Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- Hangout FM
- Site
- hangout.fm
- Social
- @hangout.fm
To get your music on Hangout FM, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
Hangout FM isn’t just about listening, it’s about hanging out. Built as a social first streaming platform, Hangout FM turns music into a shared experience, where fans discover tracks together, join conversations, and connect through sound. For artists, it’s a chance to place their music in a space that values interaction as much as play counts. Through Unchained Music, creators can distribute to Hangout FM alongside 150+ global platforms, ensuring their songs live where fans gather, chat, and celebrate music together.
Hangout FM is an internet radio and music discovery platform that blends curated stations with social listening features to create an engaging, community driven experience. Designed for users who enjoy both personalization and nostalgia, Hangout FM offers a wide range of genre focused channels, thematic playlists, and throwback hits, allowing listeners to explore music in a relaxed, radio like environment. Its interface emphasizes simplicity and mood based discovery, making it easy for users to find music that suits any moment. A notable element of Hangout FM is its social component, which invites listeners to connect, share favorites, and engage with music together in real time. The platform’s lightweight design and broad accessibility have helped it attract a diverse audience looking for an alternative to algorithm heavy streaming services. By combining classic radio sensibilities with modern digital features, Hangout FM offers a unique, community oriented approach to online listening.
The same four steps for every release, whichever stores you send it to.
Sign up and pick the plan that fits. Grow is one artist profile, Pro is three and adds editorial pitching.
Audio, artwork and the metadata that travels with them: titles, credits, release date and rights.
Select Hangout FM at store selection, along with everywhere else you want the release to land.
A person checks the release before it leaves. It typically appears on the platform within 24 hours to 7 days.
Updated August 2026
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
Hangout FM is a social music platform where users join themed rooms, listen to streaming music together, and chat in real time. It blends music discovery with interactive community features, making it ideal for engaging new audiences organically.
Hangout FM receives audio files, artwork, and metadata through approved distributors who deliver content according to platform specifications. Once processed, tracks become available for playback in user created rooms and curated community sessions.
Hangout FM highlights tracks through genre rooms, trending communities, curated playlists, DJ style hosts, and algorithmic suggestions based on listening behavior. Songs frequently played in active rooms often gain extra visibility across the app.
Hangout FM requires accurate track titles, artist names, genre categories, mood descriptors, and rights information. Clean metadata ensures songs appear correctly in search, room recommendations, and community playlists.
Royalty payments are based on streaming activity within rooms and on demand listening sessions. Hangout FM reports usage to distributors, who then allocate earnings to labels and artists following standard royalty reporting cycles.
Set the release up in the app and it goes to this platform with the rest of them, delivered to spec and checked by a person first.
Upload the release yourself in the app, on the plan that fits, and send it to every store you want in one go.
Start DIYFor multi-release plans and label rosters, scoped with the services team before anything starts.
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