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International Songwriting Competition (ISC) Announces 2020 Finalists
ISC is very pleased to announce the 2020 finalists. A total of 324 finalists have been selected from more than 26,000 entries representing 158 countries throughout the world. ISC is the world’s largest international songwriting competition and is designed to discover and promote professional and amateur songwriters who excel in the art of songwriting.
ISC recognizes songwriters in all genres of contemporary music and gives away more than $150,000 in cash and prizes, including an overall Grand Prize of $25,000 in cash plus additional prizes.
Winners will be selected by a panel of iconic recording artists and high-profile industry executives. Click here for a complete list of judges. Winners will be announced in late April or early May as soon as the judges have completed the judging process.
ISC is sponsored by: Arturia; Audeze; Celebrity Access; Eventric; Fano Guitars; Fender Guitars; Gig Salad; iZotope; Lurssen Mastering; Musicians Institute; Play MPE; PreSonus; SongU; Sweetwater; and TuneCore.
SOUTH AFRICA YOU BEAUTY- WE HAVE TWO FINALISTS!!
| AAA (ADULT ALBUM ALTERNATIVE) | ||
| Better | James A.T. Draper, Jordan D. Brady (WINTERBOURNE) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Can’t Let Us Bleed | Gene Evaro Jr. (Gene Evaro Jr.) – Joshua Tree, CA, USA | |
| Don’t Say Goodbye | Jon Decious, Steevie Steeves (TOWNE) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Find A Way | Ryan Courtney (Trenton) – Hudson, FL, USA | |
| Fucked Myself Up | Mercedes Thorne, Edwin White, Joel Quartermain (Merci, Mercy) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia | |
| Gotta Get To Know Ya | AJ Haynes, Gabe Simon, Jesse Gabriel, Adam Davis, Brad Shultz (Seratones) – Shreveport, LA, USA | |
| Just Smile | William Clapson (Jack In Water) – Palma De Mallorca, Spain | |
| Kingdom Illusion | Graham Patzner (Whiskerman) – Oakland, CA, USA | |
| Manchester By The Sea | Trent-Jean Michel (Trent-Jean) – Perth, WA, Australia | |
| Runaway | Benjamin Woolner-Kirkham, Michael Bell, Harrison Sayers (SAFIA) – Canberra, ACT, Australia | |
| Self Control | phem (phem) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Seven Days | Will Varley, Tom Farrer (Will Varley) – Deal, England | |
| What I Like | Archie Faulks (Archie Faulks) – London, England | |
| You And I | Lotta Lindgren, Martin Stilling (LÉON) – Stockholm, Sweden | |
| AC (ADULT CONTEMPORARY) | ||
| 1985 | Ashley Jane, Timon Wientzek (In The City) – Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| All I Wanted | Abby J Hall, Andre Kaden Black, Tal Vaisman (Abby J Hall) – Burlington, ON, Canada | |
| Bedsheets | Olivia Lunny, AJ Healey (Olivia Lunny) – Winnipeg, MB, Canada | |
| Catching Tears | Udo Mechels, Alan Roy Scott, Jon Hume (Udo) – Antwerp, Belgium | |
| Gasoline | Georgina Kingsley (Georgi Kay) – Perth, WA, Australia | |
| Goliath | Maria Smith, Victor Thell, Peter Kvint (Smith & Thell) – Helsingborg, Sweden | |
| Good Lord | Ian Berney, Ian Kenny, Glenn Sarangapany, Adam Spark, Adam Weston (Birds Of Tokyo) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Here To Dance | M. B. Alexander, Sela Alexander (Astroblue Express) – Brooklyn, NY, USA | |
| Hey London | Lainey Dionne, Gabe Simon, Nick Schwarz (Lainey Dionne) – Smithfield, RI, USA | |
| I Won’t Surrender | Fidan Aliyeva (Fidan Aliva) – Baku, Azerbaijan | |
| Recovery | Mason Watts, Edd Holloway (Mason Watts) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Say | Christine Kern, Bang Allure, Jesse Lyons (Jesse Lyons) – Columbia, SC, USA | |
| Symphony | George Sheppard, Amy Sheppard, Jay Bovino, Keith Sorrells, Alex Niceforo (Sheppard) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Warmest Regards | Alex Vickery, Midian Mathers, Todd Spadafore (Alex Vickery) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| AMERICANA | ||
