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1204/10

Newsletter 11/04/10: Storm The Charts Voting Open Now!

12:01 am by joe. Filed under: Newsletters

Hello

As we’ve explained there has been a brief pause in the onstage action from National Snack recently while we got the Minds Ear Project trial together. However this does NOT mean that everything else is pausing for National Snack. Far from it….

We are very excited to announce that voting has opened for the Storm The Charts Campaign and if we ever needed your Snacky love it’s right now!

VOTING OPEN FOR NATIONAL SNACK IN THE STORM THE CHARTS CAMPAIGN

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR NATIONAL SNACK IN THE STORM THE CHARTS CAMPAIGN! or go to the following page http://tinyurl.com/snackvote **Please note that this link may only work until Tuesday night as we will then be placed in a different group of 5 for round 2 if we make it through round 1.

The Storm The Charts Campaign is building on the success of the Rage Against The Machine for Christmas number one campaign and aims to get as many unsigned and unknown bands into the charts as possible in a specified week in June. Over the next 10 weeks 40 songs will be chosen from the list of 573 bands that are registered. 20 songs will be chosen by a panel of judges and 20 will be chosen by public vote. We are happy to be one of the bands up for consideration and we need your votes!

THE SELECTION PROCESS

To explain how the system will work here’s Wes who’s running the show:

“We need to choose 40 acts from our list of over 400 (almost certainly over 500 by the time I’ve dealt with all the emails that came in in the final 2 days).

This is how it’s going to happen:

2 acts per week will be decided by public vote, and 2 by our panel (which is the former Glastonbury Unsigned competition panel, who were responsible for placing hundreds of unsigned artists, of all kinds, on stages all over Glastonbury Festival including the main stages between 2004 and 2007).

The public vote is going to be done over a total of 9 or 10 weeks but it will be fast-paced throughout.

Each week will comprise 4 knock-out rounds lasting just a day or two.

In the first round each week, the whole list of artists will be divided into random groups of 5, each with its own poll featuring links to the pages the artists have provided where their tracks can be heard streaming.

The idea is, you listen to the five songs, choose your favourite from those 5, and vote for them in that poll. Everyone will be able to vote in as many or as few different polls as they want to (or have time to). One winner from each poll will go through to the second round, which will feature a new set of groups of five comprising just the winners of the first round. So each week we’ll have -

Round One – (say) 100 polls of five artists each, with 100 winners

Round Two – 20 polls with 20 winners

Round Three – 4 polls with 4 winners

Round Four – 1 poll of just the 4 artists who’ve come through from Round Three, of whom 2 will make our big list of 40 winners – and then 2 will also be announced by the panel.

Then in the next week we start the whole process again from the beginning.”

This is a great campaign that will help a huge number of unsigned bands get some recognition and as lovers of independent music we strongly urge you to vote in at least one poll other than the one we are in. We would love to get through to the final 40 but what is really important is that someone does and that relies on you, on us and on anyone else that we can get involved. So get listening, get voting and SPREAD THE WORD!

You can let people know about the campaign by posting this link in emails, tweets, blogs etc: http://bit.ly/stormvote

Thanks for reading and happy listening!

Joe x