🎵🎤'Sup GWA Backstage Singers and "Singers"🎤🎵

Hello GWAB, and welcome to the first karaoke challenge of 2024! I'm happy to be back here, to continue admiring the participation, talent, and enthusiasm on display each and every month! THANK YOU to all who participate, listen, and interact! At the end of the day, we are all searching for things to bring us joy and this is certainly doing that for us...hope it is for you all too! If you missed all the amazing talent and pure fun we had last month, check it out!

I'm excited to help inspire and organize more of these themes going forward as we spread some talent, content, and good vibes in this community through the gift of song!

If you've never heard of GWAB Karaoke Challenges before, well...

It's a FUN themed challenge we introduce at the beginning of each month. Check out Last Month's Holiday Theme to get the idea! We emphasize FUN because it doesn't matter if you are a Singer or a "Singer"! We welcome any and all singers at any and all levels!

If singing brings you joy, then by golly, by gum we wanna hear you have fun!

GWAB Karaoke Theme for January is...

🎤🎙 Open Mic! 🎙🎤

Do you have a song that you've always wanted to share with us, but you never have? Maybe something that's really challenging to sing? Or the right theme just never came up? Perhaps you've been meaning to join in on the fun, but haven't taken the plunge yet. For a lot of people, January's all about making resolutions and trying new things, so this may be the challenge you've been waiting for. It's open mic month, so as long as your song hasn't already been reserved, you're good to go.

When reserving your song, PLEASE include the Title, Artist, and Songwriter credit, so we can appreciate all the individuals who originally brought us these hits.

If you want some ideas to get the creative juices flowing...

Buzzfeed's 106 Best Karaoke Songs of All Time

Billboard's 100 Greatest Karaoke songs of All Time

^\*Disclaimer: these lists are not all inclusive. You are not required to choose a song from this list to participate!**)

HERE'S HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Comment on this post requesting to reserve a song that fits this month's theme. You can reserve up to 2 songs per username. Reservations will be published below as a table on a first come, first served basis. Any songs that are picked will be listed here, and in an effort to stop fourteen versions of the same song from populating the karaoke bar, we only allow one version of a song per language per solo singer, so get your songs reserved ASAP!

Collaborations are more than welcome! Collaborations do not count against the 2 song limit.

HERE'S HOW TO SUBMIT

Comment on your initial reservation comment on this post with one of the two following links:

A) a direct link to your submission using whatever audio hosting site you frequent (i.e. Soundgasm, etc.) Use this option if you don't wish to link to a post you made on either your userpage or other subreddit.

B) a link to your submission that you posted to your userpage, r/GWABackstage, or other subreddit. PLEASE: If you do this, please link THIS post to yours to help promote this challenge and the fellow singers who submitted.

If you don't provide a link to your post in the comments below, it is not my responsibility to locate it.

DEADLINES

The closing date for this GWAB Karaoke Challenge is 11:59pm on Thursday, February 1st 2024 in UTC/GMT. While this is not a hard deadline, a "That's a Wrap" Post will be posted the following day ^{(HOPEFULLY 😬}) and focus will shift to next month's theme. This means we will no longer update the chart so if you wish to have your work shared via that post, ensure you submit on or before the deadline.

RESERVATIONS AND SUBMISSIONS

Want to suggest a theme for future months?! SUBMIT YOUR SUGGESTIONS HERE

Have FUN and I look forward to hearing everyone's creations!

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