 The second session song deadline is approaching and extended by two days to Sunday 2nd August. This is in response to many requests to have the whole weekend for those last minute submissions. STAR RATING If you submit before the deadline you will see your song´s Star Rating and position in your dashboard within days. Semi Finalists will be able to follow events live to see if their song moves forward into the Finals. And even if you don´t get into the Semi Finals you will still get your song´s Star Rating from the judges, and an alternative Award position with Certificate. And the standard free entry gift. RECORD DEAL - AND FREE LOTY ENTRY! This year´s prizes include an International Record Deal with world wide distribution of your song through the world´s top stores and streaming sites. Winners will be featured in a special Awards Show Video, and prizes include one-on-one coaching, Songwriters Guild Memberships, song pitching opportunities and much more. There is also FREE entry in the LOTY Awards included, an option to be part of The International Songwriting Awards (The ISAs), and everyone receives $50 worth of song pitching opportunities with SongU as a thank you gift. SONGWRITING CHALLENGE - AND MORE Categories this year include The Songwriting Challenge (write new lyrics or a new melody to a famous Paul McCartney song), Crisis Songs, Work In Progress for songs you are still working on, Unplugged and Acoustic, Music Aid 2020 (with a special Cover Songs category) and lots more. There are 30 categories this year with a category for every type of song and something for everyone. Visit the website for full details. We sincerely wish you every success with your songwriting - and we hope you are taking good care of yourself and your loved ones at this difficult time. Stay safe! Best wishes, The UK Songwriting Contest Team. www.songwritingcontest.co.uk
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 The first session song deadline is midnight on Sunday 31 May. Sunday is the last full day to submit your songs.
STAR RATING If you submit before the end of Sunday, at midnight, on May 31 you will see your song´s Star Rating and position in your dashboard within days. Semi Finalists will be able to follow events live to see if the song moves forward into the Finals. And even if you don´t get into the Semi Finals you will still get your song´s Star Rating from the judges, and an alternative Award position with Certificate. RECORD DEAL - AND FREE LOTY ENTRY! This year´s prizes include an International Record Deal with world wide distribution of your song through the world´s top stores and streaming sites. Other prizes include one-on-one coaching, Songwriters Guild Memberships, song pitching opportunities and much more. There is also FREE entry in the LOTY Awards included, and an option to enter The International Songwriting Awards (ISAs), and everyone receives $50 worth of song pitchiing opportunities with SongU as a thank you gift. SONGWRITING CHALLENGE - AND MORE Categories this year include The Songwriting Challenge (write new lyrics or a new melody to a famous Paul McCartney song), Crisis Songs, Work In Progress for songs you are still working on, Unplugged and lots more. There is a category for every type of song and something for everyone. Visit the website for details. We sincerely wish you every success with your songwriting - and we hope you are taking good care of yourself and your loved ones at this difficult time. Best wishes, The UK Songwriting Contest Team. www.songwritingcontest.co.uk   THE CHALLENGE Can you write a new melody or a new lyric to a famous Paul McCartney song? Our challenge in 2020 is to write new lyric or a new melody to an existing famous song and the first song we have chosen is Paul´s Yesterday. The new lyric or melody will, of course, both have exactly the same structure and metre to match the original, so when the winning Lyric and the winning Melody are put together by the UKSC Team they will be a perfect fit and a completely new song will be created. The UKSC will professionally record the resulting new song for the winners! Simple, but brilliant if we do say so ourselves. The first classic song we have chosen to start this songwriting challenge is Yesterday by Paul McCartney. Paul had the melody for this song for a long time before he had a flash of inspiration for the final lyrics while driving a hire car on holiday in Portugal (his first working lyrics were about scrambled eggs!). So, if you are lost during lockdown and wondering what to write, get busy and let us have your alternative Melody or your alternative Lyrics for this classic. The new resulting song will also be passd on to our record company A&R contacts and producers and others in the industry. MORE OPPORTUNITIES There are more opportunities than ever this year in The UK Songwriting Contest with new song categories and new prizes that include an International Record Deal. There are now 27 different Cateories for songs ranging from Pop to Folk, Blues to Singer Songwriter, Christmas Songs to Love Songs and there is also an Instrumental section and a Lyrics Only section. Something for everyone. This year also sees a special Crisis Songs category that is attracting a lot of attention. We look forward to receiving your work this year - the UKSC Team and the judges are waiting to hear from you! Full details and entry forms are on the UKSC official website at https://songwritingcontest.co.uk Take care and be safe! UKSC THE UKSC 2020 IS OPEN FOR ENTRIES
The 2020 UK Songwriting Contest is now open for entries. Prizes (including an international Record Deal), judges and song categories are on the new look website at www.songwritingcontest.co.uk THE SONGWRITING CHALLENGE This is your chance to write a new melody or new lyric to a very famous song. Our team will put your new lyrics and melodies together to create a complete new song and professionally record it. The first classic song we have chosen to start this songwriting challenge is Yesterday by Paul McCartney. Join the challenge and let us have your alternative Melody and Lyrics for this classic song. SONG CATEGORIES Categories in 2020 include Singer-Songwriter, Unplugged, Pop, AC, Lyrics Only, Blues, RnB, Folk, Teen, Instrumental, Country, Retro and many more. There is a category for everyone and every style of music. CRISIS SONGS There is also a new Crisis Songs category that has already quickly become one of the most popular categories this year. Do you have a song about lockdowns, quarantine, social isolation? Or maybe about one of the other major crises in the world that we all face today? Every song also gets free entry into the Lyricist Of The Year Awards automatically included with their entry (worth $25), there are opportunities for Instrumental composers, and there are prizes and gifts for everyone who takes part, winner or not. Get the full details at www.songwritingcontest.co.uk Stay Safe! Best wishes, The UKSC  Get Your Songs Ready!
The International UK Songwriting Contest 2020 starts on April 1. And there are some interesting new song categories that might keep you busy songwriting over the coming months. For example... THE SONGWRITING CHALLENGE This is a completely new category that involves songwriters in a way that has never been done before by any event. Songwriters will be given a set task to write a lyric or a melody. Lyricists will write a lyric to a set metre and song structure, and musicians will write a melody in exactly the same set format. We will choose a Lyrics winner and a Melody winner and put them together into one complete song. The prize is a professional recording of the resulting song and more! We also have some variations on this that will make it even more interesting and more of a challenge! RECORD DEAL PRIZE This year also sees the introduction of a new Record Deal prize. This is something people have been asking for, and we have delivered. The track will be released on an important label and distributed worldwide on the world´s biggest stores and streaming sites. More information will follow on this, and there are details on the UKSC website at https://songwritingcontest.co.uk CRISIS SONG CATEGORY This is a new category for songs about the current COVID-19 Global Pandemic and also any other crisis such as the ongoing climate crisis and the state of the world today in general. (Crisis Song is a working title for this category - if you can think of a better one let us know. UNPLUGGED CATEGORY There is now a new Unplugged Category for acoustic entries. This replaces the old Acoustic/Folk category. Folk songwriters now have their own Folk Category. WORK IN PROGRESS This category is for unfinished songs. Send us what you have with some notes about how you see it going. We are looking for ideas with potential. BLUES AND JAZZ These have now been separated into two separate categories. COLLABORATIONS We are also looking at ways to encourage collaborations between writers and will update you on this. So... get your songs ready for April. We look forward to receiving them. The judges are ready and waiting. It is going to be an very good contest this year! Very Best Wishes, UKSC |
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