Global Music Awards — Entry deadline

Global Music Awards is an entry-based international award rather than a funding programme: you submit recorded work and, if the judges select it, you are named among that season's honourees. Entry is unusually open. The organisers place no restriction on release date, so catalogue tracks and unreleased material are both accepted, and you can enter in a listed category such as instrumentalist or innovation in sound, or write your own into the genre or "other" field if nothing on the list fits what you do.

Music generated by AI is not eligible. AI mastering or AI components may be considered but the organisers actively discourage them, and AI-created music videos are excluded outright.

Submitting is light work: audio up to 10MB uploaded directly, or, more practically, a link — Dropbox, Google Drive, Mega, Spotify and Apple Music are the services they name. Physical copies are welcome but never required, and they ask you to include a digital link alongside any disc you post.

Two gaps are worth knowing before you spend an evening on this. The entry page and the FAQ do not publish the entry fee, and neither sets out what an award actually consists of or how the judging panel reaches a decision. If either matters to you, ask at entries@globalmusicawards.com before you submit.