You could be driving home for Christmas with a trophy, merchandise, and potential publishing deal if you’re this year’s winner...
Tag Archives: Christmas songs
What started off as a tune sung in the shower one July ended up as an Ariana Grande Christmas classic...
Inspired by a chat with his Aunt Sandy, the songwriter-producer and his colleagues came up with a contemporary Christmas classic...
If you think you’ve written or co-written a festive classic, the 7th Annual Christmas Songwriting Competition will jingle your bells...
You have until 23 December to enter your Christmas/Holiday song and have a chance at winning this year’s grand prize...
As we ramp up the festivities, Irish singer-songwriter Michael Gallagher suggests the key ingredients required to build a Christmas song...
The Swedish soft-rock duo’s lead singer reveals the ballad that graced the ‘Pretty Woman’ soundtrack was originally a Christmas song...
ACM was visited by several wise songwriters and asked for their pick of festive track and their New Year’s resolution...
Rod Stewart leads Shaun Keaveny’s all-star ensemble for 6 Music’s Christmas song, featuring Bernard Butler and Level 42’s Mark King...
Nothing raises the festive spirits like hearing your favourite seasonal tunes. Here’s our selection of the best-ever Christmas records… here...
The song which won the festive section of the 2013 UK Songwriting Contest will be ITV’s Text Santa Appeal theme...
Mission: record a selection of Christmas songs and make it fly. Impossible? Lowe ditches the sleigh bells and finds out...
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Shelf help: 25 of the best books for songwriters [March 2023]
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How I wrote 'It Must Have Been Love' by Roxette's Per Gessle
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How I wrote 'Enola Gay' by OMD's Andy McCluskey
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How I wrote Art Garfunkel's 'Bright Eyes' by Mike Batt
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How I wrote 'Handbags And Gladrags' by Mike d'Abo
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How I wrote 'Fireflies' by Adam Young (Owl City)
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How I wrote 'If I Were A Boy' for Beyoncé by BC Jean
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How I wrote Natalie Imbruglia's ‘Torn’ by Phil Thornalley
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How I wrote ‘Big In Japan’ by Alphaville
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