New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Songs For Good announces its 2020 Challenge Top 10 songs by artists spanning across the U.S. inspired to contribute to a new soundtrack for democracy. Nearly 300 submissions to this nationwide songwriting competition received an initial round of review featuring GRAMMY-nominated artists and Jammcard musicians. A coalition of partner organizations - March For Our Lives, RepresentUs, Zero Hour,
National Children's Campaign, Sunrise Bay Area,
Access the Polls, and Bridge USA - reviewed the top 20 and will use the top 5 songs to mobilize leading up to Election Day. The top anthem's writer will earn $5,000 plus song production featuring artist
Madame Gandhi, and a music video. Four runners up will receive $1,000. Voting is open to the public at songsforgood.org through Sunday,
September 20, 2020, 11:59 PDT. The top songs will be announced on Sept. 22,
National Voter Registration Day.
A new generation of voters brings unlimited possibilities for the 2020 election. The Songs For Good 2020 Challenge made a call to artists for purpose-driven music to reach the masses: raw versions of songs that at once energize, provoke, speak to a wide range of people, can be performed with/without instruments, and are instantaneously catchy to fuel our nation's transformation for good.
The Top 10 artists for the Songs For Good 2020 Challenge are: Divinity Roxx "
We Are" (West New York, NJ), Eric Tyler "
Stand Up" (Orangeburg, NC),
Flipsyde "Imagine Peace" (Oakland, CA),
Jasmin & Candace Bevans "If We Change" (Baltimore, MD), Glenwood Crowe "Drums For Justice" (Tempe, AZ), Kanika Feaster-Gordon & John
Gordon "Vote2020" (Baltimore, MD), Marquie Jackson & Broderic Thompson "
Freedom" (Rosenberg, TX), Rachael Major "
New Day" (Indianapolis, IN),
Sunshine Becker "Lookin' Out" (San Ramon, CA) and The Continuous "Change is Coming" (Nashville, TN). There are 6 honorable mentions as well.
