Like I mentioned in the post about the final voting for the WRPCAs, many of the categories had some very close competition. You may have noticed that some categories in final voting had more than 5 nominees, which means that we had a tie for 5th place. I just wanted to give some props to these bands and songs that were super close to making it into the finals.

Best Male Vocals: The Weasel King, Marked as His Equal

Best Female Vocals: Witherwings, The House of Black

Best Full Length Album: Both Riddle™ albums, Riddle Me This and Secrets of the Darkest Art.

Best EP: Hufflepizza by Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills, Penelope by Hermione Crookshanks Experience

Best Album Artwork: Jingle Spells 2 by Frankie Franco III, The Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club by Marty Allen

Best Song: ‘Transparent’ by The Moaning Myrtles and ‘This Is Never Going to End’ by The Parselmouths

Best Duo: Tom Riddle and Friends, Blibbering Humdingers

Best Group Effort: The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, The Basilisk in Your Pasta

Best Band from Beyond the Grave: Creevey Crisis, Tom Riddle and Friends

Best Band Featuring a Magical Creature from the Animal Kingdom: Nagini, The Hungarian Horntails

Best Hufflepuff Band: The Cedric Diggorys, The Curse Breakers

Best Slytherin Band: The House of Black

Best Youth Effort: Mary and the GrandPres, Siriusly Hazza P

Band of the Year: Harry and the Potters, The Moaning Myrtles

Best Live Act: Draco and the Malfoys, The Mudbloods

Band Using the Most Exotic Instrument: Tom Riddle and Friends for their use of the banjo

Best Holiday Song: ‘It’s Still Snowing’ by Catchlove and Danny Dementor

Best Comedy Song: ‘Dobby, Bang Your Head’ by Blibbering Humdingers

Best Folk/Country/Blues song: ‘1st Year Haircut’ by Draco and the Malfoys

Best Memorial Song: ‘A Pensieve Full of Unrequited Love’ by The Mudbloods, ‘Ode to Everyone Who Died in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ by The Butterbeer Experience

Best Metawizardrock Song: ‘Wrock Rocks’ by The Butterbeer Experience

We also had two categories in which the nominee would have been in the top five, but it was from 2009, and therefore, disqualified for this year. Congrats to The Butterbeer Experience for The Bard EP and to The Remus Lupins and Brandon Nicholas for their video for ‘Seven Potters’. Remember those for next year!