The international HOFA Song Contest starts for the 10th time.
This online competition is organised by the HOFA-College online academy for audio engineering and open to musicians, songwriters, producers and bands. Music creators from all genres can submit an original song with no entry fee and get the chance to win prizes worth over €30,000. To do so, they must impress the expert jury and collect votes in the online voting.
In this anniversary contest, participants will also have the opportunity to present their music to an even larger public.
The submitted songs will be presented in five categories:
- Pop
- Rock & Heavy
- Electronic Music
- Hip-Hop / Soul / R&B
- Traditional & Miscellaneous
The best song in each of the five categories in this anniversary year will receive prize money of €2,000, plus numerous high-quality non-cash prizes worth a total of €20,000.
Start of the contest: June 1, 2025
Closing date for entries: August 5, 2025
Award presentation: September 1, 2025
The HOFA Song Contest 2025 is supported by:
Steinberg, Arturia, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, Focusrite, SPL, Toontrack, Avid, iZotope, Celemony, Native Instruments, Ableton, Lewitt, Shure, Soundtoys, ADAM Audio, PreSonus, Novation, Spectrasonics, Teufel, Røde, Sonarworks und HOFA.
