If you are just new to your business, then over the next little while you are going to be gaining a lot of experience. You have spent a lot of time most likely on the other end being the karaoke participant. Being an avid music lover no doubt you have been going to good gatherings as well as bad. At the bad ones you probably noticed, such things as the KJ doing more singing and entertaining himself, then allowing others to get up and do what its all about. They seem to forget, this is not a one man show, and people did not come to sit and listen to him or her all night.



The next bad experience you may have had is, where there is no assortment of music, it all seems to be the same thing over and over, maybe a different song but the same tone. Its up to the KJ to try an keep it balanced. Then there are the ones who seemed to have lost control as to the order of participants, so the same person is up singing every second song, while someone else has been waiting for a ? hour. Now that you are the KJ and its your karaoke business learn from these mistakes, and don't repeat them.

One of the most important rules you want to develop, and then stick to is the order of singers. Take the singer in the order of how you get them, and depending on how many requests you get you can keep rotating them. As a karaoke singer comes up take their request form and lay it face down beside you.

When you get to the point where you are not getting any new requests then turn your stack over and start again. If you get a new request then place the new request at the top of your rotation.

Of course you will get the odd cheater. This is the person that puts in requests under different names. You will catch on although maybe not till they have started singing. Let the person continue so as to avoid a confrontation. After all karaoke is suppose to be fun. Afterwards though, inform the individual that he broke the rules, and won't be able to participate again.

Sometimes a persons name will come up and its their turn. For some reason they might not be quite prepared to sing at that particular time. Just put their request at the bottom of the rotation pile.

If when you call out the next persons name they don't respond then they will be deemed as leaving the building. Toss out the request. Should the individual return he will have to put in a new request.

These are not karaoke rules written in stone, but they are pretty well the basic rules that are used in the industry. If you stick to them as close as possible, you shouldn't have too much confusion. Most likely a lot of your participants are familiar with karaoke and the general rules.