SONG CONTEST BLOG

Last week, I wrote about a free song contest idea where the winner would receive a million dollars cash.  No strings attached.  If you missed it, here it is.

So, if YOU win, what will you do with the million dollars?

Leave a comment here.

Thanks to your constructive feedback, we’ve finally launched the much anticipated Free International Songwriting Competition.

It’s very simple.  You can enter one song and lyric into one of three categories (singer/songwriter, songwriter, or lyricist) for a chance at $1000 cash for the winner, $400 cash for the finalist, and $100 cash for the runner-up in each category.

Anyone can take part and EVERYONE will receive a free song contest score card.

If you have any questions or comments, please post them here.

Learn more…

I received this email this morning:

…I was gonna submit a song but then I realised you want $30 to review it.  Well?  I want $30 to send it.  Please send a check or money order to:

XXXX XXXXXX
40 XXXXXXXX Avenue
XXXX Cottage
XXXXXburg, XX
077XX

When I receive payment I will send you the song.

Thanks!

-M

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MusikPitch offers free song contests for songwriters.  Simply select a free song contest and submit your songs.  There’s no cost to take part, it’s a great way to get your music heard, and there’s a cash prize for the winner.

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Derek Siver’s idea for a free, open song contest got me thinking.

On his blog, he wrote:

I’m thinking about song contests, what a scam they usually are, but don’t have to be. By song contests, I mean all those ones that want a submission fee to enter, promising big prizes if you win, and whose judges are a small group of insiders.

I’ve been running song contests for more than five years.  Not the free, open kind.

I know what it takes to run a legitimate song contest.  I know what it costs and the human resources involved.  As far as I’m concerned, a free song contest is completely out of the question.

Or is it…

Lior’s Free Song Contest Concept

The following conditions are intended to make the cash prize feasible, keep marketing and administration costs low, and recruit song contest judges without compensation by limiting their duties to just a handful of reviews each:

1. One free song contest per year

2. One song entry per artist/band only

3. One category per artist/band only

4. One winner per category

5. Five categories (i.e. Rock, Pop, Country, Urban, Christian)

6. $2000 cash prize for every winner in each category ($10,000 total)

7. Four finalists per category

8. Judges review the finalists only (company staff review the others)

9. No prizes for finalists and runners-up

10. No honorable mentions

11. Limited promotion for the winners

12. No feedback (song critiques available for a fee)

So what do you think?

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