After winning The Singer/Songwriter Awards in the last quarter of 2008, Jesse Terry opted to work with We Are Listening’s accredited music supervisor and founder of Tinderbox Music, Jon Delange, as his prize package. With only ten copies of Jesse’s latest release, “The Runner”, Jon secured no less than nine network-sized television placement licenses on Jesse’s behalf, including MTV (Road Rules, The Real World, Road Rules Challenge, The Hills, The City, Human Giant, My Super Sweet Sixteen, Teen Cribs, Parental Control); E Network (Keeping Up With the Kardashians); and Oxygen Network (Bad Girls Club). The relative ease in which Jon placed “The Runner” is a reflection of Jesse’s adaptive songwriting style and compatibility with today’s leading pop-culture entertainment.
“Just got news that nine TV shows (including The Hills and The City) are interested in using music from my record. I am holding the licenses in my hand!! This is all possible because of We Are Listening and your investment in my career. I’m so grateful. I feel like things are really starting to line-up…” — Jesse
Los Angeles native, Alana Grace, was selected as the winner of Round 6 of The 2008 Singer/Songwriter Awards songwriting contest by We Are Listening’s panel of judges last month. Having spent most of her childhood in Nashville, today she splits her time between the two cities and just completed a five month recording session in LA with producers Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Eve 6) and John Fields (Switchfoot, Pink, Andrew WK). She is now gearing up to promote the concerted musical effort: her debut album titled “Break the Silence” from which her winning song, “Words Escape Me”, was selected. The album was mixed by industry legends Bob Clearmountain (The Rolling Stones, The Cure, Aerosmith) and Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Hoobastank, Alanis Morissette).
Oren Lavie, Runner Up in We Are Listening’s 2007 Singer/Songwriter Awards, has achieved rare success on YouTube with his stop-motion music video, “Her Morning Elegance”. To date, the clip has garnered over 1.6 million views. Oren is currently based in LA and has a gig tonight at local Los Angelian venue, Largo, with vocal support from my good friends at Fonogenic Studios.
We Are Listening has brought together an exceptional panel of judges for an extraordinary international singer songwriter competition called The Singer/Songwriter Awards. Six gifted song contest winners will choose from six attractive songwriting, recording and marketing related prizes packages, including an exclusive recording session with producer Steve Williams (Sting, Eric Clapton, Seal) in London, England; a one week songwriting retreat in Stockholm, Sweden; television and film placement; 8 week US college and community radio promotion; record mixing and mastering; and CD duplication. As part of the singer songwriter competition prize package, We Are Listening undertakes to non-exclusively represent the winning songwriters and provide global digital distribution, sync licensing administration and bespoke online promotion.
Launched in 2005, The Singer/Songwriter Awards is We Are Listening’s first and foremost singer songwriter competition. Since its inception, We Are Listening has added new music industry opportunities to its service roster, venturing beyond the singer songwriter competition to niche initiatives like lyrics-only and World music genre contests. The company has become one of the leading forces in independent music promotion and boasts the most prestigious singer songwriter competition available to both unsigned and signed songwriters and recording artists. Its founder, Lior Shamir, is committed to making We Are Listening a next-generation, turn-key solution for independent artists.
The Singer/Songwriter Awards from We Are Listening is a prestigious international songwriting contest that takes place six times a year and attracts songwriters and performing artists from across the globe. The songwriting contest boasts a music industry panel of the highest caliber and offers a range of songwriting, recording and marketing related prizes for unsigned and professional artists. For lyricists, We Are Listening has developed a lyrics-only songwriting contest called the Lyric Writer Awards, the first independent songwriting contest to offer a co-writing and publishing deal, and takes place four times a year. Songwriters that write in any language other than English have also been catered to with a world music song contest called the World of Music Awards, a songwriting contest for foreign-language and instrumental composers that reflects the rich variety of music and culture from every corner of the world.
Founded in 2004, We Are Listening provides aspiring and established artists with relevant music industry opportunities and artist development services. In addition to its songwriting contest initiatives, We Are Listening caters to fledgling songwriters with a unique approach to music education through professional feedback and on-going evaluations. Armed with a 37-strong panel of the music industry elite, We Are Listening is quickly becoming one of the leading independent music companies in the new music economy.
We Are Listening currently accepts entries for three international song contests: The Singer/Songwriter Awards, Lyric Writer Awards, and World of Music Awards.
The Singer/Songwriter Awards is a song contest for songwriters writing original material with English-language lyrics in any genre. The songs may be the product of more than one songwriter and winners have a choice of six song contest prizes, including a trip to London to record the winning song. Participants are not required to be the performing artist on the recorded submission.
The Lyric Writer Awards is an English-language, lyrics-only song contest in any genre. The lyrics may be the product of more than one lyricist and winners enjoy professional publishing opportunities in the US market.
The World of Music Awards is a world music genre song contest. The songs are not required to contain words and, those that do, may be recorded and submitted in any language. All entries may be the product of a songwriting team and, like The Singer/Songwriter Awards song contest, participants are not required to be the performing artist on the recorded submission. Winners receive a fully-financed trip to world music festival, WOMEX, accompanied by one of We Are Listening’s music industry veterans.
We Are Listening also provides songwriters and performing artists with an assessment service as well as a special performance-oriented contest called Breaking the Band. All of this and more on We Are Listening’s music contest page.
The Singer/Songwriter Awards from We Are Listening is about the hottest international songwriting contest in the world. It’s no surprise that participating artists have gone on to sign with top management, license their music for film and television, as well as collaborate with renowned producers and enjoy substantial uplifts in independent record sales.
Round 1 of The 2008 Singer/Songwriter Awards has wrapped up and Memphis, Tennessee’s own Julie Odell, was chosen as the first winner of 2008. Her song “South Orange Street” was a huge hit with our judging panel and a We Are Listening office favorite.
We Are Listening have brought together an exceptional panel of judges for an extraordinary international songwriting contest – The Singer/Songwriter Awards – and you only have until the [b]2nd September[/b] to sign up!
Six gifted artists will be flown to London for a luxurious weekend stay at the centrally located, five star myHotel Bloomsbury and an all-inclusive recording session with producer Steve Williams (Sting, Eric Clapton, Seal) at Sphere Studios.
Selected songs will also be represented by We Are Listening and supported through global digital distribution, sync licensing administration and radio promotion.
Artists with a completed master may choose alternative prizes in the form of CD duplication, an 8 week dedicated US radio campaign, 3 months with a music publicist, film and television placements and more.
Catering to all genres of music and artists around the world – signed or unsigned – The Singer/Songwriter Awards is YOUR opportunity to get your music heard, promoted and sold.
Popkomm, the European music industry conference and festival, has announced YouLicense.com as one of the finalists for the ‘Innovation in Music & Entertainment Award’.
YouLicense.com is an online network for music artists, publishers, labels and other content owners to conduct business directly with media buyers. The online destination allows artists to upload their music, bio and copyright information free of charge. Buyers are then invited to search, bid and license the rights to music they like directly from the artist using customised licensing agreements. There are no fixed fees or terms. It’s an open marketplace.
“Licensing music is a highly complex field. We aim to simplify the process and give equal opportunities to all content owners. In this digital age, people are hungry to license music in the quickest and easiest possible way.” – Maor Ezer, CEO, YouLicense.com
YouLicense.com is non-exclusive and welcomes anyone to upload and offer their music.
Los Angeles native, Alana Grace, was selected as the 
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