Djooky Music Awards (DMA), the first global online song contest, is seeking out the most talented artists and songwriters from Australia and around the world in a search for someone to become the next biggest singing sensation. Open to amateurs, professional songwriters and musicians, one buddying artist will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to record with Brian Malouf – a world-recognized American producer, engineer, and mixer who has worked with some of the golden names of music like Michael Jackson, Queen, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, and Stevie Wonder
“Reviewing the nominations from the artists who have already registered to take part in the Djooky Music Awards, it becomes clear that we have found a treasure trove of undiscovered music. I give a lot of credit to the surge in music tech development and global broadband penetration which has provided access to the most remote corners of the world where authentic talents are creating beautiful music. Add to this a global pandemic which has locked everyone up in their homes with time to think and create, and you get an ocean of new and fresh names in music, destined to become tomorrow’s success stories,” Brian Malouf commented.




Brian said that the concept of the platform is to create a fair ecosystem for artists so that the only barrier is the size of their talent. The competition is born as a way to operationalise this idea of catapulting the new talents who normally do not have access to these opportunities. Malouf went on to explain that unlike other music contests, any user of the platform can listen to the music of the nominees worldwide and take part in modeling the weekly charts of winners by awarding them voting points, while the global results will be determined as follows: 50% by Djooky users and the other 50% will be defined by a panel of judges recognized in the music industry globally. That panel of experts includes Patrice Rushen, three-time Grammy nominee jazz pianist, R&B singer and music director, Sacha Skarbek, producer and songwriter responsible for co-writing James Blunt’s successes and Miley Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’, Justin Gray, songwriter and producer who has collaborated with a range of music stars like John Legend, Mariah Carey or Amy Winehouse, and Brian Malouf himself.

To apply for DMA, musicians and songwriters must register and upload their songs until February 20