Chart · Last 7 days
INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
Top songs by independent artists — releases outside the major and big-label groups — ranked by verified spins across our reporting stations over last 7 days.
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INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
Chart week Sep 26 – Oct 3 (Sat → Sat) · published Sun Oct 4 6 PM ET · ▲▼ movement vs. the previous week.
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About this chart
This chart ranks the most-played songs by independent artists on radio, built from 645,594 verified spins logged over the last 7 days across our network of 6,700+ monitored stations — FM broadcasters streaming online, SiriusXM channels, and internet radio. Every play is captured from a station's live feed with its exact timestamp and matched to the recording by title, artist and ISRC, so positions reflect actual airplay — no submissions, votes, or pay-for-placement. This week, 100 tracks by 91 artists made the chart.
What counts as independent here: a song whose release label is not owned by one of the three major label groups — Sony Music, Universal Music Group or Warner Music Group — including their imprints (Columbia, RCA, Epic, Republic, Interscope, Capitol, Def Jam, Atlantic, Elektra and the rest) — and not one of the large independent-owned label companies either (BMG and its BBR labels, Big Machine, Big Loud, Concord). Artists who have released music on a major label are left out even when a later release is on their own label. The label comes from the release data we hold for each recording; songs whose label we have not identified yet are not ranked, and a label that is mis-filed can be corrected — tell us.
The chart week runs Saturday to Saturday (Sep 26 – Oct 3) and publishes Sundays at 6 PM ET. ▲▼ movement compares each position with the previous week's frozen snapshot; "New Entry" marks a debut. "Plays" counts a track's spins in the window, and "stations" counts how many distinct stations aired it — a song with fewer plays across more stations often signals wider rotation than one hammered by a single station.
Click any position to see that song's full airplay history — every station and timestamp behind its chart run, plus its airplay map. Artists: if that's your record, claim your free artist page to own your data, or start an Airplay Campaign to push for more spins. Explore all radio airplay charts or read how our radio airplay tracker works.
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