🎤 Karaoke 🏆 Contest 🎶 Submission 🎶 Thread - Week 4 📅

Winner of Week 3!

@the21plus - with her amazing Eryka Badu - "Apple Tree" rendition. You even brought your little sister this time! You all have great voices, and that was the perfect song for you! The final score was a 4.3 out of 5. Great job! We hope to see you again this week!

Second place

@topkpop with her Auli'i Cravalho - "How Far I'll Go" performance. WOW!!! You have some serious lungs girl! And those high notes you were hitting? Spectacular. Your final score is an even 4.1. Happy you joined us and look forward to seeing you again this week!

Third place

@yusaymon with his awesome Bruno Mars - "What I Like". The judges have you with a final score of 3.9 and swear you guys could be related! Hope to have you back this week!

All of your awards will be sent in the next couple of days, thank you all for competing!

Week 4 Begins

Getting more new faces showing up and some regulars, LOVE IT! This week we have some special requests again from the suggestion box that will be in play and have chosen some ourselves. Simply select the one you like best and record yourself singing along with it. Then, drop your video and/or link to your post with the video of you down there in the comments section. Easy, right? There are a few rules to help keep it sane.

RULES

1. The 1st tag for your submission post must be #karaokecontest.
2. This submission thread must be upvoted and curated (resteemed).
3. Your video of yourself singing must be in comments of this post (so you can get the popularity vote), or at least a link to your Steemit post entry.
4. You must choose one of our selected songs to sing along to.

JUDGING CATEGORIES

1. Popular vote: This will carry 40% of the overall score. Whoever has the most upvotes (not reward amount for the post) in the comments below, will win the popular vote. You may only vote for yourself ONCE, purchased bot votes for yourself will not count.
2. Timing: 20% weight - how close you are to the timing of the original lyrics.
3. Pitch: 20% weight - how close you are to staying on key to the original lyrics.
4. Likeness: 20% weight - how much you actually sound like and embody the singer of the original lyrics.

PRIZES

We will award prizes for 1st, second and third places by the following Tuesday of this post. @michaeldavid has donated 10 STEEM for the first place winner and @enginewitty has given 10 SBD (7 for 2nd place and 3 for 3rd). Winners will be announced Mondays with the posting of each new submission thread.

And the judges are…

The founder of #thealliance, @enginewitty who is an avid music fan of all genres and competes in the Rap Challenge here on Steemit. @hardikv who is a musician in the band Alif and also a producer. Plus, @jaynie has agreed to step her passionate self up to the plate and be a judge for us. Thankful for all of you. And finally, we have @michaeldavid doing the magical math involved with tallying all the scores so...he's the one you'll have to bribe if you really want to win LOL j/k! This is going to be fun though everyone, we're excited!

This is all made possible by the fantastic community and involvement we have here on Steemit. Huge kudos to @enginewitty for the vision and fellow member of #thealliance @michaeldavid for helping orchestrate this contest. Music is an art and a passion of ours and we would now like to bring up our strongest supporters and think you should give them a Shout too!

Look into the Open Mic contest, put on by @luzcypher! Support your favorite artists by stopping in to see their entries and show them some love! They are entering week 48 and have been a maniacal beast in the progress of the musical community here! Big hugs to @jessamynorchard for connecting the dots and ushering us in!

Do you like to dance? Stop in here to check out @donatello and his competition! I would love to see people get in on this. C'mon...you know you want to!

Ah yes, what songs are we able to choose from this first week? This week, we have taken the suggestion box submissions and added them to the list along with a few we chose ourselves. We plan to do themes each week so be on the lookout for the suggestion box post every Saturday for people that have a desire for a certain genre or era of music.

1) Lorde - Royals

2) Jewel - You Were Meant For Me

3) Susan Boyle - Wild Horses

4) Billy Joel - Piano Man

5) Drake - Hold On We're Going Home

Can't wait to see all the entries this week! Put your fantabulous submissions in the comments below and be sure to look out next saturday for the Suggestion Box to put your requests and favorite jams in! STEEM ON