Scotland's Greatest Album

Introduction

Scotland has produced some of the world’s greatest music in the last forty years.  But which tracks would you choose to represent the very best the nation has produced in that time?

STV, in association with ‘Real Radio’ and ‘The Sun’ has created a great new series which aims to find the twelve tracks, released between January 1^st 1970 and December 31^st 2010, that the public believes represents the cream of Scottish popular music.  The twelve tracks, made up of three each from the seventies, eighties, nineties and noughties, would be declared as Scotland’s “Greatest Album”.

Over a period of five weeks, the tracks will be revealed.       

The first four programmes will reveal 60 shortlisted songs across the four separate decades:  70’s; 80’s; 90’s and 00’s; and STV Viewers, Real Radio’s listeners and The Sun’s readers (“voters”) will be invited to vote for their favourite tracks.  The fifth programme will reveal the winning three tracks for each decade which will make up the final twelve “Greatest Album” tracks to be revealed in the final programme.   

The Programme

1. STV is producing a programme called “Scotland’s Greatest Album’ and inviting viewers to vote for their favourite tracks across four decades. 
2. The programme will be broadcast from Tuesday 4^th October to Thursday 3^rd November 2011 at 9pm.
3. Over a period of four weeks, STV will showcase sixty shortlisted tracks which will have the potential to be chosen as one of Scotland’s Greatest tracks.
4. Each week, 15 songs from the shortlist will be featured on the programme to reveal the potential winning tracks from a specific decade as follows:
   Week 1:  1970’s - 04.10.11
   Week 2:  1980’s - 11.10.11
   Week 3:  1990’s - 18.10.11
   Week 4:  2000’s - 25.10.11
   Week 5:  The winners are revealed    - 03.11.11
5. Each week, at the end of the first four programmes, voters will be invited to register with STV and vote for their favourite three tracks from the decade which featured on that week’s show.  Voters will be directed to STV’s website at stv.tv/scotlandsgreatestalbum.
6. The fifth programme will reveal the twelve tracks which received the most votes and which will subsequently represent a specific decade.  These tracks, as decided by viewers, listeners and readers across Scotland, will be nominated as STV’s Greatest Album Tracks.

The Selection Panel

1. A panel of ‘experts’ “The Selection Panel” will select sixty (60) short-listed album tracks for voters to make up the selection list (“the shortlist”).  The selection is based on their expert opinion and in accordance with specific criteria. 
2. The selection panel (“the panel”) is:

Geoff Ellis (Chairman) - CEO of DF Concerts (promoters of T-In-The-Park;
John McLaughlin - Songwriter and record producer (who has written chart topping hits for, among others, Westlife, Busted);
Jim Gellatly - Scottish Sun music columnist
Steve McKenna - Sony Award winning Real Radio DJ;
Joan McAlpine - Scottish Cultural commentator and award winning journalist and blogger;
Pat Nevin - Former Scotland international footballer and occasional DJ.

Selecting the shortlisted Tracks

1. The Panel will select a total of 60 album tracks which have been performed by a “Scottish Artist”.
2. For the purposes of the selection process, a “Scottish Artist” is an individual whose mother, father or grandparent was born in Scotland.
3. A total of 15 tracks will be selected from four specified decades, namely:  1970; 1980; 1990; 2000. 

Voting for your favourite tracks

1. Voting is only available online at stv.tv/scotlandsgreatestalbum.
2. Voters must register with STV to participate.  Details on how to register are provided at stv.tv/scotlandsgreatestalbum.
3. Voting will commence at the end of the first programme when the first 15 tracks, featured on the programme that evening, will be added to STV’s website and made available for selection.
4. At the end of programmes 2, 3 and 4, a further 15 tracks, as featured on each programme that evening, will be added to STV’s website until the shortlisted 60 tracks are revealed.
5. STV’s website page will display each track from that week’s programme, together with the specific decade (including artist and song title)
6. Voting is achieved by selecting your favourite tracks for each separate decade.  Voters can select up to a maximum of three tracks from the list
7. Selected tracks for each decade can be changed at any time up until the voting period closes.
8. Once voting has closed, all selected tracks will be automatically logged for counting.

The Voting Period

1. The voting period, for each decade, is as follows:
   70s Start:  04.10.11 at 2:00 - End:  11.10.11 at 23:59
   80s Start:  11.10.11 at 22:00 - End:  18.10.11 at 23:59
   90s Start:  18.10.11 at 22:00 - End:  25.10.11 at 23:59
   00s Start:  25.10.11 at 22:00 - End:  01.11.11 at 23:59
2. Voters can continue to select and de-select tracks until the voting period ends.
3. Votes received after the voting period has closed will not be counted.

The Winner

1. All votes placed on stv.tv/scotlandsgreatestalbum before the voting period has closed will be counted to produce an overall vote for each track within the relevant decade.
2. The three tracks, per decade, with the highest number of votes will be selected as a ‘winner’.
3. The winning 12 tracks will be announced on programme five.

Terms and Conditions

STV Central Limited
Registered in Scotland
Company Number 172149
Pacific Quay
Glasgow
G51 1PQ

Duty Office:  0141 300 3000
E-mail:  viewer.enquiries@stv.tv

STV Central Limited is regulated by Ofcom:  www.ofcom.org.uk

Greatest Album Vote

The promoter is STV Central Limited (“STV”) of Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1PQ.

1. Eligibility

1.1 Viewers must be registered with STV.TV to vote.

1.2 Any person who, during the course of the voting period, is an employee or an immediate family member of any employee of STV or an employee of any other person involved with the making of the programme, is ineligible to participate.

2. Conditions of Entry

2.1 Votes shall be cast by participants selecting three tracks within the voting period specified within the programme and the Competition Rules. Preferences exercised, received by STV and prevailing at 04.10.11 at 21:00 until 11.10.11 at 23:59 for the 70s show; 11.10.11 at 22:00 until 18.10.11 at 23:59 for the 80s show; 18.10.11 at 22:00 until 25.10.11 at 23:59 for the 90s show; and 25.10.11 at 22:00 until 01.11.11 at 23:59 for the 00s show (“the voting period”) shall be the votes cast.

2.2 By entering a vote, participants acknowledge that they have read and accept the terms and conditions and the voting rules.

2.3 All votes must be received by STV within the voting period.  Entries will be accepted automatically when the voting period ends.

2.4 Votes cast after the closing date will not be accepted or counted.

2.5 No responsibility will be taken by STV for any votes that are delayed for technical or other reasons or received after the closing date and time, including any failures on the Internet.

2.6 STV reserves the absolute right to disqualify any entrant which it considers has used improper technical or other means to enter.

2.7 STV will not charge for casting a vote.  Entrants are liable for their own network or service provider costs to access mobile or computer networks which may apply, to submit votes.  

3. Legal Information

3.1 All decisions of STV will be final and binding.  No correspondence will be entered into.

3.2 These Terms and Conditions are governed by the law of Scotland.