Songwriting Contest and Competition Benefits

In my prior post, I gave you a list of 10 upcoming songwriting contests that you can take advantage of. The advantages and benefits of participating in a songwriting contest are:

1. You can get your music heard. Many songwriters and artists are looking to get their music heard by music industry professionals. Well here's your chance to get your music heard by music industry professionals.

2. You can get your music evaluated. In some of the songwriting contests, your songs will be evaluated regardless of whether your song places in the top or not. This evaluation or feedback will help you enhance your songwriting skills by hopefully showing you areas of improvement, areas of strengths, and help you gage how your songwriting skills compete with others.

3. You can compete with other songwriters. You compete every day anyway with other songwriters to get placements so you might as well compete with songwriters in a songwriting contest. Who knows? You might win!

4. You can receive recognition. Since songwriters need to brand, market and promote themselves, entering a songwriting contest and placing in the top spots will win you some recognition in the music industry.

5. You can receive prizes. Each songwriting contest has prizes for the top songwriters. Those prizes could be musical gear, a recording contract, free branding and promotion, and many other things that will help you boost your songwriting career.

6. You save money. Though most songwriting contests require some sort of entry fee to participate, you can actually save money by participating in these contests. How? You save money by investing the $30 entry fee for example, and find out now that your song needs a lot of work versus paying hundreds of dollars in studio fees, paying musicians and singers, and engineers to produce that same song that needs work. Getting feedback well before you invest your money is a good investment of your music money. (For additional money saving tips for songwriters, click here!)

7. You get the opportunity to network. Here's yet another way to network! (To read all my blogs on networking, click here!) Here's your chance , for $30, to have an industry professional listen to your music. Many people spend hundreds of dollars going to a music conference or showcase to have an industry person listen to their music. This is your chance instead to pay a little and potentially get much more out of it! (For additional money saving tips for songwriters, click here!)

So take advantage of the songwriting contests that I mentioned in my prior blog, they could be another valuable tool in getting you signed as an singer-songwriter to a record label, getting you a music publishing deal, and/or building your brand, your name, and your songwriting skills.


Thedy B, Attorney/Songwriter
Hits A Million, LLC
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