Bob Davoli

IAMA award:

Congratulations on another songwriting award from the Annual International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA).  Bob’s original song, “Hope”, was awarded a finalist in their 20^th Annual IAMA Songwriting Competition.  The contest receives entries from all over the world, with judging by major record labels like Sony/BMG, EMI, Warner, and Universal Music.

Listen to the award-winning song here on www.bobdavoli.com/music, or on Spotify at this link:  https://open.spotify.com/track/6EoX7G7q3A7NxzfEGdJahQ.  You can check out the other finalists on the IAMA website:  https://inacoustic.com/winners/

ISC award:

Another songwriting award from the International Songwriting Competition (ISC).  Bob was awarded semi-finalist for his original song, “Don’t You Let the Darkness Drag You Down”.  

You can listen to “Don’t You Let the Darkness Drag You Down” at Bob’s website:  www.bobdavoli.com/music, or on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/track/0HNelWUPnN08qjqYhUw5kd.

You can find all the semi-finalists in the International Songwriting Competition at https://songwritingcompetition.com/winners.

Song of the Year Songwriting Contest:

Check out these multiple wins for Bob’s original tunes from the Song of the Year Songwriting Contest! Bob’s original tune “Twilight Lady” won the finalist award in the “Folk” category in their latest contest, which means it scored in the top-5 of all entrants in the Folk category. Not only that, but three more tunes also won awards: Bob’s tunes “Hope” and “On the Same Day” won Semi-Finalist awards, and “Transistor Radio and Me” won a Runner-Up award. This brings Bob’s total number of songwriting awards to 41 awards, and 24 awarded titles in the past six years.

You can listen to all these tunes on the music page of this site: www.bobdavoli.com/music. “Twilight Lady” and “Hope” are from Bob’s latest album “Nowhere Near”, released in September 2023. You can listen to the full album here: /album/2540829/nowhere-near

Check out the rest of the contest winners and finalists here: https://www.songoftheyear.com/winners_2023d.htm

Indie International Songwriting Contest:

Congratulations on another songwriting award from the Indie International Songwriting Contest! Bob was awarded “honorable mention” for his original tune, “Blank Pages”, bringing his total of original, award-winning songs up to 21, and 37 awards overall.

You can listen to the award-winning tune “Blank Pages” on the music page of this site, or on Spotify at this link: https://open.spotify.com/track/1rGBDBloiDQxNBUzmKArvt?si=cc1d37545ef34f53

Listen to the contest’s winning songs and other honorable mentions at this link: https://indieinternational.com/2023-songwriting-contest/2023winners/

Unsigned Only:

Another songwriting-contest win for Bob’s original song: “Fallen King of the Cool”! The tune placed as a semi-finalist in the 2023 Unsigned Only songwriting contest, in the Folk/singer-songwriter category. This song was released on Bob’s album “Still Sitting Backstage”, and rose to the top 1,000 slots, with over 6,000 entrants to this contest. 
  
You can listen to the tune on the Music page of this site, also on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and other streaming sites. 
  
Contest Finalists and winners will be announced in the coming weeks – you can see them all at this link, and good luck to all! 
https://unsignedonly.com/winners

Song of the Year Songwriting Contest:

Great news, Bob’s original tune “After the Dust Bowl” was awarded as a finalist in the “Song of the Year” songwriting competition’s first contest of 2023, in the “Folk” category! Check out the other finalists and winners here: https://www.songoftheyear.com/winners_2023a.htm 
  
This marks Bob’s 19th original tune awarded in songwriting contests! Check out the tune on the music page of this site, and on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, and other online streaming sites.

Great American Songwriting Contest:

 Congratulations to Bob for another songwriting award, this one from the 24th Annual Great American Songwriting Contest! Over 1800 songwriters from 41 countries participated in 2022, and Bob’s original tune “Transistor Radio and Me” beat out the competition for the top 100 finalists across all categories. This award brings Bob’s total songwriting awards to 34 awards won over the last 6 years. 
  
Listen to the award-winning tune on the music page of this site, and other major streaming sites. You can also watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Lfdtbi7NfbQ 

ISC award:

Congratulations to Bob for winning another songwriting award: this latest is from the 2022 International Songwriting Contest!

Bob’s original tune “Dancing on the Moon” was selected as a semi-finalist in folk/singer-songwriter category, from over 15,000 entries, making it to the top 13% of all entries. This award marks the 33rd award for Bob’s original songs in the last six years. 

You can hear the tune on the music page of this site, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Finalists will be announced in a few weeks; check out the other semi-finalists on the ISC website: https://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.

IAMA award:

Congratulations on Bob’s latest songwriting award, for his original tune “Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues”! This song was awarded a finalist in the 19th Annual International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA) Songwriting Competition. This contest receives entries from all over the world, with judging by major record labels like Sony/BMG, EMI, Warner, and Universal Music. 
  
Listen to the award-winning song on the music page of this site, and check out the other finalists on the IAMA website, winners to be announced by Feb. 10: https://inacoustic.com/winners/