So, I made the top 100 list on the TuneBreaker award site, which made me smile, as I didn’t expect to get that far at all.
While I doubt I’ll make the top 50 Shortlisted Artists, I didn’t even expect to get this far and rank at #61, so that’s been a lovely surprise.
Check out that top 100 list on the site, as there’s some great music from Ireland and the UK in that list – the likes of Julie Feeney, Cuckoo Savante, We Cut Corners, The Pulpit and more.. but it’s been great poking around and being introduced to all the new music in these parts.
Here’s an update on what happens next from TuneBreaker:
The Timetable for the rest of the TuneBreaker New Music Award is now published (21 January 2011).
Here is that timetable
1. Between 21st January and 3rd February at 7.30pm voting (but not the purchase of any music) is closed. If you want to buy music from any artists in this period then sales will be credited to the artists in the same way financially but will not count towards votes for the relevant artist (if such an artist is in the Top 100 or not).
2. When the Top 50 are announced (described from now on as the Shortlisted Artists), it will be by a video streamed onto www.tunebreaker.com. This is the only way anyone will find out if they have or haven’t made the Shortlisted Artists.
3. The Shortlisted Artists will be given until 7.30pm on the 3rd Feb 2011 to upload two (2) additional tracks to their profile and then at 7.30pm that evening the SLV(tm) sales led voting process shall commence once again.
4. Again you shall still be able to buy music from the artists that did NOT make the Shortlisted Artists but these will not be counted as votes as they will no longer be in the award.
5. Voting for the Shortlisted Artists shall continue until Midnight 2nd March 2011.
6. At 6pm on the 3rd March the Shortlisted Artists will be announced (again by streamed video on www.tunebreaker.com) in reverse order.
7. The awards ceremony and party will be held on March 5th and we hope to stream live some of the ceremony again on www.tunebreaker.com .
