By providing overplay with your details, we can put YOU in the shop window. Many artists, music fans, promoters, managers and record companies view the site daily, constantly looking for new, unsigned talent. Whether you're looking for your first gig or a new management deal, overplay is the place to be seen and heard plus it gives you a great chance to increase your fan base and get more people listening to your music.

Overplay also hosts the 'Play & Rate' competition. This is a great opportunity for artists to get some good feedback from listeners plus if the song gets through to the latter stages it will be judged by a panel of A&R men from some prestigious record labels. If that isn't enough their are some great prizes to be won too. Overplay also has its own radio player for overplay artists to submit their songs to. This is an excellent way to sit back and relax llisten to some quality unsigned tracks one after the other.

Its not what you know but who you know. No matter how much talent you have, you won't get anywhere unless you know the right people. With your own exclusive website you'll be able to have your details available for everyone who visits to see, listen and rate your music by displaying everything about yourself, from contact numbers, style of music to a history of your band to date, photos and your songs. Also your gig listings added to your artist site is also added to overplays overall gig listing guide and your most popular song gets entered into the overplay charts, every bit of promotion can only help.

Apart from overplay giving artists a platform to be seen and heard we also provide you with the tools to sell your merchandise to a larger audience. As well as promoting yourself you can also start selling your MP3's and merchandise with majority of sales going to the artist. Upload your merchandise items to a wider audience, add banner links, add your overplay artists web address on flyers, posters etc. Announce at gigs where to buy your merchandise and music from, and more importantly advertise through word of mouth and add that with overplays vast amount of daily visitors your exxposure would of grown.

To generate even more interest, excitement and lively debate, there are the overplay weekly charts. Artists get their most popular song entered into the overall chart and into the genre chart of their choice. Positions are based on the number of times a band's song is played from the artists site areas. The charts start from first thing Monday and end at midnight on Sunday, before being reset for the following week.

The artists websites are just the tip of a highly tuneful iceberg. Apart from being a platform for bands, overplay has an exclusive - and growing - musical resource centre. We continually collect all types of contact information and web-links that could help unsigned musicians, including:
Other unsigned artist sites
Record companies
Promoters
Venues
Charts
Music shops
Gig guides
And much, much more
Our aim is help artists get in touch all these people and, in turn, help the music industry find new, untapped talent. This database is a simple idea, but a valuable asset. It's where bands, fans and music lovers can come as their first port of call when they want anything from a rehearsal studio or a CD production company to a new gig venue or even a reasonably-priced second-hand ukulele.

It's good to talk and the main overplay message board is where bands, fans and music industry folk regularly chat, interact and swap information which helps to build and foster the overplay music community.