The emPower Music Awards

Submissions are now closed.

Finalists will be announced around April 5, 2024

The Posi Music community is a loving and supportive one. We write together, laugh and sing together and support each other whether you’re brand new or a beloved member of our community.
In the spirit of equanimity and a desire not to create a competitive element to the beautiful art of songwriting, we have re-invented the Posi Awards, not as a competition, but as a recognition of excellence in songwriting.

Some background:

Introduced in 2005, The emPower Music Awards  celebrate the powerful music and extraordinary artists who are transforming lives and helping to create a world that works for everyone through the power of inspiring, empowering music.

Posi or (Positive) Music is its own unique genre  defined primarily by its message. These songs can be any musical style, but have in common messages of peace, unity, healing, emPowerment, personal and global transformation, social justice and environmental sustainability.

Thank you for creating and supporting conscious music for a delicate world.

The Process:

 The 19th Annual emPower Music Festival will be held June 26-30, 2024 at beautiful Unity Village, MO.

This year’s categories are a bit broader.
Uniting now includes songs about world peace and personal inner peace.
The Spiritual Not Religious category also includes chants and songs for group singing.

Personal Transformation now includes songs about healing – physical, spiritual and mental.
Social Justice is now Social Activism and includes songs about loving the earth, global warming and ecology in general.

Initial submissions are screened by the emPower executive team to make sure they meet quality and appropriateness guidelines. All decisions made by the executive team and/or the judges are final.

  • The submission fee is $25 per song/video submitted
  • You may submit multiple songs within the same category.
  • You may submit the same song to multiple categories.
  • You may submit songs for other people.
  • You must submit through the website, and include the MP3 audio file and lyrics that you cut and paste into the submission form.
  • We will not accept cassettes, CDs sent through the mail, or songs sent to one of the emPower board members.  Please use the website.
  • Songs should be at least demo quality.  If a song has a substandard quality recording, we will disqualify it.
  • Music and lyrics must be original (no remakes of famous songs or hymns) and shall not infringe on any copyrights or any other rights of any third party.
  • No composition may be entered that has been selected as a finalist for a previous Posi Awards.
  • Please fill out the submission form accurately. Remove your name from the lyric sheet you upload. We want the process to be as anonymous as possible.

Songs and videos are rated by emPower Pro Members and past Posi Award winners and nominees.

What to Expect:

This year the top two rated songs/videos in each of the six categories will be given the emPower Music & Arts Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting award.
In addition, the recipients receive:

  • A performance slot at the 2024 emPower Music Festival
  • Complimentary Registration to the event (meal ticket not included)
  • Your music featured on the 19th Annual Compilation
  • Your music will be automatically placed in the emPower Posi Music Superstore
  • Included in the Unity Worldwide Ministries monthly themed song list available to all the Unity ministries.
  • And finally, you will receive a complimentary lead sheet of your featured song.

We have support available to assist you with your questions.

Whether you are a Finalist or not, we hope to see you at the 19th Annual emPower Music Festival!

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The 2024 categories for submission are:

We are offering SIX message-driven categories this year. Please read the descriptions carefully before placing your submission.

  • Uniting – These are songs that emphasize our similarities and promote values of humanity as one family living in a peaceful, non-violent world. Uniting songs are about our interdependence and have messages that brings diverse groups of people together through song and singing.

  • Personal Transformation – These are songs about positive life changes, making choices and those “ah-ha” moments in our evolution toward more conscious living. Topics include inner peace, healing of body, relationships, and belief systems. They may be very personal for the songwriter yet touch a common thread we can all relate to.

  • Social Activism – Long has music been used to bring about social change in the world. These songs are meant to spur us into action and call attention issues of equal justice, individual rights, and caring for the earth and environment. No political or “protest songs” please. These songs should be more about what we are for rather than what we are against.

  • Spiritual Not Religious – These are songs about our spiritual journey, but not in terms that define a specific theology. Themes could be gratitude, wonder, prayer, our inherent divinity and the universal truths that span all religions. It may also include sing-alongs and chants, joyous or sacred.

  • All Music Matters – If you aren’t sure or don’t feel your song fits into any of these categories then it most likely goes here. These songs can be about positive relationships, humorous parodies, true stories or a new way of looking at the world.

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Video – Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words! Upload your video to YouTube and submit the link as your submission. The video award is not a songwriting award. Videos are rated on their visual artistry and originality. Picture videos will not be considered. The song featured on the video must fit into one of the Posi Awards categories.

    (emPower reserves the right to place your submission in a different category than it was submitted.)