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Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:05:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/26/2013 17:05

Vote Wu-Tang for Lifetime Achievement.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Antonio-Pedro — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 09:30:30 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 12/26/2013 14:30

Done 😁
Damm all this votes made me tired
I'll eat Something

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 05:42:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/26/2013 10:42

We'll be open for voting very soon but first here's some RULES

- Debut Album: Only an artists Debut studio album is eligible. Not debut mixtapes or ep's.
- Best User-Created Album: Albums, mixtapes and EP's are eligible.
- Best Instrumental Album: a small amount of vocal sampling is okay but for the most part it needs to be all music. Any genre is okay.
- Lifetime Achievement Award: the artists you nominate have to have had their debut album out before 1999
- Worst Album/Worst song: PLEASE only nominate albums and songs that you have listened to - I find it hard to believe that many people listened to Chris Brown's Fortune last year and yet it was easily nominated.
- Best Song Of The Year: any song released this year as a single or on an album (even if released as a single last year) is eligible

that's all I can think of for now. If any of these rules are broken we won't be telling you your song or album is ineligible it just won't be counted - so please make sure when you're voting. And just one TIP - with the genre awards nothing will be ineligible in any category you want to put it in. An album can not be nominated under 2 genres so we count it for whichever genre it ends up getting the most points in (if it gets enough to get nominated). SO it's probably a good idea to vote for music in categories you think most people will vote for them in. Conversely if you're not sure which genre to nominate something in because it may fall under multiple genres maybe nominate it in the genre you think it will have the best chance in (e.g. The Bones Of What We Believe could fall under electronic or pop or maybe even indie/alt but since electronic is so packed this year it might have a better chance in pop).

Also the eligibility period for all music is 01/01/13-31/12/13 so anything released this year basically. Maybe you want to wait for the 31st maybe you don't think there's any need - up to you.

😁

Re: BEAMAs 2013

GeevyDallas — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:36:18 GMT

Author: GeevyDallas

Posted: 12/17/2013 15:36

Jhereko wrote:

Full list of categories for 2013 BEAMAs:

BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BEST SONG OF THE YEAR
BEST ALBUM ART OF THE YEAR
BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WORST SONG OF THE YEAR
RnB ALBUM/SONG
BLUES/JAZZ ALBUM/SONG
COUNTRY/FOLK ALBUM/SONG
AVANT-GARDE ALBUM/SONG
INDIE/ALTERNATIVE ALBUM/SONG
METAL ALBUM/SONG
ELECTRONIC ALBUM/SONG
POP ALBUM/SONG
HIP HOP ALBUM/SONG
ROCK ALBUM/SONG
SOLO MALE ALBUM/SONG
SOLO FEMALE ALBUM/SONG
BEST ALBUM NOT IN ENGLISH
BEST INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM/SONG
BEST DEBUT ALBUM
BEST EP
BIGGEST LETDOWN
MOST OVERRATED
MOST UNDERRATED
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

That's 39 categories for those counting.

omd big up guys, if you'll need help lmk

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:38:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/17/2013 07:38

Full list of categories for 2013 BEAMAs:

BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BEST SONG OF THE YEAR
BEST ALBUM ART OF THE YEAR
BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WORST SONG OF THE YEAR
RnB ALBUM/SONG
BLUES/JAZZ ALBUM/SONG
COUNTRY/FOLK ALBUM/SONG
AVANT-GARDE ALBUM/SONG
INDIE/ALTERNATIVE ALBUM/SONG
METAL ALBUM/SONG
ELECTRONIC ALBUM/SONG
POP ALBUM/SONG
HIP HOP ALBUM/SONG
ROCK ALBUM/SONG
SOLO MALE ALBUM/SONG
SOLO FEMALE ALBUM/SONG
BEST ALBUM NOT IN ENGLISH
BEST INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM/SONG
BEST DEBUT ALBUM
BEST EP
BIGGEST LETDOWN
MOST OVERRATED
MOST UNDERRATED
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
EDIT: BEST USER CREATED ALBUM/SONG

That's 40 categories for those counting.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

SuedeSwede — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:22:02 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 12/10/2013 18:22

Saoirse wrote:

young emerging artist award

Why bother putting a good idea in a smaller size?

