The Tiny Desk Contest is Back for 2025! Here’s How to Enter

The Tiny Desk Contest – NPR Music’s annual nationwide search for the next great undiscovered artist to play a Tiny Desk concert – is back for its eleventh year. The Tiny Desk team will begin accepting entries on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.

When you enter the 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, you join a nationwide community of music-makers and creators. Get started on your video now!

Are you eligible?

Only eligible entries can win the Contest. Does your entry have what it takes? We’ve got a quick and easy way to help you find out!

Take the quiz to find out

Here’s what to do:

1. Create a new video that shows you playing one song you’ve written.
2. Do it the way you’d perform a Tiny Desk concert: at a desk. (Any desk!)
3. Upload your video to YouTube.
4. Fill out our entry form before 11:59 p.m. ET on Feb. 10, 2025.

The Winner Will:

• Play a Tiny Desk concert at NPR in Washington, D.C.
• Be featured on NPR’s All Things Considered
• Play NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour
• Be paired with a mentor in the music industry

Keep these things in mind:

• NPR Music is looking for undiscovered talent; you can’t have a current recording contract.
• You must be at least 18 years old and live in the U.S., U.S.V.I. or Puerto Rico to enter.
• NPR Music’s panel of judges — including members of NPR Music, DJs from NPR Member stations, industry experts and Tiny Desk alums — will choose our winner.
• Take this quiz to see if you’re eligible.

Looking for inspo? Check out these entries from Jacksonville-area artists from 2024 and 2023.