Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- Slacker Radio
- Site
- liveone.com
To get your music on Slacker Radio, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
Slacker Radio is the curated internet radio service that now powers LiveOne, a listening platform built around hundreds of human programmed stations. Delivery there puts your music in the catalog those stations and their curators draw from.
Slacker Radio spent two decades building one of the most respected curated radio catalogs in streaming, and since 2017 it has lived inside LiveOne, the Los Angeles based, Nasdaq listed audio platform that rebranded from LiveXLive in 2021. The consumer app is LiveOne, with Slacker's technology and catalog as its audio backbone, and the service passed a million subscribers in early 2025, helped by a long running partnership that put it in Tesla dashboards. LiveOne's identity is human curation: hundreds of genre and mood stations programmed by real people rather than an algorithm alone. Delivery through Unchained Music places your music in the catalog those programmers work from, and radio spins there generate royalties that flow through the standard collection channels alongside your other streaming income.
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 Slacker Radio 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 September 2026
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
Yes. LiveXLive acquired Slacker Radio in 2017 and rebranded itself LiveOne in 2021, and the consumer product now carries the LiveOne name with Slacker operating as the audio engine behind it. If you remember Slacker Radio, LiveOne is where that service and catalog live today.
LiveOne ingests catalog through music distributors rather than direct uploads. Release through Unchained Music and your music can be delivered into the LiveOne catalog, where it becomes available to the service's stations and programmers.
LiveOne runs hundreds of human curated stations spanning genres, moods and activities, programmed by editorial staff. Getting spins is an editorial outcome rather than a guaranteed placement, so a distinct sound, clean metadata and correct genre tagging give your release its best chance with the programmers.
Non interactive radio plays in the United States generate statutory royalties collected by SoundExchange for performers and rights holders, and other uses are paid through the distribution chain. Make sure you are registered with SoundExchange so the performer share of radio spins actually reaches you.
LiveOne passed one million subscribers in February 2025 and reported around one and a half million total subscribers later that spring. A long partnership with Tesla put the service into car dashboards, which built a listening audience that skews toward long, lean back radio sessions.
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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