Thanks FotoGuy! – See Pictures from the 2011 Capital City Wall to Wall Christmas Ball taken in Raleigh at the North Raleigh Hilton by Rickie Lipscomb. See one you like? Contact Rickie (919)552-3377 or Rickie on Facebook

The photo link has been added to the website Wall to Wall Ball
Bands from 2011 were Band of Oz – Fantastic Shakers – Jim Quick & Coastline and Hip Pocket

It was a HUGE Party – Don’t miss it next year – It will be the 10th Annual!

Jim Quick – Merry Christmas

Tuesday at 2PM on www.ShagCityUSA.com

Had a big weekend in NMB after last the Thursday night Wall to Wall Ball in Raleigh. Counting down to Christmas.. Are you ready? A lot of you are getting beach music for Christmas – The CD order at BuyBeachMusic.com have been rolling in. Thanks to everyone that has supported the beach music labels and artists featured there at the website. Some last minute shoppers took advantage of an offer from the Coastline Crazies website.

Its less than 6 days to Christmas – but a few things first..

This is being broadcast from the NMB area but actually occurs all over the world.. with Internet reach.
Last live Show of the year for The Crossover with Jim Quick is Tuesday at 2PM playing on ShagCityUSA.com
On Wednesday, Tune in to ShagCityUSA to hear the Castaways live from the studio for a 1:00pm Interview.
Wednesday Night – at Fat Harold’s Beach Club in North Myrtle Beach – Its the Coastline Crazies Christmas Carnival with Jim Quick & Coastline – It will be crazy.. Wear your craziest Christmas outfit.. Be Tasteful – Cover UP!
Thursday an Friday – things are winding down
Saturday and Sunday – Most of the Clubs in NMB are closing.. Merry Christmas!

Hey if you are close to Raleigh – The Back to Back Christmas Parties are at TJ’s Night Life in Raleigh – BOZ on Wednesday the 21st and Coastline on Thursday the 22nd

Get Ready for the New Year Parties

Tim Clark was featured on December 14th at ShagCityUSA.com. He was at the Zeus Media Network studio for a live interview to discuss his current band – Tim Clark Band and tell a little bit about getting started in music as well as his days with Sugar Creek. Listen to an archive of the Tim Clark Interview at Zeus Radio.

I was recently asked about the Top 40 Beach Music Website Chart put together by Fessa John Hook. He has ranked the top beach music websites using the Alexa Worldwide Global Ranking. Alexa puts a ranking on websites based on how much traffic they estimate the sites to get . Sites like Google and Facebook are ranked 1 and 2. The rankings often change daily. In addition to the global ranking, alexa will usually try to rank a site based on traffic in its country. Not always present, but its interesting to see the US score of the sites that are listed.

So Hook’s Beach Music Website chart is an ongoing chart based on specific days roughly a month apart. His last chart was taken December 3rd. Looking at the rankings today (December 12th), I see several sites that probably should have been in his top 40 list.

Buy Beach Music is the top site dedicated to Beach and Shag Music CDs on the Internet. At a ranking less than 2 million, its sets in top 5 of sites dedicated to Beach Music.

The biggest one Shag City USA, a site that has consistently scored in the top 200,000 on Alexa, makes the number one site for beach music based on Alexa. Other notable sites I see missing that would be on my Top 40 Beach Music Website Chart… CoastlineCrazies.com, FatHarolds.com, BoomBoomsRawBar.com, HaroldsontheOcean.com, BeachMusicLinks.com.

The CrossoverShow.com just launched but already shows a ranking iin the top 5 million putting it in the Top 20 of Beach Music Related websites.

What do you think?