We've done the awards 5 times over the last 7 years. (1999-2000, 2001, 2002-2003, 2004, 2005-2006). If we don't find a larger sponsor, we won't do it again until 2008. It takes us 2 years to sort through the masses without hiring full time employees to do so which is impossible without significant money. We can only count on volunteers to do so much. If I had a staff of about 4 full time people we could still do it every year. (All the shipping of voting discs etc.. could be curtailed by posting ALL the entered songs on the web.. so if we could switch to all digital that might make it less costly and labor intensive.. but you still have to have folks listening day and night).

We've talked about doing a genre specific compilation many times. An overall compilation of just this year's winners alone would fill 4 full CD's. But having all the different genres means the audience at large won't be as big. But genre comps have a better shot. And we've done this enough years to do it probably if we had appropriate distribution. I've considered doing a Children's Comp, a Holiday Comp (you should do a Holiday Album Tammy) and the CC/Gospel one. Those have specific fan bases that might be reached well. The lowest risk would be Holiday due to less royalties for standards and if it doesn't sell one year, it could still sell the next. Then again, I posted all the winners here for folks to sample for free and barely anyone is checking them out. Only about 75 people have even checked out this page.

Brian

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