Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 01/28/2026
Celebrating creativity, engagement, and community building on Vocal.
Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories. Join us as we recognize this week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.
A reminder of some ground rules we use to formulate the Leaderboard:
The time period of data analyzed for each weekly Leaderboard is collected from 12:00am Wednesday - 11:59pm Tuesday ET each week. Only top level comments and replies by unique Vocal+ creators will count, comments or replies by the story author will be excluded. You don’t need to be Vocal+ to appear on the leaderboard. You can appear on the Leaderboard once per week. You can appear on the Leaderboard multiple weeks in a row. No AI generated content.
✨ Most Discussed Stories this Week ✨
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - Eight Stops
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Lamar Wiggins - 🅼🅸🅳🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 🆂🅽🅰🅲🅺🆂
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Novel Allen - Hi Vocal! So much has changed.
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward) - Crescent Moon
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): C. Rommial Butler - ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION AHEAD
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Aarsh Malik - Loved While Full
Lightning Bolt ⚡ - 65 Turns Around the Sun🏺
Paul Stewart - Doing the Right Thing Poorly
Each winner will receive a well-deserved bonus in their Vocal Wallets within the next 72 hours.
Congratulations to all the winners! We love what you bring to the table at Vocal. Here's to another week of excellent writing and reads.
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Comments (21)
Cangratulation All♥️
Congratulations everyone! I will read all of your stories.💖
Congrats!
Congratulations!!🎉🎉🎉
I have to give credit to Andrea Corwin and Novel Allen for recommending my piece on Raise Your Voice. This is my first time getting a placement on Vocal, and it feels amazing! and congrats too all
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congrats to all!
Thanks and congratulations everyone!
Congrats All! 🥳
congrats to everyone!!!
Congratulations 🎊!!!
Much congrats to all the winners!
Great job all, well done 💜
Well done everyone ♦️♦️♦️♦️😊♦️♦️♦️♦️
Great job! :)
Well done, everyone! Don’t spend it all in one place!
Congratulations all! 🤗❤️ Sandy 🎉 Lamar 🎉 Novel 🎉 Handsomelouii 🎉 C.Rommial 🎉 Aarsh 🎉 Biiillll🎉 Pauullll🎉 Mother cooombs🎉 Riiiickkk 🎉
Congratulations everyone!
🩷🩷🩷Congratulations Everyone 🎊
Wow! Thank you Vocal. What a great line-up this week. So happy to see Aarsh's name. Congrats to all, I have read quite a few of the winners already. Way to go Sandy.
Congratulations, everyone!