| Ah Men | Vivian Cook (Vivian Cook) – San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| Alibi | Andy Sydow (Andy Sydow) – Denver, CO, USA | |
| Annie | Kyle McKearney (Kyle McKearney) – Calgary, AB, Canada | |
| Can’t Go Back | Gene Evaro Jr. (Gene Evaro Jr.) – Joshua Tree, CA, USA | |
| Casanova Of The Canyon | Merry Ellen Kirk, Warren Sellers (Merry Ellen Kirk) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Concrete Stars | Brielle Brown (Brielle Brown) – New York, NY, USA | |
| Inside The Wheel | Markus Rill (Markus Rill) – Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Nicotine | Garrett Long (Garrett Long) – Harrisonburg, VA, USA | |
| Old Crow Feather | Gareth Leach (Gareth Leach) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia | |
| Poor Lazarus | Jared Griffin (Rocks & Salt) – San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| Pray For Rain Ft. Blind Boys of Alabama | Kristen Englenz (Kristen Englenz) – Atlanta, GA, USA | |
| Somebody Like You | Simon Rudston-Brown, Melinda Kirwin (FALLS) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Stir All Night | Robert J Hunter (Robert J Hunter) – London, England | |
| Wood And Steel | Kenny Foster (Kenny Foster) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| BLUES | ||
| All My Dues Are Paid | Rick Estrin, Christoffer Lund Andersen, Kathy Murray, Frank Bey (Frank Bey) – Philadelphia, PA, USA | |
| Are You Ready Now? | Davide Pace, Manuel La Malfa (The Jagat) – Torino, Italy | |
| Barefoot Among Scarecrows | Daniel Eriksen (Daniel Eriksen) – Langesund, Norway | |
| Chain Breaker | John Németh, Jaki Taylor, Matthew Wilson (John Németh) – Memphis, TN, USA | |
| Come And Get This Love | Jennifer Grouws, Chris Avey (Avey Grouws Band) – Decorah, IA, USA | |
| Come And Take It | John Németh (John Németh) – Memphis, TN, USA | |
| Down To The River | Zechariah Lloyd (Zechariah Lloyd) – Vicksburg, MS, USA | |
| Godless Land | Cathy Lemons, Kid Andersen (The Lucky Losers) – San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| Scotch Ft. Chelsea D.E. Johnson | Michael Wilford, Joshua Litton, Colleen Lee Eccleston (Michael Wilford) – Victoria, BC, Canada | |
| Stand Up And Dance | Hattie Wilcox, Heine Andersen (Missy Andersen) – Raleigh, NC, USA | |
| Surrender | Clarence Spady (Clarence Spady) – Scranton, PA, USA | |
| Tear Dust Blues | Shane Thornton (Black Cadillac Kings) – Klamath Falls, OR, USA | |
| Virginia | Emily Pastuf, Zak Masoud, Jeff Swidowski (Bad Mama’s Blues Band) – Syracuse, NY, USA | |
| Weep & Moan | Vanessa Collier (Vanessa Collier) – Columbia, MD, USA | |
| CHILDREN’S MUSIC | ||
| Baby Says No | Robert Compton (Babaloo Music and Fun) – Washington, MO, USA | |
| Chihuahua | Robin Nathan (fleaBITE) – Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Every Dog Has Its Day | Matt Gerber (Matt Gerber) – Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| Follow Your Arrow | Emily Arrow (Emily Arrow) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Grateful | Suzanne Jamieson, Jason Rabinowitz, Jacob Stein, Tommy Shepherd, Kaitlin McGaw (Suzanne Jamieson Ft. Alphabet Rockers) – Santa Monica, CA, USA | |
| Haunting Days Of Halloween | Lucy Kalantari (Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats) – Brooklyn, NY, USA | |
| High Brow Affair | Cynthia Dougherty (High Brow Affair) – Carnegie, PA, USA | |
| I Woke Up With The Hiccups | Emily Mcknight, Robin Gist, Peter Bailey (Emily Who) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| If Girls Ruled The World | Joanie Leeds, Carly Ciarrocchi (Joanie Leeds) – New York, NY, USA | |
| K-I-N-D | Stephanie Leavell (Stephanie Leavell) – Boise, ID, USA | |
| Mittens Official Song | Chris Sanders, Natalie Conaty (Chris Sanders) – Auckland, New Zealand | |
| The Smilers | Kelli Caldwell (Kelli Welli) – Portland, OR, USA | |
