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NTS Friends

Help Build A Better NTS (And Get Stuff)

£49.50 / year

Limited to 1000 Founder Friends

Friends With Benefits

  • A collection of five limited edition artist prints
  • Early access to an enhanced listener experience
  • 20% off NTS merch
  • A numbered black metal NTS Friends card
  • The knowledge that you’re helping to build a better NTS
£49.50 / year

Limited to 1000 Founder Friends

Your Support Matters

As the algorithm takes over, real music community is more important than ever.

Over the last eight years, we’ve thrown events, sold merchandise, collaborated with brand partners, and received funding from private individuals and the Arts Council. This has kept NTS running 24/7 and protected our creative freedom. It has also given a platform to thousands of artists and resident DJs, most of whom part-own NTS. But as more people tune in around the world, our music licensing fees go up, and the pressures on our streaming infrastructure increase.

NTS is dedicated to helping people discover incredible music. To stay ad-free and keep innovating, we need a little help from our friends.

The Stuff

5 Limited Edition Artist Prints

By Cali Thornhill DeWitt, Dean Blunt, Hassan Rahim, Martine Syms, and Patrick Savile. Free shipping worldwide.

Enhanced Listening Experience

Be the first to access new tech features across NTS in 2020, like live tracklists and higher bit-rate streaming.

20% Off NTS Merch

Discounts on everything in the NTS store.

Music & Fashion Discounts

Deals with selected NTS partners across festivals, gigs, audio and fashion.

NTS Friends Card

A black metal card, numbered in an exclusive edition of 1000. Free shipping worldwide.

Support

The knowledge that you’re helping to build a better NTS.

Artist Print Previews

A collection of five A3 lithograph numbered prints, on 300gsm paper. Printed sustainably in East London, delivered flat.

Free shipping worldwide.

Limited to 1000 Founder Friends

FAQs

Every Founder Friend receives all five prints.

Yes, everything included in NTS Friends is available worldwide. We will ship the prints and card for free, worldwide. Our payment service is set up to accept any currency - your bank may charge an admin fee for this.

Yes, if you order by these dates:

  • UK: 17th December
  • Rest of EU: 12th December
  • US: 12th December
  • Rest of the world: 8th December

We will email you 20% discount code for the NTS online store.

As an NTS Founder Friend we’ll be sending you periodic updates with exclusive discounts from selected NTS partners, including Braindead, Carhartt WIP, Womad, Primavera, Sonos and more to be announced.

Yes, but we will remind you before your NTS Friends membership renews. If you are buying NTS Friends as a gift, the membership will not renew automatically.

If you decide you don’t want to continue being an NTS Friend after one year, log in to MY NTS to cancel at any time.

Once you click “buy as a gift” and enter your payment details, you will have the option to enter a name and postal address of your choosing. The package will come with an explanatory gift note and a unique code, so that the receiver can access all of the NTS Friends benefits.

Go to nts.live/activate and click on the “activate” button. On the next page, click “add coupon”. Here, you need to enter your unique coupon code, which you can find on the gift note you received together with your prints and black metal card.

Please note, you do not need to enter your payment card details here, as someone has already paid for this for you. After this point you can set up login details for your MY NTS account, just follow the instructions on screen.

Definitely, please get in touch with friends@ntslive.co.uk.

We’re starting small, but we have plans to launch a wider listener support programme next year. Founder Friends will always get a little extra, as thanks for backing us at the very beginning.

Global music licensing fees, streaming infrastructure, studio maintenance, building new tech features, the costs of creating thousands of hours of great radio, and the 30 NTS staff that keep it all going. Keeping NTS weird and original isn’t cheap, and we want to maintain our creative integrity.

Sure, please email support@ntslive.co.uk.

Build a better NTS:

Limited to 1000 Founder Friends