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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

 
It’s Okay
Ambre Charlet
Singer-Songwriter 2 0
 
Carol's Song
OLD man J
Easy Listening 3 1
 
JUST RIGHT
b3rrybyte
Techno 7 0
 
4 years
Blackphoenixproject
Rock 8 9
 
Mrs VIP
Michael Bush
Singer-Songwriter 5 1

New comments

Mikusuno Aiko at 19.07.2025 06:12 about The Things I Love by Mikusuno Aiko:

Thanks for the Vote :)

Arthur Francis at 19.07.2025 05:29 about Carol's Song by OLD man J:

wow…. Great Song and vocals. Beautiful guitar. Very good mix. I really like it. You have my vote. Maybe you'll listen to my music too.

O.G.Forest at 19.07.2025 03:47 about Reboot by Dark Shadow Ju:

great sound got my vote!

O.G.Forest at 19.07.2025 03:45 about Robotic by O.G.Forest:

thank you!

O.G.Forest at 19.07.2025 03:45 about Robotic by O.G.Forest:

thank you!

Michael Bush at 19.07.2025 02:57 about FAR FROM MY HOMELAND by Arthur Francis:

Es ist eine klang gewordene Sehnsucht. Ein Song, der nachhallt – im Herzen wie im Kopf. Vote!

Michael Bush at 19.07.2025 02:22 about Mrs VIP by Michael Bush:

Hey, danke für deinen tollen Kommentar zu meinem Song, das hat mich total gefreut! Eine Frage hätte ich noch: Was meintest du genau mit ‚abgesehen vom Klavier‘? Würde mich...

emhead at 19.07.2025 02:14 about Ben feat. emhead - Legends For Life by emhead:

Danke für deinen netten Kommentar und den Mut, mal was "anderes" zu hören. :) Viele Grüße Micha

emhead at 19.07.2025 02:11 about Ben feat. emhead - Legends For Life by emhead:

Vielen herzlichen Dank und viele Grüße. Micha

Fade to fate at 19.07.2025 00:33 about I don't care by offroad_sta:

Coole Nummer. Die Gitarren haben mir richtig gut gefallen, nur die Kickdrum war mir für den Geamtsound etwas zu klickie ;) Auf jeden Fall ein Vote.