Vinyl Record Competition

Music has been a pillar of ILU since our inception and a part of the brand that resonates so deeply within our community.

We are excited to Introduce the ILU x Holiday Records Vinyl Competition. A chance for Independent Musicians to put their music on Vinyl in a compilation record.

This is your chance to put your creativity forward, to be part of something with musicians from around the world, and help build this community of creativity through your music.

I Love Ugly and Holiday Records presents their inaugural Vinyl Record Competition.

Music has been a pillar of ILU since our inception and a part of the brand that resonates so deeply within our community.

We are excited to Introduce the ILU x Holiday Records Vinyl Competition. A chance for Independent Musicians to put their music on Vinyl in a compilation record.

This is your chance to put your creativity forward, to be part of something with musicians from around the world, and help build this community of creativity through your music.

I Love Ugly and Holiday Records presents their inaugural Vinyl Record Competition.

Competition Timeline

Launch Date: Friday 8th March

Submission Period: 4 Weeks

Submissions Close: 11.59pm Friday 5th April NZDT

Deliberation period: 1 week

Winners Announced: Friday 12th April
- We have been overwhelmed by both the number of entries as well as the quality of submissions received for this competition. We are in our final discussions on which tracks will feature on the record. We will be in touch with our competition winners early next week.

Eligibility

Open to independent musicians worldwide.

Participants must be 18 years or older to enter, or have parent/guardian consent upon submission.

Submitted tracks do not need to be mastered for Vinyl initially, we will accept digital files for the judging process. If selected as a winner you will need to master your track for Vinyl.

Requirements

Submissions are open to exisiting or unreleased tracks, that is up to the artist.

All genres/styles of music are welcome, we only ask that you consider what ILU stands for as a brand when submitting.

Submitted tracks do not need to be created specifically for this competition nor do they need to relate in any way to I Love Ugly.

Winning artists will need to have their track mastered for Vinyl.

Submissions must be originals, covers or remixes will not be accepted.

Collaborative tracks are welcome but please note that the prize for winning will not increase based on the number of artists on the track.

Tracks should be no longer than 4 minutes in length maximum. There is no minimum track length.

Submission Process

Participants are required to send their submission to our dedicated email address music@iloveugly.net with the subject line ILU x Holiday Vinyl - 'your name'

Submissions should include the track title, your contact information, as well as any other details you think we should know.

Judging Criteria

The final selection will be decided by a panel of judges consisting of Holiday Records, I Love Ugly and Chester Watson.

The panel will select 8-12 tracks for this record - due to the nature of vinyl we have 48 minutes in total, so the number of winning submissions may change due to track lengths.

Prizes

Each musician named as a winner will receive:

$1000nzd

2x copies of the record

Collaborative merchandise from ILU x Holiday Records.

Intellectual Property

I Love Ugly will not own the rights to your music, each artist will be in complete ownership of their song. I Love Ugly will license the song from the artist for use on this compilation record. All unsuccessful tracks will not be used by I Love Ugly in any way without prior discussion with the artist.