Case study · SEO and 2026 redesign

New Wave Music Radio

New.Wave.Radio organically to #1 on Google & World!

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The project

About the client

The client

New Wave Music Radio (New.Wave.Radio) is an online 80s new wave radio station with its own iOS and Android apps.

The result

New Wave Music Radio has achieved the number one spot on Google and the number one spot in its radio genre, beating out the well-known SiriusXM radio station channel 33.

What we did

  • Organic SEO to rank the station's website at the top of Google for its name and genre.

The 2026 website redesign

  • A new homepage around “The Sound of the '80s. New Wave Never Gets Old.” with the title “New Wave Radio | 80s Music Station”.
  • A six-card hub: Playing Now and Song History, Dedications and Song Requests, Top Request Charts, Radio Shows, Bands and News.
  • A USA Monthly Requests chart, a weekly countdown show and an evening request show shown live on the homepage.
  • Content built for search: Best 80s New Wave Songs, 20 Best New Wave Bands, a New Wave artist directory, albums and concerts.
  • A “Give a Shoutout!” dedication flow and a streaming partners page, including TuneIn.

Every station runs the same rebuilt WordPress and Elementor platform: a persistent live player with now playing and recently played, a show schedule, song dedications, charts, an artist directory, news and concerts, iOS and Android app links, an advertiser page, links across the NextWave network of stations, and Google Tag Manager, Site Kit and Google, Bing and Yandex verification.

[[Add results since the relaunch: traffic, listeners, rankings or app installs.]]

See the new site →

#1

On Google, worldwide

#1

In its radio genre

54%

Click-through rate from the top of Google

23.5k

Favorited fans on TuneIn (Dec 2024)

Results as reported in the case study.

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