Top Songwriting Career Sites

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...

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! Global Songwriters Connection Volunteer Member Representative! GSC is not...

TAXI's Industry Listings tell you exactly what decision-makers need right now. Pitch your music to Major & Independent Record Labels, Music Publishing Companies, Film & TV Music Supervisors, Production Music Libraries, Ad Agencies, and Video Game Companies. We've been building relationships since 1992 and our database reads like a Who's Who of the music business. We bring real opportunities...

Grand Prize Winners of Session I and Session II will compete head-to-head in an online voting battle to become the Lennon Award Winner in their respective category. 12 Grand Prize Winners (one in each category) and 36 Finalists (three in each category). The 12 Lennon Award Winners will compete for the Song of the Year and $20,000.

Songwriting Contest proud supporter of VH-1 Save the Music. $150,000 for upcoming songwriters. How It Works The songwriting entries are reviewed and judged by the songwriting merits alone. Production quality is not taken into consideration. We are looking for great songwriters, not great producers. A simple home or live recording of a song has the same chance of winning the songwriting contest...

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Songwriters... are you one? Trying to become one? Here's practical advice from songwriters themselves on topics from improving creativity to songwriting contests to careers for songwriters. "Anyway, back to the list of common flaws in songwriting from a judges point of view. Please don't take this list as absolute truth. These points are only observations that I have made followed by some...

Kara DioGuardi is a Grammy nominated songwriter, former American Idol judge, producer and music publisher. For the past five years, she has been a Herb Albert Visiting Scholar at Berklee College of Music. As one of the most successful contemporary songwriters in the world, Kara’s songs have appeared on more than 160 million albums. She has won 20 BMI awards for most performed songs, including...

Rebecca Nicole Chubay is a New York Area based singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and educator, who received both her Masters and Bachelors degrees from Berklee College of Music in Boston MA, and Valencia, Spain. She began her diverse musical experiences studying flute and dance with the NJ Youth Symphony and NJ Ballet Company. After getting involved […]. “Michial Miller is a...

Sign up to gain access to exclusive aticles, members-only contests, archived interviews, and more. Already a member? Sign in here. To access this post, you must be an American Songwriter Member. Click here to gain access. Lyric Contest Winner Ryan T. Miller Discusses His 1st Place Song, “The Captain’s Son”. St. Vincent performed the entire show with only piano as accompaniment. “Ship Of Fools”...

Study with working professionals at Nashville School of Music tm :: Jump start your music performance career. Be mentored in voice, image, hit songwriting, master recording, and stage performance techniques are popular intensives at NSM annually and on-demand throughout the year. Nashville Star Search, talent contest, star search, live showcases,nashville showcase,talent showcase,songwriter...

The Songwriters Hall of Fame celebrates and honors the contributions of our great popular music songwriters, while developing new writing talent through workshops, showcases, scholarships, and digital initatives. Helped launch both Lou Reed and Bette Midler's careers. Penned immortal "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend".

2018 winner of the National Music Publishers Association Songwriting Scholarship, Brittni has been performing in front of audiences with her jazz and R&B influenced vocals and original songs since she was just 12 years old. She began playing piano at the age of 5 and began writing her own music as a teenager. Brittni's love for singing grew deeply during high school where she spent the majority...

Songwriting tips, tools, interactivities and opportunities to connect with other songwriters. So feel free to go there if you'd like to continue participating. Those that already have accounts will find their accounts still working just fine. No need to re-apply. I know for a lot of folks, the message board was the life blood of this place - and I tend to agree. I'm glad it'll be continuing. Oh...

Careers.org is the #1 guide to career resources, jobs and occupations, online education and degree programs from online schools and universities in the US and Canada. If you know your own behavior tendencies, you can become a more effective communicator. If you know your audiences behavioral tendencies, you can become a supreme communicator. The DISC behavioral system is a simple tool which can...

The internationally acclaimed songwriting competition and awards. Enter your songs in one of the world's most prestigious international songwriting events. There are 20 main winners in this contest (one for each of the Song Categories) and there are also Finalist, Semi Finalist, Commended Entry and Special Mention winners in every category - see the Prizes Page for full details of this year's...

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...