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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

 
Obscenity
Kalina
Singer-Songwriter 6 1
 
Süden , Westen , Norden
Die Twinz
Pop 1 1
 
Counting papers
Calebriley
Hip-Hop 5 1
 
Paralyzed
Who Killed Kelly
Indie 1 1
 
Blue moon river
angelwarriorace
Movie Score 7 2

New comments

Kalina at 17.07.2025 14:33 about flüstern by Annaa:

So so schön, Anna. Deine Stimme ist so sanft und das Lied klingt sehr träumerisch. Vote 🫶🏼

Arthur Francis at 17.07.2025 14:26 about FAR FROM MY HOMELAND by Arthur Francis:

Danke für dein Feedback und Vote. Dir auch viel Glück….Lg.Arthur

Arthur Francis at 17.07.2025 14:19 about Süden , Westen , Norden by Die Twinz :

Das geht schön ab….sehr cool. Klasse Sounds….und Vocals, sowie auch der Text. Mix-Top. VOTE. Vielleicht hörst bei mir auch mal rein…

emhead at 17.07.2025 14:16 about Reality (Steel&Nylon) by WhiteVBlackD:

Was für ein grandioses Intro/Outro! Und dazwischen Musik, die eigene Wege geht. In dem Song steckt Liebe zum Detail, Fantasie und Virtuosität. Eine der ganz ganz wenigen Perlen...

AlexHonnef at 17.07.2025 14:15 about Die Fax-Jäger by AlexHonnef:

Lieben Dank!! 🙏

Arthur Francis at 17.07.2025 14:13 about Obscenity by Kalina:

Wow…. was für eine Stimme. Sehr sehr gut gesungen. Toller aber auch trauriger Song. Sehr gut musikalisch umgesetzt . Klasse. VOTE. Vielleicht hörst bei mir auch mal rein….

angelwarriorace at 17.07.2025 14:12 about Die Fax-Jäger by AlexHonnef:

Cooler Song Alex weiter so und viel Glück!

angelwarriorace at 17.07.2025 14:10 about Blue moon river by angelwarriorace:

Hey Alex, wie bereits im oberen Kommentar beschrieben ist dieser Stil nur sekundär für mich, da ich im Thrash Metal zu Hause bin.Mit der Lautstärke hast du Recht war...

Doc.AtmosfearCrush at 17.07.2025 14:10 about Monologue72 by DieautonomagierendenAgenten:

Ja, ist ja ein Zufall. Ich war in den 1990ern sehr oft in MA unterwegs: JUZ (Jugend-Zentrum damals in den Quadraten, da war ich bei der Grufti-Disco "Night of Breed" mit am...

emhead at 17.07.2025 14:07 about Ben feat. emhead - Legends For Life by emhead:

Hey thank you very much.