National Snack Blog

The Storm The Charts Campaign is run and best explained by Wes White thusly:

“This is a chart campaign that ISN’T about another old song by a famous artist, or about getting a song to number one.

We’re looking for 40 bands and musicians on independent labels or completely unsigned, and when we’ve picked them, we’re going to see how many we can make chart in the same week.

We’ll call a ‘success’ finding some good new music; a ‘win’ getting 2 or more songs in the charts, and anything above that is epic – the more the better.

Sound fun? Want to help pick? We’ll need over a million people in the group to take every single slot, so for heaven’s sake invite your friends. We’re 1.4% of the way there…

Deadline to apply (for musicians) is 23rd March 2010, or before we get 1,000 bands in. http://bit.ly/storm_me”

We are lucky enough to have our song “Rock n Roll” posted up for consideration so join the group and get involved and with your help maybe we can add a chart postion feather to National Snack’s cap. How coll would THAT be???

Even disregarding our involvement this campaign appears to be great exampple of what the internet can do for musicians and listeners alike. The community spirit is awesome and the ability to rebel against the musical dross that we are forcefed is a beautiful thing!

If you are at all interested in the wealth of amazing music that is available on the unsigned scene, (I assume that you are or you wouldn’t be reading this), then join the facebook group, join your sub group and start checking out some of the bands and getting ready to vote and download to storm the charts with some real music.

The list of bands so far is available here: http://stormthecharts.livejournal.com/ bands are listed in the order we applied, it is not a chart or leaderboard.

Get Storming!