Hello everyone, @averysperez here :) Welcome back to the Weekly Annotation Competition! Here, you can submit cool annotations and vote for your favorites. The person whose scores for others most closely match staff’s ratings will be named the winner, and they will receive the “Tate of the Week” title and a badge to go with it!

Here are the final rankings for last week’s competition:

That means this week’s winner is… @mortalengine! Congrats! Here’s your personalized “Tate of the Week” badge:

Big shoutout to everyone who competed!

Click here view the full score breakdown.

@mortalengine – 7
@SmashBeezy – 5
@kingkillmonger – 3
@TrappaChiNo – 2
@aronquemarr – 1
@CalebMac116 – 1
@HeadofNoState – 1
@noufi – 1
@siion – 1
@The_Aards – 1
@theillestmanalive05 – 1
@tirelessmess – 1
@xMERLYN – 1

See here for the first edition leaderboard.

• Friday-Tuesday: Submit the best annotation that you have written in the past two weeks.

Embed it in a forum post below! Annotation submission will last from Friday when each edition of the thread is posted until the following Tuesday at 2PM.

Posts containing annotations not created in the past 2 weeks will be deleted from this thread, so check your dates!

• Tuesday-Friday: Cast your rating on each submission.

On Tuesday, a link to a poll will be posted in the comments where you can go through each annotation submitted to the thread and give it a rating from 1 to 5. At the same time, community staff will rate the annotations and determine whether the correct ratings where given. If a rating deviates too far from community staff rating or if a rating’s justification isn’t sufficiently justified, it will be removed from the scorecard.

The poll will be limited to one vote per person and will close on Thursday at 11:59PM, so make sure to cast your vote before then! It also records the date and time of your vote, so any votes submitted after Thursday night at 11:59PM will be automatically disqualified.

The highest scorer will win the week! The winner will be announced at the top of next week’s thread, so you’ll know who won this week next Friday.

FAQ:

• What do I win?

Bragging rights! Plus, a “Tate of the Week” badge created by Genius’ in-house design team with your username on it.

In a year’s time, whoever has won the most total weeks will earn a custom “Weekly Annotation Competition Yearly Winner” badge, and a special secret prize! 👀

• What kinds of annotations count?

Accepted line-level annotations, cover art annotations, song bios, album bios, and artist bios on music pages are all viable. Unreviewed annotations, verified annotations, Q&A entries, and annotations on non-music pages do not count. Annotations that are significantly overhauled within the last 2 weeks can also be submitted, as long as they result in at least 70% contribution.

• Is this only open to @genius-editorial-board?

Nope! Anyone can participate. As long as the annotation you submit has been reviewed and accepted, it will be added to the running.

Ayy first one to post

great job on filling in for @VinylZombie_MCR , alexis!!
also i hope the holiday seasons go well for you and your family!

And congrats to @mortalengine for another W, you deserved it!

so i know it’s not the greatest song bio in the world, but i like it:

https://genius.com/17775451

so close, gg
https://genius.com/18592982

Ay, congrats again @mortalengine !!

Here’s one I found interesting while writing the blurbs for GINGER and “NO HALO”:

https://genius.com/18577786

gonna throw this one into the ring, please give feedback!

https://genius.com/11885162

Congrats @mortalengine! Haven’t written much in the past month so this is all I can offer; simple, but it gets the job done!

https://genius.com/18625330

thank you so much @BenRodz @hamperedoutkast @Izeezus and everyone who voted!!

I’ve been extremely busy these past few weeks with barely any time for Genius, so I don’t have an annotation to submit. however, I’ll ofc be back when it’s time to vote, and maybe to submit an annotation next time around :)

Congratulations to my mortal foe, @mortalengine 😘 Solid work, once again.

I’m still twerkin' on this one… trying to figure out how to incorporate Carl Duckworth’s mention of Deuteronomy 28 from the previous song on DAMN.’s tracklist, titled “FEAR.” 🤔

Oh well… 🤷‍♂️ Until then, here’s my first new tate in a hot minute:

https://genius.com/18662514

I need a mentor…and more upvotes. Please help! 😏

https://genius.com/18593953

https://genius.com/18664189

Congratulations to @mortalengine and thanks to @averysperez for keeping @VinylZombie_MCR’s legacy alive while she’s away: excellent job! 😊

During these weeks, curiously, I’ve had time to do some particular works (thus even having the opportunity to talk about To Pimp A Butterfly), and some other ones could be on the way: let’s see if this has made me improve a bit as a tate-writer… 😅

https://genius.com/18636260

congrats @mortalengine!
here’s a tate :)

https://genius.com/18639028

it’s been a hot second since i’ve dropped a ‘tate here, this one took ages to write due to the lack of info around.

https://genius.com/18602064/Harry-styles-cherry/Does-he-take-you-walking-round-his-parents-gallery

Lemme try to come back to this. https://genius.com/18807625