Music Aid 2009
$500,000 INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST

The Music Aid 2009 International Song Contest launches in July with a $500,000 prize fund to be divided between EVERYONE who enters. Our supporters in the music industry have joined us to make this is the largest prize fund given away in any song contest and everyone who enters is guaranteed to receive prizes worth around $100. We are dividing the prizes between all entrants so that everyone is a winner!! And there is more: selected song entries will feature on the Music Aid 2009 Album which will be available worldwide and provide international publicity and promotion opportunities for the songwriters and artists who appear on it. All styles and types of music are welcome - there is no special theme - and all songwriters, bands and solo artists, singer/songwriters, composers and music video makers from every country are invited to take part. The live stream of Music Aid TV playing on the right is showing is a program of award winners and finalists from past events. These past Music Aid participants includes Soul 2 Soul singer Charlotte Kelly (Best UK Female Artist and Best Songwriter) and American Idol Underground winner Alessa Atherton (Best Songwriter USA). During Music Aid 2009 we will be showing producer's picks of song entries as they come in and we will be making videos of our favourite songwriter's MP3 entries.

Every entrant in the Music Aid 2009 International Song Contest will be given a FREE lifetime international copyright registration for their entered song with the SCO - Song Copyright Organization - worth $30 per song - so you know that your song entry is safely copyright protected. With more prizes from our supporters and partners to be announced soon every entrant can expect around $100 in prizes for a $30 entry fee. Return soon for the full prize details. We have organized this event so that everyone who enters will benefit and make a profit - whether they win or not. Also, every song entered will be listened to and examined by Music Aid's staff producers and considered for the Music Aid 2009 Album which will be available as a download worldwide and provide international publicity for the songwriters, bands and artists chosen to appear on it. The final contest winners will be chosen by the album's executive producer together with the Music Aid Academy made up of Music Aid sponsors and industry partners. Working with partner organizations such as Linkin Park's Music For Relief, The Earth Lab Foundation and the Agape Orphanage and others the 2009 event supports children in need and promotes awareness of the ways we can work together to combat the climate crisis.

MUSIC AID is an annual music event, an internet TV channel and an international association of organizations, companies, individuals and music industry bodies that have joined together to provide opportunities for musicians and songwriters and to promote and support good causes and selected charities through music. Read more