| The Zoom Song | Bret Turner, Ian Walters (The Tallest Kid In The Room) – Berkeley, CA, USA | |
| Why Did I | Marcia Morgan, Julia Ross, Krysta Youngs (Treela) – Manchester, NH, USA | |
| CHRISTIAN | ||
| Alarm | Kasaan Hammon (RIGSI) – Waimea, HI, USA | |
| All Glory & Honour | Billy Smiley, Ida Maree (Ida Maree) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia | |
| All I Have | Ben Bourque, Alex Arthurs (Charming To The Last) – Fredericton, NB, Canada | |
| Don’t Give Up | Shauna Chanda (Shauna Chanda) – Denver, CO, USA | |
| Faith Of A Five Year Old | Grace Gonzalez (Grace Gonzalez) – Milwaukee, WI, USA | |
| Kingdom Come | Marcelo Gil, Ish Beloso, David Provenzano, Johnny Redding (Johnny Redding & Revolution Cry) – Orlando, FL, USA | |
| Ready To Live | Cole Phoenix, Cameron Stymeist (Cole Phoenix) – Brisbane, QLD, Australia | |
| Second Life | Reed Deming (Reed Deming) – San Antonio, TX, USA | |
| They All Fall Down Ft. Koby Evans/Temple Of Grace | Jeff Markey (Genesis Worship) – Dover, PA, USA | |
| Through The Night Ft. Shama Mrema | Chas Tackett, Shama Mrema (Chas Tackett) – Tulsa, OK, USA | |
| Your Love | Maxfield Camp, Christopher Parker (Maxfield Camp) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| COMEDY/NOVELTY | ||
| Hot Dogs And Applesauce! | Rob Potylo (Rob Potylo) – Pasadena, CA, USA | |
| I’m An Accountant | Rocky Paterra (Rocky Paterra) – Pittsburgh, USA | |
| Marry Me | Jamie Anderson (Jamie Anderson) – Ottawa, ON, Canada | |
| My Opera Career’s Over | Robert Macfarlane, Kanen Breen (Nurseratched) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia | |
| Naked Pictures | Rhiannon Hopkins (Rhiannon Hopkins) – Wendover, England | |
| Pumpkin Spice | Pat Godwin (Pat Godwin) – Dallas, PA, USA | |
| Rodeo Ft. Wanz | Justin Davis, Mick Garrett (MONKEYSHORTS) – Seattle, WA, USA | |
| S.K. Valentine | Chris Dowell (Chris Dowell) – Salt Lake City, UT, USA | |
| Shelf Life | Gianmarco Soresi (Gianmarco Soresi) – New York, NY, USA | |
| The 12 Days Of Quarantine | Chris Mann (Chris Mann) – Valley Glen, CA, USA | |
| The Wal-Mart Song | Chris Dowell (Chris Dowell) – Salt Lake City, UT, USA | |
| You’re Like Hitler | Brian Woodbury (Brian Woodbury) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| COUNTRY | ||
| Break Itself | Ava Suppelsa, Tristan Bushman, Michael August (Tristan Bushman) – Evanston, IL, USA | |
| Church | Courtney Cole, Melissa Fuller, Jeff Pardo (Brianna Blankenship) – Kane, PA, USA | |
| Closer | Rob Mayes, Ryan Rossebo, Kevin Leach (Rob Mayes) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Hands Where I Can’t See Them | Patrick Cornell, Dan Segall (Salemtown) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Hurricane After You | John Cirillo, Sarah Spencer (Payton Lamar) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| I Won’t Sleep Tonight | Zac Crawford, Ben Crawford, Jarred Taylor (Jarred Taylor X Crawford Brothers) – Hinton, NSW, Australia | |
| Own Way Home | Grant Vogel, Tate Howell, Marla Morris (Grant Vogel) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Someone To Somebody | Ada LeAnn, Carter Frodge (Ada LeAnn) – Battle Creek, MI, USA | |
| Sparks Fly | Casey Barnes, Samuel Gray, Kaci Brown (Casey Barnes) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Warning Labels | Cliff Cody, Arlis Albritton, Kyle Coulahan (Cliff Cody) – Odessa, TX, USA | |
| Whiskey Kind Of Love | Jonny Born (Jonny Born) – Draper, UT, USA | |
| Young Love | Ada LeAnn, Carter Frodge (Ada LeAnn) – Battle Creek, MI, USA | |
| EDM (ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC) | ||
| Bad Boy Ft. Wiz Khalifa, Bbno$ And Max | Dallas Cotton, Alexander Gumuchian, Camerson Jabril Thomaz, Max Schnieder (Yung Bae) – Oakland, CA, USA | |
| Call My Number | Nyelo, Omix Zam (Nyelo, Omix Zam) – Guadalajara, Mexico | |
