 Did you know that The UK Songwriting Contest offers a unique and significant opportunity for songwriters with its Major Artists category? This category provides a opportunity for songwriters to submit compositions tailored for globally recognised music icons.
The UKSC has excellent connections with major music industry players and it is a first point of call for many TV and radio producers, important music events organisers, publishers and labels etc. We work with many top people in the music industry and media including top TV shows. The UKSC invites submissions that complement the styles of established artists, both current sensations like Taylor Swift or BTS and legends from the past like Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley. You will be asked to specify the artist on the entry form when you submit. For contemporary artists, winning entries and finalists will be actively promoted to the artists' team. While recording is not guaranteed, the UKSC will advocate for the winning songwriters and will initiate contact with the chosen major artists or their management team. This is your opportunity to have your songs considered by prominent figures in the music industry. If you are submitting a song composed for past musical legends, the winners will benefit from our selection of existing prizes as well as a chance to be featured on musicaid.fm. The Major Artists Category extends the UKSC's dedication to promoting the art and the craft of songwriting. We work to help songwriters gain valuable connections within the industry. Your music deserves recognition, and we're here to help it happen. You can read more about this category and all the other song categories here. The Standard entry form is here. The PayPal entry form is here. NOTE: Previously entered songs can also be submitted into this category.
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 Did you see your results?Dear Songwriter,
In case you missed the announcement: all Session One results are online on the UKSC website. Go to the dashboard page and enter your email to see your results. Star Ratings for each song are there, and so is the position reached and also your Certificate. Details and tips on saving and printing certificates are also on the website and scores/ratings are explained. If you are listed as a Semi Finalist htis means your song is now in the next stage of the contest and will be considered for the Finals.The contest is till very much open and you can submit more songs in Session Two even though you have already entered in Session One. (Note: If you submit a new version or recording of a Session One song please be sure to add V2 after the title). The Session One results are on the dashboard page here. Check out the song categories and FAQ pages as well to see updates and visit again soon as we will be announcing a new co-writing song challenge in the near future.  The last chance to enter songs for early results is at midnight on Sunday 30th June, so there are only hours left to submit your songs at www.songwritingcontest.co.uk
Everyone who enters a song before the deadline will have their results within days and this will include your Star Rating from the judges and your position and award in the contest for each song. Certificate for every song entry will be prepared and will be available for download and printing. BUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?? The judges have already read lyrics entries and listened to the recordings of many of the songs entered earlier in Session One. Now they are working very hard every day to process and judge the entries coming in during the last week and before the Sunday night deadline. Our aim is that all songs in Session One will have been through the complete judging process and be ready for results announcements with a week after the deadline. At that time full results will be online on the UKSC website and you will be able to see your entries and see the judges results and download certificates. You will be able to access this by logging in with the email address you used to submit your songs, so there is no need to remember passwords etc. If you have made it into the Semi Finals we will announce this within days of the deadline and Semi Finalist Certificates will be online for downloading. If you are a Semi Finalist at that point this means that your song continues in the contest through more selection processes and to be considered for a place in the Finals. If it goes into the Finals your Semi Finalist Certificate will be updated to a Finalist Certificate at that time. Entry forms are at https://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/entryform So, if you want to have early results please try and get your songs to us before the midnight Sunday deadline to avoid disappointment. All songs submitted after the deadline, from Monday on, will go into Session Two and results for that second session will not be until after the 2024 contest closes later this year. Please contact us at any time if you have any questions. Very Best Wishes, From The UKSC Team  TWO DAYS TO SUBMIT SONGS
This is a very quick message to remind everyone that there are only two days left to submit your songs before Session One closes at the end of this week on Sunday 30th June at midnight. Submit by then to get your results in days and see if you are in the Semi Finals. You will receive your Star Rating from the judges for your songs and your Certificates and position in the event. UKSC Certificates will be awarded for Semi Finalist, Commended Entry, Special Mention and other positions. Submit at https://songwritingcontest.co.uk  Time is running out to submit songs to the UKSC 2024 for those of you who want to get early results. The Session One deadline is midnight Sunday 30th June and you have today, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to submit songs into this early results session.
