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The RB and Urban Category

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This category is for all contemporary R&B, and all Hip Hop, Rap and Urban styles. There have been some outstanding entries in this category over the years. If you think that your songs may overlap with Pop or Adult Contemporary or Singer-Songwriter or Electronic/Dance you can also enter your songs in those categories. Hear some examples of past entries in this category below:

Winners, Finalists, Semi Finalists, Commended Entries...
In addition to the Category Winner there are also many Finalist, Semi Finalist and Commended Entry winners in this category - see the Prizes Page  for full details of prizes - and everyone will have their songs heard and examined and rated by industry professionals. Every songwriter who makes the finals will receive International Copyright Registrations at SongCopyright.org courtesy of the UKSC. Everyone who enters will receive valuable and useful song pitching opportunities and songwriting courses with SongU and also free Broadjam memberships which together are worth US$100. Plus every songwriter is given the judges score for each song and also receives a UKSC Certificate for every song entered with details of the writer's achievement and position. This competition gives a genuine chance to all songwriters to be noticed and discovered by the music industry in London and to have their songs judged and scored by industry professionals. Many entrants who didn't win a category have been noticed and promoted through the contest and have received royalty earning radio play for their entries and many more have been featured in the press, in radio interviews and on prime time television. Many entrants in this contest have been published, or have been signed or produced, by top industry figures who closely follow this event looking for new talent.
 
Entries in this category:
Beow are some examples of entries in this category:
   
Meant Somethin' by Maddox, Greer, Riggins - UKSC RnB / URBAN WINNER 2013

Bitch In The Bedroom 
by Asya Satti

The judges chose this song, Bitch In The Bedroom by Asya Satti,  as the winner in the RnB category in 2011. It was also a Runner Up in the Singer Songwriter category that year. The chorus hook is strong and memorable and one of those that sticks in the mind after only one or two hearings.

The entry was judged as an MP3 entry (listen to the MP3 entry here) but this charismatic performance to webcam in a very simple one-take video of the song is impressive..


Night Out
by J-CLX


This song, written and performed by J-CLX, was the Urban Category Winning Song in The UK Songwriting Contest in 2008. J-CLX is a hiphop artist and singer/songwriter from Toronto, Canada. Visit his website at http://myspace.com/jclx

The song was entered as an MP3 and this video to accompany the song was made some time later.


Adam Easton is a composer and songwriter from Crouch End in North London. Since graduating with an MA from the Royal College of Music Adam has specialized in composing for TV and Film and this song entry, which won the UKSC RnB Category in 2012, is very different from his usual work.

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