Melodic (magazine)

History

The website was created in Skogås, Sweden in 1999 with the name of Midwestern Skies. It was founded by the music industrialist Pär Winberg, which had been an A&R executive and had worked for EMI Music Sweden and Lionheart Music Group. He also worked with several artists, including The Real Group and Robert Wells. Melodic publishes content from contributors located around the globe, based in different continents and countries.

In May 2002, Midwestern Skies moved to the domain Melodic.net. The following year, the site expanded to competitions, features, and columns. In 2006, several features began to be provided by the site's staff writers, including live reviews, interviews, exclusive MP3 streams, and year-end features. In 2011, Melodic presented readers choice awards in ten categories. Swedish rock band The Pusher received three awards for their debut album The Art of Hit Music. Other winners were The Anix, Miss Behaviour, Nickelback, Coury Palermo, Sixx:A.M., Infinita Symphonia, and Brad Byrd. In January 2012, Melodic announced a new chart which is based on readers' vote. Charts are announced on Monday mornings and feature fifteen tracks.

The website had a complete make-over in 2020 and currently features the latest music news, interviews, record reviews, live shows, music videos as well as competitions.

Rating system

Melodic operates a simple 5-star rating system, starting at 1, that allows .5 intervals. Each of these values is assigned a word, ranging from "Terrible" (1.0) to "Essential" (5.0).

As well as showing the score a reviewer has given to the album, a review page will also show the average rating given by the readers. Should enough users have rated the album, a bar chart will also be shown indicating how many votes each rating has.

References

References

1. "Här utbildar vi nästa generations oslagbara musikbransch!". [[MTV Networks]].
2. Roth, Kaj. (3 May 2008). "Interview with Steve Stevens". Melodic.
3. "Best of Year". Melodic.
4. Winberg, Pär. "Midwestern Skies". [[Angelfire]].
5. Nylin, Lars. (25 August 2010). "4 snabba med Pär Winberg". Musikindustrin.
6. "Review status". Melodic.
7. Wippsson, Johan. (15 February 2012). "The Melodic Net Best of 2011 Result Is Here". Melodic.
8. "Melodic Net Singlelist". Melodic.
9. "Soular (NM): Billboard". [[PureVolume]].
10. Harjula, Juha. "Audiovision – The Calling". [[Rivel Records]].
11. "Interviews & Reviews". [[Harem Scarem]].
12. (19 July 2013). ""Lord Jim" Featured on Melodic.net". [[The Cringe]].