| Come Home | Ryan Dobbrick, James Vincent, Emily Coulston (Du0) – Brisbane, QLD, Australia | |
| Dreams | Pawel Karski (Carsky) – Mogilany, Poland | |
| High & Low | Julian Gardner (Julez Gardner) – London, England | |
| I Got You | Igor Volhonski, Claus Pener, Victor Crone, Calle Johan Rune Hellberg, Gloria Kim (Hellove, Gloria Kim) – Tallinn, Estonia | |
| In Between | Arpit Gawri, Baer (32Stitches & Baer) – Panchkula, India | |
| Let’s Try Ft. Dominic | Oleksandr Ivanov (Alex Iva) – Barcelona, Spain | |
| Paradise | Julian Hamilton, Kim Moyes, Thomas Stell (Golden Features x The Presets) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Rain Ft. Nevve | Kasi Opi, Nevve (Kasi Opi) – Nacogdoches, TX, USA | |
| Shadows | Ryan Dobbrick, Ryan Courtney (Du0) – Brisbane, QLD, Australia | |
| Slow Motion | Iisakki Ratilainen (Iisample) – Joensuu, Finland | |
| Something Out Of Nothing | Preston Mah, Kwesi Kankam, Drew Frey, Ketura Church (GhostDragon & Kwesi) – Dublin, CA, USA | |
| Under Water | Pierre Marmignon, Benoît Capelle, David Schoenwetter (Max M) – Bry, France | |
| Whyamilikethis | Stefani Colvin, Rikki Randal, Christian Fiore (stef) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| FOLK/SINGER-SONGWRITER | ||
| 10 Steps To Heaven | Jake Isaac (Jake Isaac) – London, England | |
| Afterglow | Timothy Löffler (Timothy Jaromir) – Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Blind For The Moment | Falco Eckhof (Hannah & Falco) – Wuerzburg, Germany | |
| Crinkle Cut | Asha Jefferies, Chris Collins (Asha Jefferies) – Brisbane, QLD, Australia | |
| For That Matter | Dan O’Rourke (Dan O’Rourke) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Hip Hip | Lua (Lua) – Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| Holy Smoke | Kelson, Jake Warren (Kelson) – Atlanta, GA, USA | |
| Jocelyn | Sean Murphy (All The Queen’s Horses) – Cork, Ireland | |
| Jump | Chimatara Ihunanyachi Ejugbo (TARRAH) – Uburu, Nigeria | |
| Someplace Somewhere | Jeremy Buck (Jeremy Buck) – Bedford, IN, USA | |
| Something Like I Love You | Jemma Johnson (Jemma Johnson) – Uttoxeter, England | |
| Trembling No More | Candace Coker (Candace Coker) – San Fernando, Trinidad And Tobago | |
| Weight Of The World | Kevin Young (Skipper Noon) – Atlanta, GA, USA | |
| Whatever’s Next | Megan Slankard (Megan Slankard) – San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| INSTRUMENTAL | ||
| Auseinandersetzung | Malte Vief (Malte Vief) – Leipzig, Germany | |
| Carriage | Ahmad Mirmasoumi (Ahmad Mirmasoumi) – Tehran, Iran | |
| Cove Diving | Julian Schoming (Julian Schoming) – Manchester, MD, USA | |
| Dream It Real | Sangho Oh (Oh Sangho Nonet) – Busan, South Korea | |
| Encompassing | Max Di Carlo (Max Di Carlo) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| It’s Who We Are! Mozaick | Mustafa Khetty (Morpheus Project) – Dubai, United Arab Emirates | |
| Mysterious Vision | Yoichi Kitano (Yoichi Kitano) – Kobe City, Japan | |
| Pferd | Ralph Mothwurf (Ralph Mothwurf Orchestra) – Vienna, Austria | |
| Pokus 92 (A Tribute To Beethoven) | Robert Nemec (NeRotique) – Berlin, Germany | |
| Rush On The Savannah | Hattie Wilcox (Christopher Marion) – Raleigh, NC, USA | |
| Start | Lajkó Félix (Lajkó Félix And Band) – Palic, Serbia | |
| Summer In Tehranto | Chris McKhool (Sultans Of String) – Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| The Statuary Of Wisdom | Sorpico (Sorpico) – Ichikawa-Shi, Japan | |
| The Witch | Tomokazu Yamada (Tomokazu Yamada) – Shakotan, Japan | |
| JAZZ | ||
| Arriba En La Ruta 3 | Hildemaro Alvarez (Hildemaro Alvarez) – San Cristobal, Venezula | |
| Big Bite | Bruce Gertz (Bruce Gertz Quintet) – Melrose, MA, USA | |
| Binaries In Cycle | Keshav Batish (Keshav Batish Quartet) – Santa Cruz, CA, USA | |
| Blue Dream | Nishla Smith (Nishla Smith) – Manchester, England | |
| Dawn – Chaos | Kaoru Hashimoto (Kaoru Hashimoto) – Shimane, Japan | |
