How to Join the 2025 AI Song Contest!

To participate in AI Song Contest 2025 prepare the following and submit in our submission form by August : 

  1. AI Song

    Audio file of the recorded song (.wav, .mp3).

  2. Filled in Submission Form

    With basic info about your team and song for publication.

  3. Images

    An Image of your team and cover art of your song in good resolution.

  4. A short description of your AI tools & process

Semi-finalists will be asked for more details about their song-creation process, Band/Artist image, bio and story behind the music, etc.

The Award Show of the 2025 AI Song Contest will take place in Amsterdam November 16, 2025.

The link to the submission form will be open from July.

For the purposes of completing your team's process document, it is important for judges to be able to assess the level and manner of the use of AI in each entry. This includes, but is not limited to, a description of the data used to train the AI model. Where this is difficult or impossible to assess, the AI Song Contest reserves the right to disqualify such entries. We therefore encourage entrants to explain their processes as thoroughly as possible. 

The AI Song Contest strongly recommends against the use of AI tools Suno and Udio due to pending litigation that started after the Open Call.

If you have any doubts - read our Values or get in touch with us.

Rules and

regulations

Basic rules

  • You have to use AI in your creative process and describe how you’ve used AI and data. 

  • Your entry is no longer than 4 minutes.

Lyrics

Each competing team is free to decide if lyrics are part of the song and the language of the lyrics.

Deliverables

The deliverables are:

  • Audio file of the recorded song (wav, 44.1 Khz, 16bit) 

  • Complete entry form

  • Imagery of the team and any artwork for the song

  • A writeup describing the process the team took to create their song

To compete, the deliverables must be sent by Tuesday, July 31, 2024.

Team representation

No human contestant and/or artist may compete for more than one team in the AI Song Contest in a given year.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a very broad concept. For this contest it will mean that teams can use techniques such as -but not limited to- machine learning, such as deep learning, natural language processing, algorithmic composition or combining rule-based approaches with neural networks for the creation of their songs. Teams can create their own AI tools, or use existing models and algorithms.  

Results

The winner of the AI Song Contest will be the team with the song(s) which has/have obtained the highest combined number of points from the professional jury and the international audience.

Tie situations

In case of a tie for the first place, as well as any other situation where a tie occurs after the points from the result of the votes and the AI panel have been combined to determine the final ranking, the winner will be the song which has obtained the highest rank from the professional jury.

Sharing

Teams are encouraged to share their songwriting process with the audience, and algorithms, models and codes open source.