How to Track Amazing Radio Plays: Free Tools | TAP
Free tools for tracking Amazing Radio plays
By TAP Editorial Team
Quick answer
Amazing Radio publishes what it plays, so start there: amazingradio.com/aired lists recently played tracks and amazingradio.com/chart carries the weekly Amazing Chart. Then look for the lift in Spotify for Artists, Apple Music for Artists and Shazam for Artists, all free, across the seven days after your airtime rather than the same evening. Every tool below costs nothing.
Getting played on Amazing Radio is the easy part to celebrate and the hard part to measure. A play happens once, at a time you may not be awake for, and the effect on your streams shows up days later mixed in with everything else you did that week. The tools below are all free, and between them they answer two questions: did the play happen, and did anything follow it. Set them up before your release date, not after, so you have a before-and-after rather than a guess.
Amazing Radio's own log of tracks that have just gone out on air, with the artist and track named.
Free tier: Public. No account needed to view it.
Best for: Confirming a play actually happened, and catching one you were not told about. Check it the morning after any slot you were expecting.
Amazing Radio's own weekly chart, published on the station site.
Free tier: Public and free to read.
Best for: Seeing whether your track charted and for how long. Take a screenshot the week you appear, because chart pages update and the old position goes.
Spotify's own dashboard: daily streams, listeners, where in the world they are, and which playlists are pulling the track.
Free tier: Free once you have claimed your artist profile. There is no paid tier that unlocks more numbers.
Best for: The week-on-week comparison. Note your daily streams for the fortnight before airtime so the week after has something to be measured against.
Apple's equivalent dashboard, covering plays, listeners and Shazams in one place.
Free tier: Free once your artist profile is claimed.
Best for: Radio listeners who buy and save rather than stream on repeat. Apple numbers are smaller but the people behind them tend to stick.
Shows where and when people Shazamed your track.
Free tier: Free with a claimed artist profile.
Best for: The closest thing to proof that a radio play landed. Somebody hearing a track they cannot name and reaching for their phone is a radio behaviour, and it spikes within minutes rather than days.
Views, watch time and traffic sources for your videos, including how people found them.
Free tier: Free for every channel from the day you upload. There is no subscriber threshold and you do not need to be monetised.
Best for: Spotting the search traffic that follows a play, when somebody half-remembers your name and types it into YouTube.
Play counts, download and sales figures, and the town each buyer is in, if you sell your music there.
Free tier: The stats page comes with any artist account at no cost.
Best for: Money rather than plays. A radio listener who goes on to buy the record is worth knowing about by name.
Plays, likes, reposts and listener location for anything you have uploaded.
Free tier: Available on a free account.
Best for: Tracking whether radio exposure moved anything on the platform where other stations and blogs often go looking next.
Logs what its users listen to across other services and builds a public play history for your artist page.
Free tier: Free account, free artist page. Paid features exist but the listening data does not sit behind them.
Best for: Repeat listening. A stream is one play; a scrobbler who plays the track nine more times over a fortnight is a fan.
Relative search interest in your artist name or track title over time, broken down by region.
Free tier: Free, no account.
Best for: Small acts should expect a flat line here most weeks, which is the point: a visible bump around your airdate is a real signal.
The queries people typed into Google before landing on your own site, and how many did.
Free tier: Free. It needs one verification step on your site to switch on.
Best for: Catching name searches you would otherwise never see. Somebody searching your name the day after a play heard it somewhere.
The station's American operation, with its own on-air page and its own recently played log.
Free tier: Public to view.
Best for: Checking whether a track that went out in the UK has also aired in the US. Treat the two as separate places to look rather than assuming one covers the other.
None of this makes the play bigger. What it does is stop you guessing. Two weeks after your airdate you should be able to say what happened, in numbers you wrote down yourself, and that is the thing you carry into your next release: a record of which slot did something and which one did not. Keep it somewhere you will find it again in six months, because you will want it when you are deciding where to spend your time on the next single.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly should I expect to see streaming lift after an Amazing Radio play?
Not the same evening. Spotify and Apple report a day or two behind, so the figure you refresh at midnight tells you nothing. Shazam and search interest move fastest, sometimes within the hour. Give it the full week after airtime before you decide the play did or did not do anything, and compare it against the week before rather than against zero.
How do I know my track was actually played?
Check amazingradio.com/aired the morning after. It lists what has recently gone out by artist and track. If you are expecting a specific slot, the schedule at amazingradio.com/schedule tells you what is on when, and the show pages carry track listings. Do not rely on being told: stations play records without emailing anyone about it, and that gap is where artists lose track of their own results.
Is Amazing Radio USA the same as the UK station?
They are run by the same group but they are separate stations with separate output, and the American one lives at amazingradio.us. A play on one is not a play on the other. If you care about both, look at both, and keep the two sets of numbers apart when you are working out what worked.
What should I actually write down after a play?
The date and time, the show if you know it, your daily streams for the seven days before and the seven days after, any Shazam spike, and a screenshot of the chart page if you appeared on it. That is a five minute job and it is the difference between remembering that radio went well and being able to say what it did.
Are Last.fm scrobbles a better measure than a playlist add?
They measure different things. Scrobbles tell you somebody chose to play the track again. A playlist add tells you somebody with an audience decided to put it in front of them. Radio tends to produce the first before the second, so if your scrobbles move and your playlist adds do not, that is not failure, it is the order these things usually happen in.
From the field
Proof points
- Named contact reply rate vs studio@: 5x higher (Liberty Music PR campaign data, 2024-2026)
- Best UK send window: Tue/Wed 09:00-10:00 UK (Across 60+ campaigns)
- Optimal follow-up cadence: +7 days from initial pitch (Liberty internal data)
- Reply visibility blind spot: Stations add to rotation without replying (WARM monitoring vs email reply rate)
What actually happened
Brii Elliss, WFUV: 1,790 outreach emails sent pre-release. WFUV replied in 30 minutes; the median reply was days, not minutes. (April 2025)
Amazing Radio is the most plugger-friendly station I have worked with. They reply, they tell you why, and they give independent acts space the BBC won't. The trade-off is reach. I treat Amazing as the early-stage validation step, the place where the campaign learns the pitch before it goes to bigger stations. That sequencing matters more than people think.
Chris Schofield, Radio plugger, Liberty Music PR
Related resources
Further reading
- TAP Blog — In-depth guides, comparisons and advice for independent artists running their own promotion.
- UK Music — The voice of the UK music industry, representing labels, publishers, and collecting societies.
- Music Week — Industry news, charts, and analysis for music professionals.
- The Music Network — Global music business intelligence and networking.
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