For anyone who makes music
A weekly music contest.
No names on the tracks.
Send one track for $9. A panel of music professionals hears every entry in full, without knowing who made it. Every Saturday, the top 10% split the prize pool.
How it worksEntries close every Saturday at 19:00 UTC.
Every track,
heard in full.
A panel of music professionals hears each entry from start to finish. No names, no photos, no follower counts. Only the sound.
Every Saturday,
the top tier gets paid.
Results are published at 19:00 UTC. Seventy percent of all entry fees go to the winning tracks.
The first round opens soon.
Join the waitlistNot who you are.
What you made.
Everywhere else, a track is judged by the name above it. Here, the panel never sees a name. They hear the music, they score the music, and nothing else counts.
- $9 enters one track for one week
- 70% of all entry fees go into the prize pool
- Top 10% of tracks get paid, every Saturday
A new contest every week.
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Sunday
Entries open. Send one track and $9. Any genre, released or not.
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All week
The panel listens to every entry, start to finish, and scores it.
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Saturday, 19:00 UTC
Entries close. Results are published, the top 10% are paid, and a new week begins.
Next close: , from now.
Every track gets a rank.
The top 10% are paid and published. The next 40% are published and get special prizes. Everyone else gets their rank privately, and nothing about them is shown.
- 1 Salt Cathedral Mara Quill 9.2
- 2 Low Orbit TUNGSTEN 8.9
- 3 Ferris Iosef and the Rain 8.7
- 118 Copper Sleep Nadia Ferreira 7.1
- 119 Vantage Okoro 7.0
- 120 Bloom Static Hal Winter 7.0
- 612 Title hidden Artist hidden sent privately
- 613 Title hidden Artist hidden sent privately
- 614 Title hidden Artist hidden sent privately
Sample ranking. No week has run yet.
Enter, and you vote too.
Everyone who enters also hears the other entries, blind, and scores them. The three tracks the entrants like most win a separate prize.
Try it. Give this track a score.
- 1 Glass Harbour Mina Oduya 8.9
- 2 Slow Motorway KAI-7 8.6
- 3 Pale Signal The Undertow 8.5
No names.
No labels.
No follower counts.
Just the track.
An entry is one audio file and $9. The panel has nothing to go on but the sound.
How the judging works.
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Every entry, heard by everyone on the panel.
No shortlist and no sampling: the whole week's entries, for every panelist.
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Start to finish.
A track has to play to the end before it can be scored.
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The whole panel decides. Not one person.
Each score is one vote among many. They are combined into one, so nobody's taste alone can decide your rank.
The prize pool grows with every entry.
Seventy percent of every entry fee goes into the pool, and the winning tracks split it. Move the slider to see a week of any size.
- Second place
- Third place
- Tenth place
Illustrative split, in which every paid place gets at least its entry fee back. The final curve is published with the rules.
Before you enter
What is this, in one sentence?
A weekly online music contest: you send one track for $9, a panel scores every entry without knowing who made it, and the top 10% split the prize pool every Saturday.
Who can enter?
Anyone who makes music: producers, bands, singers, any genre. You need one finished track you hold the rights to, released or not.
Who is on the panel?
Music professionals we choose, kept anonymous. Everyone who enters also scores the other entries, blind, for a separate prize. Nobody on either side sees who you are.
What if I rank low?
You get your rank privately. Nothing about you or your track is published anywhere.
When are prizes paid?
After each week's ranking is published. Exact timing and payment methods come with the rules at launch.