Who has had there music played on radio

What has it done for you if anything...and please no bacon jokes!

Me too 25 years ago. On local radio. That was with my new wave band.
One of these occasions was an hour during radio program with interviews. They had a local band every week.
 
And on local television too as an accompanying band for a singer that hosted a television show for kids. I remember I had to dress up as an aunt in a dress for the videoclip. These tapes are lost now of course.
 
But I'm sorry, I don't know any no bacon jokes.

I've had several of my original songs played on the air. 
 
A radio station sponsored a song writing contest and I submitted a song to it. That song won the contest and was played on the station for a few days. This actually happened 2 different times with 2 completely different radio stations.  One of the prizes was a portable radio..... I'd probably have appreciated a slab of bacon because at the time I was young and broke, and mostly hungry.
 
A band I was in played a community event sponsored by a local radio station and part of the set was played live across the air.  Nothing worth writing home about.
 
Some time later, I was driving down the road and heard a local station play one of my songs during a programming segment that featured local artists. I had sent them a CD with 10 originals and they selected one of them.
 
Nothing ever came from any of those events..... no royalties, and no record companies knocking down my door, and no bacon.
 

Never.
 
I've saved myself of the letdown.

Yes, a couple of times on local shows. It was fun to hear, but didn't lead to anything.

Yes, circa 1981. A Santa Barbara radio station had a local music show and our band was interviewed live. They played 4 of our songs.
We got famous and rich and then retired to Hawaii.
 

1979/80 Radio play mid-north cost Australia, including weekly promotions for events.  1988/89 air play, various radio stations NSW and QLD, Australia.  Early 1990s music video aired on ABCTV (Rage) and SBSTV (StreetNoise) including interview. 
 

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What has it done?
 

 
Obviously the best form of promotion for example, resulted in venues packed to the rafters and sold-out independently released EP.
 
Though the bad also came along for the ride i.e. insomnia, stress, anxiety levels off the charts, security, stalkers and writers cramp.  I never want to go through all that again, but if I had to? Be totally anonymous (some how, but I doubt that can happen)!  Planet Earth is a freaking nut house  
 

In my band days, we had a half hour slot on my then local radio station. It was called GWR then, but I think is called something else now. The evening show did a feature on a local band each week, so we managed to get on it one week to plug a 3 track EP that we had just released independently.(Was supposed to have been 4 tracks but ran out of studio time to mix the 4th and couldn't afford any more !). They played all three tracks and filled the rest of the time with band interview & chit-chat. It seemed very cool to the 19 yr old me.
 
Funny thing was, I worked in a factory at the time that had the same radio station playing in the background all the time and a couple of weeks later I was walking around doing what I was there to do and I heard the DJ introduce this "new" tune that he had taken a liking to after being given it by one of the other DJ's to listen to. It started playing and seemed somehow familiar, but I couldn't quite bring to mind why it seeing as it was supposed to be new and figured that it must be one of those that just remind you of something else..then.....D'oh ! I'd lived and breathed the bloody thing for months, but it took me until the chorus kicked for the penny to drop ! The singer also worked there and nobody would believe it was us on the radio until the next time it was on and he had to sing along to prove it was really him.
 
I heard it quite a few times over the following weeks at various times, and in the factory the various old (to me) women who worked there took great delight in singing along (read murdering it) once it became known around the factory floor that it was by "our" band. It was quite amusing to see/hear and I did feel just a little bit famous for a little while.
 
The EP sold enough to recover all the costs and anything over that got spent on tarting up our rehearsal room as it wasn't really worth divvying up 5 ways.
 
 

Very limited radio...but still get the occasional "pizza checks" as my wife calls them from movie and TV airplays. Almost embarrassing, really. But we still cash and spend them. Yum.

My band performed our  original songs live on the radio back in the day.

The song I meantioned above, "Thief" will make its radio debut on Sunday, May 3, in San Antonio. Got the message today around lunch time.

The closest I've had was when a friend used his iPod for the music at a large tournament event and had a couple of our songs on the playlist.  It was really cool when one song came on in the main hall and I heard someone say "Hey, who's this?  I like it!"