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Brian, I think it wouldn't be a problem as long as people could opt to display or hide the song plays feature. OurStage already has controls for all kinds of enable/disable options, and this way artists can see (for example) how many times their songs were actually played during the voting process for any given month. Theoretically, it would be the same for all artists (songs) in the same channel by end of each month.
For example, if you and I have a song in the New Age / World channel for June, by end of month we would both have gotten the same amount of rotations (judging plays) if we were in the same contest runs, the first 3 weeks, then the quarters for 4 days, the semi-finals for 2 days and the finals for 1 day.
It would be interesting for me to monitor how many vote/plays I've gotten in New Age channel as compared to another song in Instrumental or another channel, etc. It would give artists an idea of where the most voting is going on and which channels are the most active for any given month.
There's nothing wrong or bad about this, it's only the honest, truthful, transparent facts, and again, this info can be solely between OurStage and the artists who have entered songs into any given channel.
On the other hand, if I choose to display it (not hide it), then by end of each contest run all artists should have the same number of rotation/plays, right? The only thing that will vary is that some channels will have more plays then others, but that's to be expected because a channel with 1000 songs is likely to attract more voting/plays activity than a channel with only 100 songs, etc.
In this case I say... let the ARTISTS decide!
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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