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Started 8 months ago by Mercurius
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Mercurius
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The Shortlist Music Prize (awarded to the 'best' American album that when nominated had fewer than 500,000 copies sold) has been on hiatus since 2007. Could the Columbus community revive something like this from the dead? I'm just brainstorming here; we could try to do something more similar to the Mercury or Polaris Prize and try to find the best album from Ohio -- and that 500,000 number seems awfully high? Both? An Ohio prize and a prize for best national album with fewer than 100,000 copies sold? It could lend a lot of credence to spreading our indie meme.

Thoughts?

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ChrisSunami
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I'm in the midst of putting together a Columbus Arts competition for next summer. It already has a visual arts component and a live performance component, but a recorded music component might be an ideal addition --and not require much additional in the way of logistics.

The basic setup of the competition is that the participants are all local arts organizations rather than individuals. For the recording side, we could have local studios be the contestants --they would each nominate a record produced at their site as their entry.

It would be localized to Columbus, so a little narrower focus than your proposal, but I'm hoping to do similar competitions at the regional level in the future.

Please contact me if you'd like to be a part of the organizational process.

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