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Many people ask about how our rotation works because it's different than they are used to. Most Karaoke hosts don't maintain their rotation the way we do so it throws people off when they want to sing together at our shows. The simple answer is, most Karaoke hosts do it wrong. After almost half a century as a DJ and Karaoke Host and as a student of the genre, I have studied this problem for many, many years and there is a FAIR and PROPER way to conduct a roation that allows everyone the same opportunities to sing. Most people will agree that each person should be able to sing one time before you allow someone to sing a second song. That's just basic fairness, yes? Of course, if someone walks in the door moments before the end of an hour-long rotation of singers, it wouldn't be fair to add them right in when you've had people waiting an hour or more to sing another song, so they will get put into a second round. In the second round, everyone who sang in the first round, gets to sing again and we'll keep people in the same order to keep it fair. However, we do want to encourage new people to join the fun, so we will begin integrating the "newcomers" (anyone who didn't sing in the first round) into the rotation and historically, this works best when you add people in after every other song by someone from the first round. In this way, after several FIRST round singers have sung their second song, we'll add a Newcomer, then another FIRST rounder, then another Newcomer and so on, every other song. The problem usually occurs when two people want to sing together. John & Mary want to do a duet on John's turn. That's fine. If John is first in the rotation, I'll move him down to Mary's spot and they can sing together. If Mary is first in the rotation, I'll move her down to John's spot and they can sing together. It would not be fair to the rest of the room, if I move Mary or John UP in the rotation, so I can only move the first person DOWN to the second person's position in the rotation. The complaint I usually hear is, "But we want to sing together on John's turn, why can't Mary still sing her song on 'her' turn?" If Mary sings on John's turn and then again on her turn, she's singing twice in the same rotation. We've already established this is unfair. The solution is simple and elegant. When two people want to sing together, they will share a turn. You can sing by yourself on your turn, or you can share a turn with someone else and that becomes "your" turn collectively. So "John's turn" and "Mary's turn" combine to become "John & Mary's turn" because it is being shared by both of them. The most important point is that each person, whether alone or with someone else, only sings one time in each rotation. Of course the people who want to sing with other people complain about it because other Karaoke hosts let them sing more than once in each rotation. I do not. It's that simple. I only want to be fair to everyone and if the people complain it's because they're not getting special treatment. The only exception is the show host. If someone really doesn't want to sing alone and no one else will sing with them, the host can sing with them, but then the host will usually take themselves out of the rotation for any subsequent solo song. |
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