From the Music Video to the Magazine Cover: CRUSH Is Looking for Its Next Cover Star

From the Music Video to the Magazine Cover: CRUSH Is Looking for Its Next Cover Star

The CRUSH Magazine Cover Search winner takes home $1,000 cash and lands the digital cover. The Top 15 get free photo shoots, and the Top 25 get free CRUSH Tour entry.

There’s always somebody you rewind a music video to see again. Maybe it’s the dancer who catches a beat everybody else missed. Maybe it’s the person who wears a look so well you start planning your own version. That’s the kind of presence CRUSH Magazine wants to put on the cover.

Savannah’s George “Mikey” Ransom Turner III, known as Party Plug Mikey, Plug Not A Rapper, and Mr CRUSH, has spent years working both sides of the camera as a promoter and recording artist. Now the CRUSH Magazine Cover Search is inviting models, dancers, and creators ages 18 and up to show what they can do in front of it.

Enter the CRUSH Magazine Cover Search for Free

Press Play Before You Pick Your Photo

Start with “Moor Or Less,” which CRUSH Magazine reported was filmed in part at an Orange Crush mansion pool party in Miami. It’s a piece of the CRUSH story where the party and the music video share the same setting. Watch “Moor Or Less”

Then pull up “The 99 & 3000” for a throwback from Mikey’s dance catalog, and “Freak Sumn” for a look at how he takes that party energy into animation. If you’re entering as a dancer, use your optional intro video to show the move you’d bring to a track. If you’re entering as a model or creator, pick a photo that shows a styling or creative choice you made yourself. Watch “The 99 & 3000” · Watch “Freak Sumn”

The Savannah Story Behind the Search

In March 2025, WTOC interviewed George Turner about his day-to-day collaboration with organizers and city officials as Orange Crush returned to Tybee Island as a permitted event. In its post-event coverage, WTOC reported that Tybee officials credited the traffic plan with keeping cars moving and clearing the island earlier than in prior years. The Current also documented organizers rallying volunteers to clean up the beach afterward. Those are two sides of putting on a weekend people want to come back to: giving them a good time and doing the work the coast needs afterward. Read WTOC’s interview with George Turner · Read WTOC’s 2025 event recap · Read The Current’s coverage

That Savannah connection runs through the casting call. The search gives Miami, Savannah/Tybee, Atlanta, and Jacksonville one finalist each, following the four markets on the planned CRUSH Tour 2027 calendar.

Market

Planned 2027 tour dates

Miami

March 13–16

Savannah/Tybee

April 16–19

Atlanta

May 21–25

Jacksonville

June 19–21

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What You Can Win

• The cover winner gets $1,000 cash, the CRUSH Magazine digital cover, and an editorial interview.

• The Top 15 each get a free photo shoot.

• The Top 25 each get free CRUSH Tour entry.

The prizes stack. The winner gets the shoot and tour entry, too. Each market’s verified vote leader advances to the finale and earns a photo shoot. Overall verified votes fill the remaining prize spots, and the CRUSH panel picks the cover winner from the four finalists based on camera presence, creative point of view, and fit for the cover concept. When standings are published, fans can follow the race by city or overall through each contestant’s percentage of verified votes. View the public standings

Show Us the Shot You’d Put on the Cover

Pick your market, upload a recent photo, and tell us what you’d bring to CRUSH Magazine. A portfolio, social link, or short intro video can show us more of your work. If you’ve already got the photo in mind, pull it up and give your city somebody to vote for.

Sign Up for the CRUSH Magazine Cover Search