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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

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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 €26,000 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)
Celemony Melodyne 5 Studio
Ableton Live 12 Suite
Steinberg Cubase Pro 14
Steinberg Dorico Pro 5
Beyerdynamic DT 1770 PRO MKII
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 PRO MKII
2x Arturia FX-Collection 5
Steinberg Absolute 6
Soundtoys 5 Bundle
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
2x Toontrack Superior Drummer 3
Shure MV7i microphone
Fender x Teufel ROCKSTER CROSS Bluetooth speaker
Lewitt RAY microphone
Sonarworks SoundID Reference for Speakers and Headphones
Arturia MiniFreak V
Arturia MiniBrute V
Lewitt CONNECT 2 audio interface
Shure SM58 vocal microphone
100x €50 HOFA Voucher (College, Plugins, Akustik)
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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
  • Electronic Music
  • Hip-Hop / Soul / R’n’B
  • Rock & Heavy
  • Traditional & Miscellaneous