The global song competition for music creators. Free to enter!
WIN great prizes with Session Studio and RODA Studios.
How to Enter
Sign up to the free Session Studio app.
Write an original song (on your own, or by collaborating with other creators) - we recommend you use the Session Studio app to help you with your songwriting!
When it's finished, create a share link (Song-Audio or Playlist link) from the Session Studio app, and send the link to: songdrop@sessionstudio.com
Please note, this competition is open worldwide to any music creator aged 18 or over. One entry per user, per account.
Full T&Cs below.
This time around, the competition will be judged by Ricky Damian, Ricky is a Grammy Award Winning Producer/Engineer/Mixer.
Born in Treviso, Ricky’s career started at age 15, when he cut his teeth at the biggest studio in town, learning to use analog gear and tape machines. At the age of 19, he moved to London and started collaborating with legacy producer Mark Ronson as his in-house engineer.
With over 15 years of experience, Ricky has affirmed himself as the professional of choice for artists like Sam Smith, Jorja Smith, Yebba, Sampha, Damon Albarn, Ezra Collective, Ibeyi and many others.
SongDrop is a monthly global song competition run by Session Studio. We want to give aspiring music creators the opportunity to showcase their talents.
About Forte!
Forte! is the AI-powered assistant for producers and engineers that automate mixing preparation in Pro Tools (and soon in Logic).
The product tackles the project setup and automatically renames, colours, and organises audio tracks to your preference, seamlessly importing them into Pro Tools. Also, it handles stereo-to-mono conversion and strip silence, saving you time and effort.
At the core of Forte! Is AI-R, exclusive Automatic Instrument Recognition technology, the world's first to analyse your audio at a glance, instantly and precisely identifying every instrument, without listening to any of your tracks.
So, let’s see what you’ve got!
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Entrants must be registered users of Session Studio and aged 18 or over.
The following categories of entrant are not permitted to enter this competition:
- a. Employees of Session.ID Limited or any associated companies (“Session”, “Salt”. “Forte!”) - b. Employees (or members of their immediate families, including any live-in partner or household member) of companies associated with the competition and all affiliates of such companies.
To enter the Session Studio “SongDrop” competition:
Write your original song (on your own or collaborating with other musicians) - you can use the Session Studio app to help you with your songwriting.
When it's finished, create a share link from the Session Studio app, and send the link to: songdrop@sessionstudio.com.
Links must be public and created and shared via your Session Studio account.
The competition is open worldwide.
One entry per user, per account.
One entry per song, we will not accept the same song entered through multiple user accounts.
You can enter the competition at any time between 11th November, and 23:59:59 GMT on 30th November 2024. All entries must be received no later than 23:59:59 on 30th November 2024 (the “entry period”).
You don’t need to buy anything to enter the competition.
If you submit an entry for the competition, we will treat you as accepting these terms and conditions and agreeing to keep to them.
We will not accept entries sent in through agents, other websites or multiple user accounts.
We will not accept any entries that contain any sexual, offensive, inappropriate or defamatory content.
We will not accept any late, incomplete or otherwise ineligible entries.
One winner will be selected by the judges from all eligible entries received during the entry period on or around 5th of December 2024.
The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into concerning this decision.
The copyright of each song remains with the writer.
We will contact the winner using their email address or phone number on their user profile on or around 7th December 2024. The winner will have 48 hours to accept the prize and give us any more information we may need in relation to the prize.
If we cannot contact the winner within a reasonable time or they are not able or available to accept the prize for any reason which is beyond our reasonable control, we can award the prize to another person who entered.
Your Session Studio account must be active to receive the prize.
There is 1 prize package to be won. The winner will receive the following prize;
$1,000 cash
One year free of Forte!
One year free of Session Studio Creator
Cash prizes will be awarded via bank transfer to an account nominated by the winner. For accounts in other currencies, the amount will be converted at the prevailing exchange rate.
One year free of Forte!
One year free of Session Studio Creator
There is no alternative to the prize.
Session reserves the right to refuse or withdraw the prize if a winner or a party authorised by the winner to act on their behalf, threatens or abuses a Session employee or otherwise conducts themselves in a manner that Session reasonably regards as inappropriate, offensive or unlawful.
We (“Session”) will use any information we collect from you for the purpose of providing the competition, contacting winners to tell them of their win and for the purposes of providing and delivering prizes.
By entering this competition, if you are successful, we may publish or make available your surname, country and title of the winning song. You can object to this publication or ask for less information to be published or made available by contacting us on support@sessionstudio.com. If you have objected, we may still be required to provide information to the Advertising Standards Authority if required.
We do not accept any responsibility for network, computer, hardware or software failures of any kind, which may restrict or delay in you sending your entry or us receiving it. Proof you sent an entry is not proof that you have entered the competition.
We can substitute the prize for a prize of equivalent or greater value if this is necessary for reasons beyond our control.
Apart from causing death or personal injury arising from negligence or in respect of fraud and as far as allowed by law, we and our associated companies and agents will not have any responsibility for your enjoyment of the prize or any postponement, cancellation, delay or changes to the prize which are beyond our control. We are also not responsible for any act or failure to act of any supplier.
We will not be liable for prizes that do not reach winners for reasons beyond our reasonable control.
We may refuse or disqualify any entry (including winning entries) if we have good reason to believe you have broken these terms and conditions or if you or anyone authorised by you to deal with your entry acts in a way towards us, any other person entering the competition or, Session staff which we reasonably consider to be inappropriate, unlawful or offensive. If the winning entry is disqualified we can give the prize to another person who entered the competition.
This competition, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, will be governed by English law and any disputes will be dealt with by the courts of England and Wales.
The promoters are Session.ID Limited (registered number 11782991) of C/O Ymu Business Management Limited, 180 Great Portland Street, London, England, W1W 5QZ (“we”/”us”/”our”).