A Singer/Songwriter Contest

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We Are Listening is bringing together an exceptional panel of judges for an amazing international song contest.

The Singer/Songwriter Awards will involve bringing six gifted artists from around the World to London where they will stay at myHotel Bloomsbury and participate in exclusive recording session with producer Steve Williams. Steve has produced tracks for artists such as Sting, Eric Clapton, and Seal.

What do the entrants stand to gain? Well for starters, selected songs will be non-exclusively represented by We Are Listening and supported through global digital distribution, sync licensing administration and radio promotion.
Other prizes awarded in the We Are Listening Song Contest include mixing & mastering an entire album, CD duplication, a 6-8 week dedicated US radio campaign and more.

It's interesting to note that this Singer/Songwriter competition is having it's 3rd run in the same year that American Idol producers chose to run a songwriting competition in tandem with their singing competition/popularity contest.

A winner of the 2006 competition, the band Jag Star, recently announced that they will be included in the soundtrack to MTV's "The Hills". They are the only independent act on the recording.

There is a wealth of things to see and hear from past events on the website.

I am a songwriter myself. But I am not very prolific and a lot of the time I get so embarrassed of my earlier stuff that I throw is away. Shakira remembers the first song that she ever wrote. It was dedicated to her mother.

The winner of the 2005 Singer/Songwriter Awards was Michael Logen. He later signed with Combustion Music Nashville/Windswept Music LA and began working on his new album with producer Joe West. Joe West has worked with Justin Timberlake, Jewel, and Shakira.

It seems like winners of this competition have more freedom than American Idol winners, but also less exposure. Songwriting is a very lucrative talent. A lot of star performers these days make sure they get as many co-written songs credited to themselves as possible because of the residual income that it entails.