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Sunday, March 28, 2010

This Week's Poll Was Redone Because We Got A Nominee's Name Wrong

Well, you've been reading our Twitter updates about how we have been apologizing for an error we made. It was difficult to explain ourselves completely in one update, especially since you cannot go over 140 characters, so here's the full explanation.

We made a poll for this week's contest, and we had 5 nominees. So after it was created, we started sending out notifications to everyone. When we tried to notify one of the nominees, we realized that the band we were looking for was called Light This City. For some reason, we entered in Sound The City, which was the name of another band that did not live in the state that we were focusing on this week. The first link that we sent out was http://www.wishafriend.com/poll/101796/ for the first version of the poll. When we realized the problem, we had to go back and remake the poll with the right names of our nominees. The new and correct poll link is http://www.wishafriend.com/poll/101797/. The first one had already pulled in 4 votes because we notified the first two nominees, which were spelled correctly. However, we didn't reset the vote count despite having to do a new poll. When we take a look at the results from the revised poll, we will transfer in the votes from the first poll. Whenever we make an error in a poll, we always redo it and resend our notices back out to everyone, so we try not to make a big deal out of it. This was just an error that would have mislead a fan to the wrong nominee.

By the way, here's the full poll up below here.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 113)

This Week's Theme: The Connecticut Connection

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from April 4 - 11?

Myspace polls

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Flo-Rida II (Week 89)

Okay, the nominees have been selected, the poll has been created, and the vote is now open. Here's the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week contest.

Myspace Polls

Sunday, September 20, 2009

No Messing With Texas II (Week 88)

Okay, the nominees have been selected, the poll has been created, and the vote is now open. Here's the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week contest.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 88)

This Week's Theme: No Messing With Texas II

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from September 27 - October 4?

Myspace polls

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Raising Arizona II (Week 86)

Okay, the new nominees have been selected, the poll has been created, and the vote is now open. Here's the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week poll.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 86)

This Week's Theme: Raising Arizona II

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from September 13 - 20?

Myspace polls

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Mississippi Queen (Week 83)

Okay, the nominees have been selected, the new poll has been created, and the vote is now open. Here's the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week contest.

This week, the theme is "Mississippi Queen". Mississippi became the 20th state to be admitted into the United States on December 10th, 1817. It is currently the 31st most popular state and the 32nd largest state in area. The capital and the most popular city is Jackson, Mississippi. Mississippi is known for the Mississippi River, where it takes its name from.

Musicians from the state's Delta region have been significant in the Blues genre. The genre began to rise during Reconstruction and has been the origin of many Blues artists. Also, its significance in American music as a whole is recognized as well. Its most famous music native is Elvis Presley (today is the 32nd anniversary of his death). He was born in Tupelo, and he had gone on to crossover in the 1950s and popularize the rock n' roll genre. Other natives in music are Tammy Wynette, Bo Diddley, Britney Spears (NOTE: KENTWOOD, LOUISIANA DOESN'T HAVE ANY HOSPITALS), Brandy Norwood, Ray J, LeAnn Rimes, Jimmy Buffett, Faith Hill, and B.B. King.

This week's contest is between 5 bands from the state of Mississippi. The nominees are:

*Colour Revolt (Oxford)

*Fox Chase Drive (Jackson)

*Wavorly (Tupelo)

*Cleverform (Jackson)

*At Cliffs End (Jackson)

Those are your nominees this week. You can vote on either this website (poll listed below), or you can vote on our MySpace profile. Voting ends Saturday night at 11 PM Eastern. Results announced at Midnight.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 83)

This Week's Theme: Mississippi Queen

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from August 23 - 30?

Myspace polls

Friday, August 14, 2009

Day 6 Of Voting

Today is the sixth day in our Omaha Beef contest. Tomorrow is the last day to vote. You are picking who you want to see on EdgeMusic next week. The nominees are 311, Go Crash Audio, Staggerford, For Against, and Learning to Fall. Voting ends tomorrow at 11 PM Eastern.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 82)

This Week's Theme: Omaha Beef

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from August 16 - 23?

