▶︎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

▶︎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

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

The contest starts

JUN 1, 2025

Closing date

AUG 5, 2025

Start of jury voting

AUG 6, 2025

End of public voting

AUG 26, 2025

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: