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MARCH 2010 NEW RECORDING ARTIST DECISIONS

This is the third New Recordings funding round for the 2009-2010 funding year. Like last year, we have a budget to do 20 New Recording projects at $10,000 each – $5,000 to record a radio single and an extra $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 latest funding round, we got 273 applications. The first shortlisting gave us 56 songs, the second reduced the number of contenders to 34 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 2009-2010 year, we will do the usual five projects. The five are listed HERE.

There is one more funding round to go before 30 June. Applications close on Friday 23 April and decisions will be announced on 10 June.