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Are most songs forwarded in the 9-10 range during the critque? In general whenever I see a 1-10 scale I view a 7 as average an 8 as above average and a 9-10 as something that Taxi would consider forwarding. Is this an accurate assessment or can 8's get pushed through?

Jun 26, 2009, 7:53pm, rddonohue wrote:Are most songs forwarded in the 9-10 range during the critque? In general whenever I see a 1-10 scale I view a 7 as average an 8 as above average and a 9-10 as something that Taxi would consider forwarding. Is this an accurate assessment or can 8's get pushed through?I've been forwarded with average marks of 8 or above.

I was returned with 8s and 9s and 10s, songs that were on target for the listing, returned because the reviewer didn't like a word or didn't think the song was strong enough for the listing. I had one reviewer forward a song and another reviewer return the same song, for the same listing. After a while I just submitted knowing that the songs would be returned and mostly they were.

Generally, the numbers do not completely relate to the forward/non-forward decision. Taxi makes that clear. Of course, tracks with many marks below 7 don't have much chance. I've had forwards with 7's. It depends on the "bar" for the listing. Country writers have had songs with 9's and 10's returned, I'm told-- because the bar can be THAT high.Also, I've noticed that some screeners tend to score relative to what the listing requested, more so than others who score purely on the song. I had 9's on a submission which was returned because it was far off-target. Numerical systems are tough because one screener's "9" could be another screener's "7" and both really mean the same thing. Humans will never rate things the same way. And, yes, screeners do contradict each other.... that darn "human" thing again...Best, Casey

I had the same screener reject the same song for 2 different posts over a month apart. His/her comments didn't even sound like they were talking about the same song. It may have more to do with phases of the moon or the fates.................