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RadioAirplay.com received over 1000 song submissions Friday through Sunday. Our friend's at the Independent Music Awards have helped us narrow it down to a Top 10 and only ONE will be chosen by Thursday Jan 31st for a Free Entry into the 17th annual IMA's! Here are the Top 10:   Amber Carter - Drive You Away (Country) Austin Mulka - Soul (Rock/Pop) Rick Cedana - Gold (Dance/Electronica) vitaminsound - Neptune (Ambient/Instrumental) LEX - LUST (Pop) Shiraz - Simmer Down (R&B) Mosley Bar - Record Sleeve (Alt Rock) Midnight Dreamers - I'll Hold You (Alternative) Secret Shores - A Greater Danger (Rock/Metal) J. Asadi - Sky's the Limit (Hip Hop/Rap) Submitted your song but not an IMA Top 10? Not to worry! Your Radio Airplay Song Contest submission is still in consideration for Relix and Unsigned Only prize packages. Stay tuned this week for IMA's free entry winner! Haven't entered the Th...

Meet Brandon Reisdorf, ISC Finalist! ISC entries are now closed but you can enter your songs and be a finalist like Brandon for Unsigned Only right from your RadioAirplay.com Dashboard! I'm a singer-songwriter and fiddle player from the Chicago area. I've been playing music since I started on the violin as a kid. A few years later, I picked up the guitar and started singing. I studied Music Theory & Composition in college, with a second major in Philosophy. Looking back, I couldn't have picked a better pairing - especially as they relate to songwriting. Both areas are such a big part of my daily life, although the combination does tend to raise some eyebrows on a resume. During school I also actively studied the violin and classical voice. After graduating, I found myself more attracted to acoustic folk music and bluegrass. I started playing country music because that is where the fiddle gigs were, but I eventually fell in love with the world of songwriting. Nowaday...

Russ Parrish is an award winning singer/songwriter Nashville native who moved to Minnesota in 2016. Influenced by artists and bands like Switchfoot, NEEDTOBREATHE, and Phil Wickham, his desire is to write and play songs of hope that everyone can sing. Russ has won several awards including grand prize in the 2018 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the gospel category, grand prize in the 2017 Minnesota Sate Fair Amateur Talent Contest, and honorable Mention in American Songwriter Magazine. His music focuses on the journey between faith and doubt, seeking the light of hope wherever darkness is found. Hear the journey in his songs. Can you describe your sound in one ramble-on sentence? Honestly, I just take whatever I’m feeling at the time and make some music with whatever lyrics are going on in my head… it’s kind of a mess of pop/rock/folk/singer-songwriter…yeah….I’m confused too…   What's your earliest music-related memory growing up? When I was li...

Top 10 Songs for Week 1, 2019 2018-12-31 - 2019-01-06 I got the blues Dia Grover Soul Fayette, MS, United States  Blue horizon Michael Wark Rock Long Beach Island, NJ, United States        You'll Believe (Pop Version) Kaz Bielinski Folk Huntington Beach, CA, United States        SlowDance The Heart of Effingham Country Effingham, IL, United States  A Brave New World (Finale, Symphonic Sui… Mark John McEncroe Composer Classical Sydney, Australia          Never Ending Struggle The Conscious Underground Reggae Toronto, Canada      Heaven Bound Browning Alternative/Alt. Rock Chicago, IL, United States    True Love Calvin Taylor R&B Hatfield, PA, United States        Te Siente Bien G-One (Puerto Rico) Hip Hop/Rap San Juan, Puert...