Top Songwriting Career Sites

Songwriter Central helps songwriters & lyric-writers get started and succeed in the music industry, by connecting them with the right music producers & record companies, and providing them with the guidance & direction necessary to become a hit songwriter. Helping Songwriters & Lyricists Succeed in the Music Industry.

Berklee is the premier music college and performing arts conservatory. Degree programs in Boston, Mass. (U.S.), Valencia (Spain), and online. Apply now. Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s graduate string programs prepare musicians for versatile careers through specialized performance training and focused studies in audition technique, career development, and entrepreneurship. Apply by December...

Some people are not sure why they might attend a music school? After all, plenty of musicians (and non-musicians) develop music careers without the aid of attending a music college. The reason is simple: learn your craft quickly, and from experts. Also, surrounding yourself with others who have the same passions and goals as you do is powerful. It creates momentum. It secures your identity as...

With special features like a "Mood" button to generate new phrases, and beat backing track recording, this app wil get your creative "juices" flowing If you're looking to create lyrical perfection, you need an app specially designed for songs. Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or old fashioned pen and paper...simply won't do the trick. A truly professiional craftsman needs the proper tools. You'd...

Are you looking for songwriting lessons? Learn how to write a song and become a great songwriter with these songwriting lessons and resources. It doesn’t matter where you are right now, how experienced you may be or what styles of music you want to write songs in. You have the same core challenges, obstacles, desires and frustrations as we all do. Whether you are here to learn the basics of how...

Songwriting tips, advice, tools and techniques. Learn how to write better songs here. Tip by tip, tool by tool, technique by technique, I will show you what it takes to write hit songs. You will learn about methods which have worked and continue to work. It is often said that when it comes to writing songs, there are no rules. This is true. I agree that there are no rules. But there are...

NSAI includes songwriters from all genres of music, professional and amateur, who are committed to protecting the rights and future of songwriting. In honor of Valentine's week, we hosted our first "Speed Dating for Co-Writes" networking event last night in place of Thursday-night workshop! Here's what a few of our members had to say about... (more). Register today for an experience that will...

Global Songwriters Connection (GSC) is an international songwriting website offering affordable organization memberships, free online songwriting tips and information on how to write songs, music publisher events, career mentoring, song critiques and song evaluations and more. Get Encouraged. Get Equipped. Get Empowered! Tonight is OUR LAST POP EVENT OF THE YEAR! I can't believe 2017 is right...

Providing songwriting workshops, song screenings and lyric reviews with grammy award winning songwriters and music industry leaders. In my early years of running my recording studio in Nashville, I had the privilege of demoing songs for quite a few hit songwriters. This provided me with the opportunity to observe, up close, not only the work habits of super successful songwriters but also an...

Why struggle to find the right word using the limited memory of the mind when you can see all the possibilities in an instant? Free your mind to create, let MasterWriter do the rest. This constant exposure to a variety of descriptive words, will enhance and grow your vocabulary and by using MasterWriter, you will become a better writer in the process. To have the reference dictionaries, unique...

Empowering children & young people through the art and craft of songwriting and music. The BASCA Gold Badge Awards have been presented for over forty years and honour those who have worked tirelessly to support the British songwriting and composing community. This year, Nathan shares the list with an glittering collection of creative individuals. With funding from Make Music Gloucestershire and...

The American Songwriting Awards is an international, elite-class songwriting competition open to unknowns and working artists who want to be heard. The official Call for Entries for the American Songwriting Awards is now open. Entries are now open for our latest contest. Click here to submit your work. Awarding standout songwriting in over 20 competition categories.

Let a professional songwriter help you write your own hit song. Molly-Ann Leikin is a successful songwriter with 14 gold and platinum records plus an Emmy nomination. Six of my songmd.com clients are Grammy winners, eleven others have Grammy nominations, and so far, with my help, almost 7000 other writers/artists, just like you, have placed their songs in movies, TV shows, on CD's, in...

Music Careers is a community website aimed at helping individuals start or build a career in the music industry. To make money in the music business, you have to think about music as a business. Tom Hess provides you with insights on how to start making your musical monetary goals come true. Is going to school for sound engineering worth it? Here’s a comprehensive list of sound engineering...

Music business and Songwriting advice, information and resources for songwriters! "work" in songwriting, and promoting yourself to the music business . Every day long hours working with little or no sleep and a lot of stress. That counts for every one: artist and the employees in the record companies. On the other hand it's true. Making a living as a professional songwriter is living your...

There are 20 main winners in this contest (one for each of the Song Categories) and there are also many Finalist, Semi Finalist and Commended Entry winners in every category - see the Prizes Page for full details of this year's great prizes. Everyone who enters will have their songs examined and rated by industry professionals. Everyone who enters also receives valuable song pitching...

Did you ever notice that the majority of songs in our culture have a four-beat rhythm? This is referred to as Common Time, which translates into four beats per measure. And when songwriters in western cultures start thinking about how to write a song, it is usually the first, and often the only, time feel that comes to mind. But this was not always the case. In certain earlier periods in...