2011 Results
.: Top Winners of Past Years
2011 - Nenna Yvonne
2010 - Alannah Myles & Nancy Simmonds
2009 - Sarah Lonsert, Jonathan George & Jami Templeton
2008 - Jordan Zevon, Jordan Summers & Morty Coyle
2007 - Ari Gold, Joe Hogue 'JOJOHO' & Sean Petersen
2006 - Vikki Simpson (of the Waifs)
2005 - Hakim Young
2004 - Patrice Pike, Wayne Sutton, Sean Phillips & Darrell Phillips
2003 - Gabriel Mann
2002 - Sarah Lewis (of Jag Star)
2001 - Steve Tannen
2000 - Jonathan Kingham
1999 - Adrianne Gonzelez
1997 - Lisa McCormick
1998 - Steffani Bennett
1996 - Jan Anderson
Youngest Winners
Molly Hunt (15 Years Old), youngest first prize winner in history, in 2011
Sarah Lonsert (17 Years Old), youngest first prize winner and also youngest Overall Grand Prize Winner in 2009
Kate Voegele (18 Years Old), won 1st Prize in 2005
2011 Results
The Winners of the 2011 USA Songwriting Competition are:
OVERALL GRAND PRIZE:
“Go Around” - Nenna Yvonne; Los Angeles, CA, USA
OVERALL 2nd PRIZE:
“Traffic Lights” - Alexander Cardinale & Morgan Taylor Reid; Los Angeles, CA, USA
OVERALL 3rd PRIZE:
“Go There” - Molly Hunt, Troy Johnson & Jack Williams; Nashville, TN, USA
FIRST PRIZES IN EACH CATEGORY
1st Prize - LATIN
"Loco amor" - Julie Freundt; Lima, PERU
1st Prize – LYRICS
"Breakfast for One on the 5th of July" - Ed Romanoff, Crit Harmon, Mary Gauthier; New York, NY, USA
1st Prize – R&B
“Here I Am” - Paige Bryan; Los Angeles, CA, USA
1st Prize – DANCE/ELECTRONICA
“Go Around” - Nenna Yvonne; Los Angeles, CA, USA
1st Prize – FOLK
“Boy on a hill” - Orly Forman, Yagel Sulchiner; Boston, MA, USA
1st Prize – COUNTRY
“Go There” - Molly Hunt, Troy Johnson & Jack Williams; Nashville, TN, USA
1st Prize – ROCK/ALTERNATIVE
“A Four-Letter Word” - Simon Spire; New Zealand
1st Prize – POP
“Traffic Lights” - Alexander Cardinale & Morgan Taylor Reid; Los Angeles, CA, USA
1st Prize – HIP-HOP/RAP
“Get Down” - Ashleigh Eymann; Victoria, BC, CANADA
1st Prize – WORLD
“Ena Na Lena” - Richard Gannaway; Asheville, NC, USA
1st Prize – INSTRUMENTAL
“Good-bye my Island” - Yasutaka Yoshioka; Tokyo, JAPAN
1st Prize – JAZZ
“By The Water” - Jack Perla; San Francisco, CA, USA
1st Prize – GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL
“Finally” - Sonia A. Nel/Nianell; Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
1st Prize – CHILDREN
“It's Line Up Time” - Marcy Marxer; Kensington, MD, USA
1st Prize - NOVELTY/COMEDY
“Infomaniac” - David Leask & Robert Davis; Mississauga, ON, CANADA
HONORABLE MENTION AWARDS
"Freak" - Holly Elle; Calgary, AB, CANADA
"We Rise Like Smoke" - Kyler England; Los Angeles, CA
"Where You Go"- Eric Colville & The Selkies; Ipswich, MA, USA
"Cuando te vea" - Farah Siraj; Philadelphia, PA, USA
"Al Zarqa" - Ali Khattab; Madrid, SPAIN
"Aim For The Sky"- (Amir Elshafiy & Gliffics) Gliffics featuring Lenny Harold; New York, NY, USA
"Ink" - Bobbie Pinne, NSW, Australia
"Miss GPS" - Phillip Trees; Arden, NC, USA
"The Center Cannot Hold" - Helle Hansen; Copenhagen, DENMARK
"Time Moving Slowly" - Kathryn Kaye; Jamestown, CO, USA
"Rise Again, Haiti" - Marko Simmonds; Halifax, NS, CANADA
"I'll Still Be Loving You" - Ken Hirsch & Brooke Ramel; Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Broken Glass" - David Francey; Toronto, ON, Canada
"I'll Take It From Here" - Dale Allen, Bob McCormick, Janice Gilbert; Nashville, TN, USA
"Different" - Will Hopkins & Ellen Britton; Nashville, TN, USA
"Still Want To Be With You" - Tom Schreck, TJ Hitt; Nashville, TN, USA
"Burning Bridges" - Zac Mason & Run From Cover; Pasco, WA, USA
"I Am" -SJ; Miami Beach, FL, USA
"I'll Be Waiting" - Terra Naomi; Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Chicki Chicki Boom" - Natascha Hagen; Goefis, AUSTRIA
LIST OF FINALISTS of 16th ANNUAL USA SONGWRITING COMPETITION (2011):
