REMINDER: ALTHOUGH THERE ARE MULTIPLE ONLINE PITCH EVENTS THAT OPEN EACH MONTH, YOU MAY ONLY REGISTER FOR ONE. IF YOU SUBMIT FOR MULTIPLE, YOUR REGISTRATION WILL BE DELETED.
If you do not upload your MP3 and Lyrics your registration will be deleted. Do not upload an MP4. The song submitted for registration will be the song pitched to the publisher. please be sure you upload the correct song and lyrics for your submission.
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-HAVE YOUR MP3 AND LYRIC FILE READY TO UPLOAD. DO NOT UPLOAD MP4 OR .WAV FILES FOR AUDIO-
This is an online event. Once you provide your song, the session with the pro will be recorded and distributed by the event date listed on the registration.
You must be a songwriter on the song you are submitting.
Song submission must be the original work of the Songwriter, and must not infringe upon the copyrights, rights of privacy, image or likeness, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, or be otherwise contrary to applicable laws and regulations. To the extent any generative or other forms of artificial intelligence was used in the creation of the song related to the submission, a detailed description of the scope of that use must be disclosed upon submission, for any NSAI-sponsored service or event.
*Please note, any songs containing generative AI content affecting the composition of the song will not qualify for any competition or merit-based recognition opportunities (i.e. Ones to Watch, NSAI Member Awards, Top 40, NSAI Song Contest, Chapter Challenge, live pitch, live feedback events, etc.)
- To understand melody in music, think about some music you’re familiar with. If you were asked to hum it, what would that sound like? The part of the music that you’d hum is the melody. According to: Hoffmanacademy.com
- Our policy speaks to the writing/creation of a song, not the production component.
About Ashley Nite:
Nite is a Nashville native with publishing A&R executive experience. She most recently serves as Head of A&R at Eastside Avenue Publishing where she spearheaded strategy and secured cuts alongside company founder Andrew DeRoberts. With Eastside, she helped writers secure cuts with Justin Timberlake, Tate McRae, Blake Shelton, Alexandra Kay, Hudson Westbrook, The Fray, Kip Moore and more. Other career stops include Concord Music Publishing and JRM Publishing & Mailbox Money Music. Nite graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a B.S. in Music Business with a Minor in Marketing. She began her career on the live side as a booking agent immediately after Berklee, honing her eye for talent and building a strong foundation in artist development. In 2023, she relocated from Texas to Nashville to continue her trajectory as a talent buyer for local venues, deepening her understanding of the live music ecosystem. Now at Prescription Songs, Sophia leverages her live-music background and to support and elevate her roster.
About Kobalt:
Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won. The startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building a global digital music infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era and a more fair, rewarding music business for creators. Now in operation for over 20 years, Kobalt has become a destination for songwriters, artists, publishers, and rights holders. With its unique one global roster, one territory approach, the company represents some of the most iconic and exciting songwriters in the world, including Roddy Ricch, Max Martin, FINNEAS, Karol G, Andrew Watt, Stevie Nicks, Phoebe Bridgers, The Lumineers, Gunna, Justin Quiles, The Foo Fighters, Paul McCartney, and many more. Today, the company, on average, represents over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in the US and the UK. The company’s mission as a positive transformative force for the benefit of all creators remains. As the music industry hurdles forward, Kobalt continues as a steadfast change agent to ensure creators and rightsholders are paid fairly. Its latest innovation, AMRA, the only global digital society, continues to remove the frictions and spillage in the last mile of paying songwriters and rights holders. Through AMRA and Kobalt’s award-winning publishing business, the company will continue to build as a premier destination for creators and won’t stop until all the friction in the collecting world is removed.
