Great American Song Contest

18th Annual GREAT AMERICAN SONG CONTEST (2016)

These are your winners!

To learn more about these songwriters and hear their winning songs, visit the Great American Song Hall Of Fame.
For a complete list of Finalists, please scroll down this page to Finalists.

"Rabbit Hole" Lisa Bastoni Boston MA Grand Prize Winner! Hall of Fame 2016 First-Place Category Winner Singer/Songwriter "We Know Not" Olivia Millerschin Rochester Hills MI Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Call Of the Wild" Kim Vogels Brooklyn NY Website  "Entertain Me" Mikayla Griffin Cleburne TX Website   "The Dash" Eric Colville  Gloucester MA Website "At the Edge of You" Garth Baker Stoney Creek ONT Canada Website    First-Place Category Winner Pop/Top 40 “Break the Frame" Hannah Christianson Boston MA Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Big Big Life" Nitanee Paris & Streetlight Cadence Malibu CA Website "Breaking Up" Stephanie K Bloomfield Hills  MI Website "Let Love Rule" John Hamilton Vancouver BC Canada Website "Time Machine" Ariel Rose & Russell Pollack North Miami Beach FL Website First-Place Category Winner Adult Contemporary "Simple Man"  Susan Cattaneo & Jenna Lotti Boston MA Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Even If I Can't" Madi Earl Gilbert AZ Website "In My Head" Kelly Paige New York NY Website "Bestill My Heart (Romeo's Lament"  Kit Taylor  Portland OR Website   "Ships"  J. M. Robley Perth AUSTRALIA Website First-Place Category Winner Folk/Americana "Sing It Louder"  Dave Gunning & Sally Spring Pictou NS Canada Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Roosevelt's Train" Rebb Firman Lemon Cove CA Website "The Rose Of Ben Nishaere" Patrick DeSimio Las Cruces NM Website "A Soft Place To Fall" Kathryn Cloward San Diego CA Website "The Whole World Was Watching" Neil Levy New York NY Website   First-Place Category Winner Special Music "Freaked Out Teenaged Tadpoles"  Marilyn Rucker  Austin TX Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Leonard Cohen Christmas" Mark Stepakoff Wellesley MA Website "Great Big Earth" Nitaee Paris & Trei Battle Malibu  CA Website "Lights Me Up (A Christmas Song)" Chase K Los Angeles CA Website "Who Hung This Target On My Back" Russell Wheelock Asheville NC Website   First-Place Category Winner Rock/Alt "Ride" Ryan Gentner Tonawanda NY Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Dirty Imbecile" Calvin Langman & Ross Monteith (The Happy Fits) Clinton NJ Website "Stereo" Nate Sacks  Norfolk VA Website "Over My Head" Edison + Belle (J. Lewczak & Anne DiGiovanni) New York NY Website "Winning (Once Again)" Dave Marean Rockford MI Website   First-Place Category Winner Instrumental   "Freefall" Samer Fanek Redwood City CA Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting Enchanted Kingdom Bill Wren Fulton TX Website Endless Memories Preston Smith Katy TX Website Believe It Amanda Lee Falkenberg Dubai United Arab Emirates Website Caldereta Colin Skinner London England Website First-Place Category Winner Country "Coal Dust" Nitanee Paris, Clarence Ellwood Lawson & Jean-Pierre Williams Malibu CA Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Over You" Elizabeth Nordstrom Mount Bethel PA Website "I Never Knew That I Loved You"  Nico Collins & Chelsea Collins Burlingame CA Website "Better Days" Tim FitzGerald (Söur Bruthers)  Chicago IL Website "Between Dreams" Michael (Max) McGee & Jeff Moxcey  Philipsburg PA Website   First-Place Category Winner Christian/Gospel "Creation Stands" Joel Posner  Torrance CA Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Midnight Prayer" Polly Gibbons &  & James Pearson Los Angeles CA Website "I'll Be There" Mark Proctor Calvin WV Website "I Bring You Me" Peter Alexander Half Moon Bay CA Website "Looking Down From the Cross" Charles Cook Staten Island NY Website First-Place Category Winner HipHop/R&B " Blind the Sun" Kenneth Kelly/3Fifs Atlanta GA Hall of Fame 2016   Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "On the Come Up" Wordsmith (Anthony Parker) Baltimore MD Website "Treat Me Like It's Candy" Quentin Primas Kennesaw  GA Website "La La Love" Kyle Layton Calgary AB Canada Website   "Booty Chakra" Paris Francis Jackson Minneapolis MN Website   First-Place Category Winner Lyric Writing "Kissed An Angel Carved in Stone" T. Edwin Doss Silver Spring MD Hall of Fame 2016 Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting "Baltimore (Ballad of Freddie  Gray")  Blake O'Neal Pocatello ID Website "Stones" Martin Robley Ballajuras AUSTRALIA Website "Black Wings" essence Goldman San Francisco CA Website "Lean Into the Turn" Michelle Porter Rapid City SD Website     Look, there's more. GASC 2016 Finalists More Opportunities for GASC winners   NOTE: To learn more about these songwriters and hear their winning songs, visit the Great American Song Hall Of Fame. For a complete list of Finalists, see 2016 Finalists.

Links to Previous GASC Winners:
* 24th Annual Great American Song Contest
* 23rd Annual Great American Song Contest (2022)
* 22nd Annual Great American Song Contest (2021)
* 21st Annual Great American Song Contest (2020)
* 21st Annual Great American Song Contest (2019)
* 20th Annual Great American Song Contest (2018)
* 19th Annual Great American Song Contest (2017)
* 18th Annual Great American Song Contest (2016)
* 17th Annual Great American Song Contest (2015)
* 16th Annual Great American Song Contest (2014)
* 15th Annual Great American Song Contest (2013)
* 14th Annual Great American Song Contest (2012)
* 13th Annual Great American Song Contest (2011)
* 12th Annual Great American Song Contest (2010)
* 11th Annual Great American Song Contest (2009)
* 10th Annual Great American Song Contest (2008)
* 9th Annual Great American Song Contest  (2007)
* 8th Annual Great American Song Contest  (2006)