September Songwriting Contest Results

The September songwriting winners have been announced. The top songwriters from September's round are from The United States of America, Australia, The United Kingdom, Germany, The United Arab Emirates, and Canada. A special congratulations to Fiona Mackenzie who received two "finalist" placements in September (one Adult Contemporary Category placement and one Folk Category placement). The top songs were judged on "songwriting" alone. Vocal ability was not taken into consideration. A full instrumental production was also not required. For example, the Adult Contemporary and Christian/Gospel winners placed with piano/vocal recordings. The Rock and Folk winners placed with simple acoustic guitar recordings. Song of the Year maintains different judges each month to ensure various opinions are determining the winners throughout the year.

* Songs in MP3 Format

Adult Contemporary

Winner

Joshua  Patterson - Goodbye's A Prelude

Finalists Fiona Mackenzie - Petticoat High Jeffrey Bosworth - Fields Of Green Karen Cohen & Darren Hughes - You Have the Power James Dower - Forever and a Day

Instrumental/Jazz/World

Winner

Nga Yung Chan - A Lonely Anniversary

Finalists Debbie Gould & Adrian Shore - What Could`ve Been William Jones - Lili Dominick Serpico - Escape Vlady - I Was Here

Rock

Winner

Josh Quirin - Maybe Next Time

Finalists Phil Braun - Here Today Gone Tomorrow Elton Clifton - How Did I Get Here Jules Shapiro - Paradise Jimi Anderson - Higher And Higher

Hip-Hop/R&B

Winner Albert DaCosta - Rags To Riches

Finalists Hillis Seay - The Greatest Of Ease George Smith - That How Much Frank Brenken - You`ve Got To Chris Pesce - I Wonder

Lyrics Only

Winner

Mandy Gale/Paul Kenny - As Far away

Finalists Ramona Saunders - This Fools Through Loving You Rosalia Anna Teresa Querouz - The Heart of a Music Man Charmaine Haines-Hills - Baby You Are Terry Ford - Another Merry Christmas

Folk

Winner

Kathryn Priestley - Ten Years Later

Finalists Tara Kalyn Norman - One More Day Alive Clare Milesi - Inheritance John Miles - River Of Tears Fiona Mackenzie - Only Friend

Country

Winner

Germain Brunet - Kissing Kelly Green

Finalists Brenda Heffernan - Two Broken Hearts Brian MacIver - I'll Remember You Clifford Feldman - Bold Desire Joel McCloskey - Texas

Christian/Gospel

Winner

Mary Ann Young - A Great Big World

Finalists Nancy Line - Face the Giants Jim Vilandre - The Ideal World Jonathan Firey - Choosing You Today Lifeng Wang - Jesus O Jesus

Pop

Winner

Joey Avalos - Crazy

Finalists Brian Emmel - Wendy's New House Darnella Thomas - Enough is Enough Patrizsha and Justin Sheehy - You Saved Me Donavan Jurich - She's Dressed In Black

Dance/Electronic

Winner

Chantel Hampton - Contagious

Finalists Ghislain Caya - I Am Tsvetan Karnichev - The Real Europe Athena Adamopoulos - Dido's Lament Chandra Nair - Dance Like You Want