New Steemit Music Community Movement Announced

Gotta love the Steemit music community always coming up with innovative community-building movements that benefit the platform and its users.

FIRST ever Steemit Karaoke Contest Starting August 7th!

Design compliments of @nicnas , one of the @spls ' design ninjas

Welcome, welcome all you shower crooners and radio howlers! This is the first ever Steemit Karaoke Contest thread brought to you by #thealliance.

Starting August 7th through Friday, August 11th at 11:59 p.m. CST (or as close as we can get there) the Karaoke Contest is on. How does it work? We’re going to give you five songs to choose from. You pick your favorite and record yourself singing along with it, and drop your video and/or link to your post down there in the comments. Easy, right?

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), 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.

We will award prizes for 1st, second and third places the following Tuesday (8 days later for the payout). Estimated prize pools will be announced upon submission closure for the week, which still gives you ALL of Saturday to attain more popularity votes. I'm sure that in the beginning, prize pools will vary. Any sponsorship and/or SBD revenue will be the contributors to the contest purse. Steem Power generated will be used to maintain @killerwhale's voracious appetite. Winners will be announced Mondays with the posting of the new submission thread.

And the judges are… @hardikv, who was the winner of Open Mic 39 (2nd position) and won @fyrstikken's 50k SP for a week contest. We’re excited to have him aboard. @chiefmappster who is the founding member of the Beat Battle League. Also, @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 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! Big hug to @jessamynorchard for connecting the dots!

You have to stop in and hear some of these guys, they are phenomenal! Big Shout to @rondonson and all he’s doing to propel the Hip-Hop community here on Steemit!

There are DJ’s here on Steemit that are top-notch! Props to @chiefmappster for coordinating the Beat Battle League. Be sure to stop in and give all those great artists involved your support!

Logo courtesy of @epicdesigns via @rondonson

Ah yes, what songs are we able to choose from this week? Since this is the very first Karaoke Contest, we’ve decided to go with some of the top songs of all time. We plan to do themes each week and there will be a theme suggestion post every Saturday for people that have a desire for a certain genre or era of music, so be on the lookout for it!

1) Beyonce – Halo

2) Michael Jackson – Billie Jean

3) Bob Seger – Turn The Page

4) Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You

5) Elvis Presley – (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

Let the games begin! This is all about the fun fellow Steemians, Steemites, Steemese, Steemish, Steempeeps, and so on and so forth, LOL! Annnd…go!

Design compliments of @nicnas , one of the @spls ' design ninjas

Thank you as always for your time and attention

Namaste

@chiefmappster