Conditions of Participation
What songs may participate in the contest?
Sign-up for partner organisations for the ILSC 2025 has ended! 25 countries will compete in the Grand Final on 16th May 2025! Send us an e-mail to ilsc@dbsv.org for further information. The final decision about a song's participation lies with the national partner organisation.
Songs may take part in the contest, if …
- … the song has lyrics,
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… at least the lyrics’ author or the composer and one of the musicians is blind or partially sighted,
- ... the song is an original
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… it is maximum 4 minutes long or is faded out at that mark,
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… it is sent as a video or an audio file with additional photos,
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… participants agree with all conditions of participation. They agree – in case they are selected – that their audio, video and foto material will be streamed and published on the internet and they are available for a live interview during the final show.
Partners of the ILSC 2025 must register their finalist until April 13th 2025.
Your submission must include:
- Your nominated song as audio file or music video, with a length of 4 minutes max. – to preserve the quality of the files, we’d like to ask you to submit WAV files for audio, and MOV or AVI for video; since these file formats are usually rather large, we recommend submitting your files via WeTransfer or similar file sharing platforms
- If only audio is provided: photo of the artist or band, additionally things and places relevant to the song and/or artist or band
- The name of the involved artists, their role in the creation and performance of the song, and if they are visually impaired
- The artist’s or band’s contact information
- Optional: further information on the artist or band and their song
We look forward to listening to your nominee!