2014 SUBMISSIONS FOR SA HIPHOP AWARDS ARE OPENED

 The SA HipHop Awards are back and the submission for this year's work is open-Djs production is here for those who don't know to start.Here's how it works...starting by how the voting goes.

HOW VOTING WORKS

Voting is based 100% on judges’ scores for the following categories: Album of the Year; Best Dance Crew; Best DJ; Best Freshman; Best Graffiti; Best International Brand; Best Local Brand; Hustler of the Year; Lyricist of the Year; Mixtape of the Year; Most Valuable; Producer of the Year; Promoter of the Year and all the King of “...”

Voting is based on the judges’ scores and public votes (50% judges and 50% public) for the Top 5 categories: Best Collaboration, Best Female, Best Male, Best Video and Song of the Year.

Voting is based 100% on online votes for the following category: Best Hip Hop Radio Show.

Public Voting Methods

Public votes are only open to the Top 6 categories: Best Collaboration, Best Female, Best Hip Hop Radio Show, Best Male, Best Video and Song of the Year.

There are two methods for the public to register their votes:

1. Text – public can text their votes as many times as possible, please view table for codes:

TITLE	CODE	NUMNER	EG:
BEST MALE	BM	32545	32545+sahhas+bm+NAME
BEST FEMALE	BF	32545	32545+sahhas+bf+ NAME
BEST VIDEO	BV	32545	32545+sahhas+bv+ NAME
SONG OF THE YEAR	SY	32545	32545+sahhas+sy+ NAME
BEST COLLABO	BC	32545	32545+sahhas+bc+ NAME
BEST RADIO SHOW	BR	32545	32545+sahhas+br+ NAME

2. Online – public can register at www.sahiphopawards.com. One vote per IP address.

Judges’ Scores

Preliminary judges come from a pool of local music industry professionals, including musicians, songwriters, producers, recording engineers, music publishers, booking agents, program and music directors, talent coordinators and music marketing professionals. Final judging is done by music industry professionals who are not related or connected to the nominees or their record labels.

Judging criteria is listed for each category via http://www.sahiphopawards.com/p/history.html

TOP 5
Nominations are made in reference to an album release and track record of a group or individual
• Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of an album released in the previous cycle, in this case 12 months.
• Song of the Year is awarded to a performer with reference to an album released in the previous cycle.
• Newcomer of the Year is awarded to an artist with reference to an album or mix-tape released in the previous cycle. These materials should be new in the sense of 1st time releasing
• Female Artist of the Year is awarded to a female artist with reference to an album released in the previous cycle.’
• Male Artist of the Year is awarded to a male artist with reference to an album released in the previous cycle.

Entries received after being invited go through a screening process, to ensure that each entry is eligible and not at risk of disqualification. This task is executed by the Steering Committee of the South African Hip Hop Awards, where no artistic or technical judgments are made about entries.

Matters of incorrectly placed categories are then corrected during this process through consultation with the relevant record company, individuals and crews who legible for an award. Entries, which do not comply with aforementioned rules and regulations, are disqualified.

The advisory board then adjudicates all the award categories with the exception of the Honorary award and Song of The Year award, using their expert knowledge and prior artist acknowledgements and achievements so that they can be judged on merit
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n the interest of uniformity, judges are required to vote and return results on prescribed forms, collated into auditable sets. An audit company then calculates the results on which the list of nominees is based and certifies that end results have been reached in accordance with aforementioned rules. A nominee announcement party is then hosted, to publicise the event.


1. ELIGIBILITY FOR ENTRY

Entries are open to any recording artist, director, producer,event organisers,dance rcews or engineers who meet the following requirements:
• Must have South African citizenship or permanent residency in South Africa of six months or more.
 50% ownership of the master recording of the entry, in the event that the rest is owned by a non- South African entity.
 50% of the members belonging to Duos or groups must also comply with the aforementioned criteria.
 Ritual Media Group reserves the right to request proof that all artists, producers or any individual meet the set requirements.
• In certain categories, collaborations between qualifying artists and international artists are allowed, given that the South African qualifying artist’s participation is of equal billing.
• All material submitted for the 2nd Annual SA Hip Hop Awards, must have been commercially released or the indivuals should be active for the past 12 months i.e. cd available on the South Africa market during the entry period or been doing events for the past 11 months.

originally posted on www.sahiphopawards.com

 

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