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Join the HOFA Song Contest!

This international competition for musicians and music producers is online for the ninth time. Convince the HOFA jury of your skills and collect votes in the public voting. There is no fee to participate!

Present your song worldwide

The HOFA Song Contest is open to artists from every genre. We will make your talent heard, provide you with a stage for your music and offer the chance to win attractive cash and non-cash prizes with a total value of over €30,000.

Listen, vote and leave a comment

This is a public contest, so your song will be heard by fans and music lovers from all over the world. Each and everyone is invited to cast their votes and leave comments.

About HOFA

Founded more than 35 years ago as a recording studio, HOFA divided into the following areas of music production and audio engineering:

HOFA-College
Online academy for audio engineering & music production – learn more ›

HOFA-Akustik
The patent remedy for optimum room acoustics – learn more ›

HOFA-Plugins
Intelligent audio plugins for PC & Mac – learn more ›

HOFA-Media
The best choice for your CD & vinyl duplication – learn more ›

HOFA-Studios
Recording, mixing & mastering studios – learn more ›

Win over €30,000 in cash and prizes!

There will be a main prize of €500 donated by HOFA in each of the six categories. In addition, a lot of attractive special prizes will be awarded – we are very happy about the support from our sponsors!

6x €500 Main Prize
6x Audience Award: Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pro
KingKORG NEO synthesizer
ADAM Audio A4V pair of monitors
SPL Phonitor One d
Avid Pro Tools Studio (Perpetual License)
Teufel ROCKSTER AIR 2 event bluetooth speaker
Neumann TLM 102 microphone studio set
Celemony Melodyne 5 Studio
Native Instruments KOMPLETE 14 Standard
Ableton Live 12 Suite
iZotope Music Production Suite 6
Steinberg Cubase Pro 13
Steinberg Dorico Pro 5
2x Arturia V Collection X
Shure SM7dB studio microphone
FL Studio All Plugins Edition
Sonarworks SoundID Reference for Multichannel incl. measurement mic
Soundtoys 5 Bundle
Arturia Keystep Pro
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
2x Toontrack Superior Drummer 3
Lewitt RAY microphone
Shure MV7+
iZotope RX 11 Standard
Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 11
FL Studio Producer Edition
Focusrite Scarlett 4i4
Novation Launchkey 49
Sonarworks SoundID Reference for Speakers & Headphones
Sennheiser HD 400 Pro studio headphones
Lewitt CONNECT 2 audio interface
iZotope Ozone 11 Standard
Shure SM57 instrument microphone
König & Meyer pair of monitor stands
Roland Cloud for 1 year
5x Sommer cable mix for studio & stage
2x König & Meyer microphone stands
20x HOFA-College Song Analysis
333x €20 HOFA voucher (College, Plugins, Akustik)
View prizes
Contest timeline
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The contest starts

JUN 1, 2024

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Closing date

AUG 5, 2024

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Start of jury voting

AUG 7, 2024

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End of public voting

AUG 26, 2024

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The winners are announced

SEP 2, 2024

Terms and conditions

Any solo artist, band, project etc. can participate with one of their original songs. Remixes and cover versions are excluded. Every participant can upload their song until August 5.

The musical genre of your song is not relevant, because there are several main categories in each of which winners will be determined. These are the available categories:

  • Pop
  • Electronic Music
  • Hip-Hop / Soul / R’n’B
  • Rock & Heavy
  • Traditional & Folk
  • World & Miscellaneous
See contest rules and FAQ ›

Songs

 
Hello Means Goodbye
Vale
Pop 17 1
 
Alles wird
Andyjahn
Synthie Pop 21 7
 
Drehbuch
mkuupa
Singer-Songwriter 24 3
 
Flightmode - ikaosi and Susan Oseloff
ikaosi and Susan Oseloff
Pop 78 19
 
Instinct run
Laurent Broyer
Electro 20 1

New comments

Ruby River at 07.09.2024 20:04 about So Wrong by Ruby River:

Mille grazie! Mail kommt die Tage :)

micgom at 07.09.2024 11:40 about So Wrong by Ruby River:

Ja gerne! Dann mach ich es dir mal einfacher:micgom@t-online.de

ggsc at 06.09.2024 11:49 about DU by ggsc:

Danke, solche Texte sind halt heutzutage nicht gefragt, ;)

markinscotland at 06.09.2024 01:54 about Bittersweet by markinscotland:

Thank you very much :)

Tato-SU at 05.09.2024 18:47 about Carved by Tato-SU:

Hi Conny C., Thank you so much for your kind words and support! I apologize for the late reply, but I’ve just returned from a vacation where I chose to completely...

Rafael "rafasqt" at 04.09.2024 18:11 about Maria by Rafael "rafasqt":

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Rafael "rafasqt" at 04.09.2024 18:11 about Maria by Rafael "rafasqt":

Thank you!! Listen the the full record at https://open.spotify.com/album/19tduaYxNdgO5ZTuCpUXTs?si=gRPLs3iIQvKB1wX373Luvg Best! (rafa)

Rafael "rafasqt" at 04.09.2024 18:11 about Maria by Rafael "rafasqt":

Thank you!! Listen the the full record at https://open.spotify.com/album/19tduaYxNdgO5ZTuCpUXTs?si=gRPLs3iIQvKB1wX373Luvg Best! (rafa)

Rafael "rafasqt" at 04.09.2024 18:10 about Maria by Rafael "rafasqt":

Thank you!! Listen the the full record at https://open.spotify.com/album/19tduaYxNdgO5ZTuCpUXTs?si=gRPLs3iIQvKB1wX373Luvg Best! (rafa)

Till Indy at 04.09.2024 17:29 about Melancholy Madness by Egnalave:

Dein Song hat es verdient !!! Einfach nur wunderschön dieses Stück!!!