International Songwriting Competition

[HeyHeyMyMy]

Has anyone here ever entered this? Is it just a cash grab?
www.songwritingcompetition.com

[Aaron Cheney]

I think most song contests are nothing more than cash-grabs, but some do have value. At least w/ this one you get a SongU.com lesson for free. I've entered others where every single entry gets a written critique from and industry pro (and they have been pretty insightful in my experience.) Those are the few contests worth entering.
I entered contests until I'd won a few and could call myself and "award-winning songwriter", which really means nothing as far as $ is concerned, but does establish some legitimacy for yourself. You know your songs have acheived a certain level of proficiency.
Song contests in my experience do virturally nothing for you in terms of getting your songs to people that can do something with them. For that there's really no other way but pounding the pavement and networking and hoping for the right break.
A

[HeyHeyMyMy]

Originally Posted by Aaron Cheney

I think most song contests are nothing more than cash-grabs, but some do have value. At least w/ this one you get a SongU.com lesson for free. I've entered others where every single entry gets a written critique from and industry pro (and they have been pretty insightful in my experience.) Those are the few contests worth entering.
I entered contests until I'd won a few and could call myself and "award-winning songwriter", which really means nothing as far as $ is concerned, but does establish some legitimacy for yourself. You know your songs have acheived a certain level of proficiency.
Song contests in my experience do virturally nothing for you in terms of getting your songs to people that can do something with them. For that there's really no other way but pounding the pavement and networking and hoping for the right break.
A

Yep, I agree. I've entered a couple of other contests similar to this and I didn't really find either of them to be very beneficial. Just thought I'd ask about this one because it seems pretty cool. I mean, Tom Waits is on the judging panel! That's got to say something. Although the singer from Good Charlotte is also on the panel, so that negates a fair amount of the coolness provided by Tom Waits.