Myspace polls

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Omaha Beef (Week 82)

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 82)

This Week's Theme: Omaha Beef

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from August 16 - 23?

Myspace polls

Sunday, July 5, 2009

O! Canada IV

We're not Canadian, but we need you all to sing the national anthem to Canada right now. Even if you're not from Canada:

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

I know it was uncalled for, but this is a special week for EdgeMusic, as this week's theme is dedicated to our favorite country of all time, Canada. This country has given us more EdgeMusic winners than any other foreign country.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Vanguard Records

Okay, the nominees have been selected, the new poll has been created, and the vote is now open. Here is the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week poll.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 76)

This Week's Theme: Vanguard Records

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from July 5 - 12?

Myspace polls

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Georgia Porgia

Okay, the nominees have been selected, the poll has now been created, and the vote is now open. Here's the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week contest.

This week, our theme is titled "Georgia Porgia". The title is original, and we couldn't use "Georgia On My Mind" as the title because we have North Carolina and South Carolina themed polls coming soon.

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 75)

This Week's Theme: Georgia Porgia

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from June 28th to July 5th?

Myspace polls

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Teenage Wasteland

We published this poll last week, but we didn't spend a lot of time on it. In fact, we barely did a lot on EdgeMusic last week. Not a lot of updates or anything like that. So we decided to go on a week-long hiatus, and then we would turn our full attention. The poll was pushed back, and now this contest has officially began. Here's the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week contest.

Teen pop has existed for four decades now, and it has went through many changes of form. The 70s brought us teen idols through musical sitcoms. The 80s have seen its teen idols come from shopping malls. Teen pop's most successful form came in the 90s with the heyday of MTV's "TRL". In this decade, when everyone thought teen pop was done, teenage superstar machine was handed down from MTV to Disney Channel. Throughout all decades, the teen idols were recognized through magazines like Teen Beat, Tiger Beat, J-14, Bop!, and Popstar! Magazine.

EdgeMusic has done contests on the teen pop genre before in diferent forms. The first one was "Boyz II Men", which nominated boy bands still active long after their peak. The Backstreet Boys were the Artist of the Week from May 4th to the 11th of 2008. Two of their competitors, New Kids on the Block and Hanson, later become Artist of the Week through different nominations. Then, we covered on Disney Channel's music superstars in the "Wonderful World of Disney" contest in August of 2008. The Jonas Brothers were featured on EdgeMusic from August 31st to September 7th of 2008. Then earlier this year, we did the "Popstar! Magazine" contest with nominees featured on Popstar! Magazine. The winner of that contest was Varsity Fanclub. Other teen idols that have won the chance to be featured on EdgeMusic are Jimmy Robbins, David Archuleta, and Demi Lovato.

This week, we are nominating five young artists that are popular in the teen pop genre. The winner will be featured on EdgeMusic from June 21st to the 28th of 2009. The nominees are:

*Mitchel Musso

*Kristinia DeBarge

*Ashley Tisdale

* School Boy Humor

*KSM

Voting is now open, and it will end Saturday June 20th at 11 PM EST. To vote, go to our official MySpace profile, or you can vote right here:

EdgeMusic Artist of the Week Poll (Week 74)

This Week's Theme: Teenage Wasteland

Who should be the EdgeMusic Artist of the Week from June 14 - 21?

Myspace polls

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Day 4 Of Voting

Today is the fourth day to vote in this week's "Nashville Rocks III" poll. The nominees are Framing Hanley, Kings of Leon, Wake the Light, One Less Reason, and Shirock. To vote for next week's winner, go to either our MySpace profile, the official poll link, or right here on the poll below:

POLL CLOSED. RESULTS COMING SOON.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Nashville Rocks III (Week 73)

Okay, we selected our new nominees, created a new poll, and opened up the vote. Here's the lowdown on this week's EdgeMusic Artist of the Week contest.

