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FEBRUARY '09 NEW RECORDING ARTISTS DECISIONS

This is the third New Recordings funding round for the 2008/2009 funding year. This funding year, like last year, we are planning on funding 20 New Recording projects at $10,000 each – $5,000 to record a radio single and an additional (conditional) $5,000 for a music video to support the release of the song to radio. That means that we are looking for, on average, just five projects in each of the four funding rounds in this funding year.

In this third funding round for the year, we got a lighter than usual load of 183 applications. The first shortlisting gave us 49 songs, the second reduced the number of contenders to 32 and the third gave us the final ten. Each of the final ten was then invited to give us more information about the project and their plans for the song.

The projects with the best combination of commercial radio airplay potential and a convincing plan for the recording, release and promotion of the song get the $10,000 new artist funding package. In this third funding round for the 2008/2009 year, we will do five projects.