All items tagged Contests, Challenges and Fights

A free service with instruction and advice on how to make your first earnings from selling your music and merch online within 30 days.

A site geared towards folk, acoustic, and roots singer-songwriters. Blog posts discuss the latest news, songwriting contests, interviews, and tips...

A magazine for songwriters as well as an online source of articles and blogs by songwriters. They also hold lyric contests, so you can submit the ...

A song contest that lasts 6 months and involves artists throughout all of Asia. The contest is wildly popular and expects around 500 million viewers when it is broadcast on TV.

Musician resource site and community with articles, message boards, and an online battle of the bands contest.

An annual battle of the bands competition sponsored by Ernie Ball. Winners receive national exposure and get to play at the Vans Warped Tour.

A site full of user-generated contests that will help you promote and market your songs and build a strong following.

A site that provides videos of bands on tour in their tour buses. There are also contests with prizes to win and a discussion board for users.

A yearly song competition that has participants from all over Europe and is hosted in a different European city every year. The contest is shone on TV and gets over 100 million viewers.

A site that offers independent bands the chance to win monthly contests with prizes like money, magazine mentions, and live gigs. Bands upload videos of their music under one of the following genres: rock, country, hip hop, pop,latino, and christian music.

FAWM is the acronym for "February Album Writing Month". Songwriters sign up and challenge themselves to write 14 songs within the month ...

A publishing company that licenses music for commercial use. This company is also the home of the Quick Launch song contest where independent songwriters can win money, free CD printing, and more for their original songs.

Garageband is a musician's community that lets fans vote on their favorite songs. You can also use it to get reviews of your music from other musi...

Video hosting specifically for music videos, artists, and labels. You can win video contests and be a featured artist on the homepage.

This contest is for lyric and song poetry writing. Winner receive prizes like free memberships to SongU and Sonicbids.

An online guitar competition. Record yourself playing guitar in MP3 format and you will compete against other guitarists. There are multiple level...

A place to meet fellow musicians on the web and collaborate online. You can browse profiles, start jamming, and use their mixing console. This site has contests for the best collaboration work.

An indie radio station focused on increasing exposure for new independent music acts. The site also has contests, interviews, and album reviews.

An online music community that connects bands and fan to venues. They run a monthly competition for original songs. Have your fans vote for you an...

The John Lennon Songwriting Contest is an international songwriting contest that dates back to 1997. It's open to both indie and professional song...

Just Plain Folks is an active community of 50,000+ independent musicians and host of the world's largest music awards.  

Music awards that promote, honor and reward musicians and music related businesses in the Lehigh Valley area on Pennsylvania.

This is a songwriting competition modeled after the Iron Chef.

A music discovery site that helps bands get booked, get sponsorships, and win various contests for money and merch and more. Users can discover new music and even book new artists for their own venues and events. You can watch the demo video here.

The Muse's Muse songwriting contest page - updated as new song contests roll in.

A social networking site for independent musicians where you can compete in band battles and contests.

National Solo Album Month is a fun, free annual competition in which musicians write and record an entire album during the month of November - all...

A contest where bands compete for fan and company support. The band that gets the strongest following wins and is featured on the largest billboard in Times Square. This contest is being held by Tribe of Noise.

A song interpretation contest where you are provided with chords and lyrics and then work out your own version of the song. Submit a video of yourself playing the song and you could win some free exposure.

Ourstage is a web presence, and also a collection of competitions for music. It also allows musicians to post music, and lets fans vote on their f...

Home of the Nashville International Song and Lyric Competition. Over $90,000 in prizes are awarded in multiple song contests. Winning songs get pitched to music pros!

An online record label run by music fans. Your band can enter online auditions in order to be chosen to win development deals and record deals.

A group for youn songwriters and music performers located in New Zealand.  They also hold annual songwriting competitions for New Zealand composers in secondary school.

 A site where you can buy and request beats for hip hop songs. There are also contests and tournaments for creating beats, and if you are loo...

Record Production Month Challenge is a site that challenges musicians to record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February.

A site that gives you a web presence to share your music and discover new tunes. After setting up your profile, enter battle competitions to win p...

There are 600 winners a month in their multiple song and lyric competitions. They are judged by Grammy winners, people from major labels and Rolling Stone magazine and more. Over $100,000 in prizes are given away.

Song and CD evaluation and consultations, plus a monthly best song contest!

Picture YouTube and American Idol combined, that's Stage Off.

 Supernova.com is the only social network that brings their artist and listener community together both online and on the concert stage. Sign up to find gigs and play live shows, discover new bands and listen to new music.

A challenge where bands have exactly 24 hours to create and record a complete album 24 minutes in duration without any planning or preparation time.

The Indie Gathering's film scoring competition is open to the public. For this competition you will compose a score based around a given movie tra...

Participate in this contest to be named the number one independent artist in the world. You will compete for recording contracts, video distribution, and other great prizes.

An annual international songwriting competition that is judged by industry professionals. There are fifteen categories and prizes include magazine subscriptions, radio airplay and $50,000 in cash and merchandise.

A national music contest in the UK. Upload your music, list your gigs, and compete to get your songs up the charts every week. Top placing users w...

An online singing competition where you upload your own videos of you singing which are then rated by judges that include some celebrities.

The oldest international songwriting contest that is for and judged by songwriters. You can win prizes like a performing retreat and cash!

 A site with a ton of services for independent musicians. They can help you sell your music, create widgets for your web presences, alert mob...

A contest site where you submit videos of yourself singing in order to win prizes. Winners are chosen by the votes of other users. Some prizes inc...