Back in April of 2008, we ran a poll titled "Nashville Rocks!". This was a theme we created with a focus on artists or bands in the rock genre that come from the state of Tennessee (where you would normally think that's where the country artists come from). The four nominees that week were Dave Barnes, Landon Pigg, Matt Wertz, and Gavin Mikhail. Matt Wertz won that contest with 66% of the vote, and he was featured on EdgeMusic from April 6th to April 13th of 2008.

The sequel was held in August of 2008 titled "Nashville Rocks II". Josh Hoge beat out his fellow nominees including Dave Barnes and Andy Davis with half of the vote, and he was featured on EdgeMusic from August 17th to August 24th of 2008.

This week, we will be doing our third poll dedicated to rock artists from Tennessee. The winner will be featured on EdgeMusic from June 7th to June 14th. The nominees are:

*Framing Hanley (Nashville, Tennessee)

*Kings of Leon (Nashville, Tennessee)

*Wake The Light (Cookeville, Tennessee)

*One Less Reason (Memphis, Tennessee)

*Shirock (Nashville, Tennessee)

These are your nominees. Now to vote for one of the 5 artists mentioned here as next week's winner, vote from either our MySpace profile, or you could vote right here on the poll below:

POLL CLOSED. RESULTS COMING SOON.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

EdgeMusic Artist Of The Year Preliminary Round #4

So right now, we are running a special contest called the EdgeMusic Artist of the Year Faceoff. This contest decides who was the best EdgeMusic winner of the entire year. Our first annual Faceoff took place in 2008. We had 12 preliminary rounds, 3 semi-final rounds, and one final round. Above All Else was declared the champion this past January.

The official contest for 2009 began back in April. We ran four preliminary rounds in the middle of April, choosing four semi-finalists. We usually begin our preliminaries right at the end of each month while the winners were still fresh off of their reign. The January preliminaries were the first to be held, followed by the February preliminaries, then the March preliminaries, and then the April preliminaries being the latest.

However, the winner of the April preliminaries was Hinder, whose reign actually began on March 29th and ended on April 5th. We usually sort the preliminaries by the beginning of each winner's reign, so Hinder was disqualified. But Kelly Clarkson (March 8 - 15, 2009) was allowed to remain a semi-finalist when Hinder's votes were compared to the results of the March preliminaries. Kelly will participate in the semi-finals at the end of the year along with Locksley (January 4 - 11, 2009) and Seymoure (February 8 - 15, 2009). But the April preliminaries only received 2 votes, with Hinder winning unanimously. The 3 winners from April lost to a winner whose reign began in March.

So today, the April preliminaries will be redone. This round will last the whole day, and it will include all the winners from April except the winners from the Bamboozle contest, as that week had 7 winners, but they will have a big surprise ahead of them. For now, here are our candidates:

*The Airborne Toxic Event (April 5 - 12, 2009)

*The Chuck Shafer Picture Show (April 12 - 17, 2009)

*Junior Doctor (April 17 - 26, 2009)

The poll closes at 11 PM EST tonight. To vote, go to our MySpace profile, or you can vote on here:

POLL CLOSED. RESULTS COMING UP SOON.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Last Day To Vote!

Today is the final day to vote in this week's "Seattle's Best" poll. The nominees are This Providence, The Real You, The Classic Crime, Fleet Foxes, and Danger Radio. Voting ends at 11 PM Eastern Standard Time tonight, so keep voting at either our MySpace profile, through the official poll link at http://www.wishafriend.com/poll/96804/, or you can vote right here:

Myspace Polls

Friday, May 29, 2009

Day 6 Of Voting

Today is the sixth day to vote in this week's "Seattle's Best" poll. The nominees are This Providence, The Real You, The Classic Crime, Fleet Foxes, and Danger Radio. Tomorrow is the last day to vote, so keep voting at either our MySpace profile, through the official poll link at: http://www.wishafriend.com/poll/96804/, or you can vote right here:

Myspace Polls