You must have heard of the Arnel Pineda phenomenon by now and his incredible ‘journey’. He is a Filipino born and raised in the Philippines and was given the biggest break of his musical career ever by becoming the new lead vocals of Journey, one of the world’s most popular band in the 80′s and are now making a comeback.

Arnel Pineda is a ‘revelation,’ to say the least! He gave a new life and fresh take on the band, became an official member in December 2007 and it’s all soaring high from thereon! The band is touring all across America this Summer in over 50 cities! They are currently in Europe performing in England, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Journey’s latest album with Arnel Pineda as lead vocals debuted in the United States on June 3, 2008 and the three-disc CD/DVD package REVELATION has sold more than 104,000 copies in its first week. It’s the band’s biggest first week sales since 1996. The album is not yet available for worldwide release!

The Contest

What could be a better way to support our homegrown talent, Arnel Pineda- make it to the international scene by promoting his and the band’s newest and most anticipated album to date. We are giving away 12 Original Revelation CD/DVD package to 12 lucky participants residing in the Philippines including FREE shipping!

We are thrilled to partner with Blogs That Follow on this contest. They offered to share the cost with us.

Ground Rules:

1. The contest will run from June 28 to September 28, 2008. Every month end (July 28, August 28 and September 28) we will give out four (4) REVELATION albums.

2. Since US residents can get the album easy, this contest is open to people residing ONLY in the Philippines. You must own a website, have an email address and or at least be a member of any social community group to help promote the contest.

3. This is not a raffle drawing. Winning will be based by point system. The first 4 people to get the most number of points at the end of each month wins. We’ll keep tab and update you at least twice each month!

4. You can’t win twice. Non-winners will be included automatically in the next round. If you rank 5th in the first month, you have the chance to win the item on the second month, just keep adding points!

5. We feel there ‘s more transparency and credibility in winning by points rather than by raffle. The highest number of points gets picked as winner rather than we just announced who won from a private drawing held.

6. The mechanics may appear long but they’re really simple and easy to accomplish. We are just giving you more ways to earn points! You can do any one of the listed things to accomplish or you can do them all! Just submitting your site for example with Blogs That Follow earns you 50 points already. Blog about the contest gets you another 50. Doing just the two gets you 100 points easy.

The Enchilada (Mechanics):

1. As in usual blog contests, LINKING is a big part to winning!

SUBSCRIBE via email in either one or all of these 3 sites: each subscription earns you 10 points (subscribe in all 3 you get 30 points automatically)

Subscribe to Rate My Philippines by Email

Subscribe to Rate My Philippines Blog by Email

Subscribe to Blogs That Follow by Email

2. Put a small link banner button on your homepage (not inside pages) such as this:   and you get 5 points.

3. Put a bigger link banner anywhere on your front page like this lin king back to us:

or any of the 125×125 size such as this:

and you get 10 points plus we’ll include you in our blogroll! Find the buttons here.

4. Be a do follow blogger, Submit your site for FREE to Blogs That Follow Link Directory and get 50 points!! You get another link from them in their Blog!

5. Blog about the contest giving a link to both Rate My Philippines and Blogs That Follow as our co-sponsor.

Let us know you did by leaving a comment on this page with the link to your blog article. Get 50 points for doing so!

7. Social community group.

Favorite Blogs That Follow Official Blog in Technorati and get 10 points PLUS they will also favorite you!

Favorite Rate My Philippines and Rate My Philippines Blog in Technorati and get 10 points each PLUS we will favorite you too!

Stumble upon Blogs That Follow or Blogs That Follow Official Blog and get 10 points, Discover and get 15 points!

Stumble upon Rate My Philippines and Rate My Philippines Blog and get 10 points, Discover and get 15 points!

Join Blogs That Follow and Rate My Philippines communities in MyBlogLog and Blog Catalog and get 10 points for each! We will also join your community!

Entrecard Drop in Blogs That Follow, Blogs That Follow Blog and Rate My Philippines and whoever gets to be on the TOP 3 Entrecard droppers at the end of each month gets additional 20 points.

8. Submit your site to be featured in the gallery of Rate My Philippines and earn 25 points. All sites that are already featured and joins the contest gets 25 points automatically! All pending sites up for posting received by email also gets 25 points!

What you will win:

1 live in-concert DVD

The 2-disc CD

CD One includes all new original songs

1. Never Walk Away 2. Like A Sunshower 3. Change For The Better 4. Wildest Dream 5. Faith In The Heartland 6. After All These Years 7. Where Did I Lose Your Love 8. What I Needed 9. What It Takes To Win 10. Turn Down The World Tonight 11. The Journey (Revelation)

CD Two is a re-recording of Journey’s Classic hits sung by Arnel Pineda

1. Only The Young 2. Don’t Stop Believin’ 3. Wheel In The Sky 4. Faithfully 5. Any Way You Want It 6. Who’s Crying Now 7. Separate Ways 8. Lights 9. Open Arms 10. Be Good To Yourself 11. Stone In Love

Announcement of Winners:

4 Winners will be notified via Email each month and we will also announce them on this blog on July 30, August 30, September 30.

Winners are asked to submit a valid Philippine address with the right zip code and we will ship the items for FREE! (Your information is safe with us. We will never sell your email or home address!)

Kindly leave a comment if you find anything confusing or need further clarification. We’ll be gladly to take note! This is just the start of the many contests we have planned for the site! Do continue to check out on us. Thank you for your support.

Good Luck! Let the contest journey commence…