Hitmakers was a Scandinavian reality television program for music competition which aired on Swedish Kanal 5 television channel in Spring 2008 with the premiere broadcast on Sunday, April 6, 2008.
The program aimed to find the next winning songwriter and was produced by Meter Film & Television and was open to contestants from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Lesser-known artists presented their own composition on condition that they have not been released yet on an album and they would get answers within a few weeks whether the song presented had any hit appeal, with a potential release of the song by one of the represented record companies.
Thousands of songs were presented for screening to a selection committee.
When more than one representative picks a particular song, a bid is initiated with the higher bidder getting to sign the artist concerned.