Great suggestion on promoting a link to the music finals on the homepage. We'll look into that. Also, I really like this quote from an OurStage artist that makes the points I made above even more succinctly.

"We do not upload our songs to this or any other independant music site to compete for prizes, rather we upload our music with the hope that it will be heard and perhaps gain some fans. Well, during April our song received nearly 3,000 plays and was favorited 32 times!!! That is more plays than all of our uploaded songs combined since we started uploading to OurStage nearly a year ago! NOW THAT'S EXCITING!!"

Originally Posted by Steve Robinson
One suggestion I might have is that maybe news updates concerning the voting (who made the next round in all of the categories etc) might be more prominently displayed on the home page. This may be a Luddite-like oversight on my part, but when I visit, I never know who actually made the next round. I do see the blurb announcing that the Finals voting ends tonight, but I don't see an announcement about who made it there. It's all a little vague to me. Like I said, this might just be that I haven't investigated enough to become comfortable with the workings of the site. I'll have to study more.