| Intersplosion Pt 2 | DeWitt Fleming Jr, Erica von Kleist (DeWitt Fleming Jr. And Erica Von Kleist) – Washington, D.C., USA | |
| Iomante | Eishin Nose (Eishin Nose) – Otaru, Japan | |
| Relevant | Tim Wicks (Tim Wicks) – Rochester, NY, USA | |
| That Happened | Will Vinson (Will Vinson) – Brooklyn, NY, USA | |
| The Fittest And The Survival Of The Unfit | Daniel Rotem (Daniel Rotem) – Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| Where We Are | Jazzmeia Horn (Jazzmeia Horn) – Dallas, TX, USA | |
| LATIN | ||
| Bailalo | Keira Y Los Foraneos Music (Keira) – Cancun, Mexico | |
| Barú | Javier El’as Irigoyen, Joaqu’n Casco Peebels, Maurizio Alessio (Midnight Dreamers) – Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | |
| Bien Bien | Vania Mitre Martinez, Juan David Morales, Carlos Andrés Sanchez, Andrés Felipe Gómez, David Mauricio Trujillo, Daniela Gomez (ANIA) – Lima, Peru | |
| Broken Espanol | Rodney Alejandro, Jonathan Gutierrez, Rolando Cuellar (Baby Jay) – Galena Park, TX, USA | |
| Cafeína | Willie Gomez, Paulina Aguirre, Gustav Afsahi, Jonathan Bluth (BLUTH) – Westlake Village, CA, USA | |
| Encrucijada | Pedro Barbosa (Pedro Barbosa) – Pretoria, South Africa | |
| Esta Canción | Fany Fonseca, Pedro Cerrato (Fany Fonseca) – Tegucigalpa, Honduras | |
| Está Bien | Stefano Manrique, Angela Pico, Juan Pablo Piedrahita, Alex Jarvar (Stefano Manrique) – Bogotá, Colombia | |
| Hasta Abajo | Kaih (Dave Hidalgo) (Toploud) – Envigado, Columbia | |
| Hook It Up | Diana Trujillo, Michael Costanzo (Chika Di) – San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| La Lluvia | Sofia Macchi, Raquel Sofia (Sofia Macchi) – Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| Luz | Karla Grunewaldt (Karla Grunewaldt) – Santiago, Chile | |
| Paquita Linda | Daniel Patino Quintana (Patiño) – San Jose, Costa Rica | |
| Somos Tu Y Yo | Zhenna Luque, Dennis Garcia (Zhenna) – Lima, Peru | |
| Toda La Noche | Artur Benson (ARTUR) – West Hollywood, CA, USA | |
| Tonta | Lisbeth Mego, Ashley Ruiz, Edwin Itoh (Sereza) – Guadalupe, Peru | |
| LYRICS ONLY | ||
| All In 1991 | Aurelina (Aurelina) – Denu, Ghana | |
| Before We Were Kings | Todd J Lunceford (Todd J Lunceford) – Orlando, FL, USA | |
| Bloodhound | Vanessa Collier (Vanessa Collier) – Columbia, MD, USA | |
| Build Me A River (A Soldiers Prayer) | Randi Garnick (Randi Garnick) – Buffalo Grove, IL, USA | |
| Burn Bright | Scot Robinson, Bobby Cameron (Scot Free Sessions) – Edmonton, AB, Canada | |
| Changing (While Staying The Same) | Mike Guiney (Mike Guiney) – Gananoque, ON, Canada | |
| Diamond And Dirt | Kerri Shore (Kerri Shore) – New York, NY, USA | |
| Grasping At The Water | Leigh Gardiner, Andrew Atthowe, Erin Gordon, Rebecca Erin Smith (Chuditch) – Perth, WA, Australia | |
| It Is What It Is | Harry Becker (Harry Becker) – Florence, MA, USA | |
| Looking Out For One Another | Liz Rachel Walker (Liz Rachel Walker) – Victoria, BC, Canada | |
| Lost Inside | Imset-Jaka Peterka, Dejan Macura, Blaz Horvat, Jaka Azman (Imset) – Domzale, Slovenia | |
| My Quiet | Kris Angelis (Kris Angelis) – Carmel, CA, USA | |
| Off To One Side | Steve Seaton (Steve Seaton) – Hope Island, QLD, Australia | |
| Something | Marc Lynch (Marc Lynch) – Dublin, Ireland | |
| The End Is Here | Sasa Németh (Sasa Németh) – Csengod, Hungary | |
| The Streets Outside Your Home | Martin Leahy, Michael Leahy (Martin Leahy) – Cork, Ireland | |
| MUSIC VIDEO | ||
| Bien Bien | Vania Mitre Martinez, Juan David Morales, Carlos Andrés Sanchez, Andrés Felipe Gómez, David Mauricio Trujillo, Daniela Gomez (ANIA) – Lima, Peru | |
| Boujee | Nailah Blackman, Anson Soverall (Nailah Blackman) – Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago | |
| Breathe | Dorel Vaginsky (DOREL) – Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| Come Home | Adalia Tara, Blake Vadasy (Adalia Tara) – Washington, D.C., USA | |
