Steemit Open Mic is an online, live music venue to give musicians a chance to share their music with the Steemit community and get their music heard. It is growing larger every week thanks to all of you.

This week's entries have been split into two posts because we have so many entries that we broke the post size limit on Steemit!

This post is part one and this is

Steemit Open Mic Week 73 - See Who Played - Part 2

To see all the entries you'll have to go there too. The post was so big the website would not post it!

We had 215 entries this week of which 142 are valid entries! Awesome guys!

There have been a flush of new accounts downloading people's valid Open Mic entries, uploading them to a new YouTube account, and posting it as their own performance on their multiple Steemit accounts. Those will not be included and I have muted those accounts.

To the scammers doing this, muting your account means I will no longer see your posts so you are wasting yours and every one elses time continuing down that path. Yu will be flagged, reported to Hive account@steemcleaners, and banned from entering Open Mic.

We put a new rule in place that is designed to stop scammers, not singers as some people seemed to have interpreted this post.

New Rule For Entering Steemit Open Mic And The Open Mic Songwriters Challenge --- by Hive account@luzcypher

Please bear with us as we deal with this issue and keep Open Mic about building a musical community on Steemit worthy of the talent you bring to us each week.

Hive account@pfunk has been sponsoring Steemit Open Mic since I first started it and I want to give a big thank you to him and all the people who support and take part in Steemit Open Mic.

Hive account@pfunk is a Steemit witness and helps keep the platform working and you can vote for him here

Vote For Pfunk For Witness And Keep Steemit Open Mic Growing Strong We Need Your Help Now

Special thanks to Hive account@curie for selecting and supporting musicians who have entered Steemit Open Mic.

Special thanks to Hive account@ausbitbank for creating the new Hive account@openmic account and to all who funded it with +24,000 Steem Power

Tell us about your experience playing in Open Mic on Steemit

If you, like many others, have found participating in Open Mic to be a good experience that has helped you improve your musical skills and engage with other Steemians, we would like to ask you to make a short video answering a few questions and sharing your thoughts about Steemit Open Mic.

Voices Of Open Mic --- by Hive account@luzcypher

New Developments In The Open Mic Community On Steemit --- by Hive account@luzcypher

Sounds Of Steem A Live Music Concert This Saturday At 11Am Est 1600 Utc --- by Hive account@aggroed

Blockchain Music Sound Legion Presents Sound Of Emotion Full Album Release Brand New Official Music Release Post --- by Hive account@soundlegion

Songwriter Shop Talk Episode 4 Featuring Qrittix --- by Hive account@meno

Steemit Musicians With Krystle Isaria And Shane Msp Waves Radio 30 Sbd Prize --- by Hive account@isaria

Steemit Talent Contest Week 5 And The Winner Is --- by Hive account@donnaincancun

Looking For Developers To Help Build A Dedicated Open Mic Website Built On The Steem Blockchain --- by Hive account@luzcypher

The cutoff date to enter however is 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday, 23rd February 2018). Find your UTC time here. Entries posted late will not be upvoted. We have about 100 people entering late and I do not have the time to explain the rules to you again so please read the post and get your entries in on time.##

Winners will be announced Monday, the 26th of February 2018.

Steemit Open Mic Week 73 Part 1

Steemit Open Mic is growing so fast that a lot of people are entering without really reading the rules so I want to do a little house cleaning for those entering the contest.

The bigger this grows the easier it is to miss someone's entry post so following these rules makes us see you have entered so we can upvote you.

For more on the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways?

Steemit Open Mic is a live music contest and we need to know that you are really playing or singing us a song for this contest in particular. That's why to qualify for prizes you must say "Steemit Open Mic Week" (next week number) at the beginning of your video just before you play or sing the song. If you don't or if you edit in later onto a prerecorded performance you will not qualify for prizes.

If your song is an original song then you MUST put the word "original" in your title. Original songs get a small bonus right now and it is easier to find all the original songs with the word added in the title.

The next thing that is very important it to begin your title with "Steemit Open Mic Week (the current week number)" and place that as the first words of your title or I may not be able to find your post at all.

Here is a perfect example of a correctly titled post to enter Steemit Open Mic for an original song.

steemit open mic post titled correctly.png

This would be a perfectly titled post for a cover song entering the contest.

properly titled post for a cover song on Steeit .png

Theses posts are really easy to find in the feed and upvote them. They can easily be spotted so none of them get missed.

Also, Hive account@andybets from steemreports.com is working on a chart that is targeting those keywords to sort all entries by originals and covers.

It is SO cool and you can check it out with this sneak peak of the Steemit Open Mic Chart

NOTE: The order this chart lists the performances has no bearing on choosing the finalists. Just because a video is at the top doesn't mean they will win the contest.

Steemit Open Mic Week 73 - See Who Played Open Mic PART ONE

This week's entries have been split into two posts because we have so many entries that we broke the post size limit on Steemit!

This post is part one and this is

Steemit Open Mic Week 73 - See Who Played - Part 2

Tell us about your experience playing in Open Mic on Steemit

Steemit Open Mic Week 73 Part 1

300 In Steem Prizes

Last Chance To Vote

Two ways To Vote

Vote On Each Contestant Page

This post is part one and this is

Steemit Open Mic Week 73 - See Who Played - Part 2