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; features are the curator's editorial choice alone.
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.
Everything in the $8 tier, plus guaranteed written feedback delivered on publish day, win or lose.
SUBMIT + GET FEEDBACKGetting featured isn't just a blog post.
Every featured song gets pushed across everywhere I already reach people, not just posted and forgotten.
Featured songs go out in the monthly newsletter to thousands of subscribers.
Featured tracks get mentioned on the podcast, which pulls thousands of downloads.
Feature posts stay live permanently on a site that sees thousands of visitors.
Featured songs get their own dedicated posts across social media.
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. Current cycle: submissions close September 11, features publish September 18.
Read the tracks that made the cut.
Every published cycle lives on the Jukebox blog — the featured songs, the write-ups on why they made it, and the collective note for everyone else.
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 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.
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. If you're also a client of a JG BeatsLab promotion service, your track is never reviewed through any outside curator role Josh holds. That separation is a firewall, not a courtesy.