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▶︎HOFA SONG CONTEST

Join the international online competition for musicians & producers. We celebrate 10 years of HOFA Song Contest – that's why there's now:

• €10,000 in prize money
• even more non-cash prizes
• even more reach for your song

Sponsored by

How to proceed

1. Upload your best song
2. Share your song with the whole world
3. Win cash & great prizes

Join the HOFA Song Contest!

This international competition for musicians and music producers is online for the tenth 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 and provide you with a stage for your music. The prize money of €10,000 will go to the winners of the five main categories and is awarded by the jury. You also get the chance to win attractive non-cash prizes from our sponsors.

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 €2,000 donated by HOFA in each of the five categories. In addition, a lot of attractive special prizes will be awarded – we are very happy about the support from our sponsors!

5x €2,000 Main Prize
5x Audience Award: Sennheiser HD 300 PRO
SPL Phonitor One d
Avid Pro Tools Studio (Perpetual License)
iZotope Music Production Suite 7.1
Celemony Melodyne 5 Studio
Native Instruments Komplete 15 Standard
Ableton Live 12 Suite
Steinberg Cubase Pro 14
Steinberg Dorico Pro 5
Focusrite Scarlett 18i16 audio interface
Beyerdynamic DT 1770 PRO MKII
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 PRO MKII
2x Arturia FX-Collection 5
Steinberg Absolute 6
Soundtoys 5 Bundle
ADAM Audio T7V pair of monitors
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
2x Toontrack Superior Drummer 3
Shure MV7i microphone
Fender x Teufel ROCKSTER CROSS Bluetooth speaker
Lewitt RAY microphone
Røde NT2-A large-diaphragm condenser microphone
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Studio Pack
Sonarworks SoundID Reference for Speakers and Headphones
Novation Launchkey 49 DAW controller
2x PreSonus Quantum ES 2 USB-C audio interface incl. Studio One Pro 7
Arturia MiniFreak V
Arturia MiniBrute V
Lewitt CONNECT 2 audio interface
Novation Launchkey Mini 37 DAW controller
Shure SM58 vocal microphone
100x €50 HOFA Voucher (College, Plugins, Akustik)
View prizes
Contest timeline
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The contest starts

JUN 1, 2025

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Closing date

AUG 5, 2025

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Start of jury voting

AUG 6, 2025

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End of public voting

AUG 26, 2025

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The winners are announced

SEP 1, 2025

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

New songs

 
(Just) Standing Still in Time
Carl Savoca
Singer-Songwriter 1 2
 
Let em talk
Jaxxstone
Hip-Hop, R'n'B & Soul 0 0
 
Das Meer
RAFI
Country 3 1
 
 
Falling Slowly
Martin Kraken
Singer-Songwriter 9 0

New comments

kidcute27 at 18.06.2025 04:06 about erstmal by aka suessie •:

könnte ich in dauerschleife hören! <3 vote

Kopernikus at 18.06.2025 03:12 about Cracovia by Kopernikus:

Thanks so much!!

Boogie Snail at 18.06.2025 03:10 about Black Maria by Boogie Snail:

Haha, Lemmy’s voice? I’ll take that as a gravelly compliment! 😄 As for the guitar — no Boogie amp involved, just Boogie spirit and a few sneaky plugins. Thanks for the kind...

Quince Noveno at 18.06.2025 02:18 about Hace Diez Años by Quince Noveno:

Thanks Martin.

Arthur Francis at 18.06.2025 01:41 about Das Meer by RAFI:

Cooler Song..groovt ohne Ende...Klasse Refrain. Nur im Vers ist deine Stimme etwas zu leise gegenüber dem Refrain. Meine Stimme hast du.... VOTE. Vielleicht hörst bei mir auch...

Arthur Francis at 18.06.2025 01:35 about Hollowed Heart ( Summer Edition ) by SMOTCH:

Wow...knallt ohne Ende.... Geil. Die Vocals..der Hammer. Guter Song und Hook. Gefällt mir. VOTE. Vielleicht hörst bei mir auch mal rein...obwohl ich bin etwas anders...

Moulderdeÿer at 18.06.2025 00:39 about Personal Decision by Moulderdeÿer:

Vielen Dank dafür!

LISPICKI at 18.06.2025 00:37 about Last Rain by LISPICKI:

Vielen Dank, Mann! Das kommt von Herzen!

Martin Kraken at 17.06.2025 23:59 about Hace Diez Años by Quince Noveno:

Very nice song.

Martin Kraken at 17.06.2025 23:58 about Glaskind by Anne Klein:

Love, ist wirklich toll. Sehr schön und klar produziert. Vielleicht der letzte catchy schliff, aber sehr cool.