Top Songwriting Career Sites

Music career information and a complete list of music schools in the United States, Canada, and the UK. Some people are not sure why they might attend a music school? After all, plenty of musicians (and non-musicians) develop careers in music without the aid of attending a music college. The reason is simple: learn your craft quickly, and learn it from experts. Surrounding yourself with others...

By Kelli Johnson GSC is a GLOBAL songwriting community and in the October edition of our newsletter we recognized several of our GSC Canadian Artist/Songwriter members and their achievements and accomplishments. GSC Member Doug Folkins is celebrating the milestone of reaching over 100 Cuts!! GSC Administrative Assistant, Kelli Johnson, spoke with Doug about some of his favorite milestones and...

A&R is short for Artist & Repertoire, the people who have traditionally identified new talent (artists) for record labels, signed them to record deals, and often times find the right songs (repertoire) for those artists to record. Over time, the term has become somewhat generic and now applies to all people who find or curate artists and/or the music used in the record label, music publishing,...

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...

Join Coursera for free and learn online. Build skills with courses from top universities like Yale, Michigan, Stanford, and leading companies like Google and IBM. Advance your career with degrees, certificates, Specializations, & MOOCs in data science, computer science, business, and dozens of other topics. "I started at stage zero. With Coursera I was able to start learning online and...

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 21 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...

Sheer Vulnerability Drives Newcomer Lily Rose into Uncharted Territory: ‘It’s Been an Interesting Journey’. Chris Cornell Pays Tribute To Some Of His Favorite Artists On Posthumous ‘No One Sings Like You Anymore’. Congratulations. You've reached the end of the internet.

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 LACM Faculty roster includes Grammy, BMI, & People’s Choice award winning musicians, recording artists, producers, and entrepreneurs who love share their experiences and expertise with the next generation of music leaders. Our faculty have worked with Jason Mraz, Michale Bublé, Celine Dion, Plain White Ts, Whitney Houston, Randy Newman and many more. We believe in creating an environment...

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...

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...

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...