Hello everybody and welcome to the Digital Spy Song Contest!
Following in the success of some of the games across Digital Spy (in the Eurovision & X Factor forums), I thought it'd be really cool to get a song contest running. Think Eurovision, but without the countries.
So the premise of the game is quite simple:
- You will enter one song through private message to me (Carlisle156)
- After a few days of submission time, all songs will be posted in a song list on this thread.
- All participants must then send a vote by the time the round ends (for the first one, we'll use a week of voting and see how it goes from there)
- Voting will be Eurovision Style - ranking your top 10 songs, awarding 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1 points respectively.
- After voting, results will be revealed and we'll have our winner!
- The winner of the round will then be given the opportunity to host the next round.
Now, there are rules and requirements that you must abide by with your song choices:
- An entry MUST be no more than a year old, whether this be single released or an album track on an album released no more than a year ago.
- The song must not have already been used.
- The song must not exceed 5 minutes in length.
- Songs without lyrics are banned from the contest.
- Covers are also banned, only original songs.
Other Rules:
- You must not tell anybody which song is yours as the contest is to be held anonymously, anybody found to be telling people their song choice will be punished.
- Songlist reviews are encouraged, but don't let them get out of hand and be too offensive? It's okay not to like a song, but you don't need to absolutely slate it either.
- Failure to vote will result in a 12 point penalty to your song.
So the songs you send can be from any country in the world, in any language, and have either appeared in the charts or be an indie, inspired gem.
Any questions - feel free to ask, either on thread or through private message.
You have until 7pm Monday 28th April to send in your song choices to ME by private message.
Following in the success of some of the games across Digital Spy (in the Eurovision & X Factor forums), I thought it'd be really cool to get a song contest running. Think Eurovision, but without the countries.
So the premise of the game is quite simple:
- You will enter one song through private message to me (Carlisle156)
- After a few days of submission time, all songs will be posted in a song list on this thread.
- All participants must then send a vote by the time the round ends (for the first one, we'll use a week of voting and see how it goes from there)
- Voting will be Eurovision Style - ranking your top 10 songs, awarding 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1 points respectively.
- After voting, results will be revealed and we'll have our winner!
- The winner of the round will then be given the opportunity to host the next round.
Now, there are rules and requirements that you must abide by with your song choices:
- An entry MUST be no more than a year old, whether this be single released or an album track on an album released no more than a year ago.
- The song must not have already been used.
- The song must not exceed 5 minutes in length.
- Songs without lyrics are banned from the contest.
- Covers are also banned, only original songs.
Other Rules:
- You must not tell anybody which song is yours as the contest is to be held anonymously, anybody found to be telling people their song choice will be punished.
- Songlist reviews are encouraged, but don't let them get out of hand and be too offensive? It's okay not to like a song, but you don't need to absolutely slate it either.
- Failure to vote will result in a 12 point penalty to your song.
So the songs you send can be from any country in the world, in any language, and have either appeared in the charts or be an indie, inspired gem.
Any questions - feel free to ask, either on thread or through private message.
You have until 7pm Monday 28th April to send in your song choices to ME by private message.
