A paid submission call.
An honest curator.
No lottery.
Every month I listen to every AI-created or AI-assisted song submitted. Up to five get featured with a real write-up. Everyone gets something back. Nobody gets a guarantee.
Featured songs are selected from paid submissions. Payment is required to submit and does not influence or guarantee selection. Playlist adds and features are the curator's editorial choice alone.
Not every song is added or featured. Each one is judged on fit for the playlist that cycle.
All Jukebox entries are final and non-refundable. Your entry fee pays for a listen and a decision, never for a placement, so it doesn’t change whether your song is added or featured.
The only difference is feedback, not odds.
Paying more never improves your chance of being featured. It buys you my written notes either way. That's the entire distinction between the two tiers.
A real listen. A genuine shot at being featured. No individual written feedback. Includes the monthly collective note.
SUBMIT MY SONGEverything in the $8 tier, plus guaranteed written feedback delivered on publish day, win or lose.
SUBMIT + GET FEEDBACKReal notes,
not a form letter.
The $30 tier adds a written note from me, picked or not. It says what's working, what would make the song stronger, and where it landed and why. Here's an example with a made-up song and artist.
Late Train Home
Hi Sam,
Here's your written feedback on "Late Train Home", and it comes with good news: the song is now on Slow Lane: Soft Rock and Adult Contemporary.
What's working
The lyrics and the music move together the whole way through. When the story turns in the second verse, the arrangement opens up with it, and the chorus lands like it has earned the space. The production is clean, and it sounds like a band playing in one room, not parts stacked on top of each other.
What would make it stronger
The music is ready. What's lagging is everything around it. Build out your Spotify artist page and add a designed Canvas for this song. A sound this polished deserves visuals that set it apart, and right now the music is ahead of the brand.
Where it landed and why
Slow Lane, because it's easy listening that still holds your attention on the tenth play.
"Hi Maya, here's your written feedback on 'Glass Rooms'. It isn't on a playlist this cycle for one reason: it isn't out on Spotify yet. Once it is, send me the link and I'll add it to a playlist." The same three parts and the close follow.
Your note arrives by email on results day, whether or not the song is picked. It doesn't change your odds.
The features.
Up to five songs get a written feature each month. Here they are, so you can hear what got picked. The count for every song entered, picked or not, is in the numbers above.
Simple mechanics, no fine print.
Submit your track and choose your tier. AI-created or AI-assisted music only, any genre.
I listen to every submission. The full track, not the first eight seconds, as submissions arrive through the month.
Up to five songs are featured monthly with a real written post on the Jukebox blog. Fewer than five if fewer earn it.
$30 submitters get written notes on publish day, regardless of outcome.
Everyone else gets the collective note: what separated the tracks that held my attention this month, no names attached.
Same pattern, every cycle.
| Ongoing | Submissions open |
| 2nd Friday | Submissions close for that month's cycle |
| 3rd Friday | Features publish, collective note goes out |
Submit any time. Your track is considered for whichever cycle it lands in ahead of that month's 2nd Friday close. Anything that arrives after the close rolls into the next month's cycle automatically.
You still get something real.
Every entrant who didn't pay for individual feedback still gets the collective note when the cycle publishes: a real write-up of what worked across the tracks that made the cut, and what patterns showed up in the ones that didn't. It's not a rejection form. It's the same pattern-level teaching that runs through everything else here.
What $8 buys,
and what it doesn't.
A full listen and a decision. Never a spot. Your $8 pays for my time with your song, start to finish, and a yes or no on results day.
A pick is either one of two things: I add your song to one of the seven Jukebox playlists on Spotify, or I feature it with a written post on the Jukebox blog. A song that gets both still counts once. Up to five songs get a feature each month.
No. It buys my written notes, and they come either way, picked or not. Both tiers get the same listen and the same shot.
No. Nothing here promises a playlist add, a feature or a stream count. The Jukebox never involves paid streams or bots.
What people ask before submitting.
No. Payment gets your song a real listen and a genuine shot. It does not buy placement. The disclosure at the top of this page is the actual rule, not marketing language.
Any genre: country, pop, industrial, whatever you make. What I'm specifically listening for is AI-created or AI-assisted music. This isn't an open call for human-only production; it's built around the same craft this whole site teaches.
Not to be featured. Every feature gets a written post on the Jukebox blog. Separately, any submitted song, featured or not, can be added to one of the Jukebox playlists on Spotify if it fits, and that part only works if the song is released there. If yours is, submit the Spotify link. If it isn't released yet, enter it anyway. It can still be picked, and you send me the Spotify link once it's out so I can add it.
Every cycle closes on the 2nd Friday of the month, and features publish the 3rd Friday. Anything submitted after the close rolls into the next month's cycle automatically.
A written post on the Jukebox blog, with the track embedded and a real note on why it made the cut.
No. This is a paid submission call for editorial consideration, not a promotion service and not a guarantee of any outcome.
Same honest-curation spirit, different mechanics. This is a monthly editorial call with a published disclosure and a public write-up, not a rolling per-curator queue.
No. Jukebox is its own thing, unconnected to any third-party curation platform. Paying me for mastering or anything else never affects whether your track is featured.
Waiting on the next cycle? Take the 3-minute scorecard and see what your track needs before you submit.
Check where
your song is.
Type the order number from your confirmation email. It starts with JGB-J.