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:38:38 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/10/2013 15:38

young emerging artist award

Re: BEAMAs 2013

19loveless91 — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:51:17 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 12/10/2013 08:51

I actually like this idea for country+folk and jazz+blues categories. But then I hope that we won't get blues-rock fusions (can't remember any album this year, but something like Jack White's Blunderbuss last year) making that category, or similarly, rock albums that take their inspiration from country or folk (like.. are The Men really country etc). I'd reserve this for albums that have little to do with other categories (rock, alternative, pop, etc.)

What are other people's thoughts?

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:11:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/10/2013 01:11

Fergenaprido wrote:

Perhaps the new country category could be country + folk, and a new jazz category could be blues + jazz, in order to have them field a larger number of nominations.

Not a bad idea. I'll confer with the board. (Loveless)

Fergenaprido wrote:

Also, for Lifetime Achievement Award, if I remember correctly last year it was just the top artist that was inducted. What if it was similar to real halls of fame, where you need to get a certain percentage of votes in order to be inducted (so if there are five nominees and two of them get at least 75% of the votes they both get inducted), unless no artist breaks the threshold and then only the top artist is inducted.

Well I'll probably do what i did last year and leave this up to harkan since it was his idea. But for my money I'd prefer to keep it to one a year.

Fergenaprido wrote:

Another category suggestion would be best album/song by a BEA member.

Yeah will definitely be having this considering how much was released by BEA members this year.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Fergenaprido — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 19:49:46 GMT

Author: Fergenaprido

Posted: 12/10/2013 00:49

Perhaps the new country category could be country + folk, and a new jazz category could be blues + jazz, in order to have them field a larger number of nominations.

Also, for Lifetime Achievement Award, if I remember correctly last year it was just the top artist that was inducted. What if it was similar to real halls of fame, where you need to get a certain percentage of votes in order to be inducted (so if there are five nominees and two of them get at least 75% of the votes they both get inducted), unless no artist breaks the threshold and then only the top artist is inducted.

Another category suggestion would be best album/song by a BEA member.

Looking forward to the BEAMAs again this year regardless. 😄

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Dingerbell — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:18:49 GMT

Author: Dingerbell

Posted: 12/09/2013 20:18

Necharsian wrote:

Boy its gonna be weird when Reflektor wins best and worst album this year.

Or when Yeezus wins most overrated and most underrated album.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Necharsian — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:15:10 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 12/09/2013 20:15

Boy its gonna be weird when Reflektor wins best and worst album this year.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:28:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/09/2013 17:28

dividesbyzero wrote:

I have got to stop abandoning BEA for such long periods at a time. I mean damn I almost missed the BEAMAs. Please tell me I didn't miss a repeat of the work of art that was last year's BEAMA(anatomy education) thread

I'm fairly sure you haven't, but can't wait till these start.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:17:06 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/09/2013 17:17

I have got to stop abandoning BEA for such long periods at a time. I mean damn I almost missed the BEAMAs. Please tell me I didn't miss a repeat of the work of art that was last year's BEAMA(anatomy education) thread

Re: BEAMAs 2013

19loveless91 — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:57:02 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 12/09/2013 16:57

Yeah I wouldn't do those. I'd keep it to the essential categories, so that everything released last year is eligible at least in one category (other than the best and worst album/song), if it's much more than that, it gets a bit redundant and takes up more time than necessary for users to complete their surveys. Even overrated/underrated categories are pushing it a bit, but at least they contribute to this overall picture of what BEA's opinion of 2013 in music is without overlapping with other categories. if that made sense at all...

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:35:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/09/2013 15:35

Listmeister wrote:

Other categories that might be interesting:

Best Guitar Playing
Best Drumming
Best Keyboards
Best Vocals
Best [other instrument]

Best Production
Best Lyrics

no thanks.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Listmeister — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:25:43 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 12/09/2013 15:25

Other categories that might be interesting:

Best Guitar Playing
Best Drumming
Best Keyboards
Best Vocals
Best [other instrument]

Best Production
Best Lyrics

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Dec 2013 08:24:41 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/09/2013 13:24

okay so it looks like we're going to add in RnB, Country and Avant-Garde categories. We've had a request for a Jazz category too. Thoughts from folks?

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Anonymous — Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:22:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/09/2013 04:22

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

I would want all the nominees put forth to be listed (so something useful can actually be gained from it)

If I was to do it for this category I'd do it for all. Having counted it the last 2 years I can tell you there's stuff in every genre that's nominated and is pretty unknown. So it's not a bad idea.

Re: BEAMAs 2013

Defago — Sun, 8 Dec 2013 19:12:29 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 12/09/2013 00:12

We could just appeal on a case-by-case basis to Jher's common sense.