AI Song Contest 2026 Invites Musicians to Compete for Cash and a Trip to Bangkok

Musicians, producers, songwriters and AI developers have an opportunity to demonstrate what human creativity and artificial intelligence can accomplish together through the AI Song Contest 2026.

The international competition is currently accepting original songs created through meaningful collaboration between humans and AI.

The winning team will receive:

• US$1,000 in cash plus a trip to Bangkok to attend the 2026 Award Show.
• The live award event is scheduled for November 29, 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand.

This Is Not Simply an AI-Generated Music Contest

One of the most important requirements is that creators must demonstrate meaningful human involvement.

The official rules state that entries where the only human contribution is prompting an AI system, with no further editing or manipulation, will be disqualified.

Instead, the competition is looking for collaboration.

AI may contribute to areas such as:

• Composition
• Melody
• Harmony
• Lyrics
• Arrangement
• Sound design
• Voice generation
• Production
• Creative experimentation

But the human creator or team must actively shape the final work.

Who Can Participate?

The AI Song Contest describes itself as an international competition involving teams of musicians, AI specialists and anyone interested in combining music with artificial intelligence.

That creates an interesting opportunity for collaborations between:

• Artists + producers + developers + AI researchers + digital creators
• rather than requiring every entrant to be both a musician and a technical AI expert.

What Must Be Submitted?

Each team must submit:

• The finished song as an MP3 or WAV file
• A completed submission form
• Team imagery
• Cover artwork
• A detailed Process Document explaining how AI was used

Songs cannot exceed four minutes.

Each team may submit only one final song.

The process document is particularly important because judges need to understand which tools were used, how they influenced the song and what creative decisions remained in human hands.

How Is the Winner Chosen?

The final result combines evaluations from a professional jury with voting from the international audience.

The winning entry is the song that receives the strongest combined result.

That means creators are being evaluated on more than technical novelty.

A competitive submission still needs to work as music.

Deadline

All materials must be submitted by:

September 27, 2026 — Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Enter

Enter the AI Song Contest 2026

For musicians experimenting with AI, this competition offers something increasingly important: a platform that recognizes AI as a creative collaborator while still insisting that human authorship matters.