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Official Announcement on www.N1.na The website for Naashan and international entertainment broadcasting!

Welcome to N1, Naasha's premier broadcasting network!

Following the astounding success of the domestic radio and television chartshow 'This Week's Greatest Hits!', N1 has decided to take the next step and unveil an international version of the show in order to bring you the best music from nations all around the world!

General Information
Following the popular format of the original show, each song entry will be played but once per day, accompanied with a music video if one is provided. After which, the audience will be invited to write, phone, text or email in their views on the music they have heard and their opinions will be broadcast across the world! Each entry will be ranked by the number of purchases of the track, be it off the shelf as a single or as a download, each participating nation's results will then be displayed as a percentage of total sales in that country. The show will begin broadcasting once a day from monday to friday in all participating nations, and results are released each saturday, alongside extra exclusive footage and interviews with the winning artists.

For example, the popular Indie hit "Poolside Racing" achieved a record 2.3% of total music sales in Greater Naasha on the week beginning June 4th 2007.

In order to broadcast only the best on offer, each nation will be limited to submitting the work of one artist, band or other entity per week but is not limited to entering only the same artists work week in, week out and may re-enter a particularly sucessful track if they wish.

Entry
Artists wishing to submit their work to the International Chartshow are advised to contact their governments, who will need to set up an appropriate ranking system for music sales in their nation. Entries from non-participating nations will be accepted for the time being however, so don't let an oppresive and uncool government stop you, we haven't!

In order to compete, artists will need to send a full transcript of their song as well as their contact details and record agency name to this station as well as a digital music file of their work and any video accompaniment (you may describe this, unless we have any particularly musical NS'ers out there!).

Once they have entered, artists may promote their work in any way they wish and may post on this website with their exploits, any additional video footage, such as a live concert version, may be added to their original entry at any point in the week before the results are broadcast on saturday.

Further information on scoring
A government or government appointed agency for each participating country will be charged with keeping track of all sales of single tracks (both digitally and on CD) in their nation and will submit the percentage of total sales that all participating tracks received.

The results will be kept secret and collated by this station until the average results and winners are announced on saturday.

In the interests of fairness, all participating agencies must submit to regular checks by N1 moderators and any agency suspected of altering its results will be disqualified from the contest.

An example of the scoring format is shown below, this excerpt is taken from N1's domestic chartshow on the month beginning June 4th 2007. Results from Naasha are collated with those from Surdun to give a mean result.

Track:
"Poolside Racing" - Sloth Crew
Naasha: 3% of total sales Surdun: 1.6% of total sales

Mean % of sales: 2.3%

The OOC Stuff
Basically in order to compete you need to post an application including your artist/band name, record label, genre and any interesting details you want to add. You then can write a transcript of the lyrics of your song (feel free to write in any language you like if you wish) and a general description of the music including the contents of the music video if you want to include them. In fact, you only need provide an artist/band and song name to compete, but don't expect to score too highly.

The results will be posted every three days with latest polls, interviews with music gurus and other interesting bits posted in between, feel free to post these yourself too. Don't forget that your artist can promote his/her/their entry by performing at concerts in participating nations and with pretty much any other stunts or statements they like. Those nations that have decided to participate in scoring will be expected to change their results to reflect any promotion you do in their nation, but keep your number of appearances reasonable.

You can apply to start submitting your nations scores right here, and feel free to score your own artists too.

EDIT: I was intending to post Naasha's entry, but sleep is calling me. Feel free to post in my absence, I should be back tomorrow morning before exams.

Artist: Jimmy MacMillian
Record Label: Really Rad Records, inc.
Genre: Rock

"The Geeky Sheik"

(OOC: This is to the tune of "American Pie" by Don Mclean, I wrote this for a school project)

A long, long time ago
Prohibition ruled the land
There was a guy named Jack
He talked bunk and wore his cheaters
Gypped in cards and robbed parking meters
Yeah, he really deserved a good smack
But one day he was sedated
Drinking hooch, getting spiffilcated
He felt kind of queasy
Went to the speak-easy
His condition was not ideal
But his lust he could not conceal
She had tons of sex appeal
So then, he made his move

Oh, he’s a geek, geek, but he thinks he’s so sheik
He thinks he’s ritzy but he’s ditsy and when he talks he just squeaks
Let’s face it, kiddo, your future looks bleak
You just need to work on your technique
Yeah, you just need to work on your technique

