January Songwriting Contest Results

The January 2008 songwriting winners have been announced. The songs were judged on songwriting alone. Vocal ability and production/mixing quality was not taken into consideration. The top songwriters were from Italy, Germany, The United States, The Czech Republic, The United Kingdom, Canada, The Bahamas, Belarus, and Qatar.

 

* Songs in MP3 Format

Adult Contemporary

Winner

Allan Reece - Hold On

Finalists Neil Hallimen - West Berlin Gail Nicholson - In The Stars Tonight Drew Stevyns - Waiting William Klekas - Falling Angel

Instrumental/Jazz/World

Winner

Alessandro Boschi - Tarifa

Finalists Leanid Kruk - Space Sex Christian Achinivu - One world winning the game Tal Babitzky - Great Dreams Arthur DeMonte - Waltz For Orion + Apus

Christian/Gospel

Winner

Kelly Lynn - Jesus Change It All

Finalists Tasha Fox & B. Giere White - Who You Are Jon Jump - Remember Me Denise Jamison - God Sees Nancy Galvin - A Little Child Leads The Band

Country

Winner

Daniel Starr - Empty Floor

Finalists Adrienne Leopold - Country Song Michael Rhone & Danny Scott - Big Dog Robert Walsh - I Do Janet Palmer - One More Day

Rock

Winner

Raman Sachdev - If I Loved You

Finalists Steve Phillips - What's Happened To My Neighborhood John Baglio - I'm Coming Around Richard Scotti - Brother John Nathan Brumley - Something Real

Pop

Winner

Marcelo Paffenholz - Time To Rise And Shine

Finalists Shandia Gardiner - Fellah Charles Ramsay - Catalyst David Criswell - Better Day Katharina Neumann - All I Say

Lyric Only

Winner Jaime McIntyre - Journey Home

Finalists Vladimir Yampolsky - By Myself Mary Anne Lonergan - Stranger In My Home David Alan Tietz - Don't Stop Heather Stewart - Where Are All The Angels

Hip-Hop/R&B

Winner

Adrian Taylor - Wish I Knew

Finalists Alexander Ray - Its A Struggle Sylvia Norman - Sexy Chocolate Shanecka Crayton - Everywhere We Go They Say Vaughn Bratcher - Don't Wait Too Long

Folk

Winner

Albert Keever - Confined To Spend

Finalists Keith Murphy - Mary Christmas Bob Rericha - Christmas Song Cara LaGreen - Closed Book William Miller - I Roam

Electronic/Dance

Winner

Julie Mosteler - Deus

Finalists Alan McNeil - Love Me Up Inga Makarova - Wont Live Yakau Efron - 28.12.07 Kimberly Nelson - Subculture