Zanna Records on Air in 397 Stations Across 88 Countries — Breaks Into UK Market Without a Single Pitch
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Independent label lands on 18 UK stations — including a London broadcast reaching a verified audience of 559,000 — with no submissions, no pitches, and no PR push to UK radio. Catalog tracks are simultaneously being discovered by community broadcasters in Germany, the Netherlands and Haiti, six weeks ahead of the label’s June 21 release with Grammy-nominated keyboardist Joseph Wooten.
ARIZONA — May 20, 2026. Zanna Records, the independent music label founded by songwriter and executive producer Gianluca Zanna, has broken into the United Kingdom radio market without submitting a single track to UK radio. Zanna Records music is now in rotation on 18 UK stations — from London to Sunderland, Birmingham to Plymouth — anchored by a WARM-verified noon broadcast on London’s Only Old Skool Radio reaching 559,000 listeners.
The UK breakthrough is part of a verified global footprint of 397 radio stations across 88 countries on six continents, confirmed through WARM (World Airplay Radio Monitor) and Songstats.
18 UK STATIONS ON AIR | 559,000 VERIFIED UK AUDIENCE | ZERO UK SUBMISSIONS MADE | 397 STATIONS WORLDWIDE |
🇧 THE UK BREAKTHROUGH — LONDON, MAY 18, 2026
On May 18, 2026 at 12:00 noon London time, Only Old Skool Radio aired “You Are My Destiny — Remix” to a WARM-verified audience of 559,000 listeners — a prime midday slot, not an overnight rotation filler. Founded in 2010, Only Old Skool Radio is one of the UK’s most established electronic music heritage stations, broadcasting 24/7 under the motto “Only Originate Never Pirate.” The station champions old skool hardcore, rave, jungle, house and techno with themed programming six days a week, and carries a genuine transatlantic listenership rooted in the original acid house and rave culture.
Zanna Records has never pitched, submitted, or promoted any track to UK radio. Every UK placement to date has been initiated by the stations themselves.
THE 18 UK STATIONS PLAYING ZANNA RECORDS — ALL DISCOVERED ORGANICALLY
STATION | CITY / REGION | STATUS |
Only Old Skool Radio | London | ★ 559,000 audience (verified) |
Dance Attack FM | Gloucester | On WARM rotation |
Dance UK Radio | London | On WARM rotation |
London | On WARM rotation | |
East Herts Radio CIC | Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire | On WARM rotation |
Euroindiemusic Radio | United Kingdom | On WARM rotation |
Fantasy Radio | United Kingdom | On WARM rotation |
Ferndale Community Radio | Plymouth | On WARM rotation |
Kbit Play | United Kingdom | On WARM rotation |
LWR Radio House | London | On WARM rotation |
Prodigal Sun Radio | Walsall | On WARM rotation |
RFTK Radio | Doncaster | On WARM rotation |
SG1 House | Stevenage | On WARM rotation |
Sonance Sessions Radio | London | On WARM rotation |
Spark FM | Sunderland | On WARM rotation |
Spectrum On Air | Milton Keynes | On WARM rotation |
Sword Radio UK | Essex | On WARM rotation |
XRP Radio | Birmingham | On WARM rotation |
★ = Highest verified UK audience. All 18 UK stations confirmed through WARM (World Airplay Radio Monitor).
“I have built Zanna Records global radio footprint through the last 12 months of direct outreach to stations and programmers — that is real work. But the UK is different: we never sent a single pitch, and the UK is playing the music anyway. When a London station with a 559,000 audience plays your record at noon, unsolicited, that is not luck — that is the music doing its work.”
— Gianluca Zanna, Founder, Zanna Records
ORGANIC DISCOVERY — SUPPORTING EVIDENCE FROM THREE CONTINENTS
While Zanna Records actively works direct outreach in many markets, several recent placements have come entirely from station-initiated discovery, mirroring the UK pattern:
🇩🇪 Germany — On May 17, 2026, coloRadio (98.4 / 99.3 FM, Dresden) aired “Show Me the Law (Instrumental Version),” a spaghetti western instrumental composed by Gianluca Zanna in 2010 and mastered by sound engineer Brian Reeves (U2, Donna Summer, Billy Idol, Carlos Santana). coloRadio is a non-commercial community broadcaster on air since 1993, staffed by volunteers, with no chief editor — programming decisions are made by a plenum, ensuring editorial independence.
🇳🇱 Netherlands — On April 9, 2026, Echoradio in Amsterdam added the same track to its rotation. Echoradio is one of Amsterdam’s most respected independent stations — a tastemaker community broadcaster with over 150 radio makers, recently relocated to Oedipus Brewery in Amsterdam-Noord, and known for championing artists on artistic merit alone.
🇭🇹 Haiti — On July 4, 2025, Radio Métropole (100.1 FM, Port-au-Prince) aired the same track. Founded March 8, 1970 by Herbert Widmaier, Radio Métropole was Haiti’s first FM station, first to broadcast in stereo (1975), and first to play music on CDs (1980) — a 55-year cornerstone of Haitian media.
A song written in 2010, independently discovered by three editorially independent broadcasters across three countries in less than 11 months — with no pitch, no submission, no promotion.
WHAT’S NEXT — THE JUNE 21 DUAL-RELEASE
These breakthroughs land just weeks before the label’s most anticipated 2026 release. On June 21, 2026, Zanna Records will issue an instrumental soul remake of “You Are My Destiny” featuring Joseph Wooten — the three-time Grammy-nominated keyboardist of the Steve Miller Band and The Wooten Brothers , produced by Danny Saber, whose credits include U2, the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper and Madonna.
With UK radio already in unsolicited rotation ahead of that release, Zanna Records enters its June campaign with proven momentum in one of the world’s most competitive music markets — earned without major-label backing.
About Zanna Records
Zanna Records is an independent music label founded by songwriter and executive producer Gianluca Zanna. Built without major-label backing, the label has established a verified global radio footprint of 397 stations across 88 countries on six continents — grown through a combination of direct outreach to programmers and organic discovery by editorially independent stations. All airplay is confirmed through WARM (World Airplay Radio Monitor) and Songstats. Its catalog spans EDM, dance, rock, soul and cinematic instrumental music, with collaborations including Grammy-nominated artist Joseph Wooten and producer Danny Saber.
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