Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 06/18/2025
Celebrating creativity, engagement, and community building on Vocal.
Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories. Join us as we recognize this week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.
A reminder of some ground rules we use to formulate the Leaderboard:
The time period of data analyzed for each weekly Leaderboard is collected from 12:00am Wednesday - 11:59pm Tuesday ET each week. Only top level comments and replies by Vocal+ creators will count, comments or replies by the story author will be excluded. You don’t need to be Vocal+ to appear on the leaderboard. You can appear on the Leaderboard once per week. You can appear on the Leaderboard multiple weeks in a row. No AI generated content.
✨ Most Discussed Stories this Week ✨
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Vocal Poetry Anthology: Progress Update and Requests
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Rick Henry Christopher - The Self-Appreciation Challenge: The Winners!
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Mother Combs - Sunshine and Butterfly Kisses
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Shirley Belk - I Bet You Were Cute as a Child!?
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Matthew Fromm - Summer Nights
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Tiffany Gordon - Brand New... 🥊💪🏾🥊💪🏾✝️
Each winner will receive a well-deserved bonus in their Vocal Wallets within the next 72 hours.
Congratulations to all the winners! We love what you bring to the table at Vocal. Here's to another week of excellent writing and reads.
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By Raise Your Voice by Vocal3 days ago in Resources
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan5 days ago in Beat
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Ooooh. Thank you! For everyone that has read liked, commented on my piece and for all the lovely people who are taking part in the project and the kind messages about my Dad. Thanks, Vocal too. Well done to the other people - so many great names. Love this new Leaderboard layout. Proper writers getting properly recognised and celebrated.
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