July 18, 201510 yr Shoot! I was actually planning on sending an application in tonight after not being able to do it last night having attended a friends 40th birthday night out. Oh well. Good luck to all that applied :D
July 23, 201510 yr Author This has been quite a competitive process! We've not yet finalised our choice but we have a couple of clear contenders to chose from. Hoping to let those that have definitely not been successful know soon. (MKS & Silas definition of soon)
July 24, 201510 yr Author Because I'm a fan of transparency, I has news! We have made our nomination to the Management and it's up to them now if they agree or not. Thank you to everyone who has taken part in the process! The 8 applications, ignoring Michael's utter farce, we're great to see and threw up some interesting ideas. The standard was ridiculously high, every time we do this it seems to get better! We ended up with a top 3 that we went back and gave a veto test to before making our final choice. If you'd like a go at this test yourself here it is in all it's glory: We're close to making our final nomination to Management for our next choice of BJSC mod but it's really close as we have a couple of really strong candidates. To that end, I'd like you to take a look at the following 13 entires from the last 4 contests, post research, and tell me in a veto context if 1) the song should be vetoed or not and 2) your reasoning behind that. Ignore everything you know about the songs that we did not know at the time: (Obvi all of the below is not for public consumption at this time) Conrad Sewell - Hold Me Up 19 -Artist has a UK Top 10 hit as a featured artist 12 -Artist has charted in Australia within the past 24 months 7 -Featured on mtv, earmilk, digitalspy, rollingstone, idolator, josepvinaixa Katy Tiz - Whistle (While You Work It) 7 + 7 = 14 - Good amount of blog coverage, but not MAJOR ones. - Song hit #54 in Australia 7 - Artist sent in LIV (7th), LXIV (36th) 7 - PC support: Cody, Liam Vanbot - Seven 7 + 12 = 19 - Scandipop 7 - Artist sent before in XXXIII (3rd), XLIII (15th), LV (1st) 12 Dawn Richard - Phoenix (feat. Aundrea Fimbres) 19 - Artist sent in LXII (4th) 12 - Album which song contained within featured on Pitchfork with an in depth review of "Phoenix". Also featured on Idolator and spin 7 - Two Buzzjack threads on it (one on another song off the album and one on the actual album, although the former is very minimal) PTAF - Boss Ass Bitch 12 -Youtube video has 9.5m views which really scares me (and apparently that's merely an updated video and the original has 17m) -This is the viral song 'Boss Ass Bitch' which was reasonably big in internet terms (often for use in unfunny Vines from what I'm aware of) about 18 months ago. -A remix of this song exists by NICKI MINAJ (credited as Nicki Minaj - Boss Ass Bitch ft. PTAF - thread on this from last year) -Internet exposure due to Nicki Minaj tag, along with featuring on vibe, billboard, rolling stones 12 Billie - Give Me The Knife 12 -Submitted by FIVE different people 12 -Charted by 1 individual -A lot of blog support, although not from massive blogs. -Won Popjustice Song Contest placing #1 with 197 points in comparison to the #2 receiving only 109 (not a factor but nevertheless still something) The Young Professionals (feat. Anna F.) - All Of It But Me 17 -Main artist previously sent twice, placing #24 and #10 in the final (but only once in the past 30 contest) 7 -Featured artist previously sent once, placing #27 in the final 3 -Featured on Popjustice, idolator 7 Hot Chip - Need You Now 19 -Some UK hits but not recent enough to be covered here. -Video featured on Pitchfork (previous albums have also been reviewed there) 7 -Some other blog coverage (Stereogum, NME, Digital Spy, thelineofbestfit, + page 12 and over there's still blogs featuring it) – HIGH BLOG COVERAGE 12 Astrid - 2AM 21 -Double confirmation for the track. 7 -Featured on Scandipop, josepvinaixa, allmusic and other small minor blogs 7 -Artist previously had a #4 peak hit back in 2013 in Norway 7 -Norwegian Idol finalist in 2013 -Won Popjustice Song Contest a few months back Spada & Elen Levon - Cool Enough 19 -Featured artist vocals (Elen) previously sent twice, both attempts coming #2 in the final (but the first was 32 contests ago) 12 -Artist charted in Australia within the past 24 months with "Wild Child", peaking at #48 on the ARIA charts 7 Fenech-Soler - Magnetic 19 -Artist previously sent once, placing #11 in the final 7 -Charted by 11 individuals (ElectroBoy, Klumzee, Regina, SevenSeize, Vulker, West, loudjamesbond, Robot, illuminati Adam, toffonews, Jester) 12 -Featured on theguardian, earmilk, indieshuffle, josepvinaixa, digitalspy, hillydilly SNBRN (feat. Kerli) - Raindrops 19 -Featured artist has 2 Top 10 finishes (#04 and #10) 12 -Featured artist has been sent twice in the past 30 contests 7 -Featured on earmilk, josepvinaixa Alexa Goddard - So There 22 -Artist previously sent, but DNQ'ed 3 -Charted by 7 individuals (Cameron, UltraViolence, JosephStyles, Herbs, AaronTM, n4yr, toffonews) 12 -Featured on digitalspy, 4music, Popjustice, metro 7 -Song reached #67 in the UK Singles Chart Thanks! Phil Don't try to guess anything from the 13 songs chosen. They were chosen at random by me to cover the types of tracks that we see regularly (The obvious veto, the has tonnes of points but is not a veto & and the could go either way) and not in any way a reflection on what any of the candidates have sent.
July 25, 201510 yr I've always thought a bit unlucky getting Magmetic vetoed tbh. I think most of the P charters heard it on the advert as well? :P
July 25, 201510 yr Congratulations to the top 3! And thanks for the feedback Phil, that was the EXACT reason I was wary about sending an application to begin with. Glad I did though! ^_^
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