trackoftheweek.com or some shit?

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A couple of months ago I read a piece in one of the (UK) broadsheets about an increasingly ~~popular~~ influential website called (I thought) trackoftheweek.com or something. Unsigned acts would send their songs to the site, which would pick (you guessed it) one super-best track a week, and circulate it to mucho important uk music industry dudes. Article said Keane used it to catapult to stardom? Or Editors? I don't know. Except now I can't find said article, or said site. Does anyone:

1) Know what I'm talking about? i.e., what's the site?
and/or
2) Have any experience with this site?

― gooblar (gooblar), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

track of the day, i'd guess, and no.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

oh, gooblarpaws

http://scenestars.net/

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, yeah I know--I'm embarrassed to be asking, but it's driving me nuts trying to remember this site name.

xpost: What, on garageband.com? Nah, I don't think that's it--i'm almost positive it was uk based, and more like a small operation, mailing list type thing.

― gooblar (gooblar), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

increasingly influential website

I just hope it's not some greasy assholes trying to scam poor musicans out of their money. It's just too easy to put your music up on the web for free. Let's keep the pigs out, as they have already had their day.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Thursday, 4 May 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.recordoftheday.com/cgi-bin/content.cgi?page=index

Crappy industry tipsheet. Pretty much all the records on it are shit. They brag about their strike rate but with five tracks a week it should be higher.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 4 May 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think this was what I read about. The success stories can be entertaining:

Record of the Day was one of the very first outlets to feature Axel F's Crazy Frog, spotlighting it in April 2005, long before it went to UK no1 in June. There were many Crazy Frog-based tunes looking to achieve success in the singles chart at this time, but our music editor Joe Taylor realised that the Axel F version created by top German and European executive Wolfgang Boss was by far the strongest and most appealing.

Hehe. Not only is dude's name "Wolfgang Boss," but he's a top German and European executive.

― gooblar (gooblar), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

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