| Cowboy | Chelsea Gilliland (Chlsy) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Desatar | Karla Grunewaldt (Karla Grunewaldt) – Santiago, Chile | |
| Inspire Me | Renay (Renay) – San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| Liar | Nicole Suzanne Stipp, Elisha D Erskine (Hooked Like Helen) – Milan, OH, USA | |
| Nobody Like You | DAP The Contract, Mia Maxima (DAP The Contract) – Lagos, Nigeria | |
| Now I See You | Chris Wilson, Grahame Rolfe (Chris Wilson D.C) – Dublin, Ireland | |
| Sour Reimagined | Stefani Colvin, Rikki Randal, Christian Fiore (stef) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| The Dream Is Over Now | Tony Kastaneda (MadOhm) – Los Angeles , CA, USA | |
| PERFORMANCE | ||
| Éireann I Mo Chroí | Clare Cunningham (Clare Cunningham) – Collon, Ireland | |
| Don’t You Dare | Winnie Raeder (Winnie Raeder) – Aabenraa, Denmark | |
| Freedom | Katrina Stone (Katrina Stone) – Burbank, CA, USA | |
| Let Me Be The Man | Violet Grae (Violet Grae) – Connellsville, PA, USA | |
| My Angels Sang To Notre Dame | Sean Murphy (All The Queen’s Horses) – Cork, Ireland | |
| New York | Jake Isaac (Jake Isaac) – London, England | |
| One For | Arjuna Oakes (Arjuna Oakes) – Wellington, New Zealand | |
| Something Warmer | Gregory Raymond Davies (Gray) – Felixstowe, England | |
| Take Me To The River | Connell Cruise, Andrew Baird (Connell Cruise) – Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Tell Me It’s Over | Aminah Hughes (Aminah Hughes) – Perth, WA, Australia | |
| The Days I’ll Like To Know | Frank Salis, Michael Watson (Frank Salis Ft. Michael Watson) – Agno, Switzerland / Canton, OH, USA | |
| The Good Ones | Jackie Sannia (SANNIA) – Frankston South, VIC, Australia | |
| Wasting My Time | Levi Conner (Levi Conner) – Bar Harbor, ME, USA | |
| Weep & Moan | Vanessa Collier (Vanessa Collier) – Columbia, MD, USA | |
| Where Is Freedom? | Jazzmeia Horn (Jazzmeia Horn) – Dallas, TX, USA | |
| Work For Me | Mia Wray (Mia Wray) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia | |
| POP/TOP 40 | ||
| Bad Boy Ft. Wiz Khalifa, Bbno$ And Max | Dallas Cotton, Alexander Gumuchian, Camerson Jabril Thomaz, Max Schnieder (Yung Bae) – Oakland, CA, USA | |
| Comeback Kids | John Cirillo, Tamara Laurel McGuckin, Craig Lackey, Larry Vail (Ericka Corbin) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Die Young | George Sheppard, Jason Bovino, Amy Sheppard, Jon Hume (Sheppard) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Enemies | Malina Stark (Malina Stark) – Mutterstadt, Germany | |
| Even If I Knew | Brittany Pfantz, Texada (Brittany Pfantz) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Gravity | Yorke, Gab Strum (Yorke) – Bangalow, NSW, Australia | |
| Istanbul | Bahjat Etorjman (Bahjat) – Tripoli, Libya | |
| Lay Low | Nick De La Hoyde, Joseph De La Hoyde (Nick De La Hoyde) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Light Out | Sita Steele, Romy Wave (Romy Wave) – Montreux, Switzerland | |
| Psycho | Gustav Nyström, Alina Paulsen, Mia Rodriguez (Mia Rodriguez) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Self Control | phem (phem) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Skeletons | Stephanie Bourland, Nick Schwarz, Ethan Hulse (MAD FVN) – McLean, VA, USA | |
| SOS | Tamsin, Chris Arnott (Tamsin) – Brentwood, England | |
| The Kids Are All Rebels | Lenii (Lenii) – Cork, Ireland | |
| Two Of Us | Ian Berney, Ian Kenny, Glenn Sarangapany, Adam Spark, Adam Weston (Birds of Tokyo) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| R&B/HIP-HOP | ||
| All For You | Seth Haapu, Nick Down, Marley Sola, Alex Wildwood (Seth Haapu) – Whanganui, New Zealand | |
| Between Two Worlds | Lulu Fall, Kris Johnson (Lulu Fall And The Kris Johnson Group) – Washington, D.C., USA | |
| Blooming | Amir Hodge (Statix) – Atlanta, GA, USA | |
