Voting opens for Australia’s largest peer-voted music award

Voting for Australia’s largest peer voted music award, the APRA Song of the Year, is now open to APRA members.

Now in its 26^th year, the Award will once again recognise the work of songwriters and award one entrant with a prize pack worth $10,000, just for voting. It includes: 

• A Live 9 Suite compliments of Ableton
• Delta return airfare from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, USA
• Standard Day Recording package at Forbes Street Studios
• Gibson Brand package including Les Paul Studio Tribute, Philips/Gibson Innovations Fidelio headphones and KRK/Gibson Pro-Audio Rokit 4 studio monitors
• 2 tickets to the 2017 APRA Music Awards in Sydney

Previous APRA Song of the Year winners have included Tame Impala’s Let It Happen and Feels Like We Only Go Backwards written by Kevin Parker; Sia’s Chandelier written by Sia and Jesse Shatkin; Vance Joy’s Riptide written by James Keogh and Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know written by Wally de Backer and Luiz Bonfa. 

To be eligible, songs must have first been released in the 12 months from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016, and written principally by an Australian, or a New Zealand writer(s) living in Australia.

Votes are due by Tuesday 17 January, 2017, and the winner will be announced at the 2017 APRA Music Awards.

Vote by logging in to the Writer and Publisher portal here.