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We provide information for all contest results as soon as possible. All contests have an End date and a Winners Announced date. Depending on the amount of entries submitted the contest dates may change at any time. Check the Contest you’ve submitted to often to view if any updates have been made.
Login to your Broadjam account and select the Contests button in the header of the page. Select the contest you want to review. Then click on the “Review” link.
The Contest Provider might be interested in knowing what Broadjam members consider popular, and request that there be a review system in place for the contest. The review scores do not necessarily determine who the winner of the Contest will be. Read the Contest rules for more information.
For some of the Contests, we ask that members do reviews. Not all Contests require that you complete reviews for the Contest. Read the Contest rules for more information.
No. Since songs are ranked on a good, better, best basis in the review mechanism, it doesn’t do any good to rank good songs poorly. A person can’t help his or her own song rise to the top, because every review gives at least one song a high score. Also, members are not allowed to review their own songs, so it’s not possible to rate one’s own songs highly to skew the results.
A Broadjam Representative will contact you. Depending on the prize(s) you’ve won you may be required to sign an affidavit. The affidavit confirms that Broadjam has contacted you and informed you that you are the winner, you are of legal age to win and receive the prize(s), and that we can promote you on the Broadjam website.
To view your submissions to contests, log in to your account and click the “my submissions” button on your profile page. Click on “My Contest Submissions”. If the contest is open, you can click on the blue “open” button. This will take you to the page for that contest. Click on “View Your Submissions” to see your submission(s) to the contest.
*Please note that when a Contest has closed, it does not appear on the Contests page.
No. Section 11 of the contest rules state that “All entries are final and irrevocable. Once you have submitted an entry for this contest you may not withdraw the entry or request to change the category, genre or other division you chose for the entry.” Very much like sending an item in the mail, once an entry has been submitted, we are unable to make adjustments to the submission.
No. Section 12 of the contest rules state that “Absolutely no entry fee refunds will be made for any reason.”
You are welcome to re-upload a better mix of your song(s) at anytime. Log In to your account and click the “songs” link, under the My Content on the left hand side of the page. Then click on the Re-upload link next to the song you wish to replace. Once the song has been activated the newest version will be available. Do Not Delete the song, as it will remove it from all Contests it’s currently in. Broadjam does not offer refunds for deleted songs.
Yes. As the warning message states, deleting your song will delete all records associated with that song including your submission. This cannot be reversed, so use extreme caution whenever deleting songs from your Broadjam account. Broadjam does not offer refunds for deleted songs.
No, you only need to upload your song once. Each of your contest entries will be linked to the song in your Broadjam account.
Your songs are not required to be activated by the deadline, they just need to be submitted to the contest before the deadline. If your song is pending activation when the deadline comes it will not negatively affect your entry.
No. Your song will automatically be available for contest reviews upon entry in to a contest. Turning your song “on” for regular Broadjam peer reviews won’t affect your contest entry.
For security reasons, our credit card processor may stop a transaction if they see multiple transactions occurring for the same amount in a short time frame. They might deny the second transaction because they think it is either a mistake or fraud. If you receive a message that your credit card is invalid, the best thing to do is wait about 15 minutes before you make the second transaction.
The cut off time for contests is 11:59 PM CDT unless specifically noted in the contest rules.
Find this answer and additional information about copyrights in our Copyright section of the Deliveries FAQ.
Yes - as long as you hold the copyright for the entire song. A recorded song can be broken down into two independently copyrightable parts: the musical work and the sound recording. As the songwriter, you clearly own the copyright to the musical work (the music and lyrics), but whether you own the copyright to the sound recording depends on the kind of contract you have with the studio that recorded your song. Most studios that provide session players to perform and record your song transfer rights in the Master sound recording to the person who pays for the session players’ performances. Be sure to check the contract you have with the studio that recorded your songs. It may be that the studio contracted to retain some rights to the sound recording, in which case, you will need to obtain a license to submit these songs to a contest.
A recorded song can be broken down into two independently copyrightable parts: the musical work and the sound recording. The copyright in musical compositions protects both lyrics and musical notes. The copyright in sound recordings protects original artistic elements in sound recordings, such as stylistic elements. For example, the song “Hurt” was written by Trent Reznor. Presumably Trent Reznor (or, more likely, his label) owns copyright in the lyrics and musical notes of the song. “Hurt” has been recorded by both Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash. NIN owns copyright in their sound recording and the musical work, and Cash owns copyright in his sound recording only.
