people who come out.
04Free, and yours
No fees, no contract. You keep every right to your music and can ask us to stop playing it any time. If you're with SOCAN, you get paid when we play you. And you see it all: listens, page views, where your fans are, who's going.
How to get played
Want to get played? Be playing.
Our radio plays the artists with shows coming up first, so listeners hear you before the night and know where to go. Everyone gets a turn, but bands on the road come first.
01Get us your music
Send us your songs: it's free, and a person listens to every one. Or release them under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-SA) on Bandcamp or the Free Music Archive, and we can find and play them too.
02Play shows
A show in the next two weeks puts you on the radio about three times as often, and one within the month about twice as often. Just played one? That counts for a couple of weeks too.
03Keep your dates up to date
Add your shows on your Triple C page, or list them on your own website with the date, venue and city: we check the sites of the artists we play every day. Every show we know about is one we can tell listeners about.
04Between gigs, you still play
No shows right now? You're still in rotation, just a little less often. And when listeners like your songs, you come up more.
Two things, five minutes
Here's how
Send us your music
- Drop in your songsOne song or a whole record, up to 10 at once.
- Answer three quick questionsWho wrote it, whether you're with SOCAN, who owns the recordings. Any answer is fine.
- We play you around your showsA real person listens to every song. We play them in the run-up to your shows and tell listeners where to catch you.
Claim your page
- Find your pageIf you've played a show, you probably have one.
- Press "Claim this page"Make a free account and tell us how you're connected.
- Keep it up to dateAdd shows we've missed, your photo and links. The more we know about your shows, the more we can play you and send people your way.
Can't find it? Send us your music or add your next show, and we'll make one.
Hi, I'm Andrew. I started Triple C because the music here is incredible, and there's no one place where you hear it, find out who's playing tonight and go. The station I grew up with in Australia did that, and it changed my life.
So here's the idea: we play the artists coming to rooms near you, and tell you where to go see them. If you're playing shows in Canada, send us your songs and keep your page up to date, and we'll do our best to get people through the door. And if we've met at a show, thanks for saying hi.
Andrew McGrath
Founder, Triple C · Why we're doing this · Get in touch
Questions
Good to know
Does it cost anything?
No, not for bands and not for venues. Triple C is a not-for-profit: no submission fees, no paid placements, ever.
Do I give up any rights?
No. It's a free, non-exclusive licence: you can release and license your music anywhere, and ask us to stop at any time. Read it.
I'm with SOCAN. Is that a problem?
Not at all. Make sure your songs are registered, and you're paid when we play them.
Can a whole band share a page?
Yes. Each of you claims it with your own account, and we add everyone.
How do you count listens?
Each time one of your songs starts, we count everyone tuned in. Page and show views count people, not search engines.
Where do my fans' locations come from?
The rough location of each visit: a city, never an address. We keep the city and a count, nothing else.