The Reputation Label- Artists Of The Week, who, when & wow!!

The Reputation Labels ‘Artist of the Week’ chosen by the members and listeners to the site and Radio Shows has seen some amazing artists and bands being given the honour by music fans. Though sometimes surprising the results are never predictable and often when compiling a week’s playlist for the Review Show I think I have a good idea of who the contenders may be but it never works out that way, thankfully, one thing I never enjoy is predictability.

With last week’s selection we have had 10 Artists of the Week so I thought it was time to summarise the winners since we began the vote. I mentioned earlier the honour of winning and I believe it truly is an honour, to have fans and music lovers listen, take the time to vote and bring others also voting for someone is special for any artist. People have voted in their thousands over the weeks with enthusiasm, occasionally out of control eagerness ‘crazy fools’ haha, and always with a passion to help the artist they already love or have just discovered on the Reputation Radio Shows.

Maybe the moment now to remind anyone played on future Review Shows the importance of spreading the word through your own websites to your friends and fans about your appearance and the vote for the Artists of the Week. To be announced and played as the winner to our radio audiences in excess of 6 million per show is definitely worth the time to promote the event and yourselves in advance and we tell you of your playlist placing early for that reason, don’t waste the time truly it is worthwhile. Maybe only 50 votes are generated by the effort but that could make the difference between first or second. Do not be short sighted either, bring fans in to make a community for yourselves with your group pages within the Reputation community, bigger they shout for you, more exposure you get.

As I have mentioned we have had so far 10 Artists of the Week here at The Reputation Label and the first to be crowned thus was DARIA. We started off the Artist of the Week without a vote, instead for just that week the chosen winner came from the choice of the site members. It was unanimous, they decided that DARIA was the one, and hey who were we to argue, besides some of the women are crazy, I may be Blue and Johnny insane but neither are stupid. So the Bosnian rockers were saluted by the fans. Formed in 2009 by Boris Maric recruiting friends to make music, instantly there was a creative spark and now his compositions are one of the most eagerly awaited events on Reputation and for the listening world. 2011 will be their year.

The next winner and in the first 10 to ‘face’ the vote was STROBEGIRL from Croydon in the UK. The first time her music was heard people were enthralled and grooving where ever they were listening to the shows. Singer, songwriter, musician, she has been a major feature in many votes over the weeks with her collaborations with EMMINS and ILLUSTRIAL also making her a winner. The link up with ILLUSTRIAL so successful and popular that Neformore and Strobegirl have announced they are working on an album together, watch this space, I am. This lady is sought after for her voice, no surprise why

BILLY KELLY WWK followed as the next winner, the solo artist from Liverpool in the UK maybe the first real surprise but a well deserved win beating some that one would have thought were more obvious, but thankfully it never works out that way. His tune stood out simple as that.

Next up was SHADOW THIEVES from the Gold Coast in Australia. Their ingenious indie-pop is irresistible and try as you might to resist the 4 piece band has you tapping your feet, you might as well just go with the flow. The voters certainly did.

American power houses from Kansas City MEATSHANK took the next weeks title, the trio showing how much they have advanced since they formed in 2005, their showing how metal should be, loud, in your face and having you drown in their onslaught, perfect. Yep The Blue Clown likes his metal and these guys do it like no other.

The next 2 weeks had the Strobe effect haha, with the collaborations between ILLUSTRIAL/STROBEGIRL and EMMINS with Strobegirl and Ron Dadey adding their touches triumphing in the respective weeks, both tracks creating buzzes within and beyond Reputation.

Metal took over again for the 8^th Artist of the Week as COUNTERIGNITION from Serbia dealt their ‘death punch’ to the other contenders that week with their out and out pure thrash metal, yep The Blue Clown had his swerve on for that too, as did the vast audience who voted for them. More to come from them 2011 I have no doubts.

The following week was probably the closest fought week and maybe the hardest selection for people to choose from. Right up to the moment the vote was closed the top 3 exchanged places but coming out top deservedly was DIRTY CRAWLERS. The Londoners since first being played have been big favourites and that week the voters showed that. A word from me though DC guys, when are you going to cover one of your managers songs? For me please? I tried Mick.

Well now we are right up to date with last week’s winners the awesome OUR INNOCENCE LOST. The 5 members from Manchester in the UK deliver pure rock music for your ears to feast on. Another very strong line-up for that made it hard to call, well that was until the votes started coming in and by the 3rd day there was only going to be one winner, and as with all our winners, people are clamouring to hear more from them all.

Congratulations to them all and to all the artists and bands who have been involved over the weeks and those ahead. None are really losers, all get heard by a massive audience and seen by all within Reputations ‘empire’ but it is nice to have that title added to one’s musical ‘resume’ hehe. I urge all winners and those who have been involved to not rest on your ‘laurels’, keep going with more music and as I said before keep spreading the word about yourselves being with Reputation, encourage your fans to join up. The more support for you and the bigger the Reputation Label gets the more we can do for and with you. Cross Promotion the motto to live your musical lives by, it does work, as the Artist of the Week proves.

If you are a musician reading this and you want to be a part of the fun and all our shows /promotions, just come and see me at www.reputationlabel.com. It is free and so much fun. Now all that’s left to say is......... who will the next triumphant artist be?? October 11^th time to start again.

RingMaster 06/10/10