Here's how it works...


Round One - Nominations (December 12th- December 18th)

Nominations will take place for one week. There are 24 Music Categories and they are listed below. Each member may choose two songs to nominate per category, sent via dnote to the "dmusic counter" who next to each category. All nominations must be for songs except category 22 and 23 which are for artists only. Members may nominate their own songs but only one per category. Winning songs from last year are not eligible for this year's contest, but winners of Best Male and Female are of course eligible for that award this year as well. Please include both category nominations within a single dnote. Duplicate nominations will be counted as a single nomination. Members are not required to nominate for every category, but are encouraged to do so.

Once all the Nominations are in, the "dmusic counters" will announce the top nominated songs for each Music Category. The larger categories may have more nominees than the smaller ones, but in the end (after the voting) there will be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner for each category.


Round Two - Voting (December 19th - December 26th)

When all nominated songs are posted, you may listen to those songs and artists and then place your vote. Members will be allowed to vote twice per category and again must send a single dnote containing both category votes to the "dmusic counter" responsible for that specific category. Members may vote for their own song, but again only once per category. This second round of voting will last for one week. Members must have at least 200 points and must have joined DMusic before December 1st to be eligible to vote. (We will be checking!)


Awards End

Once the votes have been counted, we will announce the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places for each category as well as the song that received the most votes overall as "Best Song".

Remember, only two song nominations per category for Round One, and two votes per category in Round Two.

Go forth, listen, nominate and vote for your favorite songs and artists... and most of all, have fun!

Good luck to everyone!

1. Alternative Send notes to kingo 2. Electronic Send notes to Alstroph 3. Hip Hop Send notes to FraDonaghy 4. Rock Send notes to Distilled1 5. Country Send notes to kingo 6. Bluegrass Send notes to Alstroph 7. Folk Send notes to FraDonaghy 8. Latin Send notes to Distilled1 9. Punk/Ska Send notes to Cryxan 10. Reggae Send notes to MinisterofScissors 11. Blues Send notes to Cryxan 12. Jazz Send notes to MinisterofScissors

13. Metal Send notes to furiousBall 14.Hardcore Send notes to furiousBall 15. R&B/Soul/Urban Send notes to perkie1973 16. Live Send notes to independentmusician 17. Americana Send notes to furiousBall 18. Classical Send notes to furiousBall 19. World Send notes to furiousBall 20. Pop Send notes to FraDonaghy 21. Other Send notes to furiousBall 22. Best Male Vocal Send notes to furiousBall 23. Best Female Vocal Send notes to furiousBall 24. Best Collab Send notes to victorsskull 25. Instrumental (non-genre specific) Send notes to furiousBall

As you can see, we are short of volunteers, please contact me if you will be available to help tally votes.

Thats tite, should be good

Good Luck to Everyone!

thanks to Cryxan, MinisterofScissors, victorskull, independentmusician, and perkie1973 who volunteered with vote counting.

also, i added the Pop category (thanks FraDonaghy for the suggestion!). Nominations start tomorrow

Good Luck to all

Awesome!

ooh, i'm really excited! can't wait to vote for all of my incredibly talented dmusic friends!

I'll help out if you wish just let me know

Nominated. Good luck everyone!

Some people are coming to me with confused notes. If you want to vote for a song that is in a sub genre like "easy listening" or "psychadelic pop" they are umbrellaed under their main genre title... in the case of those two examples... "pop"
Hope this helps remove that confusion

Thanks fra ^^

Awards will be great - Good luck all

if I loose I am going to start a holy war against dmusic

Let the games begin!

Flying Apparatus will win!

This should be interesting

Question:

Best Male and Femal Vocal-----

You want a song OR the person?

person, preferably of the appropriate sex as the award indicates...oh and they should sing too.

I haven't been here for the whole year...is there a list of last year's winners? So I don't nominate them again??

we have by the 18th to enter tracks?

Van,

There’s Sex involved? I guess I missed that part too.

pick me pick me pick me, lol

what category is prog in?

There is WAY too much good music posted in the "other" catagory!

I can always read

yeah! this is awesome! I'm out good luck everyone! all music here is always the best!

By the way, even though my songs say "other", they're all considered "electronic".

Just letting potential nominators know

woohoo! my votes are in! good luck everyone!

Need more nominees for the "Live" category!

vote for soup.

Need more Latin Nominees!!!!
Some help here How do I say it in Spanish/Latin??????

DID SOME NOMINATIONS TODAY
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE

Good luck people, I hope lots of folks are voting.

Good luck folks!! anna murray and rodrica get my votes!!!

Last day to nominate! Let's get those in, people!

very cool
The Pop Dolls get my votes

nomination results will be up in a couple hours...stay tuned folks!

suspens

Rock an latin will be up after work
Around 5 pm DMusic time!

Hey,come ON, it's 12:11 here, what's goin' on?

OK, I'm still waiting on a few counters to turn in nominations. As Distilled1 mentions, he won't be turning them in until 5pm EST - so look for the article to be up right after that. I'm still waiting on Rock, Latin, Punk/Ska, Blues, and Collab tallies.

Mine are in

crap, we still don't have collabs - VIC!!!!!

woops sorry working on it now

Damn, Vic!!!! Bastard.

ok I sent it to him I dont know if its the way he wanted it but its sent

Did you COUNT them? I think that's the way he wanted them.

yes I did so

you can count

http://news.dmusic.com/article/19033

you guys did this so fast and good ... amazing job from the vote counters and you Van

good luck to all :thumbup:

wow... GOOD LUCK, EVERYONE!