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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

 
One WAY TO WALK
SoundMystery
Rock 11 1
 
Mi Amigo
Jesus A Deus
Rock 9 1
 
Rya_-_Die-_-Jugend-_-2025
Rya Studio
Rap 2 0
 
Saphir
Tommestarr_IG
Rap 2 1
 
Pleasures Remain
Darken
Synthie Pop 6 0

New comments

SoundMystery at 16.06.2025 08:21 about One WAY TO WALK by SoundMystery:

Nix mit KI , alles selber gemacht !

TomGreve at 16.06.2025 08:14 about Keine Macht by The Lexx:

Kommt so richtig dreckig daher, errinnert mich so an rauch geschwängerte Kneipe, Live Musik und lecker Bier , finde es gut, VOTE für dich gruß Tom

TomGreve at 16.06.2025 08:09 about Saphir by Tommestarr_IG:

Moin, Rap ist jetzt nicht so mein Genre, hab mir dein Track aber gerne angehört, für meinen Geschmack hätte er gerne so 1 min noch länger sein können (ist Subjaktiv) ein VOTE...

TomGreve at 16.06.2025 08:02 about One WAY TO WALK by SoundMystery:

Interesant was mit KI so alles möglich ist, finde das Arrangement gut, ein Text auf dem Song wär nicht schlecht ist aber Subjektiv, VOTE für dich gruß Tom

Tobias Haase at 16.06.2025 07:50 about FAR FROM MY HOMELAND by Arthur Francis:

;-) Discopop, wie´s gehört :-)

Mat E. March at 16.06.2025 07:31 about The Hermit's Tale by Mat E. March:

Hallo Tom, vielen Dank für deinen tollen Kommentar! Mat E.March ist mein Solo - Projekt! Hier spiele ich alles bis auf die Drums selbst! Viele Grüße

Cytasis at 16.06.2025 07:12 about So laboured by tex.berlin:

nice guitar play :) könnte mir noch gut ne joe cocker stimme vorstellen. vote

TomGreve at 16.06.2025 06:30 about Zirkus Paradox by phoenixbarde:

das haut ja richtig gut rein, von anfang bis zum schluß, gerne gehört, VOTE gruß Tom

Moe_Espinosa at 16.06.2025 05:38 about Bad Press by kenopsia:

Starkes Stück!

AlexHonnef at 16.06.2025 05:36 about Flow - Live In Spheres by flowguitarman:

Lieber Flow. Das mit Hans zimmer trifft es schon ganz gut. Habe ein bisschen Time is collapsing vor Augen. Cool gemacht. Lasse dir gerne ein vote da.