Photo: Previous winner Rich Owen | Don’t forget: Our newest board member, Larry Thompson, has agreed to take over COMBO’s 2025 Songwriting Contest which will start February 1, 2025 and will end May 31st, 2025, so get your songs ready now. 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 DropBox 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 be available to streaming services.
Songs entered into the contest will also be considered by Brotherhood of the Hook Publishing Company per agreement of the songwriter(s) and BHPC.
COMBO’s Annual Songwriting Contest
Starts February 1st 2025 and ends May 31st, 2025.
COMBO Song Evaluation / Judging criteria:
Lyric uniqueness, Melody, clarity, coherence, creativity, originality and emotional impact,
1. Instrumentals accepted with Writer(s) information
2. 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 published to currently available streaming services (which will provide a revenue source from the Combo publishing company to the writer(s)), under music company standards.
3. $10 entry fee with each song submitted to COMBO.
4. COMBO members(paid) can enter one song at no charge, Member(paid) bands may submit TWO songs at no charge.
More details to come! Stay tuned!