SONG CONTEST BLOG

Winner
Anita Krell — “Boyfriend Upstairs”

(Lyric will be published with author’s permission)

It’s done!

All three categories, that is.  Congrats to the following in the Songwriter category:

Winner
R. Mack Harrell for “American Wheels”

Finalist
Karl Williams (aka Karl Thaler) for “Put Her There”

Runner Up
Cardin Campbell for “Emergency”

Results for the Singer/Songwriter category and Lyric-Only category have already been published.

Thanks fo taking part!

With considerable technical trouble, we finally notified the entrants of the Singer/Songwriter category.  Thank you everyone for your participation and, again, so sorry for this very delayed result.  Here we go…

Winner
Nafsica for “Missing Piece”

Finalist
Casey Black for “The Sarge”

Runner Up
Joelle Maddyson for “City Lights”

Results for the Lyric category have already been published, here.

Songwriter category next… bear with me!

I know we’re really really really delayed on notifications for the Free International Songwriting Competition.  I’m sorry.  And I appreciate your continued patience.

I am, however, delighted to announce that we’re done with the Lyric Category!

So…

Winner
Gabriel Gregoire for “The Angel Played Rock & Roll”

Finalist
Brent Lillie for “The Deal”

Runner Up
Diane Bowlin for “Black Diamond Eyes”

Very well done you three!

More to come…

The Singer/Songwriter Awards takes place six times a year.  When we first launched in 2005, we (uh, I…) decided to number each contest, 1 through 6, for each year.  

Stupidly, we named each of the six contests as a “Round” (e.g. The 2005 Singer/Songwriter Awards Round 1).

This created some confusion for you guys because you associated “Rounds” with multiple segments of a single event (like in boxing), right?

To clarify, each contest “Round” is an independent and complete contest.  As such, if you enter Round 1 and win, then you win.  That’s it.  You do not need to enter any further Rounds… but you are more than welcome to.

Make sense?

You might be asking yourself, “If it’s so confusing, why don’t they name the contests differently?”

Ahh… good question!

Our entire backend system (the database we use to store, display and reconcile your contest submissions), is configured to ‘understand’ Rounds.  Changing it is possible but a major undertaking.

Unfortunately, we’re stuck with Rounds.

If you would like to leave your feedback about this post, click here… and please be gentle.

Today, we launched the $5000 Cash Prize Songwriter Contest:

$5000 Cash Prize.

5 Categories.

5 Judges.

5 Winners.

$5 to enter.

Five song writers will win $1000 each for their winning song or lyric in their category.  Five finalists in each category will be hand-picked by us and presented to five judges for their selections.

Each contest participant will receive a free songwriter contest score card within thirty days of the songwriter contest deadline.

Click here for more details >>

Thanks to your feedback, we’ve accounted for the $1,500 deficit in the $6,000 cash prize for the free songwriting competition.  The issue is detailed here.  You’ll find the amended cash prizes published here.

You will notice that the first prize for each category has been raised from $1,000 to $1,500.

Cool beans.

We’re getting ready to launch a new songwriter competition.

We’re using “5” as the theme:

5 songwriting categories

5 winners in each category

5 judges

$5 submission fee

$5,000 cash prize

Of course, everybody who participates will receive a free contest score card.

What do you think?