| Blues | TeCreshia Riggins (Goddess Cre) – Biloxi, MI, USA | |
| Drunk | Kallay Saunders, Gabriel (Kallay Saunders, Gabriel) – Bronx, NY, USA | |
| Godspeed | RushKlan (RushKlan) – New Rochelle, NY, USA | |
| Good Times | Rudolph Miguel Gallegos III, Mathew Mcguire (Rudy G.) – Sanger, CA, USA | |
| Madam$ | Kia Knoester, Lars Hempel (KIA) – Arnhem, Netherlands | |
| Money Out The Bank | Uwa Eguakun, David Stopa (T2 Tizzle) – Edo, Nigeria | |
| Public Enemy | INFAMOUSIZAK (INFAMOUSIZAK) – London, England | |
| Queendom | Al-Hakeem Thompson (Hakeem Romance) – Newark, NJ, USA | |
| Simbisa (Strengthen) | Takudzwa Karimazondo (McKurry) – Harare, Zimbabwe | |
| The World To Me Ft. Jackson Lundy & Bando | Alexander Lewis, Jackson Lundy, Brandon P. Anderson (Alexander Lewis) – Oakland, CA, USA | |
| Trap Phone | Kyle Quinn Caruthers, Ryan Wayne Latour (Kevin Cartoon) – Houston, TX, USA | |
| Your Move | Gayathri Karunakar Menon, Jacob Storm, Camila Solis (Gaia) – Doha, Qatar | |
| ROCK | ||
| 777 | C W Anglin, Andrew Matthews, Morgan Zwicker (SKELETON CLUB) – Vancouver, BC, Canada | |
| All The Same | Jaka Peterka, Dejan Macura, Jaka Azman, Blaz Horvat (IMSET) – Domzale, Slovenia | |
| America | Deuce (Deuce) – Portland, OR, USA | |
| Burn | Jake Edwards (Jake Edwards) – Denver, CO, USA | |
| California | Miguel Sand (The Sand) – Murcia, Spain | |
| I Killed My Man | Karoline Rose (SUN) – Sézanne, France | |
| I Want To Be Loved | Megan Slankard (Megan Slankard) – San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| Millennial Love | Andrew Patrick McCallion, Charles Adey, Sam Bramhall, James Sands (The New Nostalgia) – London, England | |
| Never Thought | Melissa Goldstein (Mel Bryant & The Mercy Makers) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| No More Hiding | Gina Brooklyn, Dan Epand (Gina Brooklyn) – Wadsworth, OH, USA | |
| Okay? | Jared Salte, Bethany Salte (The Royal Foundry) – Sherwood Park, AB, Canada | |
| Say Something | Kavyen Temperley, Stuart MacLeod, Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe) – Perth, WA, Australia | |
| Upside Down | Ruth Patterson, Rosie Bristow (Holy Moly & The Crackers) – Newcastle, England | |
| We Break. We Fail. | Gordon Domnick (Ripe & Ruin) – Hamburg, Germany | |
| Wokeup! | Jordan Adetunji (Jordan Adetunji) – Belfast, Northern Ireland | |
| TEEN | ||
| 4th Of July | Aidan Gallagher (Aidan Gallagher) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| All I Ever Wanted | Mavenne (Mavenne) – Cincinnati, OH, USA | |
| Back Up | Lucy Parle (Lucy Parle) – Lisarow, NSW, Australia | |
| Breathe | Dorel Vaginsky (DOREL) – Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| Breathing To Prove That I Can | Georgie Raft (Georgie Raft) – Adelaide, SA, Australia | |
| Call Me | Jianyi Wang (Spaceboi Maksi) – Hohhot, China | |
| Drift | Bree Rusev (Bree Rusev) – Newcastle, NSW, Australia | |
| Drown | Cade Earick, Carleigh Mack (Cade Earick) – Rumney, NH, USA | |
| Ease My Mind | Harry Mason (Arlo Mac) – Hastings, New Zealand | |
| How Do You Sleep At Night | Anya Alchemy (Anya Alchemy) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia | |
| Lost Myself | Jo MacKenzie (Jo MacKenzie) – Leawood, KS, USA | |
| Speed | Jordyn Richards (Jordyn) – Ryde, NSW, Australia | |
| Stonewall | Daniel McCarthy (Daniel McCarthy) – London, England | |
| Summer Of Seventeen | Gracie Metheny (Gracie Metheny) – Elkins, WV, USA | |
| Together At Home | Sophie Pecora (Sophie Pecora) – Danville, CA, USA | |
| UNPUBLISHED | ||
| 1985 | Ashley Jane, Timon Wientzek (In the City) – Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| 777 | C W Anglin, Andrew Matthews, Morgan Zwicker (SKELETON CLUB) – Vancouver, BC, Canada | |
| Alarm | Kasaan Hammon (RIGSI) – Waimea, HI, USA | |
