Vocagathering 2026
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Vocagathering is an online posting festival for original songs featuring vocal synths. The event aims to facilitate discovery of vocal synth songs and producers and to promote vocal synth creative culture, especially to the international audience.
Our first Vocagathering was successfully held in April 2025, with 135 original vocal synth songs submissions and over 1000 unique visitors during the event, coming from 69 countries! Read more about it here!
How does it work?
Vocal synth producers will upload their song on a specific date to YouTube and submit the upload on our website (see additional requirements here). Afterwards, the song will automatically be ranked and may appear on our rankings page. Rankings will be periodically updated for a few days until the event ends upon which the top ranked songs are solidified into history.
Vocagathering 2026 also features a discovery radio, where entries will be played in a random order! Through this radio, listeners can discover and vote for their new favorites!
1. Prepare your entry
Before March 14th 12:00AM UTC- To all producers, musicians, artists, video editors, etc. start working on your entry!
- (optional) Schedule your video to publish on YouTube during the event period!
2. Applications open and voting begins!
March 14th 12:00AM UTC- Vocagathering begins! Submit your song and check out entries through the discovery radio!
- Listen and vote for songs through the Discovery Radio to boost them!
- View all submitted songs in the all songs page!
- (optional) Share your song on social media using #Vocagathering2026!
3. Rankings are revealed
March 14th 12:00AM UTC and minimum 30 entries- After time is given for songs to be submitted and discovered, the rankings are revealed!
- Listen and vote for songs through the Discovery Radio to boost them!
- View all submitted songs in the all songs page!
4. Submissions close
March 16 12:00AM UTC- Vocagathering stops accepting submissions
- Listen and vote for songs through the Discovery Radio to boost them!
- View all submitted songs in the all songs page!
5. Vocagathering ends
March 18th 12:00AM UTC- Rankings cease updating
- The voting period ends
- You can still listen to songs through the discovery radio!
- You can still view all submitted songs in the all songs page!
A posting festival is when a group of people coordinate uploading content onto a platform during a certain time frame. The posted content usually identifies their participation through shared hashtags and upload constraints. Posting festivals can increase the visibility of posted content within the algorithm through connecting popular and lesser known content together.
You can submit an entry on the application page during the 48 hour submission period. Please refer to to the submission page for more information.
View the submission requirements on the apply page.
Nope! Feel free to upload a song in any language.
Yes! Human vocals are fine as long as vocal synth vocals also stay the main focus. Human and vocal synth duets are also allowed.
Unfortunately for this event, we will not have a category for covers or remixes. We hope to add those categories in the future once we have the bandwidth to do so.
Entries are ranked based on a weighted score of the views, likes, views to likes ratio, and the number of votes given through the Discovery Radio. Giving likes, sharing entries, and voting for songs are the best ways to show support!
These rankings are not meant to be an objective measure of song or video quality, only a silly way to offer a sort of incentive. Please do not take the rankings seriously!
There will not be any rewards for placing in the rankings this time. This event is just for fun!
After each Vocagathering event, we may release volunteer applications. Please keep an eye out!
Please see our contact page.