Blind

Round 01 opens soon Round 01 opens in ––d ––h ––m

Join the contest
Round 01 Sign-ups are open

Your name means nothing.Name means nothing. Your track means everything.Track means everything.

Put one track in for $9. A professional jury listens blind. The highest-rated music takes the pool every Saturday.

Make my track famous See the rules

Prize pot

$17,156

Example figure. It grows with every entry.

Entry
$9
Paid
Top 10%

Example boardExample results

Top 10% get paid

01

Track 0427Low Tide

Artist name hiddenMara Ellison

9.41

  1. 02 Track 1180, artist name hiddenGlass Hours Ivo Stern 8.87
  2. 03 Track 0093, artist name hiddenNeon Psalm Kaia Rhee 8.52
  3. 04 Track 2216, artist name hiddenPaper Moons Duvall & June 8.10
  4. 05 Track 0641, artist name hiddenSlow Burn Static Nico Hale 7.96

Paid positions end here. Everything below stays private.

Illustrative board. Names appear only after the scores are in.

Round 01 opens soonRound 01 opens Sunday, Nov 8

––days ––hours ––mins ––secs

Join the list before it opens.

Most artists chase attention. Here, attention chases the best track.

Followers distort taste. Hype distorts judgment. Names make average music feel important.

So we remove the name. Every track enters as a number. Every judge hears the full song, scores it, and only then sees who made it.

Two ways to be heard. Only one starts with the music.

  • The usual way: Build a following first.

    The blind way: One track and $9.

  • The usual way: Pay to be pitched.

    The blind way: Scored by a jury, not by one gatekeeper.

  • The usual way: Get judged in thirty seconds.

    The blind way: Heard from the first second to the last.

  • The usual way: Your name arrives before your track.

    The blind way: Your name arrives after the score.

Three moves. One honest result.

No agents. No gatekeepers. No popularity contest.

  1. 01

    Drop the track

    Any genre. Released or unreleased. One entry costs $9 and stays anonymous.

    Sunday to Friday

  2. 02

    The jury decides

    Every judge hears the full track before anyone sees the artist. Sound first. Status never.

    Full-track listening

  3. 03

    Top 10% get paid

    The highest-rated tracks split the weekly prize pool every Saturday.

    Results, 19:00 UTC

Every entry makes the win bigger.

You are never playing against the house: 70% of every entry goes straight into the prize pool. In this example the pool holds $17,156. Move the slider to see how the potential payout changes as the pot grows.

$17,156

Estimated payouts

1st place
$5,909
2nd place
$2,095
3rd place
$1,144
10th place
$196

The top 10% of tracks are paid, and every paid place wins at least its $9 entry back. Illustrative estimate; the full competition rules will be published before Round 01.

Join to win

Talent is rare. A fair shot should not be.

One note held on a metal plate. The sound draws its own figure.

  • No vanity metrics

    Your followers, label and monthly listeners never enter the room.

  • No thirty-second skip

    The track plays through before the score becomes available.

  • No career penalty

    Only paid tracks are published. Your private rank stays private.

  • No single gatekeeper

    Every judge scores every track and the average decides, so one person never owns your result.

If the track is good enough, prove it where nobody knows your name.
The blind rule

One week. Then the names come out.

  1. Sunday

    Entries open. One track, $9, entered as a number.

  2. All week

    The judges hear every track in full as it comes in, and score it.

  3. ––days ––hours ––mins ––secs

    Friday, 19:00 UTC

    Entries close. Miss it, wait a week.

  4. Saturday, 19:00 UTC

    The last tracks are heard and the results go out. Paid positions are revealed by name. Everything below stays private.

  5. Payout

    The top 10% split the pool. Payment timing comes with the full rules, before Round 01.

Nine dollars. One track. One week.

Artist name hidden

$9 per track, per round

What one entry gets you

  • One anonymous entry, any genre
  • Released or unreleased, as long as you control the right to submit it
  • Full-track listening before any score
  • 70% of your entry goes into the prize pool
  • A share of the pool if you finish in the top 10%
Make my track famous

Every entry makes the pool bigger.

Clear rules. Clean game.

Who can enter?
Anyone who makes music. Any genre, any country, signed or independent.
Does my track have to be unreleased?
No. Released and unreleased tracks can both enter, as long as you control the right to submit them.
Who scores my track?
A jury of music professionals hired by BLIND. Every judge hears every track in full and scores it. Your score is the average of all their scores, so no single judge decides your result.
What happens if I rank low?
You see your result privately. Your name and track are not exposed publicly unless you earn a paid position.
When do winners get paid?
Results go out every Saturday at 19:00 UTC, a day after entries close. Payment timing will be set out in the full competition rules, published before Round 01.

No judge can score a track they never hear.

You already made the music. Now put it in the room.

One email when submissions open. No spam. Privacy

  • Sign-ups are open
  • Example pot $17,156
  • Round 01 opens soon
  • Round 01 opens Sunday, Nov 8 ––d ––h ––m