Start your releaseAbout TAP
TAP (Total Audio Promo) is music promotion software that plans your release, writes your press release and a personal pitch for every contact, and tracks every reply and radio play, for independent artists who run their own releases.
What TAP does
A release plan built backwards from your date
Give TAP the track and the release date and it lays out when the story needs finishing, when the pitches go and when to follow up. You start from a dated plan instead of a blank document.
The press release and a press kit on one link
TAP writes the press release from your brief, and no pitch can go out until you have approved it. The press kit holds the story, the facts, the artwork and a private stream on one public page you paste into every pitch.
A personal pitch for every contact
Each pitch is drafted for one named person, from your brief and what that person covers. You edit it, approve it, and it sends from your own email address.
Contacts with their sources shown
Bring your own contacts from a CSV, a paste or Gmail, and TAP shows why each one suits the release. It also offers a checked pool of outlets for your genre, and every contact in it carries the source it was verified from.
Replies, radio plays and coverage in one record
Every reply, play and piece of coverage is logged against the person it came from, so you can see which relationship produced it. Radio plays come from airplay monitoring rather than self-reporting.
Posts for the release, ready for you to publish
TAP prepares the social posts for each stage of the release and keeps them in a queue. You post them yourself: TAP never posts to your accounts.
Mix Check, free
Drop an unreleased track and TAP measures its loudness, headroom, dynamics and stereo image, then notes what a first-time listener would notice. It is free, needs no sign-up, and gives observations rather than a score.
What makes TAP different
Pay per release, not per submission or per month
Your first release is free, and after that each release is one pack, paid once: £59 for a single, £99 for an EP or £149 for an album. SubmitHub and Groover charge for every submission, so the cost grows with every curator you send to, and a radio plugger or PR agency quotes a fee for their time on each release.
A personal pitch to a named person, not a marketplace inbox
SubmitHub, Groover and Musosoup connect you with curators who have opted in to receive music, and you write one blurb that goes to many. TAP drafts a separate pitch to each journalist or radio producer you choose, and it lands in their normal inbox.
Every message on the record
Every message is prepared where you can read and change it, and stays on the record afterwards. With a hired plugger you usually see the pitches only as a report after they have gone.
The relationships stay yours
Replies arrive in your own inbox and are logged against the person and the release. You can export every contact as a CSV at any time, including after the release wraps, whereas a plugger keeps the relationships they pitched through.
Built by a working radio plugger
TAP’s founder, Chris Schofield, has spent five years pitching UK radio, and the founder’s own releases run on TAP. They logged 1,197 radio plays across 100 stations between February to July 2026, counted from the record rather than estimated.
The full side-by-side is on the comparison page, and what TAP will never build is on the principles page.
Who uses TAP
- Independent artists in the UK with a release date set and no label doing the promotion for them.
- Mid-to-higher-tier independents who have paid for PR or radio plugging before and already know some of the people they want to pitch.
- Self-releasing artists who write their own pitches today and want the preparation done without handing over control.
- Artists pitching UK radio, from specialist and community shows to BBC Introducing, alongside press and blogs.
TAP is not for anyone chasing volume over relationships, or anyone who wants outreach sent without reading the replies.
The team behind TAP
Chris Schofield, founder
I have spent five years pitching UK radio for other artists: a spreadsheet of producers, a pitch rewritten for each one, a follow-up on the right day, and a coverage report at the end. I also release my own French house as sadact, so I know the same problem from the artist’s side.
I started TAP in 2024 to build the desk I wanted for both jobs, and opened it to independent artists in August 2026. TAP is one person: I build it, I run my own releases on it, and I answer the email.
My next single, On My Mind, is out on 2 October 2026, and its press kit was built in TAP the same way yours would be.
Chris Schofield on LinkedIn · TAP on LinkedIn · TAP on X
The work behind it
These are my own releases, prepared and tracked on the desk I am selling you. Every figure is a count from the record rather than an estimate, read on 9 September 2026, covering February to July 2026.
How TAP works
Getting started
Sign up, add the track and its release date, and your first release is free. The release then runs through five stages: Track, Story, Send, Socials and Results.
Who you deal with
Chris Schofield, and nobody else. There is no account manager and no support queue between you and the person who built the product.
How to reach us
Email [email protected] and Chris replies within 24 hours. No support queue sits in between, including when you want to say TAP got something wrong.
Pace and turnaround
TAP prepares the plan, the press release and the pitches for you to review, and nothing moves on until you approve it. The release runs at your pace, not on an agency schedule.
Your data
Contact data is encrypted at rest and in transit, never shared between accounts, and held under UK law. You can export or delete it at any time from your data page.
Key facts
| Company name | Total Audio Promo Ltd, trading as TAP |
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| Type | Music promotion software for independent artists, used in the browser |
| Founded | 2024. Opened to independent artists in August 2026. |
| Founder | Chris Schofield |
| Headquarters | Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Website | totalaudiopromo.com |
| Core offering | Release promotion for one release at a time: plan, press release, press kit, personal pitches, and reply, play and coverage tracking |
| Pricing | First release free, then one release pack per release, paid once: £59 for a single, £99 for an EP or £149 for an album |
| Contract terms | No contract. You pay per release, or take the year plan if you release often. |
| Services | Release planning, press release writing, press kits, pitch drafting, contact sourcing, reply and coverage tracking, radio play logging, social post preparation, Mix Check |
| Communication | Email to [email protected], answered by the founder within 24 hours |
| Notable clients | None named. No customer has agreed to be named yet, so the proof on this page is the founder’s own releases. |
| Customers served | Independent artists, UK first |
| Projects delivered | 11 of the founder’s own releases run end to end on TAP, February to July 2026 |
| Competitors | SubmitHub, Groover and Musosoup (pay-per-submission platforms), independent radio pluggers and music PR agencies, and doing it yourself with a spreadsheet and Gmail |
| Social | Chris Schofield on LinkedIn · TAP on LinkedIn · TAP on X |
Frequently asked questions
What is TAP?
TAP, short for Total Audio Promo, is music promotion software for independent artists. It prepares the release plan, the press release and a personal pitch for each contact, then tracks every reply, radio play and piece of coverage. You approve every message before it sends.
How much does TAP cost?
Your first release is free. After that you buy one pack per release, priced by size: £59 for a single, £99 for an EP or £149 for an album. It is paid once, with no contract, and there is an optional year plan if you release often.
Does TAP send emails without my approval?
No. Every pitch waits for you to read and approve it, and there is no way to send everything at once. Pitches go from your own email address, and replies come back to your own inbox.
How is TAP different from SubmitHub or Groover?
SubmitHub and Groover are marketplaces where you pay per submission to curators who opted in to receive music. TAP prepares a personal pitch to a named journalist or radio producer and charges per release. Many artists use both, TAP for press and radio and a submission platform for playlist curators.
Can TAP replace a radio plugger or PR agency?
For some artists. If you already know some of the people you want to pitch and will put the work in, TAP does the preparation a plugger would. If you want someone else’s contacts and name on the pitch, a plugger is still the better choice.
Does TAP guarantee radio plays or playlist placements?
No. Nobody honest can guarantee a placement, and anyone who does is usually selling bots. TAP shows who was pitched, what the pitch said and what came back.
Who runs TAP?
Chris Schofield, a radio plugger and self-releasing artist based in Brighton. TAP is a one-person company, and email to [email protected] reaches Chris directly, with a reply within 24 hours.
Can I take my contacts and data with me?
Yes. You can export every contact as a CSV at any time, including after the release wraps, and delete your data from your account.