Shame !!....DJ Mag Top 100.... is Fake !!
This is an e-mail that ATB received on the 25th of October 2007 , and he posted it on his official forum :
We have a mutual friend who told me to send this to
you. I work for DJ magazine so have to keep my
identity hidden. Would you be game for starting a
petition against DJ magazine. Read my comments below
and see what you think? I need a source to leak this
to forums and get the word about this dreadful poll.
Tell me what you think about the following? Before you
post or make a petiton let me know what you think?
Name and shame DJ magazine
Every year DJ magazine causes chaos and conspiracy
theories once the Top 100 results are announced, but
this year was one step too far for an inside source at
DJ magazine who eventually broke ranks.
They think it’s about time the public should know the
truth. Our inside source at DJ magazine allegedly
tells us the new owners bought a nearly bankrupt DJ
Magazine last year with one intention, to build the
branding of the Top 100 poll to make money from it,
and this is exactly what appears to be happening. A
public voting poll should be run by a neutral and
independent commodity, so why is it DJ magazine made
Ł250,000 ($500,000) from inflated advertising revenue
in their Top 100 issue this year? Also why are DJ's
vote banners put on the voting page along with DJ mags
own adverts? In the UK voting fact and figures should
be made public along with the system used, so why has
this never been published or printed?
DJ magazine are fully aware that their chart is losing
it’s credibility in the market place, hence their
attempt to patch things up and ‘name and shame’ some
DJ’s to make out that they are policing the result.
This completely backfired when lawyers asked a third
party to audit the votes, which caused absolute panic
in the offices and DJ magazine quickly backed down.
An easy test can be done by a 3rd party review by
using software to verify the 320,000 voters email
addresses in this years poll, this will tell you
exactly how many valid email addresses where actually
used. This will never be done because DJ magazine sell
valuable advertising off the basis they have 320,000
votes, would advertises be happy if they found out the
truth?
Our source pointed out the following. Allegedly;
- They boast groundbreaking security this year, why
did they resort to using a system from five years ago
with absolutely no security?
- Why did the voting system change 3 or 4 time within
the first 2 weeks. What happened to those lost votes?
- Why has Ricky Stone never been busted? He suddenly
appeared in the top 50 from know where and claimed to
get the ‘Chinese vote’ yet never plays in China?
- Why are all of Connected DJ’s roster always in the
Top 50, Gareth Emery, Lange, Andy Moore,
Thrillseekers?
- Every year the poll is 'tweaked' by the staff at
DJ mag to make it more realistic to keep it integrity
in tact.
- Staff frantically call each other not knowing many
of the DJs in the poll?
- A top 3 DJ had his knuckles wrapped for multiple
voting last year, but was never disqualified or named.
- The magazine only sells less than 10000 copies
every month, they desperately need the top 100 poll as
it keep the company afloat for the rest of the year.
- DJ magazine have never had a 'secure' system in
place and find it impossible to check all the votes.
- On numerous occasions they have been offered help
with a secure system but declined due to needing
things to look like they have more votes, thus
generating more revenue for advertising due to the
amount of 'voters'.
Off course these are 'alleged' statements from our
source inside DJ magazine. We have the power to 'Name
and shame' DJ magazine by demanding an audit where the
truth will be uncovered. Here we will have an
independent 3rd party review of DJ magazines voting
system and make the results available to the public.
Are we being cheated by a Magazine that is seriously
damaging the dance music industry and also has the
power to play god with DJ's careers? Are they a DJ
magazine for DJs or using DJ's to make money?
Lets put these conspiracy theories and rumours to and
end by signing this online petition to demand a 3rd
party review. People power will purvey in the end, so
make sure you sign this petition below and we will
deliver this to the Press complaints commission to
order this investigation.
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Ich danke Euch trotzdem für Eure Unterstützung!!
Anyway, thanks for every real vote!!
I think the world should know about this. There was a lot of very succesfull DJ Friends this year who didn't even appear in the Top 100! For example Cosmic Gate. This is unbelievable.
All the best
Andre (ATB)
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Casey Keyworth
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