SOCAN Songwriting Prize

The SOCAN Songwriting Prize, formerly known as the ECHO Songwriting Prize, was an annual competition recognizing the best in Canadian emerging music, both anglophone and francophone, from 2006 to 2023. Established in 2006, the competition was designed to recognize some of the most innovative, creative and artistic songs created in the year preceding the award by emerging songwriters in Canada. Songs were selected by a competition panel composed of 10 music experts from the Canadian music scene, who each nominated two songs based on a set of criteria they believed to be the best songs by emerging artists from the past year. The songs were narrowed down to a set of 10 finalists and announced publicly.