From the BBC to Russia: ZANNA RECORDS Music Now Reaches 477 Stations Across 99 Countries
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Built entirely without major-label backing from an off-grid ranch in the Arizona high desert, Zanna Records now airs on six continents — and the label's most striking new placements cross some of the world's deepest political divides.
SEDONA, ARIZONA — Zanna Records, the independent label founded by Italian-American artist and Executive Producer Gianluca Zanna, has confirmed that its catalog is now airing on 477 radio stations across 99 countries and territories on six continents, as verified by WARM (World Airplay Radio Monitor) and Songstats. What began as a one-man venture built from a solar-powered ranch in eastern Arizona has become a genuinely global independent music story — and its newest airplay data reads less like a chart report than a map of a divided world finding common ground in song.
A song called “Thank You America” — airing in Russia
Among the label's most unexpected placements: “Thank You America,” a patriotic anthem written by Zanna over 28 years ago, himself a legal immigrant who arrived from Rome in 1998 — has been picked up by a Russian station, “Orthodox Chants,” according to Songstats radio-monitoring data.
An American immigrant's tribute to his adopted country, airing on a station inside Russia, captures in a single data point what Zanna says the whole project is about: music travels where politics cannot.
The same message, from the BBC to the front lines of Europe
In the United Kingdom, Zanna Records music airs on the BBC — including BBC Radio York — placing the independent label alongside one of the world's most established public broadcasters.
And in one of the label's most powerful “music unites” moments, verified airplay data shows that on a single day, April 16, 2026, Zanna's music aired in Russia (Radio Pilot, Yekaterinburg), Belarus (Center FM, Minsk), and Ukraine (Yantarne.FM) — three nations at the center of Europe's deepest conflict, all playing the same independent artist on the same calendar day.
A catalog that crosses genres as easily as borders
The reach spans formats as much as geography: from the classical “Orthodox Chants” and Radio Clasic Vivaldi in Bucharest, to country stations in the Netherlands, to EDM and dance outlets across Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Spain has become one of the label's strongest markets, with a single station — Onda Amistad Radio in Alicante — spinning Zanna's music more than 60 times.
Recent verified additions include Crossroads Country Radio and Holland Country Radio (Netherlands), Radio Beat and Radio City Faith (India), Radio Folklore 90 (Argentina), Aquitaine FM and Clin d'oeil FM (France), Radio Blu Italia, Radio FM88 and Radio Blue Mountains (Australia), and nine stations across Spain including Flash Radio, Radio MAI (Zaragoza) and Free FM 80s (Madrid).
The numbers behind the reach
• 477 radio stations across 99 countries & territories on 6 continents (WARM + Songstats verified)
• Over 35.5 million total YouTube views
• 20,000 YouTube subscribers (vidIQ certified July 11 2026);
• 1.36 million monthly YouTube Music listeners — a top-5% creator globally
• “Wake Up America” has surpassed 20 million TikTok views (Songstats confirmed) and was licensed to NPR's This American Life
• Prior press coverage in Rolling Stone (US & UK), Forbes, Billboard Italia, Music Connection, Entrepreneur UK, PIX 11 NY, FOX NEWS San Diego, NBC Palm Springs, CBS Las Vegas.
Independent by design
Zanna Records operates with no major-label backing, run by Zanna from a 20-acre off-grid property powered by solar and well water, connected to the world by satellite internet. A former costumed gladiator near Rome's Colosseum before immigrating to the U.S., Zanna built the label from scratch beginning in 2022. Its catalog now spans more than 150 original compositions across EDM, rock, classical, and operatic styles.
“I came to this country with nothing and built this from a ranch in the middle of the desert,” said Zanna. “To see this music reach people in countries that don't even agree with each other — that's the whole point. Music doesn't need a passport.” Gianluca Zanna
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