| Name of Song | Songwriters Name (s) |
| DANCE/ELECTRONICA | |
| Who Do U Love | Khalid Rivera |
| New Day | April Henry |
| Amazing | Maor Shefer |
| Victory - No More Rain | Maor Shefer |
| Are You Dancing | Jacinta Brondgeest |
| Spread My Wings and Fly | Branden Abeyta |
| Run | Marina Verenikina |
| We Rise Like Smoke | Kyler England |
| Freak | Holly Elle |
| Rely On Love | Hypnotic Rage |
| Go Around | Nenna Yvonne |
| LATIN | |
| He Vivido Por Ti (I Have Lived For You) | Carlos Omar Pastorino & Martin Manuel Alonso |
| Amando A La Nada (Loving To Nothing) | Marcelo E Fernandez De Aguiar |
| No se porque | (Silvina Disla) Silvina |
| Loco amor | Julie Freundt |
| Correndo Atrás | Diogo Barcellos |
| Adonde Estan | Jose Agote |
| Cuando te vea | Farah Siraj |
| Pedazos de mi vida | Farah Siraj |
| COMO UN LADRON | Patricio Manns |
| VIVO | Fernando Torres |
| WORLD | |
| Cinco Cuartos | MarceloFernando Guevara Alulema |
| Tristezas de Monoblock | (Martin Ignacio Delgado, Adrian Abonizio) San Telmo Lounge |
| Al Zarqa | Ali Khattab |
| WOTLESS | (Kees Dieffenthaller, Kerwin Du Bois) Kes the Band |
| Trostnik | Bulat Gafarov (Toke-Cha) |
| Santo milagreiro | Djalma Chaves |
| Life a journey | Sanjay Wandrekar |
| Ena Na Lena | Richard Gannaway |
| SATURNICA (LOVE THEME) | John Edward Flynt |
| Life Goes On | (Joshua Hales) Joshua |
| HIP-HOP/RAP | |
| Long Distance | (Mister feat Kitty Lundan) Mister |
| Get Down | Ashleigh Eymann |
| Footwork | Ashleigh Eymann |
| i i i | Nate Evans |
| Top Of The Game | Alexi von Guggenberg |
| Sometimes I Cry | Justin Elder |
| What We've Become | Michael Klippel |
| Feel Like | Lansford Dyer |
| Aim For The Sky | (Amir Elshafiy) Gliffics |
| Who I Am | (Ryan Spencer) RKS |
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R&B |
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| In The Darkest Of Nights | Ken Hirsch, Rosie Casey |
| Not Right | (Paul Anthony Gonzalez) Dangerflow |
| Just In Time | Dan Yessian |
| She knows | (DANI CLAY) Danielle Roach |
| Midnight Serenade feat Tony Terry | Elan Trotman |
| Black girl, white boy | Stefan Ludik |
| Ink | Bobbie Pinne |
| The Other Woman | Jariba Lynette Dawkins |
| Movies | Janelle Braun |
| Here I Am | Paige Bryan |
| COMEDY/NOVELTY | |
| Psycho Bitch | Mary Ray Elias |
| Life Is Wasted | Ivan Rubenstein-Gillis |
| Infomaniac | David Leask & Robert Davis |
| Miss GPS | Phillip Trees |
| There's A Problem In Your Pants | Drew Jacobs |
| My Inlaws Might Be Outlaws | Bill Storms, Beverly Nelson & Marc Alan Barnett |
| Piss Willy For President | Tim Maggart & Ben Braswell |
| DoubleSided Love | Joe Kowan |
| Need A Lazy Woman | J.W. McClure |
| Douche Bag | Jacopo De Nicola |
| LYRICS ONLY | |
| Bonfire In Sight | Robespierre c/o Franz Mang |
| Just Lookin' | Holly Gaskin |
| Well | Helle Hansen |
| Goodbye Maestro | Helle Hansen |
| Lucky 13 | Tina Lundelius |
| Where You Go | (Eric Colville) The Selkies |
| Breakfast for One on the 5th of July | (Ed Romanoff, Crit Harmon, Mary Gauthier) Ed Romanoff |
| The Orphan King | (Ed Romanoff, Mary Gauthier) Ed Romanoff |
| Love And Bullets | Sherri Gough, Bill DiLuigi |
| What Nobody Sees | Sherri Gough |
| EARLY MORNING SUN | Geoff Hammond |
| CHILDREN | |
| A Better World | John Weber & Sandy Ramos |
| The Texas Campfire Song | Billy Byron |
| It's Line Up Time | Marcy Marxer |
| Kid on the First Day of School | (Chuck Folds, Steve Williard, Eddie Walker) Big Bang Boom |
| Come What May (Allie's Lullaby) | John D Visconti |
| My Butterfly | (Joanie Leeds) Joanie Leeds and The Nightlights |
| Chicki Chicki Boom | Natascha Hagen |
| Wonderland | Jacinta Brondgeest |
| My Dog Ate My House | Steve Weeks |
| Se habla Espanol | Marla Lewis |