Everyone who enters a song before the deadline will have their results within days. This will include your Star Rating from the judges, your position and award in the contest for each song, and your Certificate will be prepared and will be available for download and printing. SEMI FINALS If you have made it into the Semi Finals we will also announce this within days of the deadline. Semi Finalist Certificates will be online for downloading and if you continue through from there into the Finals we will update your Certificate at that time to show this. Entry forms are at https://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/entryform So, if you were hoping to have early results please try and get your songs to us before the midnight Sunday deadline. All songs submitted after then will go into Session Two and results for that second session will not be until after the whole 2024 contest closes later this year. Please contact us at any time if you have any questions. Very Best Wishes, From The UKSC Team  EARLY RESULTS DEADLINE
Do you want early results for your songs? Session One closes at the end of the month at midnight on Sunday 30th June. Submit before the deadline to get your results in days and see if you are in the Semi Finals. All Semi Finalists will be announced within days. You will receive your Star Rating from the judges for your songs and everyone will receive their Certificates and position in the event. UKSC Certificates will be awarded for Semi Finalist, Commended Entry, Special Mention and other positions. For a detailed explanation of your Star Rating and Award positions click here. Time is running out so be sure to get your songs into the contest over the coming days. The deadline is at midnight on Sunday so you have the rest of this week and the whole weekend to submit. All songs entered after the weekend deadline will go into the second session (with results announced at the end of the contest in October/November). As the 2024 Paris Olympics draws closer the UKSC is promoting the Olympic Games Theme Song winner Be Brave, Be Bold. This inspirational song was written by the songwriting team of Matt Glickstein, Karen Mitchell and James Kocian and the song has been released with vocals by Clayton Jones. The Olympic Theme Song category was held to tie in with the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and the UKSC has made this video to accompany the release and will be promoting this during that 2024 event. Visit The UK Songwriting Contest website at https://songwritingcontest.co.uk for all the other winning songs and to enter your songs in this year's contest. On the site there are full details of the prizes, the top industry judges, and entry forms. There is a category for every type of song and every type of songwriter. Everyone is welcome to submit their work and you can contact the UKSC at any time for advice and support.  *Don't skip the final Note at the end * The music industry is buzzing with talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days. This is because AI has huge implications for songwriters, producers, music companies, copyright holders and human creativity in general. Understandably, many songwriters feel personally threatened. Some see it as the end of true human creativity, while others see it as an exciting new world to be explored and exploited. In this article we will look at one aspect of AI and how it is very important for songwriters to understand its uses and the legal implications regarding copyright and ownership of songs. SONG OWNERSHIP At the UKSC we have been studying AI carefully. We have looked at the various AI platforms and developments in depth and we have consulted with lawyers and organizations about copyright issues. The current situation today, as we understand it, is that legally the AI platform retains copyright on all material it creates. Keep in mind that the AI created work is legally known as the AI "output". "Output" is the crucial term here. The bottom line, at this time, is that it is becoming clear that all music or lyrics that an AI platform creates is legally owned by that platform and not by the person who creates it through their "input". So if you are using AI make sure that you don´t get carried away thinking that you wrote the masterpiece that you end up with. Carefully read the small print hidden in the terms and conditions of the software or platform you are using you will probably discover that the output created by AI is not owned by you. And often even your input isn´t owned by you either. WATCH OUT! When you enter your own original lyric for example into an AI song generator, and ask AI to create a song from this, the lyric is your input. Everything else that the AI creates in response to your input is legally regarded as the "output". If your lyrical input was entirely your own original work (and it is very important that you can clearly prove this!) you will retain the rights to your input and receive a co-write credit. But if these lyrics were themselves also written with the help of AI, even AI from a different platform, the basic rule will still apply, and you do not own those inputted lyrics. The bigger the mix of input sources, generators and platforms you use, the more complicated and messy it gets regarding copyright claims. And on top of this there is also the original sources that the AI was "trained" on and learned from to consider. ORIGINAL SOURCES AI song generators "learn" to do what they do by examining a huge amount of published music and songs that were written before AI existed. And these songs are, of course, owned by their respective copyright holders. These copyright holders might be individuals, publishers or labels etc. The UKSC predicts that in the future it is very likely that there will be major legal challenges coming from the copyright holders and writers of the original source materials that the AI learned from. HIDDEN TRAPS? At the UKSC we suspect that there may already be