This is the fifth year that we're using a 'playoff' type of format where artists will advance to a next round of polling if they get the highest number of votes. The Top 25 from the first round will be listed in the second month poll, followed by the Top 15 from that round in the third poll, and finally the Top 10 from the previous round in the fourth. In August the Top Five winners from the final round in each category will be featured by Country Atlanta. The Top Five Southern Gospel winners in August will also serve as The Light's new 'Local Artist of the Month' in successive orders of 1 through 5 from August to December. First Place winners will also have the option of a certificate. Second round polling ends Thursday, May 31 at 10 p.m.
Please note: artists should be country and/or bluegrass, or southern gospel, independent or unsigned and must be based in one of the 47 eligible counties: Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, Dekalb, Douglas, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jackson, Jasper, Lamar, Lumpkin, Meriwether, Morgan, Murray, Newton, Oconee, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Rockdale, Spalding, Troup, Union, Walton, White and Whitfield.
POLLS INFO:
1. You can vote only ONCE per round.
2. Polls are also located at countryatlanta.com, and Gospel-only at thelightatlanta.com.
3. Each poll has a different direct link to it so promoting it directly is NOT a good idea, the best place to go is this page.
4. . If you're told that you have already voted, odds are that someone else has used that computer to vote already, and that's something wecan't help you with. The polls recognize computers, and if you haven't voted there, it may be mistakenly recognizing the i.s.p. itself. Again, we're sorry, but we can't help those problems. It's best to find another computer to vote from.
5. ARTISTS: If you're promoting yourselves on the polls, you need to relay all of this information, ESPECIALLY that fans can only voteonce per round.
SOUTHERN GOSPEL WINNERS: (2008 was the first poll)
2008: The Redeeming River Band
2009: Enlisted
2010: Alisa Asbury
2011: The Maxwells |
