Get Featured in Magnetic Magazine

Magnetic Magazine covers music, a field where more new songs arrive every week than any publication could listen to. Coverage won by cold submission usually goes to artists who already have a label, a publicist or a visible run of streams behind them. With a guaranteed placement, the outlet is confirmed first, you approve every word, and the article publishes on magneticmag.com inside the window written into your scope, usually three days. It is a real article on the site that you can put in a proposal, a deck or a profile.

What Magnetic Magazine covers

Magnetic Magazine is a music publication serving readers in international markets. Publications in this category cover new releases and the people who make them: recording artists, rappers, singers, producers, DJs and songwriters, along with the labels, managers and companies around them. Coverage usually takes the form of release news, artist profiles, interviews and features that tell listeners who is behind a song and why it is worth their time.

Releases set the rhythm of music coverage. A single, an album, a video, a tour or a signing gives a publication something to write about this week, and the strongest features use that moment to tell a longer story about the artist. Influences, the city or scene someone came up in, the way a record was made and what it cost to make it are the details readers come for.

Who reads Magnetic Magazine

People read a music publication like Magnetic Magazine because they want to hear something new: listeners in international markets building playlists, fans keeping up with a genre, and people who like knowing about an artist early. Music coverage is also read by the industry, including managers, label staff, booking agents, promoters, playlist curators and other writers.

That is useful because music careers are built on proof. A feature in Magnetic Magazine gives you a written account of your sound and your story in a publication dedicated to music, which strengthens everything from an electronic press kit to a grant application. Promoters, talent buyers and brand partners read coverage like this to decide who is worth a slot or a conversation.

What coverage in international markets means for your brand

A name that is known in one country can be unknown in the next. Magnetic Magazine is read internationally, so a feature there carries your story to audiences in international markets who would not see local coverage from your home market. That matters for cross-border sales, for partnerships, and for the moment a prospect overseas searches your name.

The people who want coverage in international markets usually work across borders already or intend to. They include founders seeking overseas investors, brands looking for foreign distributors, and firms recruiting internationally. Family offices, real estate developers and education providers with clients abroad are frequent as well.

A story is ready for Magnetic Magazine when the music is finished and available, or has a firm date. Many readers will go looking for it the moment they finish the article. Beyond that, they want to know what makes you different: the influences, the scene you came from, the way you work and what this particular release means to you.

We begin by settling on one angle from the list below. Most artists and music companies have several that could work, and choosing the right one for this audience is where the piece is won.

What weakens a pitch

• Unfinished work. Demos, rough mixes and ideas for a project are hard to write about. It is usually better to wait for a finished release.
• Other people’s stories. A piece that leans on who you have opened for or stood beside says little about your own music.
• No sense of place. Music comes from somewhere. Leaving out the city, the scene or the community behind the sound removes the detail readers connect with.
• Vague release plans. “New music soon” gives listeners nothing to do. A title, a date and a place to hear it turn interest into a play.