OMG WOW
I have some confessions about my strategies to help my favorite artists do better with some of my favorite songs:
- Doing lots of surveys: I will confess to have done a number of surveys in the beginning of the chart reign of Lady Antebellum's Compass and Luke Bryan's Play It Again to get them to #1, heck that's practically how Play It Again debuted at #1, with a good majority of my doing of surveys (Brandon you made me sweat a little when you posted that the survey was closed....that mainly meant I did too many surveys that SurveyMonkey wouldn't accept anymore
- Voting down other people's favorite songs to better the songs I was cheering on: this was the case mainly for Ain't It Fun by Paramore, I pretty much wanted Compass to go to #1 and that Paramore song (I really like it a lot more now) but for competition sake I was pissed it was slaying, so I would give it -250 points in my vote so it could do well on the countdown
- Asking others to "start voting": Unlike LordofCountdown's Request countdown, I didn't as directly ask other to vote mainly because I knew I could best take advantage of the survey vote thing anyway
Towards the end of the reigns of Play It Again and Compass, it seemed more people really came to warm up to the song, and that was a bigger goal then just to have the songs do well from update to update...to an extent
I'm just glad Play it Again and Compass slayed while the chart was running and it was always fun to help the songs do well in the request countdown.
It was fun while it lasted JGibson. Thank you for keeping up the Request countdown while you did