| Better | James A.T. Draper, Jordan D. Brady (WINTERBOURNE) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Paper Dragon | ELKI, Dami Im (Dami Im) – Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| People You Know | Will Tyler, Matt Tyler, Mitch Tyler, Chris Collins (Alt Fiction) – Gold Coast, QLD, Australia | |
| Reasons To Stay | Kate Vogel (Kate Vogel) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Someplace Somewhere | Jeremy Buck (Jeremy Buck) – Bedford, IN, USA | |
| SOS | Tamsin, Chris Arnott (Tamsin) – Brentwood, England | |
| Statues | Will Varley (Will Varley) – Deal, England | |
| The Kids Are All Rebels | Lenii (Lenii) – Cork, Ireland | |
| Tick Tock | Loren Kate (Loren Kate) – Aldinga Beach, SA, Australia | |
| Wrong | Alexander Rollins, Eric Palmquist (Denny) – Minneapolis, MN, USA | |
| You + Me | Joe Mungovan (Joe Mungovan) – Kiama, NSW, Australia | |
| UNSIGNED ONLY | ||
| 4th Of July | Aidan Gallagher (Aidan Gallagher) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Black Hole | Eiza Murphy (Eiza Murphy) – Cork, Ireland | |
| Come Home | Ryan Dobbrick, James Vincent, Emily Coulston (Du0) – Brisbane, QLD, Australia | |
| Even If I Knew | Brittany Pfantz, Texada (Brittany Pfantz) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Gasoline | Georgina Kingsley (Georgi Kay) – Perth, WA, Australia | |
| Here To Dance | M. B. Alexander, Sela Alexander (Astroblue Express) – Brooklyn, NY, USA | |
| I Got You | Igor Volhonski, Claus Pener, Victor Crone, Calle Johan Rune Hellberg, Gloria Kim (Hellove, Gloria Kim) – Tallinn, Estonia | |
| I Won’t Sleep Tonight | Zac Crawford, Ben Crawford, Jarred Taylor (Jarred Taylor X Crawford Brothers) – Hinton, NSW, Australia | |
| Lights Are Out | Marius Hinkelmann, Felix Hochkeppel, Anthony James Brown (OH FYO!) – Luebeck, Germany | |
| Manchester By The Sea | Trent-Jean Michel (Trent-Jean) – Perth, WA, Australia | |
| Millennial Love | Andrew Patrick McCallion, Charles Adey, Sam Bramhall, James Sands (The New Nostalgia) – London, England | |
| Self Control | phem (phem) – Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Skeletons | Stephanie Bourland, Nick Schwarz, Ethan Hulse (MAD FVN) – McLean, VA, USA | |
| Under Water | Pierre Marmignon, Benoît Capelle, David Schoenwetter (Max M) – Bry, France | |
| Whyamilikethis | Stefani Colvin, Rikki Randal, Christian Fiore (stef) – Nashville, TN, USA | |
| WORLD | ||
| Asi Soy (This Is Me) | Chris McKhool, Yasmin Levy, Kevin Laliberte, Drew Birston (Sultans Of String Ft. Yasmin Levy) – Toronto, ON, Canada | |
| Born From The Land | Ricky Kej, Baaba Maal, Alexis D’Souza, IP Singh (Ricky Kej, Baaba Maal, And Lonnie Park) – Bangalore, India / Podor, Senegal | |
| Eda | Jean BelOny Murat (BélO) – Route Frere, Haiti | |
| Games | Nailah Blackman, Anson Soverall, Dale Ryan, Emmenuel Rudder (Nailah Blackman) – Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago | |
| Ipanumpa Ko | Sherwin Fugoso, Kenneth Corvera, Adam Corvera (Oh! Caraga) – Cebu City, Philippines | |
| Ithu Kanavaa | Sreekanth Hariharan (Sreekanth Hariharan) – Trivandrum, India | |
| Mama | Dibdiamond, Beatbysv (Dibdiamond) – Nouakchott, Mauritania | |
| Mayahuabá | Ceshia Ubau, Hdyeshua, Said Palacios (Ceshia Ubau) – Managua, Nicaragua | |
| None Twaza | Cecile Kayirebwa (Cecile Kayirebwa) – Kigali, Rwanda | |
| Safari | Richie Lumambo (Richie Lumambo) – Bagamoyo, Tanzania | |
| Sugar | Zubi, Anatu (Zubi & Anatu) – Abuja, Nigeria | |
| Sukuru | Calvin Rore (The Bampipe Ensemble) – Honiara, Solomon Islands | |
| Tum Ho Yahaan | Abhilasha Sinha (Abhilasha Sinha) – New Delhi, India | |
| Veneno Bom | Adriana Calcanhotto (Adriana Calcanhotto) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| We Know The Way (With Intro Of Tulou Tagaloa) | Opetaia Foai, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Te Vaka) – Auckland, New Zealand / NY, NY, USA | |
| Wesal | Evgeny Shchukin, Hamoo Rashd (SAKHARA BEAT) – Moscow, Russia | |