| Up To Me | Katie Belle Akin |
| JAZZ | |
| The World Of Me And You | Ken Hirsch, Rosie Casey, Stephan Oberhoff |
| The Streets Of Amsterdam | Helle Hansen |
| If I Don't Have You | Eric Ossebaar |
| By The Water | Jack Perla |
| The Center Cannot Hold | Helle Hansen |
| Crossover | (Levy DeAndrade) Level 10 Band |
| Nothing There | Yuichiro Tokuda |
| More Than A Little | Don Breithaupt |
| Beautiful You | Andy Sarnoff |
| Just Be Yourself | Robert M Wagner |
| UMBRELLA IN THE RAIN | Richard Derwingson & Allen King |
| INSTRUMENTAL | |
| Dream Passages | Bob Barry |
| Aenir | Randy Emmons |
| Half Past Dawn | Andre Kerek |
| Intermezzo | Shao Ying LOW |
| Birka | Timothy T Wenzel |
| Viaje Secreto | (Martin Ignacio Delgado) San Telmo Lounge |
| Time Moving Slowly | Kathryn Kaye |
| Long Harbour | April Verch |
| Good-bye my Island | Yasutaka Yoshioka |
| Kings Concerto | Paul Donnelly |
| Story of Corinth | Weijie Fang |
| GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL | |
| Siya | Jaime P. Caunca Jr |
| King Of The Ages | Joey Stontz |
| RISE AGAIN, Haiti | Marko Simmonds |
| Halls of Heaven | (Mandee Radford) Alathea |
| Finally | Sonia A. Nel & Nianell |
| Life's Gift | Sonia A. Nel & Nianell |
| We're All Broken | Warren Sellers, Scott Krippayne, Patty Castillo & Ryan Shea Smith |
| On This Day | Katie Miner |
| In Gods Hands | Andy Sarnoff, Pat Maiorino & Stephen White |
| Storm Comin' | Ruth Moody |
| One Mans War | Aaron Hendra |
| FOLK | |
| I'll Still Be Loving You | Ken Hirsch & Brooke Ramel |
| Great Work of Fiction | Tucker Finn |
| I've Tried | Amy Fairchild |
| Boy On A Hill | (Orly Forman, Yagel Sulchiner) Orly |
| Vimy Ridge | Lizzy Hoyt |
| Windchime | (Catherine Feeny) Come Gather Round Us |
| Broken Glass | David Francey |
| Yesterdays | Noam Weinstein |
| Fragile Thing | Dave Nachmanoff |
| Hope | Abbie Gardner |
| COUNTRY | |
| There Is A Road | Ken Hirsch, Rosie Casey, Heather Sullivan |
| I'll Take It From Here | Dale Allen, Bob McCormick, Janice Gilbert |
| You're The Reason God Gave Me This Life | Kevin Reardon & Kevin Savigar |
| Stone cold Crazy | Michael McGee & Scot Miller |
| Scrabble With Myself | Dave Merenda and Adam Z |
| Different | Will Hopkins & Ellen Britton |
| Better from Above | Dustin James & Will Hopkins |
| Heartbreak, Tennessee | Andy Sarnoff, Pat Maiorino & Stephen White |
| Never Goes Away | Bobby Peace & David Loew |
| GO THERE | Molly Hunt, Troy Johnson & Jack Williams |
| ROCK | |
| Still Want To Be With You | Tom Schreck, TJ Hitt |
| Where We Are | (Evan Spade, Bart VanBemmel) Evan Spade |
| Sweat you out | (Fraser Holmes, Jordan Rutledge) The Aesthetics |
| A Four-Letter Word | Simon Spire |
| Stronger | (Jeffrey Scott Hamm) My Heart's Cry |
| Burning Bridges | (Zac Mason) Run From Cover |
| Everything Changes | Aaron Barber & Anna Fermin |
| Planet | Noam Weinstein |
| The Fever | Jake Dixon |
| Save Myself | Verusive |
| POP | ||
| You're History | Ken Hirsch, Rosie Casey & Hillary Novak | |
| Wake Up Call | Noel Cohen | |
| I Am (feat. Joshua Stedman, Randy Singer) | SJ | |
| Vagabond | (Chase Thompson) Goodnight Argent | |
| Made For You | (Cameron Stymeist) The Reel | |
| The Movie (Look at me mix) | Katherine Pawlak | |
| In The Past | Nenna Yvonne | |
| Leave It Alone | Alannah Myles, Anton Bernard, Armand Sabal Lecco & Michael Borkosky | |
| Why | Sebastian Ivanov & Max Jahufer | |
| I'll Be Waiting | Terra Naomi | |
| Traffic Lights |
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| Without you | Natascha Hagen & Stefan Czarnecki |
ENTRANTS WITH THE MOST NUMBER OF SONGS PLACED IN THE FINALS
| Kenneth Hirsch | USA | 5 songs |
| Helle Hansen | Denmark | 4 Songs |
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