Photo: Isabelle Stillman, previous winner! | COMBO’s 2025 Songwriting Contest has started and will end May 31st, 2025, so get your songs ready now. Our newest board member, Larry Thompson, is taking over administering the contest. Larry has been a songwriter for over 45 years and owns Brotherhood of the Hook Publishing Company.
Larry has come up with a way to set up a web program so that COMBO will be able to electronically make the top 20 commercially viable songs available to major record companies, publishing companies, music supervisors, producers, A&R personnel, film and tv sync licensing companies, and to streaming services (no CDs this year!)
Songs entered into the contest will also be considered by Brotherhood of the Hook Publishing Company per agreement of the songwriter(s) and BHPC.
What: COMBO’s Annual Songwriting Contest
When: Started February 1st 2025 and ends May 31st, 2025.
Cost: $10 entry fee with each song submitted to COMBO. Dues-paying COMBO members can enter one song at no charge. Dues-paying member bands may submit TWO songs at no charge. Or, if you are not a dues-paying member, you may enter one song for $10 (each).
COMBO Song Evaluation / Judging criteria:
1. Lyric uniqueness, Melody, clarity, coherence, creativity, originality and emotional impact,
2. Instrumentals accepted with Writer(s) information
COMBO will electronically make the top 20 commercially viable songs available to major record companies, publishing companies, music supervisors, producers and A & R personnel, Film and TV sync licensing companies, and will be published to currently available streaming services (which will provide a revenue source to the writer(s)), under music company standards.
Go to https://www.coloradomusic.org At the top of the page is a tab that says “Songwriting Contest.” Clickon that tab and follow the directions. Have your lyrics ready to copy & paste into the Lyric page, and have your recorded song ready in a WAV or MP3 format ready to upload (WAV file preferred). Also have your credit card handy if you need to pay. Remember: Dues Paying COMBO members are entitled to one free song entry, and dues-paying Band members have two free entries. Don’t waste your entries! Enter now!