Over the next few weeks, WTFDetroit.com posters will identify Detroit's Top 25 Recording Artists of All Time.

Here is how the process will work:
1. Using this thread, posters can nominate any Michigan born/based recording artists for inclusion in the final ballot. Please note that artists from any part of Michigan are eligible for nomination. This nomination period is open from now until July 25, 2006.

2. Posters are encouraged to nominate artists/groups that they view as the most significant in Detroit music history.

The criteria is simple:
a) quality of artist/group's overall body of work
b) overall influence on the music industry
c) all/any genres are acceptable
d) must be Michigan born and/or based

3. Posters can nominate as many acts as they would like over the nomination period. The Syndicate will judge whether or not nominations are valid, and if they are, they will be added to the official nomination ballot (a running list that will be updated frequently).

4. Once the nomination period is over, an official final ballot will be posted. We will then enter the voting/balloting period where people can email or PM their lists (in ranked order) of up to 25 nominees. They can also send in fewer if they'd like to.

5. Once the voting period ends, the results will be compiled, and they will be unveiled in a full length WTF Front Page feature article.

6. As a special bonus, one voter will be selected at random to receive a valuable prize (prize TBD).
We're really hoping to get a lot of participation on this so we can produce the best quality list at the end, and it could make for some great debate/conversation as well.

With that, it's time to start nominating acts for Detroit's Top 25 Recording Artists of All Time. Feel free to discuss your own nominations and the nominations of others in this thread.

Thanks!