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15th ANNUAL BILLBOARD SONG CONTEST OPENS TO SUBMISSIONS

Contact: Mark Furnas
mark@jimhalsey.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2007

15th ANNUAL BILLBOARD SONG CONTEST OPENS TO SUBMISSIONS

Tulsa, OK – The Billboard World Song Contest opens 15th Annual Contest. Winners receive over $30,000 in prizes of equipment, merchandise and promotion.

The top three winners in each of the eleven categories will have their song featured on a CD that is distributed exclusively to music industry decision makers – record company heads, producers, A&R executives, music publishers, important artists and celebrities, agents, managers and others in the music industry. They listen!

This contest offers unparalleled exposure for up-and-coming songwriters. It’s the songwriter’s springboard to success.

Last year’s Country song winners, Stephen Desjardins, Lisa Firestone and Charles Harn landed a publishing deal for their song “When He Comes Home to Her”. First place Pop winners Peter Roberts and Ron Boustead’s song, “Fearless”, has been placed in the soon-to-be-released motion picture “Bratz”.

Song categories are: Rock/Alt Rock, Pop, Country, Latin, Folk/Americana, Jazz, Contemporary Christian/Gospel, R&B/Blues, Dance, Rap/HipHop and World. New category Electronica/Soundtrack seeks entries to this growing niche.

Besides Billboard Magazine, sponsors include: CASIO, D’Addario Strings, TAXI-The Independent A&R Vehicle, Indie Band Manager, Discmakers, BluBlocker Sunglasses, GoGirlsMusic.com, The Halsey Institute and online song submission partner Sonicbids at www.sonicbids.com.

Further details and entry forms can be found at www.billboardsongcontest.com. Write us at Billboard Song Contest, P.O. Box 470306, Tulsa, OK, 74147. Call 918-624-2100 or 918-827-6529, or email mark@jimhalsey.com.

Mark Furnas, Director
Jim Halsey, President

Billboard Song Contest

P.O. Box 470306
Tulsa, OK 74147
918-827-6529

918-827-6533, fax
mark@jimhalsey.com

CVB launches songwriting contest
A new songwriting contest, the “Music City Songwriting Competition” has come to Nashville.

The competition is sponsored by the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau with help from a long line of partners, including Phil Vassar, XM Satellite Radio, Jack Daniel’s, GAC, Southwest Airlines, Universal Records South, The Music Group International, f.y.e., American Songwriter magazine and Renaissance Nashville Hotel.
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The contest will be judged by some industry heavyweights , including Vassar, Grammy winning songwriter Tim Nichols, ASCAP’s Mike Sistad, music publisher Barbara Orbison, Universal Records South A&R Executive Cliff Audretch, III and Nashville CVB President, Butch Spyridon.

The competition will accept entries from July 1 - Aug. 31, 2007 and is open to amateur songwriters. Songs may be submitted on cassette tape, CD or on line as an MP3 file. The fee for the first entry is $30 and additional entries are $25. Entries will be narrowed down to the top 25 entries.

The winning songwriter will be flown to Music City and have the opportunity to on “Music City Connection: Heroes Behind the Hits,” a monthly radio show recorded and produced by the Nashville CVB and broadcast exclusively on XM Satellite Radio.
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