[u][/u]
Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
Guys,

We have had 8 Awards cycles. The largest in 2009 had 560K songs entered from 185 countries and over 10K judges helped us do it. Our last Awards was in 2020. We still had a good amount of music, 230K songs and 17.7K albums. Then Covid hit and the world changed. It has not returned. Venues closed. We used to do 200+ live events a year in 100+ different cities. We even had meet ups for message board users because the community was active enough to have dinners and shows and workshops just among active users here in a lot of cities. This was mostly all before YouTube, Instagram, Tik Toc and Facebook became the norms.

For us to even consider having a "contest" even just a monthly "message board" version, it would have to be a large enough entry pool to justify doing it. I also do not want to equate a contest with a handful of entries against our history of 100 Genres for both albums and Songs and our smallest Awards, was the first in the 1997-2000 cycle, which still included over 1100 albums and 14K songs entered. To measure up to what it took to received recognition in those, we'd need at least a few hundred entries to justify it and we are just not there.


All that to say, if you collectively can wrangle even 100 people to enter, I would consider doing something, but it would be clearly not connected to the official awards programs of the past. And frankly, if the quality of entries can't produce at least 20 worthy of recognition nominees, it would be the last time we did it on a small scale. It takes a LOT of entries to find enough quality most of the time.

Brian

I was travelling on a motorcycle for the last 4 weeks, until yesterday. I didn't want to try to respond to this with a phone.


I don't see this kind of scale here. I don't know who all the visitors are from one day to the next, but the day-to-day engagers are a small number.
I envision a handful of participants in a song contest that might hopefully grow into a larger handful of participants.

If it beat trillion-to-one odds and a bazillion songs showed up...?
Then, limit it to the first 25 entrants.

An INVITATION post
" write a song in any genre about "the Love-of-your-life"...that did not happen."

Another VOTING post (in the same thread)
"I Marty aka Sunset Poet hereby attest and swear that I am who I say that I am, and furthermore am not of sane and stable mind.
Inasmuch as the aforementioned is presumed to be true, I cast my single vote for
"She/He/They Was An A-hole Anyway."

You count the votes and find it to be a runaway 5-3 victory for "She/He/They Was An A-hole Anyway."

All in the same thread. EZPZ. If or for some reason, it does not work...then it didn't work.

Think of it more as a local social club than a large international enterprise.

Your call.

Marty

https://soundcloud.com/sunset-poet-of-texas