some hidden added coding and stamps included in AI output to identify the AI generated works. If this is not already happening we predict that this will arrive in the future. Another possibility is that in the near future specialised AI databases will be able to immediately recognise such works if they appear online, and the owners of the AI platform will successfully claim their rights on this "output". We also suspect that the whole business plan of AI platform owners might be simply to encourage and promote the use of AI music generators and the creation of songs with AI as much as possible to achieve world wide viral hits and monetization, and then claim all royalties as their own. This would be a very lucrative business model. THE BOTTOM LINE The bottom line seems to be that you will only be credited as a co-writer with the AI platform if you can very clearly prove that you wrote all the original input yourself, without any help or ideas from the same AI generator or other AI platforms. If this is not the case then be very careful with writer credits for the song. It is important to give the correct writer credits to any AI software or platforms that you might use. TELL US YOUR STORY We are very interested in the uses of AI and the complex legal ramifications and we would like to hear from anyone reading this about how they are using it and what platform or software they are using. Add your comments and thoughts about AI to this blog post. You can also email the UKSC or use the contact form on the UKSC website if you have any thoughts about this. Or post in the UKSC entrants Community Group on Facebook. We would love to hear from you about this subject. We are following AI very closely and are fascinated by its possible uses and future implications. We looked at having an AI song category in the UKSC this year but we quickly rejected this idea and removed that category before it received any entries. We look forward to receiving your original, human written, song in the UKSC. *NOTE: No AI was involved in the writing of the above article. It was 100% humanly and originally written by the UKSC. ;) Good luck with you song entry, UKSC  THE UKSC 2024 IS LIVE
The 2024 International UK Songwriting Contest is open for song entries and the judges are waiting for your songs. Full details of the prizes, judges and new song categories are on the official UKSC website at www.songwritingcontest.co.uk SONG CATEGORIES There have been changes in song categories this year (with the removal of one VERY controversial category - look out for a fascinating and important blog article about this coming over the next few days). UKSC 2024 Categories include Singer-Songwriter, Unsigned, Unplugged, Pop, AC, Lyrics Only, Major Artist, Crisis Songs, Country and more... There is a category for everyone and every style of music. CO WRITING PRIZE Multi award winning musician and songwriter Rachel Walker Mason will co-write a song with a winner this year. Rachel is a voting member of the GRAMMYs currently working with Grammy nominees, Billboard Hot 100 Artists and alumni from The Voice UK and American Idol. This is a great opportunity to work with a real industry insider. CRISIS AND PROTEST The Crisis and Protest Songs category has quickly become one of the most popular categories. Do you have a song about the current state of the world or any of the many crises that we all seem to face today? We want to hear them and read your lyrics. BRITSONG AWARDS The British Songwriting Awards (britsong.com) launches soon with the first winners announced in early 2025. The UKSC will provide the talent for the UK and International New Talent Awards sections and every UKSC entry in 2024 gets free entry into this awards event included. Check out all the many benefits, opportunities and gifts for everyone who takes part, winner or not. Get the full details at www.songwritingcontest.co.uk Best wishes, The UKSC  Co-writing prize announced .Multi award winning musician and songwriter (and UKSC judge) Rachel Walker Mason has announced that she will co-write a song with a winner of The UK Songwriting Contest this year. Rachel is a Recording Academy member and a voting member of the GRAMMYs currently working with Grammy nominees, Billboard Hot 100 Artists and alumni from The Voice UK and American Idol. She was named a UK Woman Of The Year in 2020 and she is a respected and well known figure in the UK and International music industries. This is a unique opportunity to work with, and co-write with, one of the most talented, experienced, well connected and respected names in the music business.
OTHER PRIZES IN 2024 There are prizes for everyone in 2024, even for non winners! Visit the prizes section on the UKSC website here for full details. In addition to the main prizes every song entered also gets to take part in the new British Songwriting Awards event (britsong.com), completely free of charge, and every song is matched to our industry insider list of required material. CATEGORIES We have changed the categories around this year. The favorites are all still there but there have been some interesting changes. Visit the Song Categories Page on the UKSC website here for details. Let us know what you think of the categories. MORE TO COME We have some new developments and opportunities for songwriters coming in 2024 so check back regularly and follow on social media for news and updates. The UKSC was founded with The BRIT Trust (the BRIT Awards charity organization) to discover and nurture new songwriting talent. This sets it apart from all other songwriting competitions and we remain true to that original aim. If you are one of the UKSC regulars we welcome you back this year. If you are new to the UKSC, from the UK or internationally, we welcome you to join us in 2024 and be part of this years event. As always, contact us at any time for support from the UKSC Team. Very best wishes, UKSC www.songwritingcontest.co.uk |
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