Did you know this swanky sheba
Has about the brains of an amoeba?
But she was really swell, they say
Oh, did you see him lookin’ at her gams?
If he had any sense at all, he’d just scram
But no, he’s like a tiger with its prey
Yeah, I know that she looks copacetic
But she’s got to realize he’s pathetic
But she said, “Talk with me, mister,”
Oh, yeah, she’s a sob sister
She interviewed him while he was ossified
To get her article worldwide
And poor Jack, he would abide
And be the poor fall guy

Oh, he’s a geek, geek, but he thinks he’s so sheik
He thinks he’s ritzy but he’s ditsy and when he talks he just squeaks
Let’s face it, kiddo, your future looks bleak
You just need to work on your technique
Yeah, you just need to work on your technique

He woke up the next morning a darb
Took a shower, and put on his garb
And then he remembered last night
How he talked to the lady he thought was so keen
He kind of remembered her name was Maureen
And how she had given him such a fright
He thought he’d told her applesauce
How he enjoyed playing his lacrosse
But he had been such a schmuck
On her blouse he had upchucked
So he went beck to the gin mill
Talked to the bartender, whose name was Bill
He said that she went to Brazil
Said Jack: “Oh, great, that’s swell.”

Oh, he’s a geek, geek, but he thinks he’s so sheik
He thinks he’s ritzy but he’s ditsy and when he talks he just squeaks
Let’s face it, kiddo, your future looks bleak
You just need to work on your technique
Yeah, you just need to work on your technique

So he took a flight past the Equator
Found her in Rio, that dirty traitor
Oh, boy, was he sure roiled
He wanted to know what he had said
And how much of it had gone to her head
But she was pretty hard-boiled
She punched him right in the smeller
And threw him down in the cellar
And she was pretty scary
When she gave him a raspberry
She said “Go look at today’s news
You know, baby, you can’t pick and choose
Now can I please be excused?
I’ve got to get my check.”

Oh, he’s a geek, geek, but he thinks he’s so sheik
He thinks he’s ritzy but he’s ditsy and when he talks he just squeaks
Let’s face it, kiddo, your future looks bleak
You just need to work on your technique
Yeah, you just need to work on your technique.

So he went to the corner, got his paper
His eyes bugged out, it was a caper
It felt like he was carrying a torch
It said that he was a gatecrasher
That in bootleg booze he had quite a stasher
That he was selling it from his front porch
She had made him look all goofy
He didn’t think she had slipped him a roofie
Now he was a big cheese
And the cops were there, saying “Freeze!”
Then they took him into the courtroom
He was guilty, they presumed
They took him away to his doom
Gave him life without parole

Oh, he’s a geek, geek, but he thinks he’s so sheik
He thinks he’s ritzy but he’s ditsy and when he talks he just squeaks
Let’s face it, kiddo, your future looks bleak
You just need to work on your technique
Yeah, you just need to work on your technique.

Now poor Jack, he’s in jail
Without phone calls or even mail
He’s just sitting there for the rest of his days
He yells out that he’s been framed
On that screwy sheba he laid his blame
Now he just sits here, going through his life in a daze
She was just a lousy grinch
If not for her, he wouldn’t have been pinched
But she was quick on the trigger
Like any other gold digger
Now thanks to that darn flapper
He had to admit, she was kind of dapper
Jack’s bed is right next to the crapper
Now he’s a hep old man.

Oh, he’s a geek, geek, but he thinks he’s so sheik
He thinks he’s ritzy but he’s ditsy and when he talks he just squeaks
Let’s face it, kiddo, your future looks bleak
You just need to work on your technique
Yeah, you just need to work on your technique.

The music video consists of Jimmy playing the part of Jack on his escapade, intercut with shots of Jimmy singing the song, wearing only an cardboard beer box as a loincloth, in front of a drunken crowd. The part of Maureen is played by Louise Thaller, another hit Ezaltian pop artist.

Official Announcement on www.N1.na

First entry accepted!

N1's new International Chartshow has received its very first entrant, from Jimmy Macmillian of Ezaltia. The clever alternative rock track features some 'mature' themes and will be broadcast after Naasha's 8pm cutoff.

Early reports indicate that the entry is already selling well in Naashan stores, although some critics have complained that the video is too graphic. These were the same critics who claimed Mozart was unoriginal, so we're not worried.

More entries are expected to follow shortly.