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Open Call

Nominate songs for the open Calibration Corpus.

The Lyric Scoring Standard ships with a hand-scored reference corpus — currently 21 entries spanning F-band through S-band. Every honest addition strengthens calibration. This page is the public intake.

What we’re looking for

We’re building toward 1,000+ entries. Priority right now (in roughly this order):

  1. Pre-LLM-era S-band anchors — songs released before 2022 that demonstrably score 90+ on the rubric. The rubric was calibrated against “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949, 95-point); we want more like it across genres.
  2. F-band cautionary tales — commercially-released songs that score 30-45. As informative as the canonical anchors. We’ll cite with the original artist’s public release.
  3. Genre exemplars we’re missing — see the existing corpus at /scoring/corpus. If your favorite genre is under-represented, nominate the canonical reference work.
  4. Non-English exemplars — blocked on RFC-0009 phase 2 (multi-language scoring methodology). Nominations welcome; they enter the corpus once the rubric’s language-aware variant ships.

How to submit

Email support@songforgeai.com using the template below. We acknowledge within 7 days and respond with accept/reject + scoring rationale within 30 days for accepted entries.

Subject: [CORPUS] <Song name> — <Artist> (<Year>)

Song: <full title as released>
Artist: <writing-credit attribution; producer if relevant>
Year: <release year>
Genre: <canonical genre slug — country / rock / hip-hop / etc.>
Why this song: <2-3 sentences. What does it exemplify?
Is it a craft anchor (S-band)? An archetypal mid-band? An
F-band cautionary tale? What does the corpus learn from
including it?>

Optional: paste lyrics if they're not searchable on a
canonical lyrics site, or link to the canonical lyrics URL.

Email to support@songforgeai.com.

Curation rules

  • Real songs only

    Released, attributable, lyrics findable. No demos, no co-writes that haven't been credited yet, no anonymous submissions.

  • Span the bands

    We need calibration anchors at every score band — F-band failures + mid-band journeyman work + S-band canonical anchors. A 30 is as informative as a 95.

  • Span the genres

    Country, hip-hop, R&B, indie, folk, rock, pop, classical, gospel, reggae, jazz, electronic. The corpus's calibration credibility depends on cross-genre coverage.

  • Span the eras

    Pre-1960 to current decade. Pre-LLM-era anchors are critical because they predate any AI-output contamination of the rubric's training signal.

  • No vanity submissions

    Submitting your own lyrics, your friend's lyrics, or songs you have a financial stake in is fine — say so. Hidden conflicts disqualify the entry from the corpus.

  • Honest scoring

    Every accepted entry is scored by the rubric AND a human-rater. Public composite + per-tier breakdowns. The score IS the entry; we don't softball.

The Top-100 push

Once the corpus crosses 100 verified entries, we publish “The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Scored Against the Open Standard” — full per-metric breakdowns, public, citable, downloadable. Every accepted submitter is named in the credits roll. Until then this page is the running intake.

See the current corpus