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Entries are currently being accepted for the 17th Annual USA
Songwriting Competition. Winning songs of the 17th Annual USA
Songwriting Competition will receive airplay on a nationally
syndicated radio program “Acoustic Café” as well as Sirius XM
Satellite Radio. This is the first Songwriting Competition that gives
airplay to the winning songs, giving deserving bands, songwriters the
recognition and exposure they deserve. Entrants stand to win a grand
prize of over US$50,000 in cash and music gear from sponsors such as
Sony, D’Addario Strings, Audio-Technica, Presonus, IK Multimedia, and
more, making this the largest prize package for any annual songwriting
competition. Other sponsors include: New Music Weekly, Loggins
Promotion, AirplayAccess.com, Onboard Research, Acoustica, Livewire
Musician, Sonoma Wireworks, Livewire Musician, etc.

Los Angeles based songwriters Nenna Yvonne and Alexander Cardinale
swept the top two positions of the 16th Annual USA Songwriting
Competition (2011).

Nigerian born Nenna Yvonne won Overall Grand Prize as well as the
first prize of the Pop category with her song “Go Around”. This marks
the first time in 6 years that the top song was written by a solo
songwriter. Alexander Cardinale and co-writer Morgan Taylor Reid of
Los Angeles, CA won first prize in the Pop category as well as Overall
Second Prize with their song “Traffic Lights”. Alexander Cardinale is
professional Hollywood actor as well as a singer songwriter.

Molly Hunt became the youngest winner in the history of the USA
Songwriting Competition at just 15 years old along with co-writers
Troy Johnson & Jack Williams from Nashville, TN won first prize in the
country category as well as Overall Third Prize with their song “Go
There”. For the first time all 10 finalists in the Country category
are all collaborations, marking the importance and significance of
collaboration in recent years of songwriting.

Helle Hansen, from Denmark is a 10-time consecutive year honorable
mention winner, making her the most consecutive year winner so far.
Other winners came from Peru, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan,
South Africa, and Austria

USA Songwriting Competition has a long history of having winners
getting recording and publishing contracts, have their songs placed on
the charts as well as having their songs placed on film and
television. 2009 First Prize winner (country) was signed to Universal
Records. 2005 First Prize winner (Pop) Kate Voegele was signed to
Interscope Records the year after she won and had her winning song hit
top 40 on the Billboard Charts, her latest album hit Top 10 on the
Billboard 200 Album charts this summer. 2007 Overall Grand Prize
Winner Ari Gold had his winning song “Where The Music Takes You” hit
#10 on the Billboard Dance Charts. Darrell Scott, winner of the
country category of the 2005 USA Song writing Competition had his
winning song cut by award winning country singer Faith Hill. Last
year's winner in the instrumental category, Christopher Tinn won two
Grammy awards in 2011. Judges include A&R managers from record labels
such as Warner, Capitol Records, Universal, BMG/SONY Music.

Songs may be entered in 15 different categories including Pop, Rock/
Alternative, R&B and Country. Entries are accepted from now through
May 31, 2012. First 1,000 entries will each receive a USA Songwriting
Competition Compilation CD.

Entries may be entered with MP3 files, Youtube videos or Soundcloud
files. For more information, visit http://www.songwriting.net or email
info@songwriting.net