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Deadline Looming For $100K It's Your Shot Song Contest

There are just a few more weeks to enter Slaight Music's annual It's Your Shot contest, which now offers a grand prize of $100,000 to help advance your music career.

Deadline Looming For $100K It's Your Shot Song Contest

By FYI Staff

There are just a few more weeks to enter Slaight Music's annual It's Your Shot contest, which now offers a grand prize of $100,000 to help advance your music career.


The Slaight Music initiative aims to develop rising Canadian songwriters of every genre.

In this round, the winner will receive a recording, distribution, radio promotion, publicity, and marketing support (through Hidden Pony/Universal Music Canada), along with a professionally produced photo shoot, artist biography and two music videos.

Past winners of “It’s Your Shot” include London, ON’s, Liz Coyles, Quispamsis, NB’s Jillea, Guelph, ON’s Sam Drysdale and Toronto’s Kayla Diamond.

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