Introducing The Synthwave Charts (Synthwave, Popwave, Outrun, Dark Synth, ...)

We would like to introduce you to the The Synthwave Charts

(Voting for issue #1 is open – cast your votes here)

The Synthwave Charts are a little project aiming to track the worldwide output of amazing Synthwave artists and the popularity of songs and albums over time, giving the plethora of independent artists in particular and the Synthwave scene / genre in general more exposure.

Our idea:

• It’s a great way to show support for artists you love – if they’re nominated for voting, they get exposure
• By participating in the vote, you will get to know many new artists from the Synthwave scene you may have missed otherwise
• You can submit your own music
• Gamification, baby: Of course we could just post new songs, but where’s the fun in that? We wanted to make things interesting

The songs and albums nominated for voting can be submitted by anyone, but the nominations are curated by a fine jury (mainly to check for doubles and genre eligibility):

• Jules Green / NeonFawkes
• Meryl Kavanagh / EyeShadow 2600 FM
• Joe Ward / EverSynthThe80s
• Synthwave Redneck / Steve Upshaw

(Miles Matrix, who handles the technical side of the website, is not involved in the jury / curation process!)

We laid down some ground rules:

• Every two weeks, all songs in the Top 20 plus up to 10 new songs are eligible to be voted upon
• In the same timeframe, the Top 10 albums plus up to 5 new albums are eligible to voted upon
• Votes happen via Google Forms (for songs here, for albums here)
• Following every new chart issue, anyone can suggest new songs and albums – a song must have been released in the past four weeks, an album in the past eight weeks (submit songs here, submit albums here)
• The results will be published in this blog
• The publisher of this blog gets no voice in deciding which new songs / albums will be introduced for voting – a jury will curate this list based on submissions by users via a designated form (find out more about the jury here)
• Each song can remain in the charts for a maximum of 12 weeks (there is no restriction for albums)
• If a song or album falls out of the Top 20 / Top 10, it may be eligible for a new entry if enough users submit it for consideration

Hope you will participate in voting. Looking forward to your feedback - the Synthwave charts team (feel free to follow on Twitter too: twitter.com/synthwavecharts)

Submitted February 22, 2019 at 10:30AM by JWAlumni https://ift.tt/2SSB8yt