The Production Music Awards are inviting composers to submit their music for this year’s awards ahead of the upcoming submission deadline (Friday 26 July 2024) . The event, which will be taking place on 20 November 2024 at the iconic O2 complex in Greenwich, London, UK, serves as a key platform for recognising the depth and quality of modern production music and providing global exposure to the wider sync and media industries.
For 2024, the Production Music Awards categories for entry have been revamped, but are still broadly split into Composition and Sync strands. The Composition strand has 23 genre-specific categories for production music tracks, plus the Best Wildcard Track and the highly-contested Best Newcomer award that has previously been won by Shashwat ‘Sha’ Sachdev (Extreme Music), Amy McKnight (Universal Production Music) and ‘Mother of Afrorave’ Toya Delazy, among others. The Sync strand highlights the Best Use of Production Music across platforms including television (advertising, drama, factual and trailer); sports promo; film trailer; and digital/online advertising.
In line with wider industry developments, the organisation have announced new rules for the 2024 Production Music Awards, which stipulate that all music entered must have been created entirely by humans to be eligible — AI-generated music is excluded. There are also expanded genre categories for more clarity on composition entries.
The entry deadline is July 26, 2024. Entries will be judged by a panel of distinguished industry experts from the broader music and sync industries with each entry presented ‘blind’ to optimise fairness. Nominations will be revealed on September 18, 2024.
“The Production Music Awards exist because of amazing music created by composers and expertly commissioned, refined and pitched by experts at the music libraries — enhancing the experience of TV, film, advertising and games for billions of consumers around the world. This industry is built by talented, passionate people who care deeply about what they do. In 2024, the Production Music Awards celebrates the very human art of making music." - Richard Canavan, Founder, Production Music Awards
More information can be found on the Production Music Awards website.
