Last year's finalists appeared on GTV, got thousands of votes from around the world and played live in front of an audience of millions on GOD TV in the live final (clip above). The winner was then thrust into the spotlight, playing live in front of 8000+ people at the Ultimate Event at Alton Towers, the UK’s biggest 1-day Christian music festival.
The competition is called The Ultimate Showcase for a reason, we want to make sure the best unsigned* Christian acts in the UK get exposure to the largest audience possible and help them gain a foothold in the industry. In the previous years, as well as exposing new Christian music to hundreds of thousands of people, we have had representatives from many of the UK’s record companies come to watch acts with 2 being signed as a direct result.
So, what will be different this year?
We will be working in partnership with one of the UK’s top youth networks to make sure your music is heard by as many of the people that will come to see you as possible (to be announced shortly).
We are once again negotiating with tv stations to make sure you get the maximum audience possible and there will be much much more as time progresses. We are also in talks with studios to add recording time to the prize and a record label to give you a huge start after the final.
The main difference this year is that we are going to take away the premium rate texting, we decided this wasn’t a fair way of collecting votes as the price for your fans was too high. All voting will now be done by fans coming on to your musicfinity page, signing up (so we know who is real) and voting for you. This means we have had to look into other ways of covering the costs of the competition and after talking to some of the finalists from last year have decided to charge an entrance fee of £25. This will also make sure we get serious entrants and hopefully stop some of the prank bands trying to hack the competition as we have had in previous years.
What will you get for this?
- Entry into the competition
- A review of the songs on your musicfinity page from industry pro's
- Tips on how to improve your songs from industry pro's
So, if you are a member of Musicfinity log into your profile and enter, if not get signed up! Then all you need to do is to get your fans voting!! More news and clips from last years live final coming soon!!!
*unsigned in this case is a band that have not been signed OR a band signed to a label with no more than 3 acts associated to it.
