After a low-key try-out and some very useful input here is a new challenge for all creators out there!
Think back! The year is 2011
Introducing the Song Snap competition - read the rules, find a title and take your picture
Rules
Your task is to illustrate a song title of your choice from the randomly picked year with a still photograph taken during the time the competition is open. A drone shot is welcome but not essential, you may use any device that will produce a suitable image.
The song must be either a single, a single taken from an album or a track on an album. It must have been released in one of those forms in the year chosen.
The song need not be by the original artist, cover versions released in the chosen year are perfectly acceptable
Multiple entries are acceptable but each image must illustrate a different song title.
Each entry must show:
- The song title in any font, colour or size on the image itself.
Beneath the image should be:
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Release date
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Device used for image
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Location and date of image
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Any information that may be of interest
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A video or an MP3 of the song is highly desirable
The competition will run from Monday 22:30 to the Monday 2 weeks after, closing at 22:00. Pictures will be placed in a poll for viewers to judge. Voting will run from Monday 22:30 until the following Saturday at 22:00
Notes:
The years placed in the list for the random picker are 1953 to 2022 - why those?
Wikipedia has articles on “19xx in Music” and also"Hit Singles of 19xx. There are of course many other places to find singles and albums published in a specific year. The easiest source tends to be the chart toppers and music charts haven’t always been around …
The “Hit Parade” began in the 1930s; Billboard magazine in the USA published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936. Record charts in the UK began in 1952, when Percy Dickins of the New Musical Express (NME) gathered a pool of 52 stores willing to report sales figures. For the first British chart Dickins telephoned approximately 20 shops, asking for a list of the 10 best-selling songs. These results were then aggregated into a Top 12 chart published in NME on 14 November 1952, with Al Martino’s “Here in My Heart” awarded the number-one position.
The most obvious sources of song titles by year are the many internet chart and release listings - have fun!
) or are busy posting in the forum, why not open up the entries to family as well. Younger members of the household may well have a better grasp of music from 2011 and may even have one of those newfangled cameras with built-in phone and computer thingies to take the snaps with.
