16th Annual USA Songwriting Competition Kicks Off
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Competition. Win a top prize of $50,000 worth of cash and merchandise
such as cool gear from Sony, Ibanez Guitars, D'Addario Strings,
Digitech, Audio-Technica and more. Also, have your winning songs
played on radio! Enter in Pop, Rock/Alt, Folk, R&B, Hip-Hop, Jazz,
Instrumental, etc.
USA Songwriting Competition has a long history of having winners
getting success, recording and publishing contracts, have their songs
placed on the charts as well as having their songs placed on film and
television. 2009 First Prize winner Klyer England(country) was signed
to Universal Records. 2005 First Prize winner (Pop) Kate Voegele was
signed to Interscope Records the year after she won and had her
winning song hit top 40 on the Billboard Charts, her latest album hit
Top 10 on the Billboard 200 Album charts this summer. 2007 Overall
Grand Prize Winner Ari Gold had his winning song “Where The Music
Takes You” hit #10 on the Billboard Dance Charts. Judges include A&R
managers from the "big 4" record companies: Universal, Warner, EMI and
SONY Music.
Past year's winner include Grammy winner Alannah Myles (Canada), hit
songwriter Ken Hirsch (USA), up-and-coming songwriter ASON (USA), hit
music artist Jacinta Brondgeest (AUSTRALIA), Miriam Durán (ARGENTINA),
and Tais Alvarenga (BRAZIL).
Sponsors of the 16th Annual Competition are: Sony, Audio-Technica,
Ableton, D'Addario Strings, Presonus, IK Multimedia, New Music Weekly,
Recording Magazine, Premier Guitar Magazine, Imageline Software,
Acoustica, Sonoma Wireworks, Intellitouch Tuners, SongFrame Software,
Rockstar Texting, Acoustic Café Radio Program, LivewireMusician.com,
AirplayAccess.com, Loggins Promotion, Reverbnation, Broadjam, Sirius
XM Radio and Sonicbids.
Songs may be entered in 15 different categories including Dance/
Electronica, Pop, Rock/Alternative, R&B, Hip-Hop, Instrumental and
Country.
For more information on the 16th Annual USA Songwriting Competition,
visit:
http://www.songwriting.net