The best of songwriting contests!

Songwriting contests are excellent as exposer-and promotion , that can boost your songwriting career sky high. Your songs will be heard by professionals and even if you don't win , people have seen your name and heard your music.

A contest is almost the same imput as sending your promotion package to a publisher or a a&r exc people.

Although, there's a difference, with a contest you will get noticed, positive or negative. You will get a chance, just like everybody else.If you sent a package, you never sure to get anything back

Most songwriting contests are for amateurs. Songwriters who haven't been signed yet. This is your chance to get the recognition that you deserved .

The songwriting landscape has changed a bit with the up-comming new big thing:namely the Youtube ,Yahoo...videos.

Of course,be careful with some contests, or better said , with the organizers of. Some will offer you a demo recording and send you a songwriter contract and ctr or with a price-list of their demo recording service. Contest stops and commerce starts.

Think twice and decide yourself.

A list of songwriting contests!

Song of the year Song and lyric-writing contest. Has already name and fame among songwriters and music industry people. They organising a number of contests throughout the year, and have one big winner, the song of the year winner.

www.redhat.com magazine :Last month's contest: About your Favorite performance tool. Last month's contest asked you to tell us about your favorite Linux performance tuning or monitoring tool....

www.songdoor.com SongDoor 2007 will be open for submissions beginning April 10, 2007!

www.songoftheyear.com Song of the Year is an international contest encouraging the art and discipline of songwriting. Our primary focus is to find great songwriters while helping them network with professionals in the music industry

www.compo10.com ORIGINAL COMPO-10 .Artists from all over the World uniting for a mutual Good Cause - Music

The John Lennon Songwriting Contest!

Is an international songwriting contest that began in 1997. The judges are , D12, Al Jarreau,Bob Weir, Robin Gibb ...and many others. Winners will receive EMI Publishing Contracts, studio equipment ,Roland/Edirol and Audio-technica, 100 CD's in full color, and gifts certificates from Musiciansfriends.com.

www.thebosas.com Created in 2000 to embrace and encourage the craft of songwriting, with the simple goal of offering all songwriters an opportunity to receive recognition among their peers and gain exposure for their creativity to a large number of industry professionals.

MusicaidAwards.com The songwritingcontest presented by the Music Aid Organization in association with the United Nations UNV program, IMA Productions, Broadjam.com and other leading international music industry partners.

Songwriting.net USA Songwriting Competition : An international songwriting competition, promoting the art and exellence of songwriting Cooch Music.com Cooch Music: Running an amateur songwriting contest , and offering an opprtunity to listen to and vote on the competing songs.