We have paused the contest for 2022, check back in 2023!
2021 songwriting contest winners!
CONGRATULATIONS to the $10,000 Grand Prize Winner from our 2021 Songwriting Competition:
“Blue-Eyed Lover” - COREY MIRANNE
Corey also won a new Les Paul guitar courtesy of Gibson Guitars and the Gibson Gives Foundation.
CLICK HERE to listen to the winning song!
CONGRATULATIONS COREY!!!
Big THANKS to all the entrants. Once again, you proved there is a lot of talent and heart out there. And big THANKS to our SU team and judges for their time and care.
YOU CAN NOW LISTEN TO ALL OF THE WINNING ARTISTS FROM 2021 BY CLICKING ON THEM IN THE LIST BELOW!
Some of the links are to their winning song, some are to the artist’s page. Not all of the artists have published the song they entered into the contest, but we hope they do soon! None of the links require a payment to listen to the music, but some like Spotify may require an account to listen, just FYI for everyone.
Top 3 winning entries in each category are listed below in ranked order.
AMERICANA
#2 Heaven’s in the Details - Claire Kelly
COUNTRY
#1 Blue Eyes - Pierre Alexander
#2 Her Boots - Kellie Niederhelman
#3 Summer’s off to a Real Good Start - Marc Christian
POP
#1 Blue-Eyed Lovers - Corey Miranne
#2 Tears at the Discotheque - Anna Roth
GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL
#1 Spirit Help Me - Dave Lemieux
#2 Working It Out - Colin Matchack
#3 Colors of God - Russ Parrish
ROCK
#1 Congratulations - Claas Jambor
2021 Songwriting Contest Finalists!
Thank you, songwriters, for entering our contest!
It is a joy for us to support your talents and aspirations. Whether or not your song made the finals, kudos for stepping up and out with your music. You also helped make the world a better place by supporting ScottCares, Scott Hamilton’s cancer foundation to promote better, less harmful cancer treatments.
You may notice three categories have 11 finalists, instead of 10. In these cases, our judges fought for some songs and decided to include an extra one rather than exclude songs equally noteworthy. You may also notice some writers appear more than once. This is because the primary consideration of our judges is the quality of a song, not production level or who wrote it. Songs are listened to and evaluated without knowing who wrote them.
Here are the 2021 Finalists. Stand by for winners to be announced and prizes awarded!
THIS IS NOT A RANKED FINALIST LIST, THE LISTED ORDER IN EACH CATEGORY IS RANDOM
POP
I’m What You’re Lookin For - Parker Satterfield
Waves - Joe Guptill
Life Expectancy - Marielle Kraft
Better In Person - Jay Filson
First Love - Brooke Fair
Blue-Eyed Lovers - Corey Miranne
Easy Love - Abigail Osborn
Love Go - Eric Spiegel
Tears At the Discotech - Anna Roth
Punch the Wall - Colin Matchack
Undercover - Claas Jambor
ROCK
Tornado - Charlie Risso
Neverland - Ben Smith
Back For Christmas - Mitch Goodman
Tourniquet of Love - Jayne Sachs
I Believe In You - Richard Higgins
Love in Silence - Rudarup Paul
State of Mind - Reva Karkhanis
Sting’s On the Radio - Taylor Mesple
Congratulations - Class Jambor
The Idiot - Class Jambor
COUNTRY
Measure of a Man - Lori Loving
Everything - Steven Huff
Summer’s Off to a Real Good Start - Mark Christian
Blue Eyes - Pierre Alexander
Her Boots - Kellie Niederhelman
Your Name - Andrew Harness
Wish the Whiskey Was Stronger - Bradley Blakeman
Pretty In My Heart - Russ Parrish
Four Tires - Todd Vaters
Something I Can Take - Derek Toomey
The Guy In Your Pictures - Colin Matchack
GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL
Hezekiah’s Wall - Marc Christian
Nearer to Me - Gene Schmidt
Spirit Help Me - Dave Lemieux
Find Myself In You - Parker Satterfield
Solid Ground - Isabella Erardi
We Need More Angels - Darrell John
Colors of God - Russ Parrish
Eventually - Greg Martin
Working It Out - Colin Matchack
Deep Water - Claas Jambor
AMERICANA
Wild Winds - Sonya Watts
Heaven’s in the Details - Claire Kelly
Elijah Street - Darrell john
Forget - Brooke Fair
Towers - Leah J Jones
Not Afraid - Leah J Jones
Green - Audrey Bussanich
Believe in Me - Tolan Shaw
Mercy on Me - Mark Thomas
My Coffee My Wine - Olivia Baker
Babylon - Claas Jambor
“If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.”