I've noticed a fair few people always tend to do well in bjsc. I was just wondering how they do it. In my case the songs that tend to qualify are ones that have lower peaks on my personal chart. That doesn't guarantee success but I've noticed it usually leads to qualifying on my part.

Well, I might not be bagging the big peaks month in, month out, but I've been top 10 for the last 2 years and also pretty CONSISTENT. For me it's basically just send the song I like most at the time, although there is obviously a slight allowance for 'what will do well' too. It's finding the right place to SOURCE entries really. And of course avoiding the genre's of doom: R&B and Metal/Rock among others.

I think now with the indie-bloc growing you may find that POP becomes the genre of doom. :D

Well I would tell you if I had one, but my past form clearly shows i don't have one. One aim I do have for the future though , and what I tried to do this month, is to send something that people react to rather than are indifferent to. Because the make up of people in BJSC have two distinctly polarised tastes, even if some people hate it there'll be an equal response to it in the opposite direction. If that works for me this month then I'll try and stick to that for a while.

I think now with the indie-bloc growing you may find that POP becomes the genre of doom. :D

Lipstick going top 3 (and Armenian Girl likely to do the same tonight) suggest otherwise ;)

 

But yeah, there are 3 distinct blocs in the contest (pop, dance and indie) and I find that if I really appeal to my bloc (dance obvs) whilst having some cross-appeal then I finish top 20.

 

I am considering selling out next contest though oops (not even sure if it'll work too lol)

I don't think the 'blocs' are anything like as rigid as they used to be, it's just that there is a substantive indie bloc now whereas it was only a handful of people before. Obv the key is appealing across genres, I usually tend to straddle indie and pop (although usually about 80% pop, granted), which seems to work alright for me.

Dance/pop does the job for me

(More often a mediocre one than a great one but still)

 

It's what I love the most so that's what I usually go for. Some crimes have been commited by the BJSC crowd (Shotgun, Overdose, World Of Dreams DNQing bye) so you never really know what will do well

Edited July 26, 201412 yr by *Tim

Having impeccable music taste. :P

And of course avoiding the genre's of doom: R&B and Metal/Rock among others.

 

Would be interested if anyone could shed some light on what makes R&B a genre of doom? I would have thought it's relatively popular and many songs have crossover appeal from general discussion elsewhere on the forum.

Just sending my favourite song at the time. I don't think there is a recipe for success, although there are always genres that do better than others at any given time.

BE LEWW.

Would be interested if anyone could shed some light on what makes R&B a genre of doom? I would have thought it's relatively popular and many songs have crossover appeal from general discussion elsewhere on the forum.

 

Well, maybe it's just my skewed perception, but generally R&B tracks don't do very well and if they do it's usually because they are an act that is beloved, remixed or from one of the popular nations (not saying people give more to them because of who they are, just they are more likely to listen/expect them to be good).

Well, maybe it's just my skewed perception, but generally R&B tracks don't do very well and if they do it's usually because they are an act that is beloved, remixed or from one of the popular nations (not saying people give more to them because of who they are, just they are more likely to listen/expect them to be good).

 

Thanks for the explanation. I love a load of stuff that probably falls under the 'R&B' umbrella so I might try make a surprise BJSC hit out of one of them!

Edited July 26, 201412 yr by Noahspike

I think in the early days BJSC had a little 'R&B bloc' but all the countries involved died, apart from B.a.N.G who still occasionally show up and sometimes vote. It really does seem to be a cursed genre these days, even more so than rock and hip hop - I mean if 'Vulnerable' couldn't come close to qualifying it's hard to imagine what would. 'Adorn' not qualifying was also rather ?! though it did at least go on to win Rejects.

 

Unrelated: what the HELL is that mess of a username John?

It's an HOMAGE to the amazing Lauroeighhiya Samcake from The Spoils Of Babylon *.*

R&B is my favourite genre of music and I have SO many potential entries of that sort but I can't enter them unless I wanna come last in my semi. Such a shame. :(

I go for something I like, or by a hot guy.

Metal/Rock being genres of doom makes me sad. It wasn't that long ago I got a top 6 hit with a full on metal song (that admittedly had plenty of pop appeal too). I will get another one day.

 

I just send something I find that I'm loving at the time and recently that's been working well for me as they've been songs with plenty of crossover appeal - my urge to not be predictable does come into it though and I'll rarely send the same song twice in a row. The songs I used to send partly because I thought they'd get noticed tended to DNQ (Megitsune, Seven, Ruostunut Ankkuri) so I'm kind of off that strategy at the moment but I'll probably come back to it in time. My entry this month is partly based on that although it probably has more obvious appeal to the base BJSC voter than any of those 3.

I think in the early days BJSC had a little 'R&B bloc' but all the countries involved died, apart from B.a.N.G who still occasionally show up and sometimes vote. It really does seem to be a cursed genre these days, even more so than rock and hip hop - I mean if 'Vulnerable' couldn't come close to qualifying it's hard to imagine what would. 'Adorn' not qualifying was also rather ?! though it did at least go on to win Rejects.

 

Unrelated: what the HELL is that mess of a username John?

 

this makes me wonder how on earth kes managed a relative smash if like not even tinashe / miguel could. the dntn effect is real***

this makes me wonder how on earth kes managed a relative smash if like not even tinashe / miguel could. the dntn effect is real***

 

I wonder about that too but mainly cos it's not very good #srynotsry