How Big is it?

[Lonman]

I was gathering he was asking how many singers would you have from a starting singer to an ending singer before going back to the starting singer (a 'round' or rotation), not how many singers can you get in a night. An average 'round' for me would be 15-20 on weeknights from a begining point to an ending point before starting back to the first singer. On weekends it's about 30-40.
If you are going by how many individual singers do you an average a night, that would be sometimes hard to count it may be the same 15-20 singers all night or with singers coming in & leaving, that number could go higher for actual individual singers, it would be hard to track.
You can only get so many singers total per any night which for a 4 hour period would be about 50-70 singers 'total' depending on the song lengths - so if that is the question, then everyone will pretty much have the same answer based on a 4 hour night.

[CerealKiller]

yes!! How big is the rotation at its max?

I Would love to just have about 20 singers!

I often feel a little bad that people don't get to sing much where I work And I was just wondering if others out there had large rotation.

I Know these numbers vary alot night to night, week to week.

But just let me know What kind of numbers were talking about.

Whats a good average? Whats a Real Busy Night? Whats a slow night?

Not how many total songs in a night.




My average weekday is 30 or so
but can be above 50 sometimes

Weekends always above 50

a real busy night will be above 60



A Slow night is under 20

[muzicman144]

I don't do karaoke but 60 singers at 4 minutes apiece equals 4 hours. How long a show do you do. A singer sings one song only on the busy nights.

Muzicman144

[madjim- with the Lord]

One place I work for three hours from midnight till 3AM gets eighty to one hundred folks in it. I only put a singer on my list once. They put in their next song after they sing the one that is on the list, this keeps my list fair. The folks that get their early and stay late will get to sing twice if the crowd isn't too big. The wait is 1 1/2 hours on average. Here, twenty to thirty folks on the list all night is average. On a real busy night every body will get to sing once. These nights the list goes up to forty or better.

Other smaller places the list stays from ten to fifteen folks. They rotate out fast and get to sing more songs through the night.

What the singer wants depends on where they sing with me. If they like siging in front of a large crowd they come to the late club and sing once, maybe twice if they are lucky. If they like to sing a bunch, they come to the smaller clubs. Some folks come out for both.

I find that every club is different.

Jim

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by muzicman144

I don't do karaoke but 60 singers at 4 minutes apiece equals 4 hours. How long a show do you do. A singer sings one song only on the busy nights.

Muzicman144

I generally get 14 songs per hour and usually run overtime 15-20 minutes

On nights when I've got a 30 person rotation it's usually only one round. Few singers will wait another 2 hours for 1 more song. Usually the first or second round will be short then one loooong round followed by another short round or two. sometimes I'll lose so many singers after a long round that I can end up struggling for singers towards the end of the night.

[Lonman]

Tonight was kind of slow, averaged 12-15 singers per round. But it was pretty much the same singers all night, didn't have a large fluctuation between old & new.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

On nights when I've got a 30 person rotation it's usually only one round. Few singers will wait another 2 hours for 1 more song. Usually the first or second round will be short then one loooong round followed by another short round or two. sometimes I'll lose so many singers after a long round that I can end up struggling for singers towards the end of the night.

This happens to us on weekends at one place a lot.

[CerealKiller]

I Usally get here at 8:00 sometimes i get started by 8:30 and we go untill 2:45 so it can be a six hour show. I try my best to get as many as I can in. Before I started as a kj I used to sing every once in awhile so i know how bad it is to only sing 1 or 2 times in a night, but what can you do when the rotation get that big, nothing. I know this was a vague question but I realy appreciate everyones comments.


"Mines bigger than yours" ha ha ha just kidding

[Lonman]

We start at 9 & I will generally have a few slips sitting on the table before I even get there on any night.

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hey All,
Being a karaoke nut and making the rounds on a regular basis as well as hosting my own show I see how the others work.
Some as little as 5 singers rotating and I think the most was 37, also depends on the venue.
Last night was great the kj, a girl, no disrespect here, but she wouldn't accept any help, got her programme all messed up and it stuck.
It would only play 1 song after another from the database, with no imput from her so she just said "this song is playing who wants to sing it".
No "My way"or the usual boring standards, kept some of the most boring singers out of the loop because they wouldn't attempt anything other than
the songs they repeat ad nausem.
Because of the way it went the audience gave all singers a great ovation for what they saw as being brave to dare sing unknown material.
All in all a one off special night.
Regards from across the pond.
Garry

[swany]

Don't make much difference I've book all my gigs as DJ and KJ, so if I have three singers and thirty people I take a lot of DJ requests, some nights I get 30 and most night between 10 and 20. Either way I make sure the majority are happy, and drinking at the bar I'm at.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Lonman

I was gathering he was asking how many singers would you have from a starting singer to an ending singer before going back to the starting singer (a 'round' or rotation), not how many singers can you get in a night. An average 'round' for me would be 15-20 on weeknights from a begining point to an ending point before starting back to the first singer. On weekends it's about 30-40.
If you are going by how many individual singers do you an average a night, that would be sometimes hard to count it may be the same 15-20 singers all night or with singers coming in & leaving, that number could go higher for actual individual singers, it would be hard to track.
You can only get so many singers total per any night which for a 4 hour period would be about 50-70 singers 'total' depending on the song lengths - so if that is the question, then everyone will pretty much have the same answer based on a 4 hour night.

Ya thats true too , but a slow night could be any number aswell, and sometimes the KJ sings up to 5 r ten times as well. Sometimes singers don't start till 10:30. Hpwever, it does seem like a 50 person rotation is kinda strange, some ppl may never get to sing, while some will hang around 4 hours to sing once, sheesh.

[bryant]

Like tonight's rotation averaged between 7 and 12, first singer at 9:45, played till one. Always play dance tunes by request, (probably totalled 45 min of music) ; bar made over a 1000 dollars on a wed. night, remember, in Central maine, where the most expensive drink is 2.25 and other bars in town can't afford to stay open on a Wed., last year this place was averaging less than 200 dollars a Wed. night. This would be considered a very busy night as there were 50 other ppl in a small place watching the singers.

A lot of variables to apply to this question, but it does evoke a lot of interesting discussion.