Real-time airplay monitoring & charting
Know whereyou're playing
Song recognition technology listens to major and secondary market radio and logs every play as it happens. Detected airplay — not reported airplay.
The difference
Radio still breaks records.
Guesswork shouldn't.
Distribution has changed completely, yet research still shows most music buyers discover new music on traditional radio. TRACtion measures that airplay directly — including the secondary markets other monitoring services leave out.
Reported airplay
Self-declared spins
- Depends on stations submitting playlists accurately and on time
- Open to inaccuracy and manipulation at several levels
- Thin coverage outside the major markets
- Arrives too late to change a promotion week
Detected airplay
Compiled in real time
- Every play matched by audio fingerprint from the actual broadcast
- Nothing to submit, dispute or take on trust
- Major and secondary markets monitored the same way
- Put promotion behind the stations and cities already reacting
What you get
Built for the
promotion week
Pull the view you need, filter it down, and hand it to the label in the format they asked for.
Song tracking reports
Follow a single by station, market and day. Sortable, searchable and filtered by any date range you set.
Station detection logs
Every detection a station registered, timestamped. The same sorting, search and preset filters as track reports.
Export in one click
Tab-delimited, Excel or PDF — ready to drop into a label recap or a weekly board without reformatting.
Full monitored catalog
Not just your own releases. See data on every track being monitored, so you know the field you're competing in.
Weekly TRACtion chart
The week's chart built from detections, delivered to your inbox — no login required to read it.
Fingerprint on file
Upload a track and monitoring starts. New CDX releases are fingerprinted as they hit the release schedule.
From release to reporting
Four steps, then it
runs on its own
Service the track
The single goes out through the CDX digital and disc service and onto the release schedule.
Fingerprint it
Audio is fingerprinted so recognition can match it against live broadcast streams.
Detect the plays
Monitored stations are matched around the clock. Detections land in your account as they happen.
Report and act
Filter, export, and point spend at the markets that are already moving.
Inside the platform
One account,
your whole roster
Labels and promotion teams run TRACtion together — with the controls to manage who sees what.
- 01Team accountsAdd promoters and label staff, activate or deactivate access as rosters change.
- 02Invite codesSend a prospect a code and let them set themselves up.
- 03Activity logsSee who pulled which report, and when.
- 04Station directoryEvery monitored station with its market, format and monitoring status.
| # | Song / Artist | Spins | +/− | Stations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wildflower Highway | 1,482 | +214 | 318 |
| 2 | Two-Lane Sunday | 1,247 | +96 | 291 |
| 3 | Whiskey in the Rain | 1,053 | −38 | 264 |
| 4 | Back Porch Gospel | 874 | +143 | 237 |
| 5 | Hold the Line, Darlin' | 652 | +61 | 198 |
Get started
Find out who's
actually spinning you
Send us the track and we'll set up monitoring. You'll see detections from the first week, and the TRACtion chart lands in your inbox every week after.
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