# Topic · 2 playbooks
Label Pitching
Label pitching is the practice of cold-emailing A&Rs, editorial staff, and publishing reps to place a song, EP, or artist on a roster. The fundamentals haven't changed in twenty years — subject lines that say what the song is, a short story about why this label, and a single playable link. These playbooks teach what passes the three-second filter and what gets archived unread.
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- Emerging Playbook Play 001 · 6 min
Submitting to Beatport — What Gets Approved
Beatport is the only retailer that still matters for electronic releases. Here is exactly what gets approved, what gets filtered, and the demo mistakes that kill a track before the A&R even hits play.
- djing
- release-strategy
- label-pitching
- Emerging Playbook Play 002 · 3 min
Pitching Labels Cold (and Getting Replies)
A breakdown of what A&Rs read in the first 3 seconds — and how to pass that filter without